Minnesota Lawyer

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.

We all had an eventful 2020. But not many of us were involved firsthand with election lawsuits, diversity and equity issues and leading a statewide group of attorneys. But that was Sybil Dunlop’s year in a nutshell.

To Cindy Telstad, an important part of being an attorney is giving back to both the legal and non-legal communities.

Not all the best spring breaks take place on the beach. Just ask Alex Dyste-Demet.

Logic plays a giant role in the practice of law, so it’s only logical that it was behind Amran Farah’s decision to pursue law as a career.

Adriana Mejia wasn’t born and raised here, but she’s certainly become a Minnesotan since moving to the Twin Cities as a teen.

Stinson paralegal Anthony Simone has always enjoyed debating and discussing “the big questions,” he said. “I want to be a part of the decision-making process.”