Minnesota Lawyer Blog

I had the pleasure of stopping by the sixth Annual “Attractive Nuisance Tour” at the Fine Line Music Cafe last Friday evening. The tour is always a great legal community event with an excellent objective -- raising money for the Minnesota Justice Foundation and the Hennepin County Bar Foundation. Over its five year lifespan, the event has raised more than $200,000 for these worthwhile causes.

The Attractive Nuisance Tour features music from an array of bands – each of which includes at least one member who is from the local legal community. The festivities last Friday were led off with the all-lawyer band “Noisy Withdrawal.” (For more on the band, click here.) I had the chance to chat with three of members of band – Laurie Hartman, Steve Beck and Ryan Johnson. When they are not practicing their music, all three of these bandmates can be found practicing law at Fredrikson & Byron.

Below is a clip of “Noisy Withdrawal’s” performance at Friday's fun-filled event along with a few comments from the above band members.



Click here to see this clip on YouTube.

There is a quirky (relatively new) blog in cyberspace called "Who Am Us Anyway?" that purports to pertain to music and dogs. Among the "mandatory chords" listed on the blog for the musically inclined are: the Clash, the Dead, Bob Dylan, the Kinks, the Ramones and the Stones.

Why do I mention the blog here? It happens to be run by a local lawyer. I did get a kick out of his post describing his pilgrimage in New York to honor some Beatles memories. And, oh yes, true to his word, the author also squeezes a dog into the story.

You'll have to excuse me if I don't have a good wrap up for this one, but it's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a .... well, you know ...