Minnesota Lawyer

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.

Last December, Stephen Lee, assistant general counsel for intellectual property at Target Corp., went to Washington, D.C., and testified in front of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee for Intellectual Property about the flood of fraudulent foreign trademarks into the U.S. trademark application system.

Medicine or law? Before committing to a career, Sandra Nowak interned at emergency rooms and law firms. She found her path at the intersection of both: intellectual property law.

Although some areas of the law can be adversarial, being an in-house counsel lends itself to collaboration with those who hold the same role at other companies.

Named managing legal counsel in 2017, Watts has balanced permitting the Line 3 Replacement Project — the longest regulatory case in recent Minnesota history — while supporting the management and guidance of Enbridge Inc.’s Minnesota-based Law Department.