Minnesota Lawyer articles from May 2007

Minnesota Lawyer archives from May 2007

Noncompetes have teeth in Minnesota.
May 7, 2007... Byline: Dan Heilman In a Ramsey County District Court judge's recent ruling that the St. Paul Pioneer Press be allowed to search computers owned or used by Star Tribune employees amid claims that the computers contained confidential...

Radio ads get a bad reception from trial lawyers in Minnesota.
May 7, 2007... Byline: Dan Heilman Glasses clink and soft chatter murmurs in the background of what sounds like a fancy restaurant. A trio of villainous-sounding attorneys is scheming over dinner. "We need a way to get some money into this law firm!"...

Minn. attorney Ronald Meshbesher has been representing 'the accused' for 50 years.
May 7, 2007... Byline: Michelle Lore He doesn't win them all, but he wins a lot of them. Acquittals, that is -- in cases ranging from felonious assault to rape, kidnapping and murder. For 50 years, Minneapolis attorney Ronald Meshbesher has been...

Women, minorities struggling to advance.(law firms)
May 7, 2007... Byline: Kimberly Atkins Rising to the top at the nation's most powerful law firms is a tough job, especially for minorities and women, according to two new studies focusing on diversity at the nation's top 200 law firms. The surveys...

U.S. Supreme Court to decide if injunction winner deserves attorney fees.
May 7, 2007... Byline: Kimberly Atkins The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments about whether a plaintiff who wins a preliminary injunction, then ultimately loses the underlying civil suit, can be considered a "prevailing party" entitled to...

Commentary: Appellate court cases reject 'liberty' claims.
May 7, 2007... Byline: Marshall H. Tanick Liberty has always been a strong motif in American life and lore. The concept is embedded in the country's cherished documents -- the Declaration of Independence as well as the 14th Amendment to the U.S....

Minnesota Lawyers in the News: May 7, 2007.
May 7, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Melissa L. Baldridge has joined the firm of Shapiro, Nordmeyer & Zielke, L.L.P. as an associate attorney. The firm represents mortgage lenders, servicers and banks in all Minnesota counties. Baldridge is a...

Minn. State Bar Assn. honors its 'senior counselors'.(Minnesota State Bar Association)(Brief article)
May 7, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Minnesota lawyers who were admitted to practice 50 years ago were recently honored at a reception and dinner at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in downtown St. Paul. The Minnesota State Bar...

Minnesota Lawyer's new blog debuts with a bang.
May 7, 2007... Byline: Mark A. Cohen Unveiled just two weeks ago, Minnesota Lawyer's new blog opened with a bang, playing a key role in bringing to light the staff and management issues at the Attorney General's Office. Let me start with the back...

Minnesota Legal Briefs: May 7, 2007.
May 7, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Fahey appointed to 1st Judicial trial court bench Governor Tim Pawlenty has appointed Michael A. Fahey to a 1st Judicial District trial court bench vacancy in the city of Shakopee in Scott County. The...

Searching for the perfect law job.
May 7, 2007... Byline: Michelle Lore As soon as Rider Bennett announced that it would be closing its doors at the end of this month, associates, partners and staff members began scrambling for new jobs. Steven P. Aggergaard, who's been an associate...

Attorney-client relationship key to successful settlements.
May 7, 2007... Byline: Barbara L. Jones Smart litigators know that the process of settling a case begins when the client retains the attorney. To accept a settlement, the client must trust the lawyer and understand the value of the case, and the lawyer...

Union issues continue to fester at Minn. AG's Office.
May 7, 2007... Byline: Barbara L. Jones As the Minnesota Attorney General's Office undergoes what could charitably be described as a turbulent transition period, attention has focused on the L for Labor in the DFL, which backed Lori Swanson in her race...

Commentary: Debate over big-firm associate pay.
May 7, 2007... Byline: Edward Poll The news has been the talk of the legal world: average first-year associate pay at the mega-firms has exploded to more than $160,000. Some commentators say this opens up tremendous opportunity for smaller firms with...

Minnesota Bar Buzz: May 7, 2007.(Mark Munger reads from his novel Esther's Race)(Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association's name changed to Minnesota Association for Justice)(Douglas Thomson dies)(Obituary)
May 7, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff A supremely good Law Day at local high school More than 2,000 St. Paul students celebrated Law Day on May 1 with the state Supreme Court when it heard arguments at Central High School. About 500 students...

Children's Defense Fund founder to speak at Macalester commencement.
May 7, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff The keynote speaker for Macalester's 118th Commencement on Saturday, May 12, will be Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF). Commencement will be at 1:30 p.m. on the...

Chief justice, governor proclaim last week 'jury week' in Minnesota.(Russell Anderson and Tim Pawlenty, April 30-May 4)
May 7, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Russell Anderson and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty proclaimed April 30-May 4 Jury Appreciation Week. The judicial branch used the occasion to express appreciation for those...

U.S. District Court dismisses claim by Cosi's against Edina-based Kozy's.
May 7, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff U.S. District Court Judge Michael Davis has dismissed a claim brought by Cosi, Inc., against the owner of "Kozy's Steaks and Seafood." The plaintiff, Cosi, Inc., operates a national chain of casual...

Iowa Supreme Court rejects challenge to breath-testing device.(Chuck Chvala and Brian Burke's law licenses cancelled)(Annette Ziegler v. Ethics Board)(Ralph Erickson on death sentences)
May 7, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff IOWA The Iowa Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to a widely used breath test used in suspected drunken driving cases, setting a standard for courts throughout the state. The high court...

Attorney carves out niche challenging experts.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Patty Morin Fitzgerald Dorothy Clay Sims was so incensed by one medical expert who said more than 50 of her clients were malingerers that she devoted her career to unmasking the hired guns who masquerade as medical experts. ...

Ramsey County Bar Association honors local leaders.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff In celebration of Law Day, the Ramsey County Bar Association will award William Cosgriff, Roberta Megard and John Kostishack with the 2007 Law Day Awards. The Law Day Awards presentation will take place...

Stay clear on standards for rewarding employees.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Edward Poll A coaching client recently called me with a good problem. The office administrator of his firm was someone who, as the lawyer said, takes more initiative than anyone I've ever had around here. The lawyer wanted to...

AVMA: Noneconomic damages not in pets' best interests.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Adrian Hochstadt Editor's note: Minnesota Lawyer received the following Op-Ed piece from the American Veterinary Medical Association in response to What's my life worth? Tainted food cases spur debate on compensation for pet losses...

Minnesota Legal Briefs: May 14, 2007.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Court strikes portion of statute, affirms visitation decision The Minnesota Supreme Court last week struck down as unconstitutional a portion of the visitation statute that placed the burden on a...

Minnesota Lawyers in the News: May 14, 2007.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Jerry F. Rotman, Of Counsel attorney with Briggs and Morgan, P.A., was this year's honoree for the 26th Annual Law Day Testimonial Dinner, hosted by The Fund for the Legal Aid Society and the Hennepin County...

Across the Region.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter IOWA City hopes traffic camera vendors will return money The city of Davenport is hoping its two traffic camera vendors would help pay back money collected under a citation system that a...

Minnesota Bar Buzz: May 14, 2007.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Rotman honored at Law Day Dinner The one place to be for lawyers every spring is the Law Day dinner -- and last week's event was no exception. The Fund for the Legal Aid Society and the Hennepin County...

Judiciary gets 8.3% funding hike in Minnesota.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Barbara L. Jones The courts will receive more than $46 million in new funding under legislation signed last week by Gov. Tim Pawlenty. The bump is an 8.3 percent increase in the court's budget for the next fiscal biennium. The...

Unionization 'on the rise' among Minnesota lawyers in the public sector.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Dan Heilman Is there a growing movement to unionize public attorneys throughout Minnesota? If recent developments in St. Louis County and the state Attorney General's office -- not to mention a number of less conspicuous locations...

Rider Bennett lawyers in Minneapolis get outpouring of support.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Barbara L. Jones A month ago the legal community was astonished when Rider Bennett announced it was closing its doors, putting 91 attorneys and their support staff on the market. But it didn't take long for the profession to rally...

Missing boots in Grand Rapids lead to $300K jury award.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Michelle Lore Boots may be made for walking, but they generally don't walk out of a store by themselves. So when a pair of hiking boots went missing from a Grand Rapids sporting goods store about two years ago, the unhappy business...

Law firm's reception area, conference rooms say a lot about the firm.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Michelle Lore A law firm's "look" -- especially its reception area and conference rooms -- can say a lot about the firm and how it wants to be perceived in the community. In fact, many law firms that have moved their office or...

Tire failures drive RV lawsuits.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Nora Lockwood Tooher A retired aerospace mechanic, Billy Wayne Woods babied his $200,000 luxury motor home, conscientiously cleaning it, covering its tires with wheel covers and even constructing a special RV-carport. In...

The art of estate planning for artists.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Nora Lockwood Tooher When Philadelphia artist Jerome Kaplan died 10 years ago, his wife, Anne Kaplan, inherited about 500 pieces of his work -- and the task of figuring out what to do with them. Like many artists, Jerome Kaplan...

Dillinger relative in Iowa seeks legal lock on robber's persona.
May 21, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff A relative of the infamous bank robber John Dillinger is trying to stop cities across the country from holding Dillinger Days festivals without his permission. Jeffery Scalf, who says he is the great...

Iowa Supreme Court adopts emergency court rules.(Chief Justice Marsha Ternus)(Brief article)
May 21, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina have prompted the state to enact emergency rules for attorneys to follow during a widespread disaster in Iowa. The rules, signed by Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice...

Iowa Supreme Court rules evidence is lacking in negligence suit.
May 21, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled that there isn't enough evidence to call a jury to decide whether the city of Maquoketa was negligent in keeping up the entrance of a building where a woman fell nearly four...

Copyright holders flex their online muscles.
May 21, 2007... Byline: Correy E. Stephenson Brooklyn Law School professor Wendy Seltzer wanted to teach her copyright class a lesson by showing them what a copyright notice looks like. So she posted a 30-second clip from the 2007 Super Bowl containing...

Excluded heirs in the spotlight.(not updating wills, Dannielynn Smith and Elizabeth McNabb face inheritance issues)
May 21, 2007... Byline: Correy E. Stephenson What do Anna Nicole Smith and the Jell-O fortune have in common? An unusual legal entity: excluded heirs. In her most recent will, Anna Nicole Smith left her estate -- including the continuing rights to a...

Association News.(Susan Estrich to speak at Minnesota Women Lawyer's meeting)(Richard Kyle becomes president of Ramsey County Bar Association)(Brief article)
May 21, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Susan Estrich to speak at MWL annual meeting Legal commentator, author and law professional Susan Estrich is scheduled to give the keynote at the Minnesota Women Lawyer's annual meeting on June...

Minnesota Bar Buzz: May 21, 2007.(Richard Kyle elected president of Ramsey County Bar Association)(Timothy Nolan's writing skills)(Red Wing's laws for trash hauling)
May 21, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff From the headlines to headlining an HCBA event The Hennepin County Bar Association's 88th annual meeting and awards luncheon promises to be a memorable one: the keynote speaker will be none other than...

Minnesota Court of Appeals rules insurer need not indemnify pork producer.
May 21, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff The Minnesota Court of Appeals has determined that an insurer had no duty to defend against a common law nuisance claim brought against a pork producer by a neighbor. In July 2001, the insured, Wakefield...

Minnesota takes 17th at National Mock Trial Tourney.(Buffalo High School, Minnesota High School Mock Trial Champion )(Brief article)
May 21, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Minnesota High School Mock Trial Champion Buffalo High School placed 17th in the 24th annual national championship in Dallas May 10-13. Georgia's team from Jonesboro High School prevailed as the National...

Commentary: Is all news local? More of it may soon be.(history of newspapers)
May 21, 2007... Byline: Mark A. Cohen Last week the Star Tribune gathered its reporters together for a newsroom meeting. The Strib's editor, Nancy Barnes, set forth the paper's preliminary plan for dealing with its current crisis: concentrate on the...

Commentary: Three claimants lose recent First Amendment retaliation cases.
May 21, 2007... Byline: Marshall H. Tanick It's hard to pursue retaliation claims against governmental bodies or their officials. The cases are clothed with a number of differences and immunities that constitute high hurdles for claimants. A trio of...

Commentary: Legal myopia hurts value of 'goodwill'.
May 21, 2007... Byline: Edward Poll Not long ago I wrote in this column about the risk of "technology malpractice" -- violating the duty of care by failing to use technology effectively in your practice, so that you are perceived as willfully less...

Across the Region.(Cedarburg School District's Robert Zellner asked to hand over pornographic images viewed on school computer)(Chai Soua Vang's appeal for racially unbiased court rejected)(Louise Jumping Eagle and Juanita Jumping Eagle sentenced for bootlegging alcohol)
May 21, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter IOWA Iowa Supreme Court adopts emergency court rules Lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina have prompted the state to enact emergency rules for attorneys to follow during a widespread...

Hate crimes in Minnesota are difficult to track.
May 21, 2007... Byline: Dan Heilman One day earlier this month, a gay rights group planned a rally at Minnesota State University-Moorhead to protest the assault of Edina native Paul Marquardt, an openly gay student who had told police that he'd been...

Minneapolis-based Rider Bennett faces $12M fraud claim.
May 21, 2007... Byline: Barbara L. Jones The breakup of the Minneapolis law firm of Rider Bennett has been widely attributed to economic pressures resulting from the departure of a number of lawyers. A $12 million fraud and malpractice claim pending...

Deference given by Supreme Court to Minn. Pollution Control Agency on pollution permit.
May 21, 2007... Byline: Barbara L. Jones The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency may permit increased phosphorus discharge into the Crow River from a new wastewater treatment plant because the pollution would be offset by a reduction in phosphorus due to a...

Recent sentence in U.S. District Court highlights seriousness of child-porn charges.(Bruce W. Betcher)
May 21, 2007... Byline: Dan Heilman It was the kind of news item that instantly gets forwarded to e-mail boxes around the world. Earlier this month, U.S. District Court Judge James M. Rosenbaum handed down a 750-year prison term to Bruce W. Betcher of...

When corporate counsel get out of the house.
May 21, 2007... Byline: Michelle Lore Many lawyers make the move from private practice to in-house counsel at some point in their legal careers. What is more unusual is the reverse -- a switch from in-house counsel to a private law firm. Some...

Article misstated attorney's former title.
May 25, 2007... Byline: Letter to the Editor To the editor: While I appreciate your kind words in the recent Minnesota Lawyer article about attorneys moving from in-house to private practice (When corporate counsel get out of the house in the May 21...

Minnesota State Bar Association Briefs: May 28, 2007.
May 28, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff HCBA honors officers, members At its 88th annual meeting last week, the Hennepin County Bar Association passed the gavel to Sonia Miller-Van Oort, who will assume leadership when the current president,...

County pays penalty for deputy breaking woman's wrist.(Ramsey County, Deborah King)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Ramsey County has paid $129,500 to a St. Paul woman and another $317,000 to the lawyers of the woman whose wrist was broken at a bingo hall in February 2003. Federal jurors determined that a...

Hennepin Public Defender's Office looks to get the lead out.
May 28, 2007... Byline: Dan Heilman Like many old structures, the eight-story William E. McGee Building housing the Hennepin County Public Defender's Office is full of character and charm. Unfortunately, like most old buildings, it is also full of...

Twin Cities-based Rider Bennett wraps up its 47-year run.
May 28, 2007... Byline: Dan Heilman The atmosphere at the Rider Bennett law firm early on the morning of Tuesday, April 10, was not much different from that at any other office: Computers hummed to life, phones started chirping, and pockets of...

Minnesota Supreme Court OKs police use of dog for search.(state v. Scott Evan Davis )(Case study)
May 28, 2007... Byline: Michelle Lore Burnsville police acted properly in using a narcotics-detection dog outside the apartment door of a man suspected of illegal drug activity, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled. In a 5-2 decision, the court found...

Retention elections in Minnesota under fire in state that originated them.
May 28, 2007... Byline: Michelle Lore As Minnesota considers switching to a retention system for judicial elections -- commonly referred to as the "Missouri Plan" -- there is a movement underfoot in Missouri, the first state to adopt the system, to get...

Even 'dangerous' dogs in the Twin Cites get their day.
May 28, 2007... Byline: Michelle Lore The spate of recent dog attacks in the Twin Cites has brought increased attention to the issue of dangerous dogs. Most dogs that inflict substantial harm on people are ordered to be destroyed by an animal control...

Delaware chancellor gets input from Minnesota practitioners.
May 28, 2007... Byline: Barbara L. Jones Vice-chancellor Leo Strine of the Delaware Chancery Court wants to know what Minnesota lawyers are thinking. He knows what he thinks about Sarbanes-Oxley (Sox) and other hot corporate governance issues, but says...

Commentary: Defamation decision has implications for financial advisors.
May 28, 2007... Byline: James J. Eccleston An eagerly awaited decision from New York's highest court was issued recently and it does not bode well for New York financial advisers. In Rosenberg v. MetLife, Inc., the court ruled that financial services...

Minnesota Legal Briefs: May 28, 2007.
May 28, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Six attorneys from Rider Bennett have joined Bassford Remele as shareholders. Patrick J. Sauter practices in the areas of personal injury, construction defects, product liability, insurance coverage and a...

Commentary: Legal myopia hurts value of 'goodwill'.(Column)
May 28, 2007... Byline: Edward Poll Longtime readers of this column know I strongly believe in the ethical and economic correctness of selling a law practice. Central to that belief is my conviction that a law practice has goodwill that can be sold. ...

'Good faith' bill dies on the Minnesota Senate floor.(Brief article)
May 28, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff The bill to require insurance companies to act in good faith and to allow direct actions against insurers didn't make it through the last days of the legislative session. The direct action language gave...

Minnesota Supreme Court to consider CLE credit for pro bono work.(Minnesota State Board of Continuing Legal Education)(Brief article)
May 28, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff The Minnesota Supreme Court has announced that it will hold a hearing to consider a petition by the Minnesota State Bar Association to amend the Rules of the Minnesota State Board of Continuing Legal...

Minnesota Bar Buzz: May 28, 2007.(Thomas Heffelfinger at the Hennepin County Bar Association meeting)(Judge James Rosenbaum awarded the Judicial Professionalism Award by the Hennepin County Bar Association)(Juris Divas design bracelets for Bergstrom Jewelers)
May 28, 2007... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Heffelfinger headlines at HCBA; Gets rock star welcome Former U.S. Attorney Thomas Heffelfinger prepared a nice speech on the topic of the independence of U.S. Attorneys for the annual meeting of the...

Minn. Up & Coming Attorneys Award Recipient: Harleigh E. Brown.
May 28, 2007... Byline: Dan Heilman Harleigh Brown isn't sure where the idea came from, but he grew up with an image of lawyers as superheroes. "I knew fairly early on that lawyers helped people," says Brown. "I don't know if kids today have the same...

Minn. Up & Coming Attorneys Award Recipient: Clayton W. Chan.
May 28, 2007... Byline: Dan Heilman The buttoned-down world of law might not seem to have much in common with the world of bebop -- that improvisatory jazz sound made famous by musicians such as Miles Davis. But in the world of Winthrop & Weinstine...

Minn. Up & Coming Attorneys Award Recipient: Tamika R. Nordstrom.
May 28, 2007... Byline: Michelle Lore When Tamika Nordstrom went to law school, she never expected her law practice would take her to a chicken processing plant. But that's just one of the many industries the young attorney has gained in-depth knowledge...

Minn. Up & Coming Attorneys Award Recipient: Sarah L. Oquist.
May 28, 2007... Byline: Jane Pribek For the past seven years or so, representatives from the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe have asked attorney Sarah L. Oquist when she was coming home. This year, she finally did. Oquist became the tribe's commissioner of...

Minn. Up & Coming Attorneys Award Recipient: Lori D. Semke.
May 28, 2007... Byline: Mark A. Cohen After a year of hard work as chair of the New Lawyers Section of the Hennepin County Bar Association, Minneapolis attorney Lori D. Semke recently took a brief respite from serving in a leadership post. Now feeling...

Minn. Up & Coming Attorneys Award Recipient: Amy M. Sieben.
May 28, 2007... Byline: Jane Pribek An inspirational teacher can change the course of students' lives. So says Amy M. Sieben, an associate with Foley & Mansfield in Minneapolis, about her high school business law teacher in Cottage Grove. "I left that...

Minn. Up & Coming Attorneys Award Recipient: Mathew A. Soberg.
May 28, 2007... Byline: Jane Pribek According to Fergus Falls attorney Mathew A. Soberg, a great deal about life in general, and the practice of law in particular, can be learned on the football field. Consider the following famous football quotes,...

Minn. Up & Coming Attorneys Award Recipient: John T. Soshnik.
May 28, 2007... Byline: Jane Pribek Many solutions have been proffered regarding reforms to the nation's health care system. Dorsey & Whitney associate John T. Soshnik works with clients who think a little more transparency and consumer choice would go a...

Minn. Up & Coming Attorneys Award Recipient: Aaron D. Van Oort.
May 28, 2007... Byline: Michael Krieger It's not easy scoring a clerkship at the U.S. Supreme Court. But imagine having interviews with Justice Antonin Scalia, his four clerks and Justice Stephen G. Breyer all in the same day. Such is the story of...

Minn. Up & Coming Attorneys Award Recipient: Carrie A. Daniel.
May 28, 2007... Byline: Michael Krieger If Nike ever designs a cross-trainer for counselors, it would do well to hire Carrie A. Daniel as a pitchwoman. "If you're going to do it -- do it! That's the only way," Daniel exclaims when asked about her work...

Minn. Up & Coming Attorneys Award Recipient: Aaron W. Davis.
May 28, 2007... Byline: Dan Heilman Philosophy degrees have long been the butt of jokes among those who maintain they have no practical value. But Aaron W. Davis -- a trial attorney with Minneapolis law firm Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen -- said...

Minn. Up & Coming Attorneys Award Recipient: Gloria L. Contreras Edin.
May 28, 2007... Byline: Barbara L. Jones Race was never an issue for Gloria L. Contreras Edin when she lived in Los Angeles. She didn't become a "Latina" until moving to rural Minnesota. In that setting, her race was an issue all the time, she says....

Minn. Up & Coming Attorneys Award Recipient: David Galle.
May 28, 2007... Byline: Dan Heilman Running may not have kick-started David Galle's law career, but it didn't hurt either. "A friend and I started running while we were studying for the bar exam, in the summer of 2001," recalls Galle. "It was a way...

Minn. Up & Coming Attorneys Award Recipient: Jennifer K. Huelskoetter.
May 28, 2007... Byline: Mark A. Cohen Jennifer K. Huelskoetter is known throughout her office for the speed at which she walks, the long hours she is willing to put in and the smile that she always has on her face. The optimistic go-getter is aware of...

Minn. Up & Coming Attorneys Award Recipient: Saran B. Jenkins.
May 28, 2007... Byline: Barbara L. Jones It was budget cuts at North High School, where Saran B. Jenkins was a nontenured teacher, that led her to fulfill a longtime dream of going to law school. Upon her graduation, the dean of the law school at St....

Minn. Up & Coming Attorneys Award Recipient: Christopher A. Johnston.
May 28, 2007... Byline: Michelle Lore Don't be surprised if you find Christopher A. Johnston sitting at Whiskey Junction or The Joint on a Friday or Saturday night. He's not there to carouse or cause trouble -- he's just drumming up business. The...

Minn. Up & Coming Attorneys Award Recipient: Brian M. Meloy.
May 28, 2007... Byline: Mark A. Cohen Energy has come to dominate the news, and behind every energy-related transaction is a lawyer practicing in the white-hot area of energy law. Among the local powerbrokers in the field is Brian M. Meloy. With...