In 2020, two groups of Atlantic herring fishermen were faced with the prospect of having to pay $710 per day for the cost of federal government monitors whose job was to ride along on fishing vessels and collect data necessary to protect against overfishing. The fisherman didn’t object to the monitor per se. In fact they saw benefit in the work the monitors were doing. But they did object to having to foot the cost...

By Tony Mendoza 

I walked into the Twentieth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law in Chicago expecting to leave with practical tips for implementing AI tools in my practice. Instead, I found myself confronting something far more unsettling and profound...

By Fatimeh Pahlavan

An excerpt from The Black Lawyer in Minnesota 1973-2023: A Story of Firsts and Those Who Made a Difference, by Jeffrey A. Hassan

The original version of this timeline was created by former Minnesota Supreme Court law librarian Marvin Roger Anderson for the MSBA-published book For the Record: 150 Years of Law and Lawyers in Minnesota (1999). It was expanded for this book with Anderson’s permission.