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11/21/2019 Co-Owner Obligations and Fiduciary Duty Persons who own businesses together have obligations to the company and their co-owners. These obligations fall under the general characterization of…

11/13/2019 Stacking PIP Coverage on Your Automobiles I do personal injury litigation. I don't advertise that, but for good people with good cases or on referrals from good colleagues, I will take the…

11/06/2019 Developments in Real Estate There is a 2-year cycle in a lawyer's licensing term during which 45 continuing education credits must be taken. One of my favorite and most…

10/23/2019 An Update on Regulatory Actions by the Department of Commerce As regular readers know, on occasion I report on regulatory actions taken (or some would say imposed) by the Minnesota Department of Commerce.

10/17/2019 Artificial Intelligence in Litigation I attended a mind-blowing CLE in Minneapolis on Monday. The big picture theme was artificial intelligence. Get your head around this—computers are…

10/10/2019 How you trust your lawyer is important I am working on an arbitration and absorbed in the case and it reminded me of this older post. It is (according to my stats) a fairly popular one and…

10/02/2019 Building Contractor Contract Changes The Department of Labor and Industry regulates Minnesota's residential building contractors. In fact, a non-Minnesota domiciled company doing…

09/17/2019 Golf Course is Gone! An interesting case coming from the Minnesota Court of Appeals addresses whether restrictive covenants on real estate in Duluth expired after 30…

09/04/2019 The Importance of a Company's Corporate Documents and Annual Meeting A recent phone call with a judge in Stillwater and a Minnesota Court of Appeals opinion on a business dispute between shareholders from a suburb of…