Start in Minnesota

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Having a lawyer look at it

Everything on Start in Minnesota is free and self-directed. If you would rather have a Minnesota lawyer review your situation, here is how — and what you should know first.

Read this before you write

No lawyer-client relationship exists until one is agreed to in writing.Sending an email does not create one, and neither does receiving a reply. Until a signed engagement is in place, no one is your lawyer.

Do not send confidential details in a first message. Information you send before an engagement exists may not be privileged, and the firm may already represent someone on the other side of your matter. A conflict check has to happen first. Keep it to who you are, what kind of business, and what you need looked at.

Deadlines do not wait. If something is time-sensitive — you have been served, a filing is due, a lease is about to auto-renew — say so, and do not rely on an email to preserve your rights. Call.

Who publishes this site

Start in Minnesota is published by Madgett Law, LLC, a Minnesota law firm. The site is free, carries no advertising, and takes no fee from anyone for anything on it. The firm publishes it as a public resource and, plainly, in the hope that some readers will eventually want a lawyer.

There is no lead-generation arrangement behind it, no referral fee, and no third party that receives your information — because the site collects none. Nothing you typed into any builder on this site has been transmitted or stored anywhere.

How to reach the firm

David J.S. Madgett, Minnesota attorney license no. 390494. Licensed in Minnesota only.

If a different lawyer is a better fit

Nothing here says the firm that publishes this site is the right one for your situation, and for plenty of matters it will not be. The Minnesota State Bar Association runs a lawyer referral service, and Minnesota has a statewide legal aid network for people who qualify by income. Both are independent of this site.