Minnesota Lawyer

Sebastian Stewart has seen the practice of law from both sides now. After a decade in private practice, he joined the Minnesota attorney general’s office, and in 2009 joined the state Department of Human Services. It’s there that he’s found ...

Paula Beck took an interest in affordable housing in law school and turned it into one of her specialties in general counsel roles for the state of Minnesota and Sherman Associates. Today as general counsel for Minneapolis-based Sherman Associates, Beck ...

As someone always interested in information technology, John Reid found a perfect position for his skills as general counsel to TempWorks Software Inc., an Eagan-based developer and licensor of staffing software. “I enjoy working alongside a team focused on cutting-edge ...

In 2015, JoAnn Toth became Maplewood-based MG McGrath’s first in-house counsel – and, for a time, its only inside lawyer. Last year, Toth hired a Mitchell Hamline law student last year to manage what had become an 80-hour weekly workload. ...

Connie Armstrong is managing two demanding responsibilities in her life, one as senior counsel for a major construction company and the second as an Air National Guard squadron commander. For the past 2½ years, Armstrong has worked full time handling ...

Before hiring Louis Lambert late last year, Medina-based Polaris Industries had no “senior assistant general counsel and assistant secretary,” the expansive dual role Lambert now inhabits. Previously, Lambert’s assumed responsibilities were split across two positions. The newly created role consolidates ...

As a litigator at a large New York law firm and later at Dorsey & Whitney in Minneapolis, Michael Skoglund grew accustomed to providing pro bono services as a part of his regular workload. So when Skoglund joined the legal ...

Thomas Ting has seized the opportunity to serve as lead counsel to companies hit with two of Minnesota’s biggest fraud cases. Ting was senior counsel at Petters Group Worldwide when Tom Petters’ $3.65-billion Ponzi scheme collapsed. Asked by the government ...

Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr., Don Liu initially envisioned a career as a civil rights lawyer. He thought that joining a law firm to do corporate law after completing his studies at Columbia University School of Law would be ...

As vice president and chief counsel, employment law at Medtronic Inc., Michelle Miller has focused a good share of her work on achieving a diverse and inclusive work environment for the company’s 80,000-plus employees. Throughout her 23 years there, Miller ...