Minnesota Lawyer

When Tom and Cindy Redmond bought property on Lake Minnetonka, tore down the old house and built a new $18 million property, they got all the permissions from the city.

Family business disputes have been garnering a lot of attention in Minnesota lately. And they don’t seem to be getting any cheaper.

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 real estate and construction lawyers.

The Minnesota State Bar Association Real Property Law Section has a long-term goal of modernizing real estate records, but as would be expected with such a herculean task, the effort is moving slowly and the pandemic interrupted it.

In 2021, J. Scott Andresen spoke to Minnesota Lawyer from his backyard because workers were repairing tile in his kitchen.

Mark Becker’s law practice is centered on early dispute resolution through mediation and sometimes without filing a lawsuit.

Mark Bloomquist has an insurance defense practice at Meagher + Geer, which fits right in with construction claims, including those against architects and engineers — because those generally involve insurance.

It’s likely that partner Thomas Bray is exceedingly modest when he describes his law practice as “whatever comes in the door.”

Hanft Fride, in different iterations and with different names, has been a fixture in Duluth for more than a century.