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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt">As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May&nbsp;27, 2010
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<DIV align="right" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt">Registration No.&nbsp;333-_______
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 10pt"><B>UNITED STATES<BR>
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 18pt; margin-top: 10pt"><B>FORM S-8</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 10pt"><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 24pt; margin-top: 0pt"><B>The Dolan Company</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)</DIV>


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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>Delaware</B><BR>
(State or Other Jurisdiction <BR>
of Incorporation or Organization)
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>43-2004527</B><BR>
(I.R.S. Employer<BR>
Identification No.)</TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt"><B>222 South Ninth Street, Suite&nbsp;2300,<BR>
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402<BR>
(612)&nbsp;317-9420</B></DIV>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt">(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant&#146;s
Principal Executive Offices)</DIV>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt"><B>DOLAN MEDIA COMPANY 2007 INCENTIVE COMPENSATION PLAN, AS AMENDED AND RESTATED</B><BR>
(Full title of plans)</DIV>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt"><B>JAMES P. DOLAN<BR>
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer<BR>
The Dolan Company<BR>
222 South Ninth Street, Suite&nbsp;2300<BR>
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402<BR>
(612)&nbsp;317-9420</B><BR>
(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)</DIV>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt"><B>Copy To:<BR>
WALTER S. WEINBERG<BR>
ADAM R. KLEIN<BR>
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP<BR>
525 West Monroe Street<BR>
Chicago, Illinois 60661<BR>
(312)&nbsp;902-5200</B></DIV>


<DIV align="justify" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-indent: 4%">Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated
filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See definition of &#147;large
accelerated filer,&#148; &#147;accelerated filer&#148; and &#147;smaller reporting company&#148; in Rule&nbsp;12b-2 of the
Securities Exchange Act. (check one).
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">Large accelerated filer <FONT face="Wingdings">&#111;</FONT>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><FONT style="white-space: nowrap"> Smaller reporting company <FONT face="Wingdings">&#111;</FONT></FONT></TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt"><B>CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE</B>
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    <TD nowrap align="left"><B>Title of Each Class of Securities</B></TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="center"><B>Amount to be</B></TD>
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Maximum <BR>
Aggregate Price</B></TD>
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Maximum <BR>
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                    <TD style="border-top: 2px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Common Stock, $0.001
par value per share(3)</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">2,100,000</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">12.33</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">$25,893,000</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">$1,847</TD>
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    <TD><DIV style="text-align: justify">Pursuant to Rule&nbsp;416 under the Securities Act, the amount to be registered includes an
indeterminate number of shares of the registrant&#146;s common stock that may be issueable pursuant
to the Dolan Media Company 2007 Incentive Compensation Plan (the &#147;Plan&#148;) by reason of stock
splits, stock dividends or similar transactions.</DIV></TD>
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    <TD><DIV style="text-align: justify">Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(o)
under the Securities Act, based upon the average of the high and low sales prices of the
registrant&#146;s common stock as reported on the New York Stock Exchange on May&nbsp;24, 2010.</DIV></TD>
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    <TD><DIV style="text-align: justify">This registration statement includes an indeterminate number of rights to purchase shares of
series A junior participating preferred stock issuable under the registrant&#146;s Stockholder
Rights Plan. These rights accompany shares of the registrant&#146;s common stock.</DIV></TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt"><B>EXPLANATORY NOTE<BR>
REGISTRATION OF ADDITIONAL SECURITIES</B>
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<DIV align="justify" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt">This registration statement registers an additional 2,100,000 shares of our common stock, par value
$0.001 per share, for potential future issuance under the Dolan Media Company 2007 Incentive
Compensation Plan, as amended and restated (the &#147;Plan&#148;). These shares are additional securities of
the same class as other securities issuable pursuant to awards granted under the Plan for which we
filed a registration statement on Form S-8 (File No.&nbsp;333-145036) with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the &#147;SEC&#148;) on August&nbsp;1, 2007. Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, we have
incorporated into this registration statement by reference the contents of our earlier registration
statement on Form S-8 (File No.&nbsp;333-145036).
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt"><B>Part II</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt"><B>INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</B>
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<DIV align="justify" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt"><B>Item&nbsp;8. Exhibits.</B>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Specimen stock certificate representing the Registrant&#146;s common stock.</DIV></TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Opinion of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP as to the legality of the
securities being registered (including consent).</DIV></TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Consent of McGladrey &#038; Pullen, LLP (Minneapolis, Minnesota).</DIV></TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Consent of McGladrey &#038; Pullen, LLP (Dallas, Texas).</DIV></TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Consent of Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP.</DIV></TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Consent of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (included in Exhibit&nbsp;5).</DIV></TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Power of Attorney (included on the signature page hereto).</DIV></TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt"><B>SIGNATURES</B>
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<DIV align="justify" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-indent: 4%">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to
be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of
Minneapolis, and State of Minnesota on the 27<SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">th</SUP> day of May&nbsp;2010.
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    <TD colspan="3" align="left">THE DOLAN COMPANY<BR>
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    <TD colspan="3" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">/s/ JAMES P. DOLAN
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    <TD colspan="3" align="left">James P. Dolan&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap colspan="3" align="left">Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President&nbsp;</TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt"><B>POWER OF ATTORNEY</B>
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<DIV align="justify" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-indent: 4%">Each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints each of
James P. Dolan and Vicki J. Duncomb his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and
agent, acting alone, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to sign on
his or her behalf, individually and in each capacity stated below, any and all
amendments and post-effective amendments to this Registration Statement on Form S-8
and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and any other documents in connection
therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of
1933, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do
and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in
connection with such matters, as fully and to all intents and purposes as each might
or could do in person and hereby ratifying and confirming each act that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.
</DIV>

<DIV align="justify" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-indent: 4%">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration
Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates
indicated.
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">/s/ JAMES P. DOLAN</FONT>
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
James P. Dolan
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President&nbsp;
and Director (Principal Executive Officer)
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">May&nbsp;27, 2010</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ VICKI J. DUNCOMB
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Vicki J. Duncomb
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer and
Principal Accounting Officer)
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">May&nbsp;27, 2010</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ JOHN C. BERGSTROM
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
John C. Bergstrom
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">Director&nbsp;
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">May&nbsp;27, 2010</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ ANTON J. CHRISTIANSON
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Anton J. Christianson
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">Director&nbsp;
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">May&nbsp;27, 2010</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ ARTHUR F. KINGSBURY
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Arthur F. Kingsbury
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">Director&nbsp;
</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ JACQUES MASSICOTTE
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Jacques Massicotte
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">Director&nbsp;
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">May&nbsp;27, 2010</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ LAUREN RICH FINE
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Lauren Rich Fine
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">Director&nbsp;
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">May&nbsp;27, 2010</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ GEORGE ROSSI
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
George Rossi
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">Director&nbsp;
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">May&nbsp;27, 2010</TD>
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<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Gary H. Stern
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">Director&nbsp;
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">May&nbsp;27, 2010</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Specimen stock certificate of Registrant&#146;s common stock.</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="right" valign="top">23.1</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Consent of McGladrey &#038; Pullen, LLP (Minneapolis, Minnesota).</DIV></TD>
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Form S-8
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 27, 2010
Registration No. 333-_______
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
The Dolan Company
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
Delaware
(State or Other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation or Organization)
43-2004527
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
222 South Ninth Street, Suite 2300,
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402
(612) 317-9420
(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant's
Principal Executive Offices)
DOLAN MEDIA COMPANY 2007 INCENTIVE COMPENSATION PLAN, AS AMENDED AND RESTATED
(Full title of plans)
JAMES P. DOLAN
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
The Dolan Company
222 South Ninth Street, Suite 2300
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402
(612) 317-9420
(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)
Copy To:
WALTER S. WEINBERG
ADAM R. KLEIN
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
525 West Monroe Street
Chicago, Illinois 60661
(312) 902-5200
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated
filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See definition of "large
accelerated filer," "accelerated filer" and "smaller reporting company" in Rule 12b-2 of the
Securities Exchange Act. (check one).
Large accelerated filer
o
Accelerated filer
þ
Non-accelerated filer
o
Smaller reporting company
o
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of Each Class of Securities
Amount to be
Proposed
Maximum
Aggregate Price
Proposed
Maximum
Aggregate
Amount of
to be Registered
Registered (1)
per Security (2)
Offering Price (2)
Registration Fee
Common Stock, $0.001
par value per share(3)
2,100,000
12.33
$25,893,000
$1,847
(1)
Pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act, the amount to be registered includes an
indeterminate number of shares of the registrant's common stock that may be issueable pursuant
to the Dolan Media Company 2007 Incentive Compensation Plan (the "Plan") by reason of stock
splits, stock dividends or similar transactions.
(2)
Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(o)
under the Securities Act, based upon the average of the high and low sales prices of the
registrant's common stock as reported on the New York Stock Exchange on May 24, 2010.
(3)
This registration statement includes an indeterminate number of rights to purchase shares of
series A junior participating preferred stock issuable under the registrant's Stockholder
Rights Plan. These rights accompany shares of the registrant's common stock.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
REGISTRATION OF ADDITIONAL SECURITIES
This registration statement registers an additional 2,100,000 shares of our common stock, par value
$0.001 per share, for potential future issuance under the Dolan Media Company 2007 Incentive
Compensation Plan, as amended and restated (the "Plan"). These shares are additional securities of
the same class as other securities issuable pursuant to awards granted under the Plan for which we
filed a registration statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-145036) with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "SEC") on August 1, 2007. Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, we have
incorporated into this registration statement by reference the contents of our earlier registration
statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-145036).
Part II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 8. Exhibits.
Exhibit
Number
Description
4
Specimen stock certificate representing the Registrant's common stock.
5
Opinion of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP as to the legality of the
securities being registered (including consent).
23.1
Consent of McGladrey & Pullen, LLP (Minneapolis, Minnesota).
23.2
Consent of McGladrey & Pullen, LLP (Dallas, Texas).
23.3
Consent of Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP.
23.4
Consent of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (included in Exhibit 5).
24
Power of Attorney (included on the signature page hereto).
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to
be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of
Minneapolis, and State of Minnesota on the 27
th
day of May 2010.
THE DOLAN COMPANY
/s/ JAMES P. DOLAN
James P. Dolan
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints each of
James P. Dolan and Vicki J. Duncomb his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and
agent, acting alone, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to sign on
his or her behalf, individually and in each capacity stated below, any and all
amendments and post-effective amendments to this Registration Statement on Form S-8
and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and any other documents in connection
therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of
1933, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do
and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in
connection with such matters, as fully and to all intents and purposes as each might
or could do in person and hereby ratifying and confirming each act that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration
Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates
indicated.
Signature
Title
Date
/s/ JAMES P. DOLAN
James P. Dolan
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President 
and Director (Principal Executive Officer)
May 27, 2010
/s/ VICKI J. DUNCOMB
Vicki J. Duncomb
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer and
Principal Accounting Officer)
May 27, 2010
/s/ JOHN C. BERGSTROM
John C. Bergstrom
Director
May 27, 2010
/s/ ANTON J. CHRISTIANSON
Anton J. Christianson
Director
May 27, 2010
/s/ ARTHUR F. KINGSBURY
Arthur F. Kingsbury
Director
May 27, 2010
/s/ JACQUES MASSICOTTE
Jacques Massicotte
Director
May 27, 2010
/s/ LAUREN RICH FINE
Lauren Rich Fine
Director
May 27, 2010
/s/ GEORGE ROSSI
George Rossi
Director
May 27, 2010
/s/ GARY H. STERN
Gary H. Stern
Director
May 27, 2010
INDEX TO EXHIBITS
Exhibit
Number
Description
4
Specimen stock certificate of Registrant's common stock.
5
Opinion of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP as to the legality of the securities being registered.
23.1
Consent of McGladrey & Pullen, LLP (Minneapolis, Minnesota).
23.2
Consent of McGladrey & Pullen, LLP (Dallas, Texas).
23.3
Consent of Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP.
23.4
Consent of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (included in Exhibit 5).
24
Power of Attorney (included on the signature page hereto).