Minnesota Lawyer

Chuck Slane, newly elected president of the Minnesota Association for Justice, leads what he said members call “Minnesota’s largest plaintiff’s personal injury law firm.”

Matt Ralph’s study of so-called “impractical things” has prepared him well for practice as a partner at Dorsey & Whitney and co-chair of the firm’s antitrust practice group.

Dady & Gardner associate Rachel Zaiger knows that when she feels too busy to take a break, that that’s when she needs to take one.

When Christopher Pham wasn’t meeting other diverse professionals at networking events, he launched his own.

Bassford Remele shareholder Jessica Klander, who recently joined the Hennepin County Bar Association’s executive committee as secretary, said its commitment to diversity and inclusion helped motivate her to pursue a leadership role with the association.

Kiri Somermeyer has brought her affinity for teaching from the corporate world to the classroom as the executive director of the University of Minnesota Law School’s Corporate Institute.

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.