2022 Attorneys of the Year: LKQ Corp., et al. v. GM Global Technology Operations LLC
General Motors has thousands of car design patents that must be protected against infringement by other manufacturers.
2022 Attorneys of the Year: MPAY v. Erie Custom Computer Applications Inc., and Payroll World, Inc.
On June 14, 2022, a Minnesota federal jury issued a complete defense verdict (no liability on all counts) in favor of Erie Custom Computer Applications Inc. and Pay-roll World Inc., two second-generation, family-owned companies that develop and license payroll processing software.
2022 Attorneys of the Year: Murphy et al. v. Harpstead
On July 27, 2022, District Judge Donovan Frank granted preliminary approval to a settlement agreement reached by the parties in Murphy et al. v. Harpstead, ending a six-year battle for the rights of a class of people with disabilities living in group homes.
2022 Attorneys of the Year: Nathan C. McGuire v. Julie A. Bowlin
When Nathan McGuire was named varsity girls basketball coach at Woodbury High School in 2013, it was affirmation of his success coaching at a smaller private school.
2022 Attorneys of the Year: National Prescription Opiate Litigation
Native American tribes have suffered disproportionally high addiction and death rates during the opioid epidemic, so they wanted to make sure they were included in the mass tort settlements that have been reached with drug manufacturers and distributors in recent years.
2022 Attorneys of the Year: O.M., by and through her parent and guardian, K.C. Moultrie v. National Women’s Soccer League LLC
Most antitrust lawsuits that attorney Michelle Looby works on involve complex matters of price fixing or business monopolies. They can include a number of com-panies and take years to resolve.
2022 Attorneys of the Year: Pitman Farms v. Kuehl Poultry, LLC, et al
A seemingly simple “open-and-shut” case can sometimes morph into a precedent-setting litigation gauntlet.
2022 Attorneys of the Year: Pooley v. Pooley
In September 2022, Michael P. Boulette, Seungwon R. Chung, and Abby N. Sunberg of Taft Stettinious & Hollister LLP won a Minnesota Supreme Court decision in-tended to protect disadvantaged spouses by ensuring district court supervision over the division of all their assets.
2022 Attorneys of the Year: State of Minnesota v. Stevenson
The successful overturn of a conviction is rare, especially for pro bono attorneys. But a team of Lockridge Grindal Nauen lawyers accomplished that in 2022.
2022 Attorneys of the Year: Patrick Arenz
In early September 2015, Brian Short murdered his wife and three children before dying by suicide in their Greenwood, Minnesota, home.
2022 Attorneys of the Year: Alana Bassin
Alana Bassin bookended 2022 by successfully defending a multinational conglomerate in a $400 million jury demand in a month-long Texas trial last February and March and, late last year, helping get a Massachusetts state judge to exclude a main expert in a multi-plaintiff consolidated action against Bassin’s client, Boston Scientific.
2022 Attorneys of the Year: Christopher Cadem
When a romantic relationship goes sour, and bad behavior between exes begins, one partner will sometimes file for a “harassment restraining order” (HRO) to im-pose restrictions on the aggressor.
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