Well, we blogged two days ago that the contagion of big law firm layoffs was spreading across the country, and it is now confirmed that Minnesota is no oasis. Faegre & Benson has informed 29 attorneys that their services will no longer be required. (Click here to see Above the Law’s post about it.)
Merchant & Gould has reportedly laid off 33 attorneys and staff. It’s currently unclear how many are in Minnesota.
This is freaky news for anyone who is graduating law school this May and is still job hunting in Minnesota.
Give the law firms their due. They’re not trying to save anybody.
Faegre & Benson asked former judge “Naughty” Nottingham to imprison me without finding that I committed an offense known in law. Their partner said that the “absence of criminal information is meaningless” when a warrant is requested. He accepted Nottingham’s appointment as a prosecutor even though that was prohibited by the Supreme Court in YOUNG v. UNITED STATES EX REL. VUITTON ET FILS S. A. ET AL., 107 S. Ct. 2124, 481 U.S. 787 (U.S. 05/26/1987). Faegre threatened to have Nottingham put my husband in jail if I didn’t do what they wanted in a civil matter. Faegre’s bills show that they advised their client to publish baseless criminal accusations made without a warrant, arrest, or statement of probable cause. Faegre represented Mutual Insurance Limited of Bermuda even though it has no NAIC number and is not authorized by any state insurance regulator. Faegre filed in the 10th Circuit that there was no insurance while admitting in a motion that there was insurance and sending bills to the CEO of Mutual Insurance, Jerome C. Schaefer, referring over and over again to the insurance carrier and Mutual Insurance.
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