Minnesota Lawyer

Michael Florey’s intellectual property litigation caseload has covered everything from pacemakers and concrete retaining walls to dialysis machines and lawn ornaments.

Daniel Oberdorfer went from covering attorneys as a newspaper reporter on the courts beat to practicing law as a partner at Stinson.

Kay Nord Hunt began working as an appellate advocate for Lommen Abdo before there was a Minnesota Court of Appeals.

Name: Christopher Madel Title: Partner, Madel PA Education: B.A., economics & political science, Macalester College; J.D., University of Michigan Law School Christopher Madel describes his ...

MacGillis founded the firm in 2003 with Craig Trepanier.

Kris Fredrick, partner at Quarles & Brady, is expanding his intellectual property practice.

Attorney Nancy Haas, who chairs the governmental relations division in Messerli Kramer’s St. Paul office, lobbies on clients’ behalf at every legislative session. Lobbying work aside, a yearly highlight for Haas, a licensed peace officer, is serving on the State Fair police force.

Mark Fiddler’s first career was in the restaurant business. But something was missing. “Serving rich people,” Fiddler said, “wasn’t feeding the intellectual passion and my desire to change the world.”

Charmaine Harris, attorney at Blackwell Burke, brought her medical device expertise out of the lab and into her products liability defense practice in her second career.

Handling appeals and complex motions for all of the firm’s practice areas is challenging but never dull for Katherine (Kate) McBride, partner at Meagher & Geer.