Three of us here at practicelaw are heading to the popular legal education conference in Duluth that everyone calls SoloSmall (but is more formally known as “Strategic Solutions for Solo & Small Firms – 2010.” While we won’t be carrying hard copies of practicelaw’s newly updated guide “Keeping Client Trust Accounts’ with QuickBooks 2010 Professional” …
Fastcase Adds New ‘Forecite’ Search Function
Fastcase, the online legal research service that is free for Minnesota State Bar Association members, just released a new service it calls “Forecite” to assist users in getting additional relevant research results. Here’s how Fastcase marketed the development in its recent blog post announcing the service: When you perform a keyword search on Fastcase, Forecite …
Update and Support for Terri Melcher
If you are a Minnesota attorney, there’s no doubt you heard the news earlier this week of the stabbing of Fridley-based family law attorney Terri Melcher. It was a brutal attack by an ex-husband of one of Ms. Melcher’s family law clients, and brought to mind another horrible event in 2003, when Osseo attorney Rick Hendrickson …
New Civil Summons Available on practicelaw
One of our recent posts outlined changes to the Minnesota Rules of Civil Procedure and the Minnesota Supreme Court’s approval of a new civil summons, modeled after a civil summons in New Hampshire. After that post, we got to work on producing a civil summons with the newly approved language. The new civil summons is …
Maybe It’s Time for Law On-a-Stick
First, a little background. I started this post on the first day of the Minnesota State Fair, thinking that it would be a humorous piece that threw around references to this year’s latest batch of food on-a-stick. Between then and now, though, I reflected a bit, especially as news about traditional legal services continued to …