LGN SPONSORS MINNESOTA FARMERS UNION CONVENTION

LGN was pleased to sponsor the 83rd annual state convention of the Minnesota Farmers Union. The annual convention aims to bring the community together and focus on the future. Speakers included officials from the Farm Service Agency, the DOJ Antitrust Division, and many local elected leaders. LGN associate Eura Chang and government relations team member Amos Briggs were in attendance.

Minnesota Farmers Union

The Minnesota Farmers Union works to protect and enhance the economic interests and quality of life of family farmers and ranchers and rural communities. MFU is a nonprofit membership-based organization. Membership is open to everyone.

You can learn more about the Minnesota Farmers Union on their website: https://mfu.org/

LGN Attends COSAL Leadership & Diversity Summit

LGN partner Heidi Silton and associates Eura Chang, Kira Le, and Consuela Abotsi-Kowu were honored to attend the 3rd Annual Committee to Support Antitrust Laws (COSAL) Leadership & Diversity Summit in Philadelphia. It was a day filled with networking and learning featuring various panels, including a panel titled: “Allies: How to Find One and How to Be One,” moderated by Heidi Silton.

COSAL

The COSAL Diversity Summit invites leaders and emerging leaders of the plaintiffs’ antitrust bar to work together to enhance antitrust enforcement by amplifying the voices and power of attorneys from diverse backgrounds in the profession. The Summit provides an opportunity for historically underrepresented antitrust attorneys to further develop best practices and strategies in enforcement, to discuss current challenges in the practice and to identify solutions in an intimate, collaborative environment. 

Invitations are limited to women, attorneys of color, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and other underrepresented members of the plaintiffs’ antitrust bar.

Generative AI Announced as New Practice Area at LGN

Generative AI

LGN is proud to announce a new Generative AI litigation practice area to address the legal complexities surrounding this groundbreaking technology.

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has quickly become a widely used technology. But the deployment of GenAI has led to issues concerning the compensation of creators, such as artists and authors, for the creative work that feeds the models powering GenAI. LGN is at the forefront of litigation on behalf of creators to seek fair compensation for the use of their work.

LGN’s Generative AI lawyers believe in responsible GenAI development and use, and strive to set a precedent for ethical practices within the legal framework of Generative AI. We recognize the need for a nuanced approach to Generative AI legal services and are dedicated to navigating the intricate legal landscape of Generative AI. We advocate for a diverse array of clients, including individual artists, writers, and corporations facing these emerging challenges. We help our clients navigate the intricacies of copyright law, entertainment law, antitrust law, and other areas of law implicated by the development and use of GenAI.

LGN’s GenAI team includes Brian Clark, Laura Matson, Arielle Wagner, Eura Chang, and Kate Baxter-Kauf. For more information on our current cases and to explore how LGN can assist you in the GenAI landscape, please visit our practice page by clicking below.

LGN Associate Eura Chang participates in panel discussion at the Twin Cities Diversity in Practice (“TCDIP”) General Members Meeting

On Tuesday LGN Associate Eura Chang participated in a panel discussion at the Twin Cities Diversity in Practice (“TCDIP”) General Members Meeting.  Eura and her co-panelists spoke about the importance of TCDIP’s 1L Clerkship program, which is open to all first year law students.  LGN has participated in this program, in partnership with the Metropolitan Council,  for several years and we are thrilled to have met and worked with many wonderful law students, including Eura who joined us as an associate after she graduated from the University of Minnesota School of Law in 2022.  Congratulations, Eura! 

LGN Sponsors the Minnesota American Indian Bar Association Golf Tournament

LGN attorneys David Zoll, Eura Chang, and Arielle Wagner joined Mille Lacs Band Solicitor General Caleb Dogeagle at the MN American Indian Bar Association’s annual golf tournament. The event raised over $28,000 to support scholarships for American Indian students attending law school in Minnesota.

LGN Sponsors Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity Gala

LGN was proud to sponsor Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity’s Black Tie and Hard Hat Gala this past weekend and clearly, LGNers Jess Lindeen, Amos Briggs, Kevin Matzek, and Eura Chang were thrilled to attend (photobooth & all!) We have the privilege of representing Twin Cities Habitat at the Capitol and supporting their work to meaningfully address Minnesota’s racial homeownership gap and advance Black homeownership. As part of this work, Twin Cities Habitat advocated for a new $100 million First Generation Down Payment Assistance Program that will begin this summer.

LGN Attorney Interviews Chief Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown

LGN Attorney Eura Chang recently interviewed Chief Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown of the US District Court of the Eastern District of Louisiana. The interview was conducted as part of the Federal Bar Association’s Diversity & Inclusion Judicial Spotlight. 

To learn more about Chief Judge Brown, and to read the full interview, follow this link

LGN Summer Associate Participates in Hennepin County Bar Association Panel

LGN Summer Associate Eura Chang joined Judge Juan Hoyos, and University of Minnesota Professor Carol Chomsky to discuss why now is the time to re-examine the bar exam as the exclusive way for students and newer attorneys to become licensed in Minnesota. The moderated discussion was part of the Hennepin County Bar Association’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee’s CLE Series on Racial Equity and Justice.

LGN Attorneys Attend Minnesota FBA Monthly Luncheon

LGN attorneys Kristen MarttilaMaureen Kane BergKate Baxter-Kauf, and Leona Ajavon, along with current law clerk Eura Chang, attended the March Monthly Luncheon of the Minnesota Chapter of the Federal Bar Association.      

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LGN Law Clerk Eura Chang Recently Featured in Minnesota Law Review’s Issue 2

LGN Law Clerk Eura Chang was recently featured in the Minnesota Law Review’s Issue 2.  Eura’s Note focuses on the racially disparate impacts of the bar exam and how willful blindness to the bar exam’s disparate impacts is condoned in part by two legal doctrines that protect decision-makers from legal accountability—absolute immunity doctrine and an uncompromisingly limited interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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