Minnesota Lawyer

Before and after graduating from the University of Minnesota Law School, Willie Hardacker worked for Native American attorney Kurt Bluedog and began learning about federal tribal law.

As in-house counsel for the St. Paul Port Authority, Eric Larson has played a significant role in shaping some of the most iconic economic development projects in Saint Paul in the last decade.

From pigeons defiling salt piles to a major RICO case, Brooke Tassoni appreciates the variety of working as senior lawyer and regional litigation team lead at Cargill Inc.

Not every in-house counsel’s first task is to keep employees from going to jail. But Fred Dawe has handled that and more.

Alison (Ali) McElroy hit the ground running after law school, first clerking for Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Kathleen Blatz, and then going to work at Faegre & Benson in that firm’s corporate group.

When Dan West drives around the Twin Cities, he’s in a unique position as an attorney, because he can point to the buildings he’s worked on.

One of Dionne Blake’s many responsibilities as a corporate counsel at Minneapolis-based Target Corp. is helping manage the retailer’s response to crisis situations.

When Courtney Enloe got a call from a recruiter in 2017 about a great job in the Midwest as head of litigation, her first reaction was absolutely not.

Karen Gallivan likes to say that even though she’s an attorney, she has an engineer’s mind. That suits her well in her practice at Graco, where she oversees legal issues in an array of areas.

At Minneapolis-based SPS Commerce Inc., Boyd Johnson is a unique general counsel in the world of multinational public companies.