Minnesota Lawyer

 Aimee Schroeder’s passion for helping people — in this case victims of sex trafficking — drives her work as a criminal intelligence analyst in the Washington County Attorney’s Office.“If you know someone is in danger, being kidnapped by a trafficker ...

Under Chris Sexton, Briggs and Morgan’s research services team has taken a much more active role in the firm’s business-development endeavors. Since joining the firm in 2015, Sexton has taken steps to expand the traditional “law library” function into more ...

Put away any thoughts you have of a law library being just a stuffy, book-filled dark room. Jill Strand, senior manager of Library & Knowledge Information Systems for Fish & Richardson, spends her days culling information from books, computers, magazines, ...

For 17 years, Kelley Swangstue worked as an independent paralegal contractor specializing in trials and trial preparation. But when the global law firm Jones Day was set to launch a Minneapolis office in 2016, a partner who was familiar with ...

Minnesota Lawyer is pleased to announce the 2018 Up & Coming Attorneys and Unsung Legal Heroes.

The list and profiles for the 2017 Unsung Legal Heroes

Hundreds of diverse Twin Cities high school students know about opportunities to work in the federal justice system, thanks to Rebecca Baertsch and Theresa Anderson. The judicial assistants to Judge Donovan Frank and Magistrate Judge Franklin Noel, respectively, have coordinated ...

Tom Bangasser knows how to keep office services flowing and how to throw a party. Bangasser joined Minneapolis law firm Robins Kaplan as front desk coordinator in 2013. He takes in photocopying projects, processes messenger requests and more. Bangasser also ...

Remodeling an empty office is tough enough. When the remodel involves four floors of a working law firm, that’s another story. Ken Bieber helped pull it off at Winthrop & Weinstine in Minneapolis’ Capella Tower. As firm facilities manager, he ...

The Maslon law firm hired Jamie Blomquist four years ago to manage its information technology department. He was so good at it that the Minneapolis firm kept adding to his responsibilities. Now chief information officer, Blomquist leads the IT, litigation ...