Minnesota Litigator’s secret recipe of success is its ambitious attempt to provide readers with five “fresh” posts per week, 50 weeks a year (more or less). So when my readers, who tend to be Minnesota litigators, those who love them, those who sit in judgment of them, and those ensnared with them in what can […]
At large Minneapolis law firms (and large law firms nationwide), they have specific ethics partners and the rugs in the doorways to their offices are worn bare. Their colleagues are constantly running things past the ethics experts. Small firm lawyers, on the other hand, do not enjoy such support. What’s more, they tend to have […]
But everybody’s like Cristal, Maybach, diamonds on your timepiece. Jet planes, islands, tigers on a gold leash… We don’t care, we aren’t caught up in your love affair. Singer: Lorde. Lyric Writers: Ella Marija la Yelich O’Connor, Joel Little. Copyright: Songs Of Smp, Emi Music Publishing Australia Pty Ltd. Many will recognize these lyrics from […]
We are moving rapidly towards e-filing and digitization of Minnesota court filings. More records will be accessible via home computers. Many of those that aren’t available that way will be available from courthouse computers. And from any courthouse computer, so that documents filed in, say, a case docketed in Ramsey County will be available from […]
Minnesota Litigator profiles are of Minnesota civil litigators whose practices are somewhat “niche” and who therefore are not as widely known as the depth of their expertise might deserve. Jake Holdreith has had more than twenty years of civil litigation experience in two large Minnesota law firms, but his practice is national so it’s possible […]
Update (March 18, 2015): Eden Prairie-based Datalink sued Perkins Eastman Architects P.C., a New York company, because, it seems, Perkins Eastman kind of sort of ordered a $700,000+ “NetBackup appliance installation and integration project” (“NBU”) from Datalink, but then got buyer’s remorse and paid nothing for the equipment or related services that Datalink provided. Datalink sued […]
I have enjoyed Minnesota Litigator profiles of “unsung” Minnesota trial lawyer heroes of mine (here, linked, is the latest and, at the bottom of it previous profiles). There are many exceptional Minnesota litigators that I will never be able to profile because there is a lot of unrecognized talent and also because, sadly, some great colleagues, […]
It’s not that people won’t be able to represent themselves anymore! It’s just that under proposed amendments to the court rules, they will be called something different. Instead of being “pro se parties” or “unrepresented parties,” they will be called: “self-represented litigants.” New rules of civil procedure will change the term “unrepresented party” to […]
There is no question that I have fully enjoyed following the “long and tortured” case of Ventura v. Kyle for some years now on Minnesota Litigator (to quote from the attached order that issued today). Those who know me well know that I am quick to laughter. In fact, I have an apparently bottomless appetite for […]
Update (March 16, 2015): Litigation is expensive because fighting about fighting tend to multiply into fights about fighting about fighting. So, for example, Ellen Ewald gets in a fight with the Royal Norwegian Embassy alleged sex discrimination. Then Plaintiff’s lawyers get in a fight with Defendant’s lawyers about how to fight the fight (also known as […]