Minnesota Lawyer

Meyer Njus Tanick shareholder David Robbins recently received a 2022 Hennepin County Bar Association Excellence Award for his commitment to pro bono service.

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.

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.

Heidi Carpenter, a board member and head of the General Corporate & Business and Mergers & Acquisition practice groups, succeeds CEO Robert Fafinski Jr.

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.

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.

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.”

T. Anansi Wilson is realizing a vision he declared as an undergraduate with his appointment as founding director of the forthcoming Center for the Study of Black Life and the Law at Mitchell Hamline School of Law.

In her practice, Katie Gettman offers legal and business advice to corporations, executives and business owners.

Media lawyer Leita Walker’s efforts leading to live-streamed coverage of Derek Chauvin’s trial have earned the Ballard Spahr partner local and national recognition.