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June 10, 2021 By Donald R. McNeil

Alexander Hamilton Died from Choosing a Bad Mediator

Alexander Hamilton Died from Choosing a Bad Mediator

Choosing the right mediator for resolving your dispute is important and can make all the difference in the world. In the case of Alexander Hamilton, he chose the wrong mediator and it cost him his life. The Aaron Burr v. Alexander Hamilton duel has received recent attention due to the popular Broadway play and the epic biography by Ron Chernow. The dispute between these two men is one of the most infamous political conflicts in American history and ended in a bad way. Burr and Hamilton had … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Arbitration, Mediation

November 25, 2020 By Donald R. McNeil

What Chief Justice Sandy Keith Told Me

What Chief Justice Sandy Keith Told Me

Former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Alexander MacDonald "Sandy" Keith died last month. I served as a law clerk at the Court when the Chief joined as the junior associate justice in 1989. He was the first person to hold office in each of the three branches of Minnesota state government, serving as state senator, the 37th Lieutenant Governor, and as an associate justice and later chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. The Chief was born and raised in Rochester, Minnesota before … [Read more...]

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September 24, 2020 By Donald R. McNeil

The Notorious RBG – And the Honorable Mary Jeanne Coyne

The Notorious RBG – And the Honorable Mary Jeanne Coyne

Our country is reflecting on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s career and contributions to our country both as an advocate and as a jurist. She went to law school during a time that the legal profession consisted mostly of men. Justice Ginsberg graduated at the top of her law school class at Columbia Law in 1957 before teaching and then working for the American Civil Liberties Union. She was originally appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 1980 before her nomination … [Read more...]

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Alexander Hamilton Died from Choosing a Bad Mediator

June 10, 2021

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