Minnesota Lawyer

Thomas Hamlin is one of the only two lawyers at Robins Kaplan to recover more than a billion dollars in two cases.

It’s been about three years since 3M settled PFAS claims with the state of Minnesota, paying $85 million in damages for water pollution from the chemicals and bringing the issue to most Minnesotans’ attention.

The challenge of business litigation is anticipating problems and managing risk, according to Randall Kahnke of Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP.

Kathy Kimmel has been an equity partner in law firms since 2001, practicing in the areas of fiduciary issues, health care employment and business torts at Fox Roth-schild LLP.

James Langdon started at Dorsey & Whitney LLP shortly before the 1987 stock market crash, and he still practices there, representing financial services and public company clients as well as others.

More than five years after opening his own law firm with some colleagues, Christopher Madel is still having a ball. “I still pinch myself,” he said. “Every day is pure adventure.”

Edward Magarian, chair of the board at Dorsey & Whitney LLP, is seeing to it that the firm stays true to its mission of diversity and inclusion.

Having three brothers and a father who was a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, David Marshall grew up with many spirited discussions around the dinner table. He took a class from his father on defamation law and had a lot of fun.

Michael McCarthy has practiced at Maslon LLP for 27 years, but his practice has jumped around. He came to the firm after clerking for Judge Gerald Heaney at the 8th Circuit and Judge Louis Pollak in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Todd Noteboom spends a lot of time these days representing businesses who have the attention of the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office.