Dan's Desk (23)

Dan's Desk

11/07/2018 When is a Person an Employee? Minnesota is a strange state when it comes to determining of a person is an employee of an employer.

10/24/2018 Man's Best Friend: Owner Beware My family owns a dog. She's quite tame and docile, but occasionally gets her curiosity piqued by passers-by or other dogs. My home in Hugo abuts a…

10/17/2018 Personnel Files: Employer Requirements Terminated employees who are disgruntled always ask for a copy of their personnel file. Plaintiff's lawyers will direct their clients to get the file…

10/11/2018 Keeping Key Employees Trying to find and keep great (even pretty good) employees can be difficult and competitive. When someone has a lot of knowledge and experience in…

10/03/2018 Working Solo: Why and Why Not I’ve worked in a 25 lawyer firm and a 4 lawyer firm. Seeing the big and the small, I have a sense of the pros and cons of each. Why am I on my own?

09/26/2018 Getting Ready for Hockey Season...and Flying Pucks I love hockey, just no two ways around it. I play hockey at least weekly, watch hockey a few times a week, and read about hockey.

09/12/2018 Appellate Basics One of the great things about our legal system in the United States is that one can appeal a court’s decision if they believe the court made an error…

09/12/2018 Appellate Basics One of the great things about our legal system in the United States is that one can appeal a court’s decision if they believe the court made an error…

09/05/2018 Contract Reformation: Correcting Errors in the Contract The many readers of this weekly blog out of Hugo MN have become familiar with my emphasis on putting agreements in writing.