In May 2025, substantial amendments to Minnesota’s trust and estate statutes were enacted. Some of these changes include changes to the Uniform Trust Code, the Uniform Probate Code, the Power of Appointment Act, and to modernize Minnesota’s statutory Rule Against Perpetuities. These revisions update the legal framework governing trusts and estates in Minnesota and enhance planning opportunities for multi-generation estate planning.
Are You Ready for Minnesota’s New Data Privacy Law?
The Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (“MCDPA”) introduces new rights for consumers and new obligations for businesses – and it takes effect July 31, 2025. If your business handles personal information from Minnesota residents, now is the time to prepare. Can you respond to consumer requests under the new law? Are your opt-out tools in place? Have you updated your privacy notice?
In a series of short videos, litigation attorney David Bradley Olsen covers a variety of topics in relation to the First Amendment from libel and slander to public figures and defamation. See more on his ReelLawyers.com page.
Twin Cities Business magazine’s Lawsuits Of The Year: 2014 included the successful representation of Ventura in a defamation case. Ventura’s legal team was led by David Bradley Olsen and included Court Anderson, John Bisanz, Jr., Benjamin Hamborg, and paralegal Emily Erickson.
Henson Efron elected business law attorney Rochelle L. Hauser as shareholder while family law attorney Lisa T. Spencer was re-elected to serve on the firm’s management committee. Hauser represents and advises companies and individuals on a wide variety of corporate and business matters, including business formation, reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, various commercial transactions, and other…
The team of Henson Efron attorneys that successfully represented Jesse Ventura in his defamation case against the estate of American Sniper author Chris Kyle has been selected as one of Minnesota Lawyer’s Attorneys of the Year honorees for 2014. The legal team won a successful verdict in July 2014 when Ventura was awarded $500,000 for…
Defaulted on Your Mortgage? – What Commercial Property Owners Should Know
While many businesses are slowly recovering from the U.S. economic downtown, attorneys continue to see business owners on the receiving end of default notices from their mortgage lenders. In addition to the fears associated with getting current on mortgage payments, many owners are uncertain about the processes involved in the event foreclosure occurs or what…
Lisa Spencer, Katy Graves, Melissa Nilsson, Kelli Jordan, Elizabeth Sumpton and Lisa Thoreson were recently featured in a special issue of Attorney At Law magazine, Women in Law of the Twin Cities. Read more