Minnesota Lawyer

The In-House Counsel Awards celebrate the achievements of attorneys who, among other things, navigate complicated contract negotiations, defend their companies in high-stakes litigation and defend some of their organizations’ most important assets.

Minnesota Lawyer’s Attorneys of the Year awards recognizes attorneys for the work they did in the past year. But that work has often stretched back years before and the impact of these will stretch forward for years or sometimes lifetimes.

A team of Gustafson Gluek lawyers took on a pro bono case involving a botched surgery on a veteran and ended up with a handsome settlement for their client.

A federal complex litigation case required the brainpower of three attorneys from Carlson Caspers Vandenburgh & Lindquist. The three proved to be a winning com-bination.

More than 54 mergers and acquisitions in three years demand a strong team. Henon Efron has proven to be such a team.

During a year when the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade and made it more difficult for women to get abortions, a Ramsey County District Court moved in the opposite direction.

When the requests at the core of Energy Policy Advocates v. Ellison first began, attorney Oliver Larson never anticipated it would lead Minnesota to finally create a legal precedent for use of the common-interest doctrine in the state.

In law school, you learn about written advocacy and oral advocacy, but you don’t learn about visual advocacy. However, most of the world learns best through vis-uals, said Chad Drown, a partner at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP.

Nearly 25 years after the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office and others across the U.S. settled with tobacco companies for damages from tobacco sales, echoes of similar litigation spread throughout the current attorney general’s office.

The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled in July that communication between sexual assault counselors and the victim is protected under state law, a significant step toward enforcing a law that has been on the books for four decades but has been inconsistently applied.