If you’ve enjoyed the recent mudslinging, epithet tossing, and name calling surrounding health care, but have wearied of the topic, don’t despair. You may now enjoy the same between legal research services. Casemaker recently accused its competitor Fastcase of missing hundreds of case citations. Fastcase countered; Casemaker responded. Pull up your chair, the match has …
Additions to the MNBlawg Network
To support our growing “MNBlawg Network,” we highlight new Minnesota-based legal blogs that come to our attention. Not that the ones we pick are new. Rather, we’ve come across them (or you’ve told us about them) and we have added them to our practicelaw blogroll. This week we’re highlighting two additions: Woman, Esq. Reflecting the …
Playing Heart and Soul at the Bar
Someone recently commented that MSBA Sections are the “heart and soul” of the Bar Association, which led me to think, not about lyrics, but about playing the tune. How many of you have considered yourself a pianist after plopping yourself down on a piano bench with a friend and banging out the chords or the …
Updated Monster Judgment and Decree
In September 2008, our inaugural post highlighted the complexity of drafting a form version of a Stipulated Judgment and Decree for a family law matter. practicelaw posted a Microsoft Word version a month later and released an automated version in mndocs shortly after that. But it was not our work. It was the result at …
Write Like You Learned Something in High School
Judge Kressel has an article in this month’s Illinois Bar Journal explaining why and how he developed “Order Preparation Guidelines” for the local bankruptcy bar. I had read them when he first issued them and upon rereading, I was once again struck with the reasonableness of what he is asking – in short, he is …