LGN Partners Karen Hanson Riebel and Kate Baxter-Kauf Present on Data Security Best Practices

Partner Karen Hanson Riebel, who heads the Lockridge Grindal Nauen data breach practice group, presented with partner Kate Baxter-Kauf at the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Health Benefits Conference and Expo, which took place from January 31-February 2, 2022 in Clearwater Beach, Florida.   

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LGN Attorney Kate Baxter-Kauf Participates on Panel at Carleton

Partner Kate Baxter-Kauf, who practices in the firm’s data breachantitrust lawbusiness litigation, and securities litigation practice groups, participated on a reproductive justice panel at Carleton College regarding the state of reproductive access in Minnesota with Dr. Julie Amaon, medical director of Just the Pill, and TL Jordan grassroots organizer at Planned Parenthood North Central States. 

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LGN Attorney Rachel Kitze Collins Elected to Fourth Term as Co-President of the MSP Chapter of the ACS

Rachel Kitze Collins

Lockridge Grindal Nauen Associate Rachel Kitze Collins was recently elected to her fourth term as Co-President of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society. 

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LGN Attorney Kate Baxter-Kauf Participates in Justice Jeopardy

Lockridge Grindal Nauen P.L.L.P. partner Kate Baxter-Kauf, who practices in the firm’s data breachantitrust lawbusiness litigation, and securities litigation practice groups, recently participated as one of the legal minds in the Minnesota Supreme Court Historical Society’s Justice Jeopardy Event.

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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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LGN Seeking Summer Associate

Interested parties should provide a cover letter, first-year transcript (when available), writing sample, and resume to Samantha E. Girard at segirard@locklaw.com.

Lockridge Grindal Nauen (LGN) seeks a first-year law student to join the firm as a summer associate during the summer of 2022. Summer associates at LGN gain experience with complex litigation in Minnesota and across the country, including matters involving antitrust, commercial, environmental, employment, healthcare, and products liability. LGN’s attorneys rely on summer associates to perform substantive work — such as drafting briefs, motion papers, and research memoranda. Throughout the summer program, LGN also offers summer associates the opportunity for ongoing mentorship and training.

LGN Partner Susan Ellingstad featured in StarTribune

Susan Ellingstad

Minnesota employers confront ‘hurry up and wait’ on vaccine mandates

Minnesota employers facing a year-end sprint to comply with federal mandates for COVID-19 vaccines have been granted a reprieve — at least for now.

Federal courts in recent weeks upheld challenges to a trio of Biden administration mandates that, taken together, were poised to mandate a wide swath of employers institute vaccination rules on its workers in January.

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LGN’s Kate Baxter-Kauf Participates on Constitutional Law Panel

LGN Partner Kate Baxter-Kauf, who practices in the firm’s data breachantitrust lawbusiness litigation, and securities litigation practice groups, was a panelist on a live webinar entitled Texas Abortion Law: Implications and Consequences, presented by the American Constitution Society’s Minneapolis-St. Paul chapter. 

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LGN Attorney Arielle Wagner Moderates Panel on Savannah’s Act

Arielle Wagner

LGN Attorney Arielle Wagner moderated the CLE “Savanna’s Act: Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women” co-hosted by Minnesota Women Lawyers and the Minnesota American Indian Bar Association. 

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LGN Partner Susan Ellingstad featured in MPR News

Susan Ellingstad

Biden’s vaccine mandates: What you need to know

Millions of Americans will be subject to new vaccine mandates issued by President Joe Biden, including more than 1.4 million workers in Minnesota.

The announcement this week comes as the highly contagious delta variant continues to sweep the nation, putting unvaccinated people at higher risk of hospitalization and death.

Biden only described his plan in broad strokes during a White House press conference Thursday, but the strategy is already drawing applause from some corners — and a lot of questions from others.

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