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Doxxing redux: The trouble with opting out
MARK LANTERMAN
Dec 01, 2019
Doxxing is generally understood as the buying, selling, gathering, or other sharing of personal information online, often with malicious intent. With this private information in hand, individuals can threaten, stalk, harass, or damage the reputations of others.
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Start now, law students: Narrow your legal interests early
SCOTT ANDREW FULKS
Dec 01, 2019
Between bar festivities, informal coffees, social gatherings, and legal internships, a typical law student holds hundreds of brief, but potentially memorable, conversations throughout the three arduous years of school. There is a world of difference between meeting an indistinguishable law student and the next white-collar criminal defense attorney or an aspiring IP lawyer.
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'I found it natural to seek out appellate work'
Dec 01, 2019
What I’ve appreciated most about my bar involvement is the community it has introduced me to. I’m inclined to be a bit of an academic who sits in his office and reads and thinks and writes. Through the Appellate Section of the MSBA, however, I was introduced to the state’s appellate bar and bench and became part of their collegial community.
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Notes & Trends – December 2019
Dec 01, 2019
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It’s North Star Lawyer certification time again
Nov 26, 2019
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BLE seeks comment on foreign-educated lawyer petition
Nov 26, 2019
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Commission on Judicial Selection announces vacancy in the 3rd Judicial District
Nov 26, 2019
The Commission on Judicial Selection announced that a judgeship vacancy is occurring in Minnesota’s 3rd Judicial District.
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A Letter from President Tom Nelson: The MSBA—a Great Idea and a Good Deal
Nov 15, 2019
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Our Vote, Our Voice, Our Choice
Tom Nelson
Nov 04, 2019
A year from now, we will have the opportunity, and the obligation, to cast our vote in the 2020 elections. They will no doubt be hard fought, perhaps even seriously wrought.
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Welcome new lawyers!
Nov 04, 2019
On October 25 MSBA officials and staff were on hand to welcome 401 new Minnesota lawyers to the profession during admission ceremonies at the State Capitol sponsored by the Minnesota Supreme Court and the MSBA.
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Clarification
Nov 04, 2019
Following the publication of Janel Dressen’s article on the Lund v. Lund shareholder litigation (“Don’t Be the Next Lunds & Byerlys,” May/June 2019), Steve Wells and Jaime Stilson (the Dorsey & Whitney attorneys who represented the Lund defendants) contacted Bench & Bar to request a clarification.
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Withdrawing as counsel (ethically)
SUSAN HUMISTON
Nov 04, 2019
How to ethically withdraw as counsel is the third most frequently asked question on our advisory opinion/ethics hotline. Annually, hundreds of Minnesota attorneys seek advice on whether and how they may terminate a particular lawyer-client relationship.
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Proportionality and digital evidence
MARK LANTERMAN
Nov 04, 2019
Proportionality is a major consideration during the course of discovery, as the court guards against overly expensive and/or burdensome productions in relation to what is at stake in the case. In this article, I will refer specifically to e-discovery and digital forensic productions.
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iRecorded a private conversation: Call recording and the law
RACHEL D. ZAIGER
Nov 04, 2019
The federal wiretapping law is known as a “one-party consent” law. If a client is a party to the conversation, the client—and the client alone—can lawfully be the party to consent to the recording, without notifying the other party to the conversation.
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Meet Nysha Cornelius: 'I wanted to help people like my mother'
Nov 04, 2019
NYSHA CORNELIUS places a special focus on helping clients facing deportation and removal—immigration trials, deportation appeals, and other complex immigration matters. Her work in immigration law also touches heavily on the areas of family and criminal law.
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Notes & Trends – November 2019
Nov 04, 2019
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Commission on Judicial Selection announces vacancy in the 2nd Judicial District
Nov 01, 2019
The Commission on Judicial Selection announced today that a judgeship vacancy is occurring in Minnesota’s Second Judicial District.
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Commission on Judicial Selection announces vacancies in the 1st Judicial District
Nov 01, 2019
The Commission on Judicial Selection announced today that two judgeship vacancies are occurring in Minnesota’s 1st Judicial District.
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Gov. Walz Reappoints the Hon. Edward Cleary as chief judge on the Minnesota Court of Appeals
Oct 15, 2019
Governor Tim Walz announced the reappointment of the Honorable Edward Cleary as Chief Judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals. Chief Judge Cleary will continue to serve as the Chief Judge until his retirement on April 30, 2020, which he announced earlier today.
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Gov. Walz appoints the Hon. Jeffrey Bryan and Susan Segal to fill vacancies on the Minnesota Court of Appeals
Oct 09, 2019
Governor Tim Walz and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan announced the appointments of the Honorable Jeffrey Bryan and Susan Segal as judges on the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
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