We will resume our posts next month. Thank you, as always, dedicated readers — for your comments, quibbles, queries, and tips, all of which we deeply and sincerely appreciate — even the blistering critiques we get from time to time. (All professionals must be able to tolerate, if not treasure, sincere and thoughtful criticism.) Keep […]

Close readers of Minnesota Litigator might have noticed a shift from the first-person singular pronoun to first-person plural. As posted May 1, LEVENTHAL pllc recently doubled in size . We officially became “us,” you might say. And at the end of that post, we promised, “A more formal introduction to follow in days to come.” […]

Update (June 21, 2017): We have covered the lawsuit of Kristin Naca v. Macalester College previously. Ms. Naca has had limited success so far in her lawsuit against the college which is based on her having been fired from her position as an assistant professor of poetry for allegedly inappropriate conduct with a former student. Now […]

There are very few lawyers in Minnesota that have developed substantial experience bringing legal malpractice cases because: (1) it is not very profitable; (2) there are not many cases (because, contrary to widespread opinion, most Minnesota lawyers are excellent and perfect); and (3) healthy people do not like to inflict pain on themselves. (Lawyers suing […]

In the original posts, below, we covered the horrific case of child-care center negligence that resulted in serious injuries to a 3 year-old child, who had been attacked by a 9 year-old child (“J.K. v. New Horizon”). As in many high-dollar tort cases that involve businesses, J.K. v. New Horizon spawned additional related litigation about […]

What can U.S. employers do about the apparently constant threat of “brain raids” — when employees accumulate vast reserves of an employer’s valuable, confidential, commercial information and then jump ship with it to a direct competitor? Obviously, they can devise strong employment contracts, confidentiality agreements, non-competition agreements, and they can go to court to try […]

Update (June 8, 2017): In the lawsuit brought anonymously against Uber for a sexual assault, discussed below, “Ms. Doe” has voluntarily dismissed her lawsuit against Uber “without prejudice” (meaning that she keeps the right to bring a subsequent lawsuit based on the same allegations). Original post (June 5, 2017): Social change may be like an […]

Hennepin County District Court Chief Judge Ivy S. Bernhardson issued an order this week that got broad attention in the media because it dealt with a family fight over tens of millions of dollars and a locally familiar supermarket chain (Lunds & Byerlys). The media pay attention to such cases because most of us are fascinated […]

Update (June 2, 2017): The prohibition of “champerty” —  the sale of a share of one’s interest in a lawsuit to “a stranger” —  may seem antiquated to many (and bad policy to some) but it is clearly alive and well in Minnesota. In the post below, we were critical of Minnesota courts’ prohibition of […]

Lawyers who specialize in civil litigation spend most of their days writing. We have heard it said that U.S. lawyers, collectively, are the highest-paid professional writers in the country and there might be truth to that. Some lawyers get playful with language. A federal judge made up a word and, over time, others adopted the […]