Minnesota Lawyer

Emily Zambrana’s bosses call her a superstar. A 2015 graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School, she has made the most of her time at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath.

We are pleased to announce the 2020 Up & Coming Attorneys and Unsung Legal Heroes. All of the Up & Coming Attorney honorees are in their first decade of practice. Unsung Legal Heroes come from seven categories.

They are inspirational, to put it mildly.

If you’re the one whose forehead first gets slashed by a commercial delivery drone’s blades, you might consider making Tewksbury & Kerfeld associate Kyle Willems your first call.

Medicine’s loss is the law’s gain when it comes to Jessica Welk’s career.

As a black woman who identifies as queer, Hillary Taylor believes she does not have the privilege of not caring deeply about diversity and inclusion in the profession.

If he achieves nothing else in his career, a Mahesha Subbaraman amicus brief has the distinction of prompting Chief Justice John Roberts to reference the 1986 comedy, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” from the bench in a civil liberties case. ­

After earning her undergraduate degree in chemistry and environmental science, Paige Stradley flipped a coin to decide whether she’d attend medical or law school.

Mike Sacchet has been spending much of his time lately litigating product liability cases against 3M, one of which could become the largest mass tort case in American history.

Even in law school, Lauren Routhier loved the nuances of property law, trusts, estates, and tax issues.