Warning: While this post targets one of the MSBA’s newest online offerings, it opens with warm, familiar Minnesota references – like a Coen brothers movie [1]. That’s because the subject – the Bar’s annual Bench & Bar directory issue – was itself a warm, familiar Minnesota reference. As in, a hefty reference book offering quick …
What’s New at practicelaw?
In addition to shoveling and slipping, the practicelaw staff has been busy at work. Some of the fruits of our labor: Online Directory – To save money and paper, the print MSBA Member Directory (traditionally Bench and Bar’s January issue) has gone the way of lickable stamps, replaced by a new and improved version. MSBA, …
Short but Comprehensive
Recently I was in a meeting with a group of attorneys reviewing two proposed addenda to a contract. One was very detailed – contained definitions, covered all possible contingencies and outcomes. Its sheer length and complexity made it more difficult to follow. The second was much shorter thus easier to understand and addressed only the …
Ciao, Italia
As Nancy or Andrea told you, I was gone and off the map in January. I was in Italy playing house husband to my wife and father to my kids while my wife taught a St. Olaf College art history course in Florence. Now, before you think my days were filled with leisurely lunches of …
Don’t Right Click This Post
The Minnesota Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility has been busy with its opinions in the last year, amending two prior opinions, proposing and approving two new opinions, and proposing a third new opinion that is currently open for comment. The two relatively new opinions cover the use of the term “& Associates” in a firm’s …