In a decision that is hardly music to the ears of the recording industry, a federal judge in Minnesota last week slashed a stunning $1.92 million award in a landmark…
A prominent Minnesota lawyer slated to become president of the state bar association in another two years was jailed over the weekend in a teen sex case and is reportedly…
Valarie Wallin, a graduate of an online law school, has passed the bar in California and Wisconsin. Now she wants the Minnesota Supreme Court to allow her to take the…
A Duluth, Minn., mother has filed suit against the U.S. Postal Service after a letter she wrote to her son stationed in Iraq was returned with a “DECEASED” stamp across…
A Minnesota judge has added a $4 million fine to an already hefty jury verdict against Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. involving a fatal train-car crash related to a crossing…
Rejecting a recommendation that a Minnesota judge should be removed from office for steering matrimonial mediation cases to his own divorce attorney, the state supreme court has suspended him for…
A federal judge in Minneapolis didn’t hide his disdain when he turned down a request for $225,000 in attorney fees by lawyers representing objectors in a class action settlement.
Everyone agreed that a mother at risk of losing custody of her child needed a lawyer. But who would pay the attorney’s fees? She couldn’t afford to, and officials for…
Some smaller and suburban law firms in the Minneapolis area are doing better than their big firm counterparts—and location, practice areas, flexibility and lower rates are some of the reasons…
Law firm Dorsey & Whitney decided it didn’t need the huge expense of a corporate hospitality tent this year at the PGA championship outside Minneapolis.
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