Minnesota Lawyer

Chief U.S. District Court Judge John Tunheim recalls spending a year putting together a scrapbook on Minnesota’s past for an elementary school history class.

More than 200 members of the Minnesota legal community showed up in solidarity with the Minnesota Association of Black Lawyers for a silent protest at the Hennepin County Government Center on June 8 to highlight police brutality in the Black community and the death of George Floyd.

Before and after graduating from the University of Minnesota Law School, Willie Hardacker worked for Native American attorney Kurt Bluedog and began learning about federal tribal law.

After more than 30 years at General Mills as a consumer insights manager, Pat Ewald wanted to “do something very different to round out the last years of my career.”

In her childhood, Jennifer Cross dreamed of an unlikely career as a doctor, dentist and attorney. The experience of shadowing a pediatrician for a day extinguished the idea of being in health care.

With a master’s degree in biomedical science and an undergraduate degree in biochemistry and music, patent attorney Laura Hupp had plenty of career options.

Earlier this year Faegre Baker Daniels merged with the Philadelphia firm Drinker Biddle & Reath just as the pandemic began.

Patrick Newman got his first taste of working in the credit and collection field while living in Madison and attending the University of Wisconsin.

As a University of Minnesota undergraduate, Lauren Pockl spent a semester in 2008 working in then-Rep. Jim Ramstad’s Washington, D.C., office.

As a 9-year-old boy, Kaleb Rumicho emigrated from Ethiopia after waiting for five years as his father and his attorneys worked on gaining asylum status for his wife and four children.