Minnesota Lawyer

Ballard Spahr partner Jim Walston, who has 35 years of professional and industry experience in national commercial real estate, has been named practice group leader for his firm's Real Estate Development and Transactions Practice Group.

Winthrop & Weinstine shareholder Justin Markell combines his development experience and legal expertise in helping to lead the firm’s growing renewable energy practice, which he helped launch four years ago.

An appeals court ruled that when lawmakers declared “null and void” Gov. Walz’s emergency orders suspending most evictions, their action did not terminate the tenants' rights under those orders.

A specialized group of attorneys is sharing free of charge its expertise in new ways to solve clients’ problems and accelerate innovation in the profession.

After Dotun Obadina first felt “the rush of doing a deal,” the partner in Jones Day’s Minneapolis office knew he would specialize in mergers and acquisitions.

Dee Baskin works to reduce the education debt of legal aid attorneys as executive director of the Loan Repayment Assistance Program of Minnesota.

A decision seen as a close call in a legal dispute over pension benefits hinged on some finer points of grammar as the Minnesota Court of Appeals concluded that a temporary employee was ineligible for the state’s retirement plan.

In his newly created role, Scottie Carter’s responsibilities include working to make Greater Twin Cities United Way more diverse, equitable and inclusive organization and to address systemic racism regionally.

William “Bill” Kronschnabel will receive the Ramsey County Bar Association’s 2021 Pro Bono Award at its Foundation Bench & Bar Benefit event Saturday.

Median ethnic and racial representation in participating Minnesota corporate law departments is on par with U.S. market representation rates. But the state’s law firms still are significantly below their peers nationally in such representation, according to a new report.