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Toward a more perfect Minnesota: How the '23-'24 Legislature expanded civil rights protections
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Sam Kramer & Frances Baillon
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Sep 03, 2024
Since 1955, the Legislature has slowly but surely increased protections against discrimination, harassment, and retaliation in several contexts, including employment. It has done so through substantive and procedural amendments that have protected more groups against discrimination in more contexts and provided expanded remedies for victims of discrimination and reprisal.
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Employment and Labor Law
Civil Rights
Want to build a MN-WI cross-border practice? Mind the basics.
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Jeff Muszynski
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Sep 03, 2024
Cross-border practice offers new clients, new business, and new opportunities for growth. But it also requires significant work if you want to do more than simply dip your toe in the water. The two markets are significantly different, and building business and a thriving practice in both requires an intentional strategy to be successful.
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Solo Practice
How the 2024 Legislature changed Minnesota’s environmental laws
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By Jeremy Greenhouse and Ellen Stojak
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Sep 03, 2024
The 2024 Minnesota legislative session brought notable changes to environmental laws in Minnesota. These changes include bolstering the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s enforcement authority; establishing a responsibility program for packaging; and creating a waste-management hierarchy for food waste.
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Environment and Natural Resources Law
Mission: Improbable —The inside story of Minnesota’s historic 2024 family law legislation
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Bryan Lake & Samantha Gemberling
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Aug 02, 2024
As a public policy arena, family law is unique. Family law legislation evokes strong feelings but frequently fails to break along party lines—an increasingly rare phenomenon on our polarized public stage.
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Legislation
Family Law
Tips and traps: Understanding Minnesota’s new red flag law
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Anna Street
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Aug 02, 2024
Imagine a legal mechanism that could swiftly intervene to prevent tragedies before they unfold—such is the promise of the extreme risk protection order (ERPO). Created under the terms of Minnesota’s new “red flag law,” which went into effect on January 1, 2024, ERPOs are temporary civil orders that restrict firearm possession by persons who pose significant danger of bodily harm to others or a significant risk of suicide.
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Civil Litigation
Minnesota Cannabis: One Year Post-Legalization
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JEN RANDOLPH REISE
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Aug 02, 2024
The May 2023 legalization of adult-use (aka recreational) cannabis in Minnesota brought some dramatic changes quickly: personal possession and legal use! Home growing! Here’s where we stand following the conclusion of the 2024 legislative session.
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Legislation
Cannabis
The Future of Forgiveness: Minnesota’s New Clemency Law Reforms
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Thomas A. Wilson
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Aug 02, 2024
In May 2023, the Minnesota Legislature passed clemency reforms that made sweeping changes to Minnesota’s pardon and commutation laws. Some of the new clemency law’s reforms took effect in 2023 and its remaining provisions took effect July 1, 2024.
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Criminal Law
Legislation
What you need to know about Minnesota’s new contract for deed law
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Larry M. Wertheim
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Aug 02, 2024
The new Minnesota contract for deed legislation, which generally took effect August 1, 2024, constitutes the most significant changes in contract for deed law in almost 40 years.
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CATEGORY
Real Estate
MSBA President 2024-25: Samuel Edmunds
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Amy Lindgren
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Jul 01, 2024
Have you ever received a piece of advice that shaped your life? For Sam Edmunds, it might have been his dad’s counsel to “always show up,” a phrase heard frequently during his childhood.
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Profiles
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Sam Edmunds: A born leader (or was that lawyer?)
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Jul 01, 2024
When you ask people about Sam Edmunds, it doesn’t take long for the word “leader” to enter the conversation. Given how many leadership roles he has held, it’s almost inevitable. But his work as a lawyer is also well-respected, underpinned by his reputation for success in criminal defense.
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President
MSBA President 2024-25: Bio Bits
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Jul 01, 2024
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President
2024 Minnesota legislative recap
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Bryan Lake
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Jul 01, 2024
After passing large budget increases and a seemingly endless list of major policy changes in 2023, state lawmakers returned to St. Paul in February for the second year of the legislative biennium.
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Legislation
Want to work happier? Spend some time considering your core values
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Sarah Soucie Eyberg
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Jul 01, 2024
Knowing my core values has helped me to know which opportunities to undertake and which to decline. It has even helped me reevaluate relationships with individuals and organizations and focus my energies where they matter most.
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Well-Being
The young(ish) leading the young(er): Why you don’t need to know everything to be a mentor
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Veronica L. Stachurski
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Jul 01, 2024
What I discovered pretty quickly was that I was in a unique position to “speak the language” of both our legal assistant and our partner. I was not still in law school, but I was not a seasoned attorney.
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Mentoring
Understanding Minnesota's Big Law M&A wave
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Brett Larson, Theresa Bea, & Dillon White
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May 20, 2024
The data gathered in the five years since the Big Law wave has afforded us a glimpse into the realities of the Minnesota legal market as a whole, and the lessons learned from its analysis can chart a course forward for firms of all sizes, but especially for midsized to large firms that may be operating too similarly to their Big Law counterparts.
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Business Law
What you need to know about the FTC rule banning employee noncompetes
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George H. Singer
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May 20, 2024
The FTC announced that the new rule will provide millions of American workers with more freedom to pursue other job opportunities, seek higher pay, and increase entrepreneurship in the United States
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Employment and Labor Law
Minnesota’s #MeToo tax is finally gone
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Abou B. Amara, Jr. and Karla M. Gluek
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May 20, 2024
Imagine being sexually harassed at work, standing up for yourself and reaching a financial settlement with your employer—and then the government steps in and taxes you on that settlement. Seems unfair, right? Well, for decades, this was the reality for countless sexual harassment victims. Under Minnesota state law, at least, that is no longer the case.
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Litigation
Tax Law
The art of the answer: How to respond effectively to questions at oral argument
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Steven E. Vogel and Kyle R. Kroll
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May 20, 2024
When The Killers wrote the lyrics to “Are We Human, or Are We Dancer?” they sought to describe the internal dilemma of every oral advocate—balancing imperfect, impromptu responses with the effortless grace required of a professional dancer.
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Appellate Practice
Exploring the NA life: A journal of drinking and not drinking
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CARRIE OSOWSKI
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May 20, 2024
When I drink these days, I drink to enjoy the taste of my chosen beverage, not because I want to numb myself to the stress of my job. And when I don’t want to drink alcohol, I don’t hesitate to order a nonalcoholic beverage.
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Well-Being
So you want to be an appellate attorney?
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Jeffrey Wald
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May 20, 2024
Sure, you could clerk for a United States Supreme Court justice, or get a job at the Solicitor General’s Office, but follow me for a moment, if you will, and I’ll share with you three unconventional, but foolproof, tips on how to become a knockdown appellate advocate.
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Appellate Practice
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