Minnesota Lawyer

Minnesota Lawyer recently convened a panel discussion on evictions.

We are delighted to honor our colleagues who serve as in-house counsel, and also chagrined that it has taken until now. But we’ll try to make up for that with a look at some stellar lawyers. As you will see ...

That any uncertainty exists as to whether Ivan Fong’s current position as senior vice president of legal affairs and general counsel of Maplewood-based 3M is his most impressive role to date is a testament to the strength of his CV. ...

As an attorney in private practice, Mark Kimball spent years assisting Select Comfort Corp. with private financing rounds and an initial public offering before joining the company as in-house counsel in 1999. “When you are outside counsel, you’re not as ...

Few lawyers remain with a single employer for 35-plus years. Barbara Shiels has. Now senior associate general counsel for the University of Minnesota, Shiels went straight from U of M Law School to the University of Minnesota Attorneys Office, predecessor ...

Amy Taber, employment and litigation senior legal counsel at Eagan-based Prime Therapeutics, knew before law school what kind of lawyer she wanted to be. She learned that from corporate experience that preceded her studies at then William Mitchell College of ...

Elizabeth Truesdell Smith has been devoted to health care for as long as she can remember. Her father’s law firm served as outside counsel to Abbott Northwestern Hospital and her grandfather was on the Abbott Northwestern board of directors. Committed ...

As general counsel for Minnesota’s Department of Management and Budget, Kristyn Anderson must wear many hats. In addition to serving as that agency’s general counsel, she gives employment law advice to all the executive branch agencies, and she also acts ...

The University of Minnesota has more than 30,000 employees, and Shelley Carthen Watson’s job is making sure that they have safe and peaceful places in which to perform their jobs. Carthen Watson is a senior associate general counsel at the ...

As a child Troy Gunderman found it fun “to negotiate a good result” whenever a dispute might arise. He parlayed that love of negotiation into a legal career, and he now is director of litigation at the Minneapolis-based nonprofit Educational ...