Update (May 11, 2016): You hire a kid while he’s still in business school, you give him a summer internship, you give him work during his last year of school, and you give him a full-time job upon graduation. About six months later, he abruptly resigns to join a direct competitor after having allegedly: accessed your […]
What does Minnesota’s beloved Target Corporation do with “unsaleable TV’s”? Why, it sells them, naturally! Not to retail customers, of course, but to a salvage company that agrees to pay Target 36% “of the original retail price” for product returns, regardless of the condition of the returns. At least, that mutually beneficial arrangement was the hope […]
For obscure reasons, Seth is allowing me to post here again. The piece below originally appeared in 2012 in the American magazine 5AM and is noted by a British critic in a generous review of my first book, here. It depicts a problematic encounter between law officers and a civilian behaving strangely. There’s way too much evidence these days […]
Dairy farms rent their cows? I never gave it much thought but it seemed to me to be a given that dairy farms would buy their cows. This week, I got straightened out, thanks to the newly filed lawsuit, Sunshine Heifers v. Twin Creeks Dairy (assigned to Sr. U.S. District Court Judge Richard H. Kyle, Sr. […]
I recently had the opportunity to sit and talk with Roshan Rajkumar, a partner with the Bowman and Brooke law firm. He’s a perfect candidate for a profile because his civil litigation expertise is specialized, narrow, and deep. So he might not be broadly known in the Minnesota civil litigation bar, but he should be. […]
Update (April 27, 2016): That didn’t take much time. The liberation of unpaid lawyers from their servitude to dead-beat clients is proceeding now that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit clarified the standard. This is good news not only for Minnesota civil litigators, but also their paying clients and their pro bono clients, for whom […]
This week, the Star Tribune reported a “rare contest” in the election of the next Chief Judge of the Hennepin County District Court. For a long time, it seemed that Judge Ivy Bernhardson, Assistant Chief Judge, would slide into the Chief Judge job unopposed, succeeding Judge Peter Cahill (whom I previously interviewed here). But Judge Tanya Bransford recently […]
The latest from the Minnesota Supreme Court: New amendments to the rules of civil appellate procedure were just adopted. As it happens, the amendments were mostly technical. The amendments correct some inconsistencies in the rules and fine-tune them. A couple of the amendments are worth some special attention. Rule 128.03 now clarifies how parties […]
Update (April 18, 2016): Many lawyers do not have as much work as they want, at least from time to time. Some spend their downtime blogging. Others churn files, turn to marketing, or abuse associates. Regardless of whether lawyers find productive ways to manage it, down-time is still very difficult for many lawyers. To some, […]
The Star Tribune reported the verdict in this civil lawsuit today. It seems like it all started with Mr. Riehm’s wife complimenting the looks of the fiancée of Mr. Riehm’s eventual victim, Mr. Daniel Kerkinni. From that fairly benign interaction, undoubtedly with a big boost from the alcohol-fueled impulsivity pump, Mr. Riehm, apparently under the impression […]