Rachel A. Kitze Collins

Rachel Kitze Collins practices in the firm’s environmental, business, political law groups, and co-leads LGN’s employment law team.  Ms. Kitze Collins has represented numerous public entities, businesses, and plaintiffs, in complex high-profile litigation involving environmental, constitution, political and contract law in federal and state court.  On the employment side, Ms. Kitze Collins primarily represents governmental and business clients in federal and state court and before administrative agencies in Minnesota, handling administrative claims and litigation involving employment discrimination, harassment, unfair labor practices, and wage and hour issues.  Ms. Kitze Collins is also experienced with negotiating Collective Bargaining Agreements for non-profit employers and has conducted numerous workplace investigations for public and private employers, typically consisting of thorough fact-gathering to enable employers to take appropriate action in response to workplace complaints.

Ms. Kitze Collins was named an ‘Up & Coming Attorney’ by Minnesota Lawyer in 2019, and has been named a Minnesota Rising Star from 2017-2023 by Super Lawyers. She has also been recognized numerous times by North Star Lawyer for her pro bono work.

Ms. Kitze Collins currently serves as a Board Member and former Co-President of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Chapter of the American Constitution Society and as a Current Council Member and Past Chair of the Minnesota State Bar Association’s Environmental, Natural Resources and Energy Law Section.

Ms. Kitze Collins also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, where she coaches the Environmental Moot Court Competition Team (2019-present). Her team won the 2024 Jeffrey G. Miller National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition at Pace University, competing against 54 teams from across the United States.

Ms. Kitze Collins is a 2014 summa cum laude graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif. While in law school, Ms. Kitze Collins served as a Note and Comment Editor for the Minnesota Law Review and a Clinic Director.

Ms. Kitze Collins clerked for the Honorable James B. Loken of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit before joining Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLLP.