Minnesota Lawyer

A week and a half into the pandemic in March, Merchant & Gould marketing coordinator Laura Mitlyng began a daily email newsletter to enliven the lives of staff working from home.

Stinson paralegal Anthony Simone has always enjoyed debating and discussing “the big questions,” he said. “I want to be a part of the decision-making process.”

Shannon Stoneking has been Dakota County Law Library’s manager since 2013. Her inspiration to become a law librarian came from another Unsung Legal Heroes honoree.

In her role as litigation paralegal at Ciresi Conlin, Jenny Taplin helps out in all phases of the firm’s litigation matters.

Facilities manager Cynthia Trana was helping to coordinate a large-scale project to renovate the four floors that Taft Stettinius & Hollister occupies in the IDS Center in downtown Minneapolis when the coronavirus pandemic struck.

Earlier this year Faegre Baker Daniels merged with the Philadelphia firm Drinker Biddle & Reath just as the pandemic began.

Case management and trial technology is their forte´, along with client communication, business development, legal research and attention to a zillion other details.

Dale Zilhart did so well on his LSATs that his boss encouraged him to enroll in law school. So he did. But he didn’t love it.

You get the feeling Jill Wright was happier when she was still an unsung hero.

There are about 120 people in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota, and about half of them are lawyers who schedule about 30 trials per year.