Meyer Njus Tanick shareholder David Robbins recently received a 2022 Hennepin County Bar Association Excellence Award for his commitment to pro bono service.
Read More »Breaking the Ice: Pro bono redistricting effort earns honors
Lathrop GPM partner Brian Dillon’s pro bono advocacy for Minnesotans of color in the state’s special judicial redistricting proceedings marked the first time historically disenfranchised groups have had their own voice in the process.
Read More »Breaking the Ice: Work and rewards in civil commitment law
Criminal defense attorney Daniel Repka says lawyers who don’t join him in practicing civil commitment law miss out on the hard work but also on the reward.
Read More »Breaking the Ice: From first associate to firm’s first female CEO
Heidi Carpenter, a board member and head of the General Corporate & Business and Mergers & Acquisition practice groups, succeeds CEO Robert Fafinski Jr.
Read More »Breaking the Ice: Clinical professor, students win at 6th Circuit
Visiting assistant clinical professor Nadia Anguiano-Wehde led University of Minnesota Law School students in winning a key ruling that should allow a man to rejoin his family in the United States.
Read More »Court affirms solar farm rejection
Stearns County’s rejection of a proposed community solar farm has won approval from the Minnesota Court of Appeals, but industry and renewable energy advocates say such local decisions cost jobs and income for landowners.
Read More »Lawyers offer small businesses advice on planning for succession
Small business owners may be so busy running their companies that they don’t stop to consider what the future might hold if they weren’t there.
Read More »Breaking the Ice: Latina breaks ground as ACLU-MN board chair
Lariss Maldonado’s desire to become a lawyer has fueled her rise from a Latino community in south Texas to law school in Minnesota and now to her groundbreaking new role as board chair American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota.
Read More »Faegre Drinker partners help lead ‘AI-X team’
Two partners in Faegre Drinker’s Minneapolis office are co-leading sectors of the firm’s newly launched artificial intelligence and algorithmic decision-making team.
Read More »Breaking the Ice: Nonprofit work brought attorney to Minnesota
Attorney Jenn Urban says working with nonprofit organizations and individuals starting them enables her to “empower those people to do big things in the community.”
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