2021 Attorneys of the Year: Minor Does v. The Hills Youth and Family Services
In the summer of 2018, a group of boys ran away from The Hills Youth and Family Services, a juvenile detention and treatment center in Duluth.
2021 Attorneys of the Year: Mohamed Noor appellate team
The case of convicted former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor ended up turning on a key factor: What constitutes a depraved mind?
2021 Attorneys of the Year: N.H. v. Anoka Hennepin School District
In 2017, the Anoka-Hennepin School District prohibited a transgender high school student who identified as male from using the boy’s locker room — which he had been doing for months without incident.
2021 Attorneys of the Year: Protecting Minnesotans from Medicaid Fraud, State v. Remona Lysa Brown
When health care providers defraud the Medicaid system, the expense not only comes out of taxpayers’ pockets, it also prevents other vulnerable people in need from receiving health care services they deserve.
2021 Attorneys of the Year: Protecting Tenants as Consumers, State v. Steven Meldahl
Consumer protection laws are typically viewed as protecting those who purchase goods or services. However, as Assistant Attorney General Katherine Kelly says, “Every AG has their own flavor of things they want to pursue.”
2021 Attorneys of the Year: ResCap Liquidating Trust Litigation Team
A Spencer Fane team of attorneys closed out a major case last year involving residential mortgage originator GMAC-RFC (ResCap).
2021 Attorneys of the Year: RightCHOICE Managed Care, Inc. et al v. Hospital Partners Inc. Case Team
John Grisham hasn’t written any legal thrillers about medi-cal fraud cases, but a team of attorneys in the Health Care Practice group of Robins Kaplan is fine with that.
2021 Attorneys of the Year: Shefa v. Attorney General Keith Ellison, et al.
Delving into late 19th century source materials from the Minnesota Historical Society is not a routine part of the job for Scott M. Flaherty, an appellate attorney with Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP in Minneapolis.
2021 Attorneys of the Year: University of Minnesota Law School Clemency Project
Since 2014, law school students at the University of Minnesota Law School Clemency Project Clinic have worked on clemency petitions for clients serving disproportionately long sentences.
2021 Attorneys of the Year: Patrick Arenz
Having jurors hear a top Twin Cities plastic surgeon describe the ordeal that led to the amputation of his leg was critical in the strategy that secured the doctor a $27.8 million verdict, according to Patrick Arenz, a partner at Robins Kaplan.
2021 Attorneys of the Year: Alain Baudry
Litigator Alain Baudry’s practice spans a range of interests, from immigration law to professional sports to cor-porate representation.
2021 Attorneys of the Year: Mai Moua
Mai Neng Moua has been an immigration attorney for the past 14 years, helping individuals navigate the byzantine laws that regulate whether they can stay in the United States.
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