Henson Efron

In January 2020, Lisa Spencer became a trailblazer at the 48-year-old Henson & Efron law firm, when she was named its first woman president.

Three of four cases served by the Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services (SMRLS) involves women, many of them from BIPOC communities.

Jennifer Maria de la Luz Robbins, managing partner of MADEL PA, was named 2023 Attorney of the Year by Minnesota Lawyer along with her partner, Chris Madel.

Established in 2009, the Minneapolis office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP has been recognized multiple times for its efforts in diversity, inclusivity and overall support for its employees.

Heather J. Kliebenstein is managing director of the intellectual property law firm of Merchant & Gould P.C., where half the leadership positions are held by women.

Fish & Richardson is a global IP law firm with 14 offices in the United States, Germany, and China.

Karla M. Gluek was a decade out of law school in 2003 and still working at her first firm when her colleague Daniel Gustafson asked her if she wanted to start a new firm.

For 68 years, Maslon LLP has provided strategic legal counsel to the business community in Minnesota.

Sarah Johnson Phillips has truly risen through the ranks at Stoel Rives LLP, a leading corporate and litigation law firm recognized for its work in project finance and the energy and natural resources industries.

In 2007, Heidi Carpenter and Shannon McDonough, attorneys at the Fafinski Mark & Johnson commercial law firm, launched FMJ Women Uncorked, a series of events to help women attorneys connect with and support each other and other women in business.

Minneapolis Office Managing Partner Alana Bassin spent two decades as an attorney with few female mentors early in her career.

Over the past decade, two-thirds of Greene Espel’s newly elevated partners — eight of 12 — have been women.

Tammera R. Diehm, the first female president of Winthrop & Weinstine, says the dual role of firm president and practicing attorney has a lot of crossover characteristics.

Over 139 years in business, Ballard Spahr has earned a reputation as the place to go for clients looking for help in matters of litigation, transactions and regulatory compliance.

For the global law firm Faegre Drinker, equity and inclusion is a given.

Two of Ciresi Conlin LLP’s three founders were women: Jan Conlin and Katie Crosby Lehmann.

Recognizing that it needed to have more women in leadership roles, law firm Cozen O’Connor started its Women’s Initiative program to bring programming, networking and connection to the women lawyers in the firm.

Norton Rose Fulbright is a national law firm and leader in employing women attorneys.