LGN Welcomes Three New Associate Attorneys
We are thrilled to announce the expansion of our legal team with the addition of three exceptional new associate attorneys: Consuela M. Abotsi-Kowu, Michael J. K. M. Kinane, and Kira Q. Le. Their diverse backgrounds and impressive credentials will further strengthen our ability to provide the highest quality legal services to our clients. We are excited to see the impact they will have on our firm and our clients. You can read more about each of them below.
Consuela Abotsi-Kowu is an associate at Lockridge Grindal Nauen practicing primarily in the firm’s antitrust, data breach and employment practice groups.
Consuela graduated from the University of St. Thomas School of Law in 2024. In law school she served as President of the Black Law Students Association, Vice President of UST Student Government, and participated on the Negotiations team. She was part of the authorship team for the article titled ‘Using COVID-19 Surveillance Systems to Identify and Monitor Disparities: Best Practices and Recommendations,’ published in Ethnicity & Disease.
Consuela graduated from Oakwood University in May 2016 with a major in biology and later earned a Master of Public Health with a specialization in Environmental Health Sciences from UCLA.
Michael Kinane is an associate at Lockridge Grindal Nauen, where his practice focuses on antitrust law. Before entering private practice, Michael clerked for Associate Chief Justice John A. Pearce at the Utah Supreme Court. Michael graduated cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2023 and was the recipient of the Civil Litigation Concentration Honors Award. He served as a Managing Editor of the Minnesota Law Review and contributed a published Note, Grandpa Sherman Did Not See Google Coming: Evolutions in Antitrust to Regulate Data Aggregating Firms, as well as a published Essay, Interstate Cannabis Compacts: The Road to a Regional Legal Cannabis Economy. Michael competed on Minnesota Law’s McGee Moot Court team and was awarded the Best Respondent’s Brief in the competition. He additionally worked in criminal law during law school, including successfully representing the State of Minnesota before the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
Michael also earned a Master of Public Policy from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs in 2022 while attending the University of Minnesota. Before law school, Michael was a digital marketer in Silicon Valley.
Kira Le is an associate practicing primarily in the firm’s antitrust and health care practice groups. Kira graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2024. In law school, she served as Lead Web Content Editor of the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, President of the Health Law & Bioethics Association, and a Student Director of the Community Legal Partnership for Health Clinic. Her student Note on antitrust concerns in the metastatic breast cancer drug market was selected for publication in Vol. 25, Issue 1 of the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology.
Kira graduated summa cum laude from The George Washington University in December of 2020 with a major in Political Science and minors in Sustainability and Law and Society.