Minnesota Lawyer

Paul Peterson, the new president of the Minnesota State Bar Association, is encouraging members to recruit their counterparts to join the organization.

Jess Braverman, legal director of Gender Justice, says the St. Paul-based organization intends to appeal a jury’s ruling that a pharmacist who refused to provide a woman emergency contraceptives did not violate her rights.

Ryan Schildkraut says two years in investment banking made him a better lawyer once he returned to his practice.

Darcy Shukla, named in July as president and CEO of Shumaker & Sieffert in Woodbury, is one of few female patent prosecution firm leaders in the country.

Kenya Bodden, beginning his term as Ramsey County Bar Association president, is focusing on creating more volunteer opportunities for members to contribute to the community.

Ayah Helmy highlighted efforts to continue justice and equity work as editor of the Hennepin Lawyer magazine published a year after the police killing of George Floyd.

Mitchell Hamline School of Law professor Natalie Netzel is helping students gain practical experience and serves as a driving force behind the school’s new wellness center.

Katie Barrett Wiik said she was excited to join Saul Ewing as a firm with a national footprint to serve clients she has outside of the state.

Rachel T. Schromen, an estate-planning attorney in St. Paul, offers an extra service to clients and family members in the form of Mabel, her certified therapy dog.

Elizabeth Sorenson Brotten, the new managing partner of Foley & Mansfield’s Minneapolis office, is focusing on how the firm and the profession will work after adapting to the pandemic.