Minnesota Lawyer

The pandemic has made most of us feel that we’re living in a new world, but for Frances Baillon, that’s because it has created new ways in which employers can run afoul of the law and new whistleblower lawsuits by allegedly ill-treated employees.

These 17 lawyers, who work in-house in both the public and private sectors, will be feted in an April 30 celebration.

For POWER 30, our inaugural edition of THE POWER LIST, we’ve chosen to focus on personal injury lawyers.

To many in Minnesota and elsewhere, the Catholic Church will never be the same since Jeff Anderson first sued the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, where his client rejected a $1 million settlement that would have been confidential.

Minneapolis attorney Robert Bennett of Robins Kaplan has brought scores of personal injury, wrongful death and police misconduct cases but cites Abbey Taylor and Justine Rusczyk’s deaths as the most significant to him.

Nate Bjerke’s career trajectory sounds like the plot of a John Grisham novel.

The COVID pandemic has closed courts and put jury trials on hold for months, with an end not yet in sight. That has led lawyers and health care providers to start discussing innovative ways to resolve cases, said Kathleen Flynn Peterson, a medical malpractice lawyer with Ciresi Conlin.

It has been widely reported that dollar stores are frequently scenes of violence toward and between customers, employees and criminals who target the stores.

Texas attorney Kyle Farrar has no cases in the Lone Star State but several in the North Star State, where he is licensed.

West Virginia reached a $3.9 million settlement last spring with Johnson & Johnson in a lawsuit over the company’s marketing of a surgical mesh used to treat pelvic conditions in women, one of a plethora of such lawsuits in the country.