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ATTORNEYS
Abstracters, Minn. Statutes 2025 386.75
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments in a representative capacity, Minn. Statutes 2025 358.50
Representative capacity. notarial acts, Minn. Statutes 2025 358.52
Sanctions, civil lawsuits, Minn. Statutes 2025 549.211
Addresses, registered land, instruments, endorsements, Minn. Statutes 2025 508.65, 508A.65
Admission to bar, Minn. Statutes 2025 480.05, 481.01
Advice
Adoption, minor unmarried parents, Minn. Statutes 2025 259.24
Invention developers, Minn. Statutes 2025 325A.04, 325A.05
Ambulance chasing, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.03, 481.05
Appearance
Habeas corpus petitioners, Minn. Statutes 2025 589.20
Hearings, Public Utilities Commission, Minn. Statutes 2025 216.16
Appearance, farmer-lender mediation meetings, Minn. Rules 1502.0017
Appointment
Adoptions, Minn. Statutes 2025 259.65
Appointed attorneys, reimbursement, Minn. Statutes 2025 611.35
Corporations, conveyance of real estate, Minn. Statutes 2025 507.05
Counsel for committed persons, Minn. Statutes 2025 253B.07
Developmentally disabled persons, Minn. Statutes 2025 252A.081, 252A.09
Eminent domain, commissioners, Minn. Statutes 2025 117.075
Guardianship and protective proceedings, Minn. Statutes 2025 524.5-205, 524.5-311, 524.5-406
Human rights lawsuits, Minn. Statutes 2025 363A.33
Juvenile court hearings, Minn. Statutes 2025 260B.130, 260B.163, 260C.163
Metropolitan Airports Commission, Minn. Statutes 2025 473.606
Paternity lawsuits, Minn. Statutes 2025 257.69
Public defender services, appointed counsel, Minn. Statutes 2025 611.27
Structured settlements, Minn. Statutes 2025 549.405
Assistant city attorneys, defined as essential employees, Minn. Statutes 2025 179A.03
Attachment
Client's deposited funds, notice about, Minn. Statutes 2025 609.532
Registered land, notice, Minn. Statutes 2025 508.65, 508A.65
Attorney associations, Minn. Statutes 2025 480B.01
Attorney general, see ATTORNEY GENERAL
Attorneys-in-fact, see POWER OF ATTORNEY
Attorneys' summary executions, see under EXECUTIONS (CREDITORS REMEDIES)
Bond counsel, reasonable fees, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.21
Business corporations, Minn. Statutes 2025 302A.447, 302A.521
Cannabis and hemp businesses, legal assistance to, immunity from discipline, Minn. Statutes 2025 342.67
Certified copies, birth and death records, issuance to, Minn. Statutes 2025 144.225
Change of attorney
Civil action, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.11
Disability of former attorney, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.12
City attorneys, see CITY ATTORNEYS
Claims against United States
Attorney general, retaining by, Minn. Statutes 2025 8.09
Compensation and salaries, Minn. Statutes 2025 8.10
Clients
Authority to represent, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.08
Binding, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.08
Change of attorney, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.11, 481.12
Client security fund, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.20
Confidentiality, Minn. Statutes 2025 182.669, 481.06, 595.02
Delay of suit, misconduct, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.071
Privileged communications, Minn. Statutes 2025 595.02
Proof of authority, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.09
Property, refusal to surrender, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.14
Collection agencies, Minn. Statutes 2025 332.32, 332.37
Commitments, notice received
Continuation, hearings, Minn. Statutes 2025 253B.12
Patient transfers, Minn. Statutes 2025 253B.14
Preliminary hearings, Minn. Statutes 2025 253B.07
Provisional discharge, revocation, Minn. Statutes 2025 253B.15
Release, Minn. Statutes 2025 253B.17
Treatment reports, Minn. Statutes 2025 253B.12
Committed persons, medical records, access to data, Minn. Statutes 2025 253B.03
Committed sex offenders
Medical records, access to data, Minn. Statutes 2025 253D.17
Secure treatment facility patients, notice received, administrative restriction, Minn. Statutes 2025 253D.18
Compensation for services, see ATTORNEY FEES
Conduct, supreme court rules, Minn. Statutes 2025 480.05
Confidential or privileged information, clients, Minn. Statutes 2025 182.669
Contempts, misbehavior in office, Minn. Statutes 2025 588.01
Contested cases, Minn. Rules 1400.5010 to 1400.8400
Continuing education, license requirements, Minn. Statutes 2025 214.12
Contracts for deed, adverse claims to real property, agent of seller, Minn. Statutes 2025 559.21
Corporate political contributions, Minn. Statutes 2025 211B.15
Corporations, see Attorneys for corporation under CORPORATIONS
Counties without county attorneys, special counsel for, Minn. Statutes 2025 388.09
County attorneys, see COUNTY ATTORNEYS
County law libraries, use, Minn. Statutes 2025 134A.02
Credit services organizations, exclusion, Minn. Statutes 2025 332.52
Credit unions, attorneys representing, fidelity bonds, Minn. Rules 2675.6250
Crime victims reparations hearings, right to legal representation, Minn. Rules 3050.0300
Cultural competency training, child welfare system, Minn. Statutes 2025 260.69
Data, see GOVERNMENT DATA
Debt management services providers, exclusion, Minn. Statutes 2025 332A.02
Deceit or collusion, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.07, 481.071
Defending case after connection with prosecution, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.16
Definitions
Child mortality review panel, Minn. Statutes 2025 142A.03
Interested persons, attorneys defined as, Minn. Statutes 2025 524.5-102
Matching programs, computerized comparison of data, Minn. Statutes 2025 13B.01
Professional firms, Minn. Statutes 2025 319B.02
Public Guardianship for Adults with Developmental Disabilities Act, Minn. Statutes 2025 252A.02
Statutory construction, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.45
Delinquent taxes, tax returns, disclosure, Minn. Statutes 2025 270B.07
Detective licenses, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2025 326.3341
Developmentally disabled persons, see Attorneys for under DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED PERSONS
Disbarment, fees, exception, Minn. Statutes 2025 357.08
Disbarment, practice before Revenue Department, Minn. Rules 8052.0300
Disciplinary rules, nonresident lawyers, appearing before Tax Court, Minn. Rules 8610.0020
Disclosures
Government data practices, Minn. Statutes 2025 13.393
Motor vehicle theft, insurance information, Minn. Statutes 2025 65B.80 to 65B.83
District court judges, practicing as, Minn. Statutes 2025 484.06, 484.065
District court records, access to data, Minn. Statutes 2025 485.06
Domestic abuse
Data, access, Minn. Statutes 2025 13.82
Peace officers' reports, Minn. Statutes 2025 629.341
Duties, generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.06
Education and training, cultural competency training, child welfare system, Minn. Statutes 2025 260.69
Eminent domain, notice received, commissioners' reports, Minn. Statutes 2025 117.115
Employees
Protection of employees or others, access to data, Minn. Statutes 2025 13.43
Testimony, privileged communications, Minn. Statutes 2025 595.02
Energy supply emergencies, appeal hearings, Minn. Rules 7620.0320
False personation, contempt, Minn. Statutes 2025 588.01
Farmer-lender mediation, Minn. Rules 1502.0001 to 1502.0027
Fee splitting, mortgage foreclosures, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.02
Fees charged by, see ATTORNEY FEES
Fees charged to, public defender fees, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.22
Firefighters relief associations, consultants, Minn. Statutes 2025 424A.04
Foreclosure solicitors, exclusion, Minn. Statutes 2025 325N.01
Guardianship and protective proceedings, incapacitated persons, Minn. Statutes 2025 524.5-304, 524.5-311
Harmful substance claims
Members, Minn. Rules 7190.0001
Representing claimants, Minn. Rules 7190.0005
Health threat to others, hearings, duties, Minn. Statutes 2025 144.4177
Hearings
Attendance, mentally ill persons dangerous to the public, Minn. Statutes 2025 253B.19
Commitment hearings, expenses, payment, Minn. Statutes 2025 253B.23
Commitments of sex offenders, Minn. Statutes 2025 253D.03, 253D.28
Persons who are health threat to others, duties, Minn. Statutes 2025 144.4177
Public guardianship, duties, Minn. Statutes 2025 252A.20
Restitution hearings, Minn. Statutes 2025 611A.045
Human services data, access, Minn. Statutes 2025 13.46
Income taxes, disbarment and suspension procedures, practice before Revenue Department, Minn. Rules 8052.0400
Inquiries, vocational rehabilitation services provided, duties, workers' compensation litigation procedures, Minn. Rules 1415.1100
Insurance fraud, see under FRAUD
Invention developers, patent, copyright, or trademark advice, Minn. Statutes 2025 325A.04, 325A.05
Investigations, licensing boards, Minn. Statutes 2025 214.04, 214.10
Judgments
Execution, Minn. Statutes 2025 550.04
Pleas of confession, filing with court administrator, Minn. Statutes 2025 548.23
Satisfaction of judgments, generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 548.15
Judicial vacancies, consulting, determination, Minn. Statutes 2025 2.722
Law clerks, see LAW CLERKS
Law Examiners Board, see LAW EXAMINERS BOARD
Law libraries, see LAW LIBRARIES
Law offices, workplace accident and injury reduction, Minn. Rules 5208.1500
Lawsuits, professional review, certification, Minn. Statutes 2025 544.42
Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board, see LAWYERS PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY BOARD
Liability, violation of acknowledgment of sanctions, Minn. Statutes 2025 549.211
Licenses
Preliminary application, criminal records, Minn. Statutes 2025 214.035
Reinsurance intermediaries' licenses, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2025 60A.71
Renewal, Minn. Statutes 2025 214.12
Tests, exceptions, Minn. Statutes 2025 214.03
Licenses, numbers, inclusion on legal documents, workers' compensation litigation proceedings, Minn. Rules 1415.0500
Liens
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.13
Homestead exemption, Minn. Statutes 2025 510.05
Judgments, assignment, attorney lien not affected, Minn. Statutes 2025 548.13
Notice of intention to claim lien, city clerks, filing fees, Minn. Statutes 2025 357.39
Priority, public assistance liens, effect, Minn. Statutes 2025 256.015
Registered land, notice requirements, Minn. Statutes 2025 508.65, 508A.65
Workers' compensation, Minn. Statutes 2025 176.081
Limited liability companies, Minn. Statutes 2025 211B.15, 322C.0408
Malpractice, see MALPRACTICE
Marriage and family therapy, exceptions, Minn. Statutes 2025 148B.38
Metropolitan Airports Commission, Minn. Statutes 2025 473.606
Military law, qualifications for practice, Minn. Statutes 2025 192A.041
Minnesota sexual psychopathic personality treatment center, names, record keeping, Minn. Rules 9515.3110
Minnesota State Bar Association
Rules of Criminal Procedure, suggestions, Minn. Statutes 2025 480.059
Rules of Evidence, suggestions, Minn. Statutes 2025 480.0591
Supreme court legal services fund, advisory committee, Minn. Statutes 2025 480.242
Misconduct
Child support proceedings, violations, disciplinary action, Minn. Statutes 2025 518A.66
Grounds for removal or suspension, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.15
Mortgage foreclosure sales
Power of attorney, recording, Minn. Statutes 2025 580.05
Purchasers, payment of taxes and expenses, Minn. Statutes 2025 582.03
Names, use by person other than attorney, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.07
Nonattorneys, practice of law by
Injury or death, soliciting claims, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.04, 481.05
Unauthorized practice of law, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.02
Nonprofit corporations, Minn. Statutes 2025 211B.15, 317A.521
Nonresidents, practice in Minnesota, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.02
Nonresidents, Tax Court appearances, Minn. Rules 8610.0010, 8610.0020
Notice given, workers' compensation litigation procedures
Commencement of proceedings, Minn. Rules 1415.1000
Intervenors, Minn. Rules 1415.1100
Third parties, Minn. Rules 1415.1100
Oaths
Oaths of office, Minn. Statutes 2025 358.07
Observance, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.06
Violations, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.15
Oil, set-aside program, appeal hearings, representation by attorney, Minn. Rules 7615.0350
Opinions
Agricultural business enterprise loans, bonds, Minn. Rules 1652.0060, 1652.0070
Agricultural development bond beginning farmer loans, bonds, Minn. Rules 1650.0531, 1650.0551, 1650.0561
Personal property owned, possessed, or controlled by, tax listing statements, verification, Minn. Statutes 2025 273.25
Personnel data, protection of employees or others, access, Minn. Statutes 2025 13.43
Pleadings
Recycled paper, Minn. Statutes 2025 480.0515
Verification of, Minn. Statutes 2025 544.15
Postconviction remedy petitions, contents, Minn. Statutes 2025 590.02
Power of attorney
Authority to hire, Minn. Statutes 2025 523.24
Generally, see POWER OF ATTORNEY
Practice as
Conciliation court, exceptions, Minn. Statutes 2025 491A.02
County attorneys, Minn. Statutes 2025 388.21
County Attorneys Council, executive director, Minn. Statutes 2025 388.20
County attorneys' law partners, Minn. Statutes 2025 388.11
Deputy sheriffs, Minn. Statutes 2025 387.13
Military law advocate, Minn. Statutes 2025 192A.041
Sheriffs, Minn. Statutes 2025 387.13
State court administrator, Minn. Statutes 2025 480.14
Unauthorized practice of law, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.02
Prisoners, visitation by attorneys, Minn. Statutes 2025 243.48
Product liability, notice of possible claim, Minn. Statutes 2025 604.04
Professional corporations, see PROFESSIONAL CORPORATIONS
Professional firms, see PROFESSIONAL FIRMS
Professional fund raisers, exclusion, Minn. Statutes 2025 309.50
Prosecuting attorneys, see PROSECUTORS
Protective agent licenses, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2025 326.3341
Public defenders, see PUBLIC DEFENDERS
Public guardianship hearings
Duties, Minn. Statutes 2025 252A.09
Fees, reimbursement, Minn. Statutes 2025 252A.20
Public information and education programs, consulting, paternity, establishing, Minn. Statutes 2025 257.75
Real estate closing agent licensure, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2025 82.641
Real estate licensure, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2025 82.56
Reciprocals or interinsurance exchanges, see Attorneys under RECIPROCALS OR INTERINSURANCE EXCHANGES
Records and record keeping, government data practices, Minn. Statutes 2025 13.393
Referral services, adoption agencies, disclosure statements, Minn. Statutes 2025 259.37
Removal, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.15
Representation by, see Right to an attorney under this topic
Retainer agreements, workers' compensation litigation procedures, Minn. Rules 1415.0800
Revisor's office, code of professional responsibility, Minn. Statutes 2025 3C.05
Right to an attorney
Adoption, birth parents, direct adoptive placement, Minn. Statutes 2025 259.47
Aircraft operators, Minn. Statutes 2025 360.0753
Committed persons, Minn. Statutes 2025 253B.07, 253B.092
Committed sex offenders, Minn. Statutes 2025 253D.20
Constitutional provisions, Minn. Const. art 1 s 6
Contested cases, Minn. Rules 1400.5800
Crime victims reparations hearings, Minn. Rules 3050.0300
Deputy registrars of motor vehicles, suspension and revocation hearings, Minn. Rules 7406.1600
Developmentally disabled persons, public guardianship, Minn. Statutes 2025 252A.19
Extradition to another state, Minn. Statutes 2025 629.10
Farmer-lender mediation, Minn. Rules 1502.0014
Firefighters, complaints against, Minn. Statutes 2025 471.86
Foster care, Minn. Rules 9560.0603
Guardians for at-risk youth, Minn. Statutes 2025 257D.04
Guardianship and protective proceedings, incapacitated persons, Minn. Statutes 2025 524.5-304, 524.5-406
Health threat to others, respondents, Minn. Statutes 2025 144.4176, 144.4183
Hunters, drug and alcohol testing, Minn. Statutes 2025 97B.066
Indigent defendants, see PUBLIC DEFENDERS
Isolation or quarantine of persons, Minn. Statutes 2025 144.4195
Juvenile court hearings, Minn. Statutes 2025 260C.163
Juvenile offenders, Minn. Statutes 2025 260B.130, 260B.163
Juvenile petty offenders, Minn. Statutes 2025 260B.235
Landowner's bill of rights, Minn. Statutes 2025 84.0274
Matters of metropolitan significance, hearings, Minn. Statutes 2025 473.173
Minnesota Code of Military Justice, Minn. Statutes 2025 192A.155
MNsure eligibility appeals, Minn. Rules 7700.0105
Motor vehicle dealer license proceedings, Minn. Rules 7400.2600
Nursing homes, deficiency citation arbitration, Minn. Statutes 2025 144A.10
Occupational safety and health, contested cases, Minn. Rules 5210.0576
Paternity lawsuits, Minn. Statutes 2025 257.69
Peace officers, Minn. Statutes 2025 471.44, 626.89
Persons in custody on a charge, admitting attorney for consultation with, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.10
Persons subpoenaed by legislative committee or commission, Minn. Statutes 2025 3.153
Power plant siting and power line routing hearings, Minn. Rules 1405.0600
Pregnant minor women, abortion hearings, Minn. Statutes 2025 144.343
Putative fathers, Minn. Statutes 2025 259.52
Revenue recapture hearings, Minn. Rules 1400.8604
School administrators, ethics violations, Minn. Rules 3512.5200
Source individuals, bloodborne pathogens, Minn. Statutes 2025 144.7407
Special education hearings, Minn. Rules 3525.4300
Students, dismissal procedures, Minn. Statutes 2025 121A.47
Supplementary review of waste facilities, parties to contested review, Minn. Rules 9200.4800
Tax Court appeals, Small Claims Division, Minn. Statutes 2025 271.21
Teachers, Minn. Statutes 2025 122A.40, 122A.41, 122A.69, 123B.25
Teachers, ethics complaints, Minn. Rules 8710.2100
Threats to commit crimes, persons charged with, Minn. Statutes 2025 625.04
Tuberculosis carriers or respondents, Minn. Statutes 2025 144.4805
Youth camps, permit revocation hearings, Minn. Statutes 2025 144.73
Service of process on
Expungement of criminal records, petitions and proposed orders, Minn. Statutes 2025 609A.03
Garnishment proceedings, Minn. Statutes 2025 571.72
Nonresidents, agents for, Minn. Statutes 2025 557.01
Public Utilities Commission, orders and notices, Minn. Statutes 2025 216.17
State Fair licensees, Minn. Statutes 2025 37.17
Services, farms, estate planning and transfer, Minn. Statutes 2025 17.985
Solicitation, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.03, 481.05
Solicitor general, see SOLICITOR GENERAL
Special attorneys, Minn. Statutes 2025 8.025, 8.06, 299F.03
Special legal counsel
Business corporations, see Attorneys for corporation under BUSINESS CORPORATIONS
Corporations, Minn. Statutes 2025 302A.447, 302A.521
Nonprofit corporations, Minn. Statutes 2025 211B.15, 317A.521
State Lottery, attorney position, Minn. Statutes 2025 349A.02
Statutory construction, generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 645.45
Stolen property, return, duties, Minn. Statutes 2025 609.523
Subpoenas, authority to issue, developmentally disabled persons, public guardianship, hearings, Minn. Statutes 2025 252A.09
Substitution of attorney, workers' compensation litigation proceedings, Minn. Rules 1415.0800
Suspension, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.15
Task forces, professions working with violence and abuse, Minn. Statutes 2025 135A.153
Tax Court appearances, Minn. Rules 8610.0010, 8610.0020
Tax preparation services, exemptions, Minn. Statutes 2025 270C.445
Tax returns
Disclosure, Minn. Statutes 2025 270B.07
Inspection, rights, Minn. Statutes 2025 270B.03
Taxes, practice before Revenue Department, Minn. Rules 8052.0300
Taxpayers' rights advocates, Minn. Statutes 2025 270A.11
Testimony, attorney-client privilege, Minn. Statutes 2025 595.02
Towns, see Attorneys under TOWN OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
Translators, driver's license and vehicle records applications, non-English documents, Minn. Rules 7410.0400
Trial court information system, access to data, Minn. Statutes 2025 484.94
Unauthorized practice of law, Minn. Statutes 2025 481.02
Unemployment insurance, appeal hearings, Minn. Rules 3310.2910
University of Minnesota attorney, Minn. Statutes 2025 3.736
Visitation by, prisoners, Minn. Statutes 2025 243.48
Witness fees, payment, Minn. Statutes 2025 357.30
Workers' compensation
Coverage, Minn. Rules 5224.0210
Hearings, Minn. Rules 1415.0100 to 1415.4100
Representing employees and employers, Minn. Rules 5220.1100
Workers' compensation, notice received, Minn. Statutes 2025 176.081, 176.092
Workplace accident and injury reduction, Minn. Rules 5208.1500