Every single day, Minnesota Litigator receives visits from across the United States and world-wide. Not all that many, but still. All of us now have the power to speak and be heard world-wide for essentially $0. This is a stunning earth-shattering transformation of human society. Advice: Proceed With Caution.
LEVENTHAL pllc had its firm retreat this past weekend and the one word that best captures the retreat is “orgiastic.” And, no, we are not hiring. And, actually, the description is somewhat disconcerting (if not revolting), since LEVENTHAL pllc is a solo law firm. Seriously, it has been a good year for my practice. But […]
Update (December 10, 2012): Discussed below are a couple of consumer class action cases against General Mills. In the first case, Minnesota Litigator went out on a limb, pronounced the claim to be lame, but it nevertheless survived General Mills’ motion to dismiss. The second time around, however, General Mills had better luck with regard to […]
Some small percentage of us enjoy a social platform known as Google Plus or Google + and it has recently introduced a new capability call “Google Communities.” These are essentially electronic bulletin boards that anyone can create. I have created Minnesota Litigators on Google+. It is a tentative experiment, which will either be a fun and […]
Update (December 7, 2012): Mayo tried unsuccessfully (so far (there’s always the possibility of appeal)) to escape liability after losing a jury trial by arguing they found still more evidence that Mayo claims shows Dr. Kademani to be a liar. Mayo argues that Dr. K was unable to get a job at Mass. General Hospital […]
As a solo lawyer with a developing practice in the area of plaintiffs’ side legal malpractice claims (among other areas of commercial/business litigation (check me out! call me!)), I get calls from dissatisfied clients of Minnesota lawyers with increasing frequency (not because there are more complaints of late but because I am getting more notice for […]
The attorney-client relationship, by itself, one-on-one, like all human relationships can be deeply rewarding and fulfilling (“DR&F”). It can also be crazy-making and ruinous (“CM&R”). Representing multiple parties inevitably skews the balance in a bad direction. That is, Client x (>1) = > P(CM&R) + <P(DR&F), where “P” = probability. If you think of the […]
Anecdotally, the most common misconduct for which Minnesota lawyers are discplined by the state bar are: (1) mishandling (sometimes better known as stealing) client property (often in the form of money) or (2) badly screwing up in doing one’s job (i.e., going on a drunken bender for weeks, missing critical deadlines, and harming (or destroying) […]
Chris Faust is a Twin Cities artist/photographer whose exceptional photos enjoy widespread admiration, but not wide enough. Minnesota Litigator is extremely grateful for Chris’ permission for the use of an image of his on this website and, a longer term goal is to have still more of Chris’ work on the site and perhaps other […]
With the passing of another “Cyber Monday” comes the not so secret news that consumers are comfortable (and eager) to shop for goods and services on the internet more than ever before. While this trend is lucrative to online suppliers, it puts local affiliate retailers in a bind. How can the local retailers stay in […]