Robins Kaplan partner Kate Jaycox decided to become a lawyer “to continue to fight for the underdog.”

Bradley Walz’s work with clients developing software, devices, beverages and food products inspired the partner in Barnes & Thornburg’s Minneapolis office to do some inventing of his own.

Andrew Gordon was supposed to be a doctor, like his mother.

Signe Land, formerly with Stinson, is writing a memoir about the challenges of working as an attorney and undiagnosed autistic woman.

Molly Jean Given, partner in the Minneapolis office of Bowman and Brooke, believes her medical device clients will benefit from the auto products liability work she’s taken on over the last year.

Rachel Tierney represents St. Paul in some of the capital city’s highest-profile issues as deputy city attorney supervising the Civil Division of the City Attorney’s Office.

Todd Taylor, shareholder and CEO of Avisen Legal, lives by the advice his father, a 3M executive, gave him before he went to law school.

Working and volunteering with organizations advocating for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault fueled Julia Hillel’s interest in becoming a lawyer.

Mark Jacobson, member of Cozen O’Connor’s Minneapolis office, “avoided antitrust courses like the plague” in law school.

Peter Brehm says the Lunds & Byerlys case exemplifies why he became a certified business valuation appraiser.