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Legally Speaking: What spring can teach us about active listening
By Kristi Paulson, Special to Minnesota Lawyer Active listening helps lawyers uncover client concerns, motivations, and priorities beyond stated legal positions. Effective listening improves advocacy, negotiation, mediation, witness preparation, and […]
Weighing pros, cons of arbitration clauses in construction contracts
Explore the benefits and drawbacks of mandatory arbitration clauses in construction contracts, including cost, confidentiality, finality, and mediation alternatives.
$6.25 million mediation; Rear-end interstate crash grows to include four vehicles
Action: Mediation Date: Sept. 13, 2024 Date of incident: Nov. 8, 2020 Nature of claim: Vehicle collision Injuries alleged: Traumatic brain injury, fractured right foot, fractured lumbar fracture, three fractured […]
$5.44 million mediation; Autistic man dies after ingesting multiple medications
Action: Mediation Date: March 5, 2025 Date of incident: Sept. 21, 2022 Nature of claim: Wrongful death Injuries alleged: Conscious pain and suffering, emotional trauma and death Amount: $5.44 million […]
$656,096 mediation; Defendants cover up facts of daughter-in-law’s death
Action: Mediation Date: Oct. 17, 2024 Date of incident: April 3, 2022 Nature of claim: Wrongful death, outrage and premises liability Injuries alleged: Death from multiple gunshot wounds Amount: $656,096 […]
Deer season or mediation season?
By Spencer Farris It is taxing to transition from a weekend in a deer stand to being back in the office. One has an uncomfortable seat with long, boring lulls […]
$5.6 million settlement; Insurer ignores surgeon-plaintiff’s disability diagnosis
Action: Mediation Date: Sept. 26, 2023 Date of incident: Jan. 1, 2017 Nature of claim: Insurance coverage dispute Injuries alleged: Wrongful denial of payments on a short term and permanent […]
$4.87 million settlement; Settlement far outstrips modest offerings for 2 tracts
Action: Mediation Date: June 4, 2024 Date of incident: Aug. 31, 2022 Nature of claim: Eminent domain Injuries alleged: Taking of two tracts of real property, consisting of about 14.88 […]
$1.7 million settlement; Cervical surgeries required to correct collision injury
Action: Mediation Date: Jan. 19, 2024 Nature of claim: Vehicle accident Injuries alleged: Neck injury necessitating two cervical fusion surgeries Amount: $1.7 million Case name: Withheld Case no: Withheld Court: […]
VIDEO: Courtroom experience proves elusive for many young attorneys
Younger attorneys might not be getting the same opportunity that seasoned trial lawyers have had to hone their legal skills trying a case before a judge and jurors.
Retainer agreements can help avoid malpractice claims
A well-drafted retainer agreement reduces legal malpractice risks by defining responsibilities, scope of representation and fees, ensuring client identity clarity, managing disputes, and preventing mismatched expectations and potential conflicts of interest.
More than attorneys can add value to estate planning
While lawyers are the experts most commonly involved in estate planning, professionals such as financial advisers, insurance agents, mediators and counselors also can bring needed expertise to the process.
Business Law
- Economy forces attorneys to get down to business
- Business Court judges trawl for customers
- Va. company's Web site did not subject business to personal jurisdiction in S.C., appeals panel rules
- Former running back from S.C. wins courtroom victory in contract dispute
- Contract – Government Contract – Qui Tam – False Claims Act
- Licenses & Permits – Beer & Wine Permit – Restrictive Covenant – Suitable Location
- Consumer Protection – FCRA – Auto Loan – Bank Accounting Errors
- Licenses & Permits – Veterinarian – Vaccine Maintenance
- Tort – Business Tort – Va. Computer Crimes Act – Trade Secrets
- Textile firm, railroad settle Graniteville train wreck lawsuit
- State regulators look at car dealer accused of lying to customers
- Subprime mortgage meltdown hits securities law
Commentary
- We tore out our own backup generator
- When is a PIP an adverse employment action?
- Legally Speaking: What spring can teach us about active listening
- A useful patent management government notice
- The third option: Why your best employees are quietly losing their edge
- ‘AI won’t take your job’ and other things CEOs say before the layoffs
- When not to believe (your lyin’ eyes)
- Conduct a technology audit to improve law firm efficiency
- When the client brings ChatGPT to the consultation
- Where is she now, this model who was so beautiful?
- Content Marketing: Where law firms lose referrals and how to prevent it
- Your best people are not leaving for more money — they are leaving because you stopped paying attention
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