Minnesota Lawyer

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.

Senior Assistant Hennepin County attorney Jon Schmidt spent a lot of time arguing before Minnesota’s appellate courts in 2019.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison joined 17 other states in suing the federal government. Jacob Campion and Janine Kimble led the case for the attorney general’s office.

Assistant United States Attorney Surya Saxena contributed to a continuing legal education program earlier this year in Duluth that focused on how implicit biases may cause racial inequities in federal criminal cases.