There’s a new firm in town. Let the nick-naming process begin. To get the ball rolling, Faeg’n’Bake? Seriously, the merger of two excellent firms. Congratulations and we’ll see you in court! 😉
The accusation of “class warfare” is being bandied about in national politics these days, but maybe the dramatic social unrest in the coming years will actually be “generational warfare”? Our culture has been dominated by “the statistical pig in the python” — the “baby boomer generation” — for fifty years. As they age, maybe their […]
“A bad settlement is better than a good trial,” is the kind of thing a trial lawyer says to a client/plaintiff when recommending a settlement offer that is less than full compensation for the wrong (that is, 99.9% of settlements) when the wronged client balks at the settlement but the trial lawyer thinks it is, […]
As reported in the Winona Daily News over the weekend, a jury in the Hennepin County District Court courtroom of Judge Bruce Peterson awarded a plaintiff represented by Robert J. Hajek $410,000 in compensatory damages, $1 million in punitive damages, against Donald Dean Budd, a former pastor at Winona’s McKinley United Methodist Church. Budd was represented […]
If you are not a regular Minnesota Litigator reader, if you are unfamiliar with the U.S. District Court’s version of a saga (by which I mean here that we have our own hard fought epic battle from which few if any will escape unscarred) known as Afremov v. Lafond, Sulloway & Hollis, et al., don’t bother […]
One year ago today, I started my solo practice. Having been at Minnesota’s largest law firm (at the time; it has recently been dethroned) for most of my fifteen previous years in the practice of law (along with stints in several other local battlespaces before and after), I am now indisputably Minnesota’s smallest law firm (tied, of […]
Contributor Sara Peterson writes in: AT&T Mobile filed a notice of appeal this week with the Minnesota Court of Appeals in the dispute over their proposed 450-foot cell tower that would be visible from portions of the BWCA. AT&T attorneys apparently plan to argue that the Minnesota Environmental Rights Act (MERA) does not preserve views […]
Breaking Update (September 30, 2011): The Court just issued an order moments ago that trial, set to start Monday is canceled. The case has settled on the threshold of the courthouse. Following up on the “after-thought” of the recent post below, ADT did not have to answer 92 Requests to Admit on the threshold of trial.
Dr. Donald Kapps went to the Mayo Clinic for treatment of his atrial fibrillation (irregular and high-speed heartbeat). His surgeon used a recycled Biosense “lasso catheter,” which was labeled “for single use only.” Contrary to manufacturer instructions, however, the Mayo Clinic had sent it out to be refurbished to Ascent (the “Play it Again […]
How can solo litigators take on substantial litigation, with thousands of documents, particularly against larger law firms? The answer is, they can’t. Not always, anyhow. The strongest individual lawyers with the most compelling cases are no match for a large litigation team in large civil litigation. Some cases are simply too big for solos and small firms and […]