Minnesota Lawyer

Civil trial lawyer Michael Unger, a former Minnesota State Bar Association president, will represent the bar next month when the Minnesota Supreme Court hears proposed changes to advertising ethics rules.

For Cresston Gackle, launching his own firm was difficult and scary but ultimately the best decision he’s made.

Steve Plunkett has an attorney friend in almost every city in North America, thanks to his longtime volunteer leadership role with DRI, a membership organization for civil litigators.

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.