Make plans to attend the 11th Annual Affordable Housing Summit—an event focused on the development and financing of multifamily projects. The event will take place May 9, 2024 at the Marriott City Center in Minneapolis. Winthrop & Weinstine, along with Baker Tilly and Minnesota Housing are excited to host you for the region’s premier event focused ...
Mary Taylor and Jessica Willes will be presenting at Minnesota CLE’s How to Resolve Survey, Description and Boundary Issues seminar on May 9, 2024. They will present, “Reading and Understanding the Survey,” which will give an overview of the required and optional elements of an ALTA/NSPS survey, and helpful pointers for review. For more information ...
May 9, 2024
Tony Moch and Amber Kraemer will be speaking at Minnesota CLE’s 2024 Banking Law Institute on May 8, 2024. Their presentation is titled, “Credit Union Acquisitions of Banks and Bank Branches.” Bank M & A deal volume around the country has been driven recently by credit union acquisitions of banks, with four new deals announced ...
May 8, 2024
Over a year after it proposed a rule banning virtually all non-compete agreements, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) voted to issue its long-awaited final rule. The final rule is substantially the same as the proposed rule, with a new exception for “senior executive” agreements that were in place before the final rule’s effective date. The ...
Does the Trifecta Still Exist? In the wee hours of Monday morning, freshman Senator Nicole Mitchell (DFL-Woodbury) was arrested for first-degree burglary. As details have trickled out throughout the week, providing a constant stream of gossip and speculation, the key question is whether she will ever return to the legislature. The Senate met twice this ...
Kyle Kroll will present on copyright issues at the Intellectual Property Committee’s CLE-accredited panel event on the latest developments in intellectual property law, hosted by Robins Kaplan, Saul Ewing and the Federal Bar Association. This event will provide attendees with unparalleled insights into the recent case developments in patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret within ...
April 24, 2024
Legislature Reaches Third Deadline The Legislature has reached another important deadline this week; Friday, April 19, is the final date upon which committees can act favorably on major appropriation and finance bills. Called the Third Deadline, the House and Senate Finance Committees are required to pass supplemental budget bills to the House Ways and Means ...
Megan Miller will co-presenting a webinar sponsored by Mitchell Hamline School of Law, entitled “Everything You Wanted to Know About the PCT but Were Afraid to Ask.” The objective of this CLE webinar is to demystify the PCT – an essential but cumbersome treaty-based system – and help participants become better PCT practitioners. Based on ...
April 18, 2024
Winthrop is proud to sponsor the upcoming Upper Midwest Convenience Store and Energy Convention (UMCS) taking place at the Saint Paul RiverCentre from April 15-17. UMCS, hosted by Fueling Minnesota and FUELIowa, is the largest event for fuel marketers and c-store professionals in the Upper Midwest. Join attorneys Tami Diehm, Jim Dierking and Noreen Johnson ...
April 15, 2024
Minnesota Revenues Continue to Grow Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB) reported this week that Minnesota’s revenue collections for February and March are $241 million more than was forecasted in the February 2024 Budget and Economic Forecast. MMB also reported that the State’s macroeconomic consultant now expects a slightly improved economic outlook in the “near term”. ...
Laura Pfeiffer and Rachel Brygger will be co-presenting on “Paid Sick and Family Leave Laws,” at The Law Firm Alliance Associate Forum webinar on April 10, 2024. The list of states and even cities that have enacted new paid leave laws continues to grow. Chicago’s new leave law permits employees to use accrued paid leave ...
April 10, 2024
Omnibus Policy Bills on the Move Prior to the March 22nd legislative deadline for policy bills, most committees created omnibus policy bills. Starting this week, both the House of Representatives and the Senate engaged in lengthy floor sessions as they passed many of these bills. It is expected that both the House and Senate will ...