Many years ago, a seasoned stock-broker cautioned his brother, a lawyer (who happened to be my father), “If you’re going to predict, predict often…,” which has long been one of my all-time favorite aphorisms. Last April, we predicted that Minnesota Sands would lose in its challenge to the constitutionality of the City of Winona’s regulation […]

In this post, we follow up on an earlier Minnesota Litigator post about the attorney-client privilege in the context of criminal investigation of attorney wrong-doing. This week, the Minnesota Supreme Court issued its ruling in K.M. v. Burnsville Police Department, et al. in favor of the police and adverse to the lawyer. The lawyer was […]

For some years now, Minnesota Litigator been critical of a federal laws exposing financial institutions and businesses to serious liability for fairly inconsequential lapses or disclosures related to ATM fees and partial numbers on credit card receipts. (For example, disclosing the month a credit card expires but not the year on a credit card receipt […]

We recently posted about a “brain raid” case in which a company vRad went after a former employee for violation of his non-compete and misappropriation of trade secrets. In our view, things did not look good for Mr. Rabern, the former employee, in opposing vRad’s threshold motion for a preliminary injunction to prevent Mr. Rabern […]

LEVENTHAL pllc once had a land-lord tenant dispute involving parties in an immigrant community. The judicial action had a “concurrent shadow sister-adjudication,” if you will, of village elders. A side-show that eclipsed the event on the main stage. Good times. Rules of Civil Procedure need not apply… So we have sympathy for defense counsel in […]

Mr. John Lesch, a Minnesota legislator (state representative for house district 66B, which includes part of Ramsey County), wrote a private and expressly confidential letter to Mr. Melvin Carter, the Mayor of St. Paul, in which Mr. Lesch expressed concerns and misgivings about Mayor Carter’s hiring of Ms. Lyndsey Olson as City Attorney. Somehow, Ms. […]

“The walls have ears,” is a catchy phrase and this has never been more true than now, with most people running around with easily concealed digital recording devices (let alone ubiquitous web-cams, security cameras, and the like). We have frankly been a bit taken back by the number of LEVENTHAL pllc clients who come to […]

Higgins v. Boston Scientific (“BS”) is a qui tam case (a kind of whistle-blower case) against BS in connection with alleged defects in a couple of cardiac defibrillator devices (Cognis and Teligen). A major bone of contention in the potentially multi-million dollar lawsuit is what BS disclosed to the FDA (and what it concealed from […]

Update (February 21, 2020): The overpowering and acrid smell emanating from the linked reply brief is a toasted adversary, if we are not mistaken. We started keeping our eyes on vRad v. Rabern with the observation that things looked one-sided and bad for Mr. Rabern. With the help of his excellent lawyers, we up-graded his […]

We were recently hired by a new client (YAY!) and the new client was quite blunt in expressing her concerns and reservations, based on previous past bad experiences with other lawyers. “How can we be sure you’re not over-billing us?” “How can we be sure we’re not going to get socked with a huge bill […]