Minnesota Lawyer

A trustee in the liquidating trust assigned to the fraud case of Tom Petters will be able to continue seeking to recover payments made to early investors in the Ponzi scheme that led to a criminal conviction the former Minnesota business owner.

Even though her legal career has reached the three-decade mark, Janna Severance has no plans to retire just yet.

From a legal standpoint, recent years at the Starkey Laboratories have been … dynamic. An embezzlement case sent company executives to prison, shaking the 55-year-old producer of hearing aids.

In her 14 years at SFM Companies, Kathy Bray has shown great versatility.

After making partner at the former Gray Plant Mooty firm (now Lathrop GPM), Ben Omorogbe found his services in demand.

Eric Rucker was a veteran litigator in private practice, spending the first 22 years of his career at Briggs & Morgan (now Taft). The move to an in-house role was a seamless one.

A dispute between a blind and deaf man and Metro Transit will be sent back to the U.S. District Court to determine whether the primary public transportation operator in the Twin Cities provided meaningful access to disabled bus riders.

Brent Wartner, first assistant county attorney, said, “The people who live and work in Washington County lost more than a county attorney. They lost a champion of public safety, a guardian, a fierce advocate for justice–and a dedicated public servant.”

One local developer is fighting an emergency government order but has hit some roadblocks via the courts.

The reporters aren't happy with the decision to experiment with electronic recording and outsourcing some transcription assignments.