Minnesota Lawyer

Carlson Caspers partner Tara Norgard led work to recover millions stolen in Trevor Cook’s $190-million Ponzi scheme during her decade as general counsel for the receiver.

Barb Ell considers her Bowman and Brooke colleagues a second family, one she serves from Minneapolis as human re-sources director for the entire firm of 420 attorneys and staff in 13 offices nationally.

Anu Chudasama takes ethics seriously, as her service as chair of the Minnesota State Bar Association’s Professional Regulation Committee and an ethics investigator for the 2nd Judicial District attests.

Working in family law, Henson Efron attorney Anne Haaland says, means encountering people at some of their most challenging times.

Amy Krupinski’s client was “over the moon” when a jury ruled in his favor as biological father in a paternity case against the husband of the child’s mother.

Facilities manager Cynthia Trana was helping to coordinate a large-scale project to renovate the four floors that Taft Stettinius & Hollister occupies in the IDS Center in downtown Minneapolis when the coronavirus pandemic struck.

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.