To support our growing empire known as the “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 highlight three recent additions, including one that’s appropriate to highlight on St. Patrick’s Day:

Luck of the Law | Karen Lundquist, a partner in the Minneapolis law firm of Lundquist and Lange, writes about business and employment law matters, often digging into social media issues that affect her clients. As an outgrowth of discussions we had with her at a recent Off the Clock session, Lundquist has been examining the world of do-it-yourself legal services, focusing on an employment contract she purchased from lawdepot.com. She just completed her last post (“Online Legal Documents Often Provide Really Bad Business Advice”) in the series and managed to give us a nod for our own experiment with the purchase of an online will. Having lived in Italy and abroad for years, her posts (and her business law practice) have a decidedly international flair.

Food Poisoning Law Blog. With blogging, if there’s a specialized area of the law, a blog often follows (or may even lead by calling attention to an area of law and its issues). Fred Pritzker, an MSBA member and founder of Pritzker Olsen, blogs along with other attorneys in his firm on the aptly named Food Poisoning Law Blog. The blog is a compendium of news stories and updates on foodborne illness and cases handled by the firm, with recent posts about a norovirus outbreak on a cruise ship, cleaning up the spice industry, and a pepper salami salmonella outbreak. The blog is a great example of how to market a law firm’s services by blogging on a very specific area of the law.

Minnesota Divorce and Family Law Blog. Gerald Williams, a family-law attorney in Woodbury (and a former UofM Law School classmate of mine) ruminates on “insights gained while practicing exclusively divorce and family law since 1993.” Recent posts include Tax Effect on Assets in Divorce and Contested Child Custody and Mental Illness. He’s been blogging for nearly a year now and has a simple interface with easy to browse categories and articles, which are directed primarily to the public.