Minnesota Lawyer

Kim Hansen is clear: She doesn’t want to be an attorney.

Shelli Haag is a law office jill-of-all-trades.

As a University of Minnesota undergraduate, Kyle Kroll earned a double major in two disciplines rarely seen as an obvious pair in the academic world — business and philosophy.

Jessica Kometz loves her work as an attorney in trusts, estates and employment law.

Grace Kim’s path to becoming a principal and leader at Fish & Richardson P.C., a leading global intellectual property law firm, was not straightforward.

Iain Johnson is an unabashed Midwesterner, through and through. Born and raised in Blue Earth, Minnesota, he is a graduate of Macalester College and the University of Iowa Law School.

Michael Rosow and Thomas Boyd may have come to law as a career from different paths, but they share a common devotion to their clients.

The past year has been a reckoning for many people when it comes to issues of diversity, racial equity and forging a new path. For Irene Kao, 2020 was merely a heightening of the work she does and the way she lives her life.

Leita Walker has taken her first career of journalism and turned it into the focus of her second — the law. And both were in sharp focus during 2020.

Michael Sacchet has built his career on helping people — first as an eighth-grade science and math teacher through Teach for America, and for the last seven years as an attorney.