Minnesota Lawyer

Todd Wind embraces competition. While he said he has a general litigation practice at Fredrikson & Byron P.A., it has always included protection of businesses from unfair competition and government overreach.

For this edition of POWER 30, we’ve chosen to focus on business litigation. In POWER 30, we focus on those whose mere presence on a case signifies the stakes, who have influenced the direction of the law, whose leadership in the community is pervasive and whose respect within the bar is undeniable.

Todd Wind believes in competition.

It’s not every day that the 21st Amendment takes the stage in litigation along with the Coleman Act.

Litigation is tough, and Lola Velazquez-Aguilu knows it. Although she’s in-house at Medtronic, lead counsel for brain modulation, she’s spent a lot of time in court as an assistant U.S. attorney, particularly in the Starkey prosecution.

Minnesota law allows employers of apartment caretakers who live on site to pay employees with rent credits.

There are some things people getting a divorce should not do: lie about their income, even when they’ve been lying about it throughout the marriage; lie about the value of a company they own; and, after lying about the company, sell it and have a newspaper report the price that is about five times the amount they represented to their spouses.

Ron Schutz spent much of March 2021 in Tanzania, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro.

Richard Ostlund traces his trial success to being the son of a school teacher and coach in Walker.

Class actions are an integral part of the legal profession and of the American economy.