Minnesota Lawyer

The In-House Counsel Awards celebrate the achievements of attorneys who, among other things, navigate complicated contract negotiations, defend their companies in high-stakes litigation and defend some of their organization’s most important assets.

These opinions were released by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

These opinions were released by the Minnesota Supreme Court.

These opinions were released by the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

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For this edition of POWER 30, we’ve chosen to focus on employment lawyers.

In 1984, about 6,000 nurses in Minnesota went on strike for 38 days. It was the largest nurses strike in American history until 2010, when they again went on strike. That was the next strike to be the largest in U.S. history. In 2016 nurses struck again and were out for 37 days, one day short of the 1984 strike.

As pandemic shutdowns occurred, companies began to lay off employees. One company laid off five men at the same time. They just happened to be the oldest employees and those with real or suspected health conditions.

Steven Andrew Smith would like to bring another tip-pooling case, but now is hardly a good time, with restaurants closed or even out of business.

David E. Schlesinger is the proud son of Robert Schlesinger, who was described in a magazine article in the 1970s as “typical of the new breed of liberal, courageous lawyers … long of hair, long on guts.” The civil rights lawyer instilled a similar ethic in his son, a member of Sen. Paul Wellstone’s campaign when the senator’s plane crashed. Persuaded by Wellstone’s commitment to the “little guy,” he decided to focus on individual plaintiffs, in another branch of civil rights, employment law.