Lockridge Grindal Nauen P.L.L.P. partner Kate Baxter-Kauf, who practices in the firm’s data breach, antitrust law, business 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 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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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.
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 Partner Kate Baxter-Kauf, who practices in the firm’s data breach, antitrust law, business 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 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.
Read moreMillions 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.
Read moreMinnesota employers, many of whom had been wary of instituting vaccine mandates of their own, were scrambling on Friday to understand how and when they will have to implement new federal guidelines that will require them to do just that.
On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced sweeping new federal regulations that will require employers with more than 100 workers to require immunizations or weekly testing. It’s a big move aimed at curbing the recent surge in COVID cases and hospitalizations mostly among the unvaccinated.
Read moreU.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith announced the formation of a judicial selection committee to assist them in making recommendations to President Biden to fill a vacancy on Minnesota’s federal district court.
Read moreLockridge Grindal Nauen is proud to announce that fourteen of the firm’s attorneys were selected as 2021 Minnesota Super Lawyers and Rising Stars. Super Lawyers recognizes the top 5% of outstanding lawyers in each state, who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement, from more than 70 practice areas.
The Rising Stars recognition is given to the top 2.5% of up-and-coming attorneys in the state who are either 40 years or younger, or who have been practicing for 10 years or less.
The selection process is multi-phased including independent research, peer nominations, and peer evaluations.
