Minnesota Lawyer
The Up & Coming Attorneys recognition highlights lawyers in their first 10 years of practice who have already distinguished themselves by their achievements. The criteria for selection are: professional accomplishment, leadership service to the community and the profession or achievement as in-house counsel.
The Unsung Legal Heroes award honors the law firm employees who have consistently go above and beyond the call of duty, often behind the scenes. This award is reserved for the state’s most talented and dedicated legal support professionals.
Both groups were nominated by colleagues, supervisors and peers, and chosen by a panel of prior winners of the relevant award. This year both groups will be recognized together at a lunch event Sept. 10at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Minneapolis. Minnesota Lawyer will publish a special section Sept. 14 profiling the honorees.
2015 Unsung Legal Heroes
Jean Anderson
Minnesota State Law Library
Amanda Bakken
Stinson Leonard Street LLP
Patty Brophy
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Robin Chance
Fish & Richardson
Sara Galligan
Ramsey County Law Library
Suzanne Grossman
Dakota County Law Library
Dan Gruber
Zelle Hofmann Voelbel & Mason LLP
Ellen Hanson-ZeVan
Bowman and Brooke LLP
Diane Liebrenz
Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid
Kerri S. Lorig
Gray Plant Mooty
Roxann Mosey
Gray Plant Mooty
Steve Nardini
Gray Plant Mooty
Maggie Palmisano
Hallberg Law
Dawn Parker
Patterson Thuente IP
Mariel Piilola
Larkin Hoffman
Carolyn Reinardy
First District Public Defender’s Office
Susan Style
Robins Kaplan LLP
Raul Taveras
Fish & Richardson
Annie Tremain
Children’s Law Center of Minnesota
Bradley G. Wicklund
Lommen Abdo Law Firm
Lindy Yokanovich
Cancer Legal Line
2015 Up & Coming Attorneys
Kaisa Adams
Zelle Hofmann Voelbel & Mason LLP
Emily A. Ambrose
Blackwell Burke P.A.
Ryan J. Bies
Dougherty, Molenda, Solfest, Hills & Bauer P.A.
Kimberly Brzezinski
Hanft Fride
Jennifer Bullard
Bowman and Brooke LLP
Christopher J. Cadem
Cadem Law Group, PLLC
Brian Clark
Lockridge Grindal Nauen
Anne Cotter
Stinson Leonard Street LLP
Sarah Davis
The Legal Rights Center
Sybil Dunlop
Greene Espel, PLLP
James Gempeler
North Star Criminal Defense
Leora Maccabee Itman
Maslon LLP
Phillip M. Kitzer
Teske, Micko, Katz, Kitzer & Rochel, PLLP
Jessica L. Klander
Bassford Remele
Brett M. Larson
Messerli & Kramer P.A.
Rick Linsk
Lockridge Grindal Nauen
JoLynn M. Markison
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Riann Meyer
Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid
Ryan Miske
Faegre Baker Daniels
Angela Munoz-Kaphing
Robins Kaplan LLP
Joshua T. Natzel
Lindquist & Vennum LLP
Michael D. Reif
Robins Kaplan LLP
Zachary J. Robins
Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A.
Stephen E. Schemenauer
Stinson Leonard Street LLP
Nadege Souvenir
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Victoria Taylor
Crossroads Legal Services
Lola Velazquez-Aguilu
Office of the US Attorney, District of Minnesota
Adriel Villarreal
Barna, Guzy & Steffen, Ltd.
