Minnesota Lawyer has recognized Attorney Mark Briol as a Power 30 Honoree for Top Business Litigation Attorneys in Minnesota.Read More

In 2016, the pharmaceutical company Merck won a $200 million jury verdict against its competitor Gilead, based on Merck’s claim that Gilead infringed Merck’s drug patents. But three months later the judge completely barred Merck from enforcing its patents against Gilead, after concluding that Merck had “unclean hands” as a result of a “pervasive pattern...Read More

My previous discussion of the Minnesota Court of Appeals’s opinion in the Lund litigation (here, here, and here) noted that on February 12, 2019, the Lund defendants filed a petition asking the Minnesota Supreme Court to review the decision of the Court of Appeals. On March 27, 2019, the Supreme Court declined to do so. Accordingly,...Read More

In December 2014, Kim Lund, one of four siblings who shared beneficial ownership of Minnesota’s Lund grocery empire, filed a lawsuit against her brother Tres Lund (the CEO of the business entities), the entities themselves, two directors, and a co-trustee of one of Kim’s trusts. In the action Kim sought to divest her Lund business...Read More

How many times have you agreed to “binding arbitration” in case of a dispute over a product you bought or a service you signed up for? Whether you know it (because you conscientiously read contracts before signing them) or not (you don’t), there’s a good chance your answer should be “a lot.” Arbitration provisions now...Read More

The National Football League won two high-profile legal battles against superstar players in 2016, in both cases winning on appeal after a federal district court judge ruled against them. The legal considerations that proved decisive in the Tom Brady and Adrian Peterson cases were not particularly complicated or new, and without celebrity and salient secondary...Read More