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Twelve Tips for Better Legal Blogs

After reviewing the 2010 Top 25 nominees, we thought maybe you’d want to know what we found in the best, the worst, and the mediocre. Much of this we’ve also learned from writing this blog, working on practicelaw and other MSBA sites, and reading lots of blogs ourselves (lots and lots and lots of blogs). …

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Our 2010 List of Top 25 Minnesota Blawgs

Decided. The Top 25 Minnesota Blawgs, as selected by Practice Blawg editors. It’s a great list and a diverse crowd, from rural attorneys to big city bloggers, with posts covering courthouse fashion, virtual worlds, and the nitty-gritty details of court cases. There’s even a blog we can’t read without using Google translate. We’ve listed all …

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Hennepin County E-Filing Now Open to All Firms

I posted last month about my impression of Hennepin County’s new e-filing pilot project (bottom line, I really liked it). I just received word from a spokesperson at the county that the project is now expanding to include all law firms for new civil cases in Hennepin County. Here’s the message I received: Here’s the kicker. …

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Slow to Change? Try Real Risk of Sanctions

We posted last year about a hard lesson for an attorney who filed unsealed confidential information with the U.S. District Court in Minnesota. That time Judge Michael Davis doled out a $5,000 sanction in addition to requiring counsel to pay for credit reports and credit monitoring. This time, Judge Joan N. Ericksen was doling out …

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