Minnesota Lawyer

Fredrikson & Byron shareholder Lousene Hoppe is continuing efforts to promote equity for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender attorneys as newly named president-elect of the National LGBT Bar Association.

Vaundell Duwayne Kingbird had his felon-in-possession-of-a-firearm conviction vacated but that doesn’t exonerate him and make him eligible for state compensation, a Minnesota Court of Appeals panel ruled.

As supervising attorney of the University of St. Thomas School of Law's Religious Liberty Appellate Clinic, Thomas Berg offers guidance to students writing amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court and other appellate courts.

A federal lawsuit alleging that the suicide of a Sherburne County Jail inmate resulted from “deliberate indifference” on the part of jail staff, a health care contractor and the county is advancing after a judge denied some defendants’ motions for summary judgment.

Minneapolis family law attorney Lisa Elliott still gets calls for advice from attorneys and others around the country based on her work on client David Rucki’s divorce from Sandra Grazzini-Rucki.

Plans to operate a former paper mill’s waste site in Sartell as a commercial landfill are back on under a Minnesota Supreme Court decision seen as having significant implications for landowners and municipalities regarding nonconforming-use rights on owners’ property.

For Scott Andrew Fulks, attending the U.S. Supreme Court’s oral arguments on a significant case in which he had co-written an amicus brief was well worth the standing in line overnight in 20-degree January weather.

Kevin McCarthy and Nick Rauch have teamed with a handful of other newly barred attorneys to launch the Legal Leadership Network to develop "next-generation leaders in practice."

Chris Messerly, partner at Robins Kaplan, has forged a career representing people in medical malpractice, personal injury and products liability cases.

A Rochester native, Ann Juergens went to law school “to learn more about power and justice.”