On January 1, 2025, a significant shift in Minnesota’s employment landscape will take place with the implementation of a new pay transparency law. Under this statute, employers will be required to disclose salary ranges or fixed pay rates in all job postings. This new mandate, part of the broader Omnibus Labor and Industry Policy Bill signed into law in May 2024 by Governor Walz, will be codified at Minn. Stat. § 181.173.
Business law attorney and managing partner Clark D. Opdahl was recently interviewed in the Minneapolis Star Tribune to discuss the benefits of being part of Legal Netlink Alliance, an international consortium of law firms sharing legal knowledge and providing legal services to clients around the world. “[W]e can identify firms in other jurisdictions that will take…
Family law attorneys Alan C. Eidsness and Melissa J. Nilsson presented “Get Ready to Deviate: Calculating Gross Income of Business Owners in light of Haefele v. Haefele” for a Hennepin County Bar Association – Family Law Section CLE session on October 9, 2013. The session addressed the impact of the Minnesota Supreme Court decision of…
Henson Efron announced today a significant defense victory for its client, a provider of worldwide logistics solutions headquartered in Minnesota, in a jury trial conducted in the Dakota County District Court of Minnesota. In the lawsuit, the client was alleged to have misappropriated trade secrets of a competitor, tortiously interfered with the competitor’s agreements and…
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is poised to decide whether Montana state and local officials violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act when they refused to establish satellite registration and absentee voting offices on the Northern Cheyenne, Crow and Ft. Belknap Indian Reservations. In person absentee and late voter registration offices are available…
Litigation and environmental law attorney Stuart T. Williams was elected Chair of the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy’s Practice Act Review Task Force on October 11, 2013. The task force was appointed by the Board to review and consider changes to the Pharmacy Practice Act. Williams also serves on the Minnesota Board of Nursing and the…
A litigation attorney, David Bradley Olsen also represents athletes and entertainers and recently expanded his practice to include Indian law. In 2013, David was appointed by the Minnesota Supreme Court to the Advisory Committee on the Rules of Civil Appellate Procedure and was selected, again, for inclusion in Minnesota Super Lawyers. Along with his accomplished…