Minnesota Lawyer

As the first and only executive director of The Infinity Project — a scholar-led group devoted to getting women judges seated on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — Debra Fitzpatrick has made an impact. Her nonpartisan group was ...

Colleagues have called Gloria Frederick the doyenne of Twin Cities legal marketing, for no one here has done it longer. She is now the senior marketing events coordinator at Dorsey & Whitney. Frederick began at Dorsey in 1972, working as ...

A well-prepared trial is an organized effort based on a master list with plenty of entries checked off, done. Witnesses and evidence appear exactly when they are needed. That is what legal assistant Laura Frickson contributes to the misdemeanor and ...

As a law student at the University of Iowa, Amanda Furst began spending spring vacations and summers in New Orleans to help after Hurricane Katrina. She eventually moved to New Orleans to work at Southeast Louisiana Legal Services, where she ...

 When Jones Day came to town, we were all watching. We expected the legal powerhouse to make a big impact and it did, starting with five attorneys and now with 29. Worldwide, it has more than 2,500 lawyers in 43 ...

Amra Hoso has spent her entire post-collegiate career — 13 years and counting — with Faegre Baker Daniels. Now a senior paralegal, she’s a time-management maestro. “In our world, everything needs to be done yesterday,” said Hoso. Hoso’s responsiveness is ...

As a Harvard-educated attorney who once did contract work for the high-flying Robins Kaplan firm, it would seem Sharon Jones had boundless career options. She has chosen to work among the poor. Jones is the executive director for Legal Assistance ...

Nominated as an Unsung Hero because she “offers phenomenal support” to  a group of attorneys at Merchant & Gould, litigation legal assistant Carol Nystrom modestly replies that  it has to do with the fact that she has been doing it ...

Daniel Owen’s job is figuring out what his law firm’s clients are going to want in the next two to five years, and how to give it to them. He started as a “multimedia specialist” who would help Robins Kaplan ...

Abby Rooney, director of human resources at Foley & Mansfield, came to HR the hard way. But she wouldn’t take anything back. The transition has worked out well for all parties. Rooney has been with Foley & Mansfield for more ...