Minnesota Lawyer

Ballard Spahr partner Maggie Tatton is preparing to serve for a second time as a judge for the Minnesota Cup (MN Cup) startup competition as she continues in her role as co-leader of the 15-office firm’s mergers-and-acquisitions group.

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Attorney Tamara Cabán-Ramirez, a member of the state’s Conviction Review Unit’s advisory board, hopes the unit will take “an introspective look at how the justice system functions in Minnesota” given its disproportionate effects on racial and ethnic minorities.

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Steven Kerbaugh, counsel at Saul, Ewing, Arnstein & Lehr, says the pandemic has driven an increase in workplace safety and other matters in his practice.

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After a slow start to House floor activity early in the 2021 legislative session, action picked up last week. Meanwhile, the Senate kept chugging along. Here’s a quick rundown on some of the more pertinent bills that passed off each floor in recent days.

When Marcus Laman’s M&A practice slowed as pandemic-related shutdown orders closed many businesses last spring and summer, the partner in Taft’s Minneapolis quickly got up to speed on another acronym — PPP, as in Paycheck Protection Program.

In the Hopper is a summary of Minnesota legislation of interest to the legal community.

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