Minnesota Bar Association Commentary

 For the second time in a decade, the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility (OLPR) is in substantial violation of its legal duty to process ethics complaints promptly. A recent Lawyers Board filing in the Supreme Court stated, “The Board’s concern lies … in the indisputable fact that OLPR decisions routinely take, by any measure, too long.”1 OLPR’s Director was appointed nine years ago to rectify a similar problem, but – after initially identifying OLPR’s file-aging problem as the “number one priority” – the Director’s writings now generally ignore the problem and claim, implausibly, that the problem is insoluble or requires substantial staff additions to solve.

https://minnlawyer.com/2025/02/04/commentary-olpr-again-misses-prompt-decision-goal-by-a-mile/