To round out practicelaw’s collection of new family law forms, we’ve added new sample petitions for dissolution of marriage. Six sample petitions and a new clause library are now available on practicelaw as Microsoft Word documents. We created the new sample petitions to fit common fact patterns, ranging from a divorce without kids and no spousal maintenance …
New Real Estate Forms
practicelaw recently expanded the offerings to real estate practitioners by posting new forms drafted by two hard working groups: the MSBA Real Property Law Section’s Residential Real Estate Committee and the Minnesota Advisory Task Force on Uniform Conveyancing Forms. Both groups have recently developed forms in demand by users.
A $5,000+ Hard Lesson
U.S. District Court Judge Michael Davis handed out a hard lesson this week to attorney Vincent Moccio, a partner at the Minneapolis law firm of Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi. In response to Moccio filing an affidavit containing the birth dates and full social security numbers of 179 individuals, Judge Davis sanctioned Moccio $5,000, to …
The Case Against Twitter
For most attorneys, Twitter is not that useful. I’m hardly a Luddite, nor am I an attorney frightened of technology and change. And I also don’t think Twitter is a morass of mindless blather. It is useful, fun, and has vast distributive power. But I’ve concluded that Twitter is not productive for most attorneys – and …
Unbundling Your Services
More and more attorneys are considering ‘unbundling’ their legal services, allowing clients to pick, ala carte, what specific services the client wants (or can afford). Now, thanks to the MSBA’s Pro Se Implementation Committee, there are new resources available for Minnesota attorneys, including a sample Limited Scope Legal Services Agreement and a risk management guide …
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