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SPRING 2019 THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE

When Media Is Your Medium In a Highly Dynamic Industry, Alumni Are Making Their Mark

NEW COLLABORATIONS Innocence Project of Minnesota relocates to Law School

CLINIC SUCCESSES Three students argue, win 6th Circuit appeal

LAW LIBRARY New exhibit honors Judge Diana Murphy ’74, other trailblazers

LAURA COATES '05 CNN LEGAL ANALYST THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE

DEAN 2018–2019 Garry W. Jenkins BOARD OF ADVISORS

DIRECTOR OF Daniel W. McDonald ’85, Chair COMMUNICATIONS Gary J. Haugen ’74, Chair-Elect Mark A. Cohen Amy C. Seidel ’98, Immediate Past Chair Ann M. Anaya ’93 EDITOR AND WRITER Joseph M. Barbeau ’81 Jeff Johnson Jeanette M. Bazis ’92 Sitso W. Bediako ’08 ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Amy L. Bergquist ’07 OF COMMUNICATIONS Karin J. Birkeland ’87 Monica Wittstock Rachel S. Brass ’01 Barbara Jean D’Aquila ’79 COMMUNICATIONS John F. Hartmann ’87 SPECIALIST The Honorable Natalie E. Hudson ’82 Luke Johnson Rachel C. Hughey ’03 Ronald E. Hunter ’78 Nora L. Klaphake ’94 DIRECTOR OF Greg J. Marita ’91 ADVANCEMENT Ambassador Tom McDonald ’79 David Jensen Christine L. Meuers ’83 Michelle A. Miller ’86 DIRECTOR OF Cyrus A. Morton ’98 ALUMNI RELATIONS Michael T. Nilan ’79 AND ANNUAL GIVING Pamela F. Olson ’80 Elissa Ecklund Chaffee Roshan N. Rajkumar ’00 Mary S. Ranum ’83 Stephen P. Safranski ’97 CONTRIBUTING Michael L. Skoglund ’01 WRITERS Michael P. Sullivan, Jr. ’96 Dick Dahl Bryn R. Vaaler ’79 Kathy Graves Renae L. Welder ’96 Ryan Greenwood Jessica Griffith Dan Heilman Minnesota Law is a general Chuck Leddy interest magazine published Cathy Madison in the fall and spring of the academic year for the Todd Melby University of Minnesota Law Mike Mosedale School community of alumni, friends, and supporters. PHOTOGRAPHERS Letters to the editor or Deena Hamdan any other communication regarding content should Jay Mallin be sent to Mark Cohen Tony Nelson ([email protected]), Tim Rummelhoff Director of Communications, Rebecca Slater University of Minnesota Law School, 229 19th Avenue South, 421 Mondale Hall, Minneapolis, DESIGNER MN 55455. Erin Gibbons, Launch Lab Creative The University of Minnesota shall provide equal access to and opportunity in its programs, facilities, and employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, disability, public assistance status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

HE LAW SCHOOL’S COMMITMENT TO COLLABORATION and community has been a hallmark of its 130-year-plus history. T As the stories in this edition of Minnesota Law magazine illustrate, dedication to these ideals manifests itself in a wide variety of ways at the Law School and among its alumni, faculty, students, staff, and partners. One exciting new example of both collaboration and community here at the Law School is the relocation of the Innocence Project of Minnesota to Mondale Hall. IPMN’s move is part of an expanded partnership that will offer opportunities for greater Law School involvement in IPMN’s critical work: freeing individuals who have been convicted of crimes they did not commit and ensuring that such wrongful convictions do not occur in the future. This involvement will come in many forms, including increased opportunities for our students to work on pending cases, engage in advocacy and policy work, and perform community outreach. Having IPMN the intersection of law and medicine are just two of at the Law School fits in with a key objective to make it a plethora of faculty examples. Both engage in policy one of the go-to law schools in the country for students work and use collaborative approaches that extend their interested in public interest law. reach well beyond their fields. Our “Impact of Giving” Preparing our graduates to serve in leadership posts feature highlights another type of community impact. in government is another way in which the Law School Robert J. Owens ’69 gives back by helping law students contributes to the public good. Our story on alumni secure postgraduate employment with prominent public rising to high positions at the Minnesota Capitol includes and private employers throughout the country. Those profiles of the speaker of the House (Melissa Hortman students will, in turn, serve their communities as ’95), the House majority leader (Ryan Winkler ’01), lawyer-leaders and amplify the Minnesota Law tradition and the governor’s chief of staff (Chris Schmitter ’13). of giving back. But our reach expands beyond Minnesota. In our In short, the ideals of community and collaboration “Alumni Interrogatory” feature, you can read about are inextricably linked components of the Law School’s Kyle Hawkins ’09, the solicitor general of Texas. These DNA. Being a part of such a great tradition is one of my individuals—and numerous others—exemplify the Law greatest points of pride as dean, and it is one of the many School’s preeminent place in creating lawyer-leaders things that make Minnesota Law a special place. who serve our communities, regions, and nation. Our clinics are another way in which we leverage our expertise for the good of the community. In one case highlighted in this issue, our students from the James H. Binger Center for New Americans argued and won a significant case protecting the procedural rights of immigrants. In addition, the Center’s recently launched Rural Immigrant Access Clinic helps bring legal represen- tation to immigrants who would not otherwise have it. Other stories of service to the community abound. Professor William McGeveran’s work on data and Garry W. Jenkins privacy issues and Professor Susan Wolf’s work at Dean and William S. Pattee Professsor of Law

SPRING 2019 MINNESOTA LAW 1 SPRING 2019 CONTENTS

FEATURES

1 FROM THE DEAN

Committed to Collaboration and Community

10 16 When Media Is Your Medium 4 In a Highly Dynamic Industry, Alumni Are Making Their Mark FOR THE RECORD

4 In Brief 5 Mondale Moments 6 Honoring MLK’s Legacy CNN analyst Laura Coates ’05 urges vigilance at annual convocation 7 Innocence Project Moves In Relocation to Mondale Hall part of an enhanced collaboration between IPMN, Law School 8 Students Win 6th Circuit Appeal Three 3Ls argue, win a 6th Circuit 22 immigration appeal Minnesota Law Alumni Take 9 Students Help Honduran Center Stage at State Capitol Woman Win Claim for Asylum; Student Attorney Gets Client

Unemployment Benefits 25 In the Room Where it Happens 10 Pioneers in the Courtroom Chris Schmitter ’13 takes on new Law Library pays tribute to Judge role as governor’s chief of staff Diana Murphy ’74, women in the law 11 Recent Rare Acquisitions 26 Library acquires Darrow letter, Theory at Work

17th-century documents Professor William McGeveran’s 13 New Clinic Helps Immigrants in policy work and innovative practicum Rural Areas are helping to tame the Wild West of 22 14 Impact of Giving: Robert Owens ’69 privacy law and data security

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34 Leading Questions 1L Navin Ramalingam 36 Student News 44 39 Hail to the (Editors-in) Chief Meet the 2Ls who will lead our four RAISING THE BAR student-edited law journals 40 Big Picture 44 Alumni Interrogatory Students on the steps of the Kyle Hawkins ’09 Minnesota Capitol 46 Alumni News 28 42 TORT Presents 48 TORT Reunion Tale as Old as Time FACULTY FOCUS 49 Class Notes 54 Spring Alumni Weekend 2019 28 Faculty News, Awards, & Grants 56 Recent Gifts 30 Author in Question 57 Tributes Professor Tom Cotter 59 In Memoriam 32 At the Intersection of Law & Medicine 60 Why I Give Professor Susan Wolf’s Joshua Colburn ’07 cutting-edge work connects the dots between disciplines 42

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Prof. Heidi Kitrosser Delivers Investiture Lecture on ‘Committing Truth in the Deep State’

Professor Heidi On March 6, Dean Garry W. Jenkins Kitrosser delivered a lecture on honors Prof. Blumenthal “‘Committing the Truth’ in the Deep State” at the Law School. The lecture was part of a recognition of Prof. Susanna Blumenthal’s Appointment Kitrosser’s appointment as Robins Kaplan Professor of Law. Lecture Focuses on Policing Fraud in America In her talk, Kitrosser discussed two particularly controversial types On April 1, Professor Susanna Blumenthal delivered a lecture on “The of “whistleblower” disclosures: Apprehension of Fraud: Policing Deception in Modern America” at the Law First, those made by civil servants School. The lecture was part of a recognition of Blumenthal’s appointment as William L. Prosser Professor of Law. The lecture tackled long-held views that swindlers and salesmen are close cousins, with some even suggesting that con artistry and economic innovation are simply two sides of the same coin in American history. Blumenthal traversed the ambiguous borderland between capitalism and crime, providing an important corrective as she reconsidered the regulatory paths that American lawyers have pursued across time to redress the social harms resulting from misplaced trust. A reception in honor of Blumenthal and her accomplishment in being granted an endowed chair followed the lecture.

Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Natalie Hudson ’82 to Deliver Commencement Address

Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Natalie Hudson ’82 will be the Law School’s 2019 commencement speaker. Hudson has served on the Minnesota Supreme Court since 2015. She previously served 14 years on the Minnesota Court of Appeals. in the course of simply carrying Prior to joining the bench, Hudson out their jobs—for example, by had an extensive career that included writing scientific reports or making working in the Minnesota Attorney economic projections—where their General’s Office, the St. Paul City stated conclusions conflict with Attorney’s Office, Southern their superiors’ preferences. Second, Minnesota Regional Legal Services, disclosures to the media that as an assistant dean at Hamline contain information that the University School of Law, and as an executive branch has deemed attorney in private practice. and activities, she is currently a classified. At the Law School, Hudson served member of the Law School’s Board A reception in honor of Kitrosser on the Minnesota Law Review staff and of Advisors. and her accomplishment in being was editor-in-chief of Quaere, the law Commencement exercises granted an endowed chair immedi- school newspaper. In addition to will be held Saturday, May 18, ately followed the lecture. numerous other professional groups at Northrop Auditorium. ❘❘❘❘

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1 1L Alex Wolf emerged victorious over Professor Oren Gross in the Chess League Championship. 2 Law Library staff member Linda Anderson welcomes attendees to the library’s annual spring celebration of the baseball season opener 3 Dean Garry W. Jenkins welcomed Judge Jimmie V. Reyna, Judge Kara Farnandez Stoll, and Chief Judge Sharon Prost of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to the Law School to hear oral arguments in two cases. 4 3L Rebecca Rosefelt, 2L Caroline Sell, and Clinic Administrator Nicole Smiley get crafty 5 2L Grace O’Meara, 3L Kayla Hoel, and 2L Michelle Cardona Vinasco show their Minnesota Law spirit during Campus Preview Weekend 5 6 3L Veena Tripathi, host of the newly launched Minnesota Law Review podcast “Experto Crede,” discusses data security with Professor William McGeveran

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Honoring MLK’s Legacy CNN Legal Analyst Laura Coates ’05 Urges Vigilance at Annual Convocation

“This is the time to awaken yourself,” Coates said. She urged attorneys—and those soon to be attorneys—to ask themselves these questions: “How do I know what I am doing is in line with the trajectory of democracy? How do I keep pushing forward and not roll back? How do I ensure that what makes America great is perhaps what’s in its future once the aspirations align with the actuality?” Added Coates, “I really hope you remain awake and embrace the opportunity to be among the people to nudge the person next to you. This is not the time to sleep. This is the time for you to come alive and dream in color. And the words of King will remind you of that every single day.” The Law School’s Diversity Committee sponsored the event. After her remarks, Coates answered questions from Eduardo Castro, a 2L student and committee member, about several issues, including racial injustice in America. “Racism still very much exists,” Coates said. “Our nation is not unique in that.” Coates, who is also host of a SiriusXM radio show and author of You Have the Right: A Constitutional DURING TIMES OF SOCIAL listeners of the story of Rip Van Guide to Policing The Police, called UPHEAVAL, many people become Winkle, a fictional tale about a racism counterproductive to overwhelmed. Instead of getting “simple, good-natured fellow” who American competitiveness in a global engaged, they nod off, dreaming slumbered for 20 years. When he fell economy and reminded listeners that of quieter times. At the Law School’s asleep, King George III ruled America. King was working on the Poor fourth annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther When he awoke, a revolution had People’s Campaign at the time of his King Jr. Convocation, Laura Coates catapulted George Washington to death. ’05, a CNN legal analyst and author, become a young country’s first leader. In his introductory remarks, Dean urged listeners not to be one of “For Rip Van Winkle, it was 20 Garry W. Jenkins welcomed audience those people. years,” Coates said. “Imagine if you members and noted, “Bigotry and Coates began her speech, titled had slept through the last 20 months.” hate remain persistent problems in “Conscious Justice in a Fake News Modern day Rip Van Winkles our nation and in our politics. In my Era: A Reflection on MLK’s Sermon sleeping for 20 months or so would view, these are not the parts of ‘Remaining Awake Through a Great have missed the appointment of a America that inspire us. I mark these Revolution,’” by reading an excerpt of pair of new U.S. Supreme Court challenges not as a lament but rather, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1968 justices, children held in cages, travel as a challenge, a call to action.” ❘❘❘❘ address at the National Cathedral in bans, an expansion of executive Washington, D.C. power, and a government shutdown, By Todd Melby, a Minneapolis-based freelance writer Like King, Coates reminded she said. and radio producer

6 MINNESOTA LAW SPRING 2019 Innocence Project Moves In Relocation to Mondale Hall is Part of an Enhanced Collaboration Between IPMN, Law School

ON APRIL 1, the Innocence Project the Robina Public Interest Scholars  Staff of the Innocence Project of Minnesota, from left to right: of Minnesota (IPMN) moved to Program, the Saeks Public Interest Executive Director Sara Jones ’88, Mondale Hall as part of an expanded Program, and the broader University Staff Attorney Jim Mayer ’01, Advancement and Operations partnership between the group and of Minnesota community. Manager Emily Luxem, and Legal the Law School. “We are thrilled to have the Director Julie Jonas ’95 IPMN is a nonprofit legal services, Innocence Project of Minnesota education, and advocacy organization join us at the Law School,” says that works to free the wrongfully con- Law School Dean Garry W. Jenkins. victed and prevent future wrongful “The group’s mission comports alumna with deep ties to the Law convictions from occurring in well with the Law School’s 130- School, I see this as the right place Minnesota, North Dakota, and South plus-year tradition of public service at the right time for IPMN.” Dakota. The group was formerly and dedication to the cause of IPMN remains an independent, located at Hamline University. justice. We look forward to the nonprofit organization, with its own With this relocation, the University many opportunities for deeper, staff, board of directors, and finances. of Minnesota Law School joins a richer collaborations that this Interestingly, the move was a sort select number of law schools across move affords.” of homecoming for the three lawyers the nation housing Innocence Project IPMN Executive Director Sara on the IPMN staff, all of whom affiliates, including the University of Jones ’88 says, “IPMN is becoming are alums. Jones, in addition to Arizona, University of Texas, a truly regional innocence organiza- having worked in the Law School’s University of Virginia, and University tion, our staff is growing, and we’re Advancement Office for eight years, of Washington. IPMN’s physical expanding our work of serving the is the second of three generations of presence at the Law School facilitates wrongfully convicted through legal her family to have attended the law additional clinical, pro bono, and services, systemic change, research, school. Her father, C. Paul Jones ’50, research opportunities for Law and education. The Law School is an served as Minnesota’s founding state School students. In addition, it outstanding institution and shares public defender for 25 years and had allows for further collaborative our commitment to education, his main office at the Law School; efforts with the Law School’s faculty, justice, and public service. As an her nephew is Curtis Wells ’09. ❘❘❘❘

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Students Win 6th Circuit Appeal Three 3Ls Successfully Brief, Argue a Key Point of Fundamental Fairness in Immigration Proceedings

equally in administrative proceedings, in order to ensure fundamental fairness to people subject to federal prosecutorial power, as well as ensure the integrity and legitimacy of the decisions of the administrative courts,” explains Casper Sanchez. The 6th Circuit agreed with that argument, issuing an 18-page opinion in their client’s favor. Allowing DHS a second bite at the apple would have represented an offense against the rule of law, says Hofeld, who handled oral arguments before the 6th Circuit (along with Dimick). “Without res judicata in immigration proceedings, there would be no check on the government’s power to bring charge after

3Ls Paul Dimick, Kayla Hoel, charge, based on the same set of and Zachary Hofeld underlying facts, against lawful permanent residents. That check has now been restored,” Hofeld adds. “We were motivated by knowing we THREE LAW STUDENTS are Department of Homeland Security were making a real difference for our effectively pushing back against (DHS) began a removal proceeding client, by working to return him to potential executive overreach, arguing against him. DHS claimed that the United States and reinstate his and winning an important case at Jasso Arangure’s home-invasion lawful permanent resident status,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the conviction was a “crime of violence” says Hoel, “and also making a real 6th Circuit. The case, Jasso Arangure v. making him deportable under the difference in the lives of thousands Whitaker, was decided in late Immigration and Nationality Act of individuals” potentially impacted December. The legal issue in Jasso (INA). DHS’s initial “crime of by the 6th Circuit’s decision. was whether “res judicata,” a legal violence” claim was thrown out after Dimick describes his experience principle intended to prevent the 6th Circuit declared the clause working on the Jasso case as “the relitigation of cases between the same unconstitutionally vague. DHS then highlight of my law school career,” parties over the same issues, applies brought a second deportation action adding that “[Casper Sanchez] and at the administrative level of an against Jasso Arangure, using the our team of adjunct professors were immigration proceeding. “burglary offense” clause under the there every step of the way, providing The three Minnesota Law students INA, based on the same facts as the invaluable feedback and guidance to who led the litigation were 3Ls Kayla earlier administrative procedure. our student team.” Hoel, Paul Dimick, and Zachary The question before the 6th Circuit Casper Sanchez says, “Witnessing Hofeld. Due to the case’s promi- was whether res judicata applied to these three students brief, argue, nence and potential impact, the preclude the second administrative and win this important case stands National Immigration Project of the proceeding. out as a highlight in my career as a National Lawyers Guild submitted an Ben Casper Sanchez ’97, faculty teacher and lawyer.” All the more amicus curiae brief to the 6th Circuit director of the James H. Binger impressive because, as Casper supporting the arguments the Center for New Americans, was the Sanchez explains, “they argued in students made in the principal brief. supervising attorney in the Jasso case. front of a three-judge panel and all A legal permanent resident since “The students argued that common the judges had been appointed by 2003, Ramon Jasso Arangure pled law judicial principles such as res the Trump administration.” ❘❘❘❘ guilty to first-degree home invasion judicata and preclusion, which apply in Michigan. Afterwards, the in traditional courts, would apply By Chuck Leddy, a Boston-based freelance writer

8 MINNESOTA LAW SPRING 2019 Students Help Honduran Woman Win Claim for Asylum

U.S. Immigration Judge Audrey Carr last February granted asylum to a Honduran woman who is a client of the Law School’s Immigration and 3L Brittany Turany, 3L Natacha Garcia, Human Rights Clinic. 3L Emily Ortlieb, and Prof. Stephen Meili While working as a transit police officer in Honduras, the client refused to accept bribes from gangs account of her membership in a because they refuse to abuse power. who sought to procure drivers’ particular social group and her 3L Natacha Garcia, 3L Emily licenses for their members and political opinion of opposition to Ortlieb, and 2L Brittany Turany information about police operations. government corruption was valid. served as student attorneys, working Because she refused to comply, the Former transit police officers who alongside Professor Stephen Meili client was threatened by the gang and refused threats by gangs are seen as and performing much of the prep eventually she and her family were a group by Hondurans and have work, including helping to research attacked by gunmen at their home. discrete boundaries. Corruption and write the brief. The client fears that if she returns to within Honduras’ national police is The government filed an appeal, Honduras, she will be killed. normal, if not expected. Therefore, and the clinic will continue to Judge Carr determined that the those who do not participate become represent the woman at the appellate client’s claim of persecution on the targets of persecution merely level. ❘❘❘❘

Student Attorney Gets Client Unemployment Benefits

When Rasheed Ogunmade met 2L Bethany Anderson, he was in dire straits. His employer, a local printing company, had terminated his employment and was contesting Client Rasheed Ogunmade and unemployment benefits. A Nigerian 2L Bethany Anderson immigrant and father of four, Ogunmade had represented himself at the initial hearing and lost. He to the clinic, but Anderson immedi- Ogunmade, and questions for the now lacked money to support his ately put him at ease. “Ms. Bethany employer in case they showed up to family and faced imminent eviction was very kind, very, very nice,” he says. the phone hearing,” says Anderson. from his apartment. “I had just lost my job. That is the “The judge called us, and asked Seeking pro bono legal representa- way I feed my family. I was in a bad Mr. Ogunmade a bunch of questions. tion for his unemployment insurance situation. She told me don’t worry, I followed up with some questions, appeal, Ogunmade was referred to this is what we are going to do. She and made a closing statement to the Law School’s Robins Kaplan Civil helped me through it.” the judge.” Practice Clinic. The case was assigned Ogunmade retained Anderson and The day after the hearing, the judge to Anderson, a student attorney at the clinic to represent him. The next issued a ruling granting Ogunmade the clinic. step was a telephone hearing with an the benefits that he sought. “I am Ogunmade says he had no idea administrative law judge. very grateful to the clinic and Ms. what to expect when he first came “I prepared questions for Mr. Bethany for their help,” he says. ❘❘❘❘

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Pioneers in the Courtroom Law Library Spring Exhibits Pay Tribute to Judge Diana Murphy ’74, Women in the Law

THE LAW LIBRARY IS PROUD including her role as the first situates Murphy’s career in a wider to commemorate the career of Judge woman to chair the U.S. Sentencing context, celebrating the achievements Diana E. Murphy ’74 in its spring Commission (1999-2004), and as of women in the law from the first exhibits, “A Legacy Preserved: The president of the Federal Judges graduates of the Law School in 1893 Papers of Judge Diana E. Murphy” Association (1989-91), among other to the professional breakthroughs of and “Women in the Law: Pioneers prominent roles. the 1970s and 1980s. It focuses in of the Courtroom.” “A Legacy “A Legacy Preserved: The Papers particular on pioneering judges and Preserved” is based on the generous of Judge Diana E. Murphy” show- on women who have served on the donation of Judge Murphy’s judicial cases some of Murphy’s important bench in Minnesota. and professional papers by her sons, letters, speeches, memoranda, and In February, Dean Garry W. Jenkins John and Michael Murphy. opinions, generated over the course and Associate Dean for Information In a judicial career that spanned of her extraordinary career. Standing and Technology Joan S. Howland four decades, Murphy was the first panels highlight a selection of hosted an opening reception for the woman appointed to the U.S. Murphy’s notable decisions, exhibits, which was attended by Law District Court for the District of including rulings in the area of School faculty, the Murphy family, Minnesota (1980) and the first American Indian law, a subject and friends of Judge Murphy. At the woman to serve on the U.S. Court that was of special interest to her. reception, Dean Jenkins praised of Appeals for the 8th Circuit (1994). The exhibit features a biographical Murphy’s powerful legacy and While serving on the federal bench, description of Murphy’s career, emphasized the vital part that the Murphy shaped the law in areas and excerpts from tributes by Law School plays in producing from due process to free speech colleagues and former clerks that leaders within the legal profession and guided issues from employment were recently published in the and in many other public and civic discrimination to American Indian Minnesota Law Review. roles. Associate Dean Howland rights. She was also deeply involved The second exhibit, “Women in addressed Murphy’s many firsts, in professional and civic service, the Law: Pioneers of the Courtroom,” noting that the judge was part of an

10 MINNESOTA LAW SPRING 2019 Recent Rare Acquisitions DARROW LETTER, 17TH CENTURY DOCUMENTS ADDED TO LAW LIBRARY'S COLLECTION extremely significant movement, The Law Library and Riesenfeld Center have recently made which saw the great growth of women several notable additions to the rare books collection, including as members of the bench and bar. an interesting 1930 letter by the great American trial lawyer John Murphy then described his Clarence Darrow. family’s connections to the University In the letter, which augments the Library’s preeminent and Law School through deep ties of collection of letters by Clarence Darrow, Darrow responds to education and service. Marie Sweet Smith, secretary of the American League to A week after the opening reception, Abolish Capital Punishment. Although a lifelong opponent of the Library and Riesenfeld Rare the death penalty, Darrow rejects Smith’s appeal to economic Books Research Center hosted an arguments in a new campaign against it. He felt that an abiding open house for Law School students, mercy toward the human condition left little room for capital who were inspired by Murphy’s punishment, and wrote that the fight had to be led by illustrious career and commitment “the poor and the humane and the idealists.” to the legal profession. The exhibits Two recent acquisitions related to England’s Glorious will be open through the fall, and Revolution are also of particular note. The first is a very rare the Center will host additional events broadside listing the 513 individuals called to Parliament in for students and alumni. January 1689 in an attempt to recognize William as king and For more information about Mary as queen. The second is a printed speech by William the exhibits, for directions, or to in February 1689, following William and Mary’s acceptance arrange a guided tour, contact Ryan of the Declaration of Right (which in law became the English Greenwood ([email protected]; Bill of Rights), reflecting the more limited nature of the 612-625-7323). ❘❘❘❘ English monarchy and the beginnings of England's modern constitutional government. ❘❘❘❘ By Ryan Greenwood, Law Library faculty member and curator of rare books and special collections By Ryan Greenwood

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12 MINNESOTA LAW SPRING 2019  Students in March 2018 participating in the James H. Binger Center's Rural Immigrant Access Initiative with Binger Center Executive Director Deepinder Mayell. The successful program has now become the Law School's 25th clinic.

New Clinic Helps Immigrants in Rural Areas The Clinic, Run through the Binger Center, Is Number 25 for the Law School

THE LAW SCHOOL last January regions. “Rural areas are not what of the issues faced by this growing launched a new clinic designed to a lot of people think they are,” he segment of society. provide legal assistance to the explains. “Like the rest of the country, “Our students are going to be growing number of immigrants living the face of these areas is changing, leaders in our community, and in rural areas. and there are a lot of immigrants having them understand the short- The Rural Immigrant Access working and living in rural areas, comings of our system and the Clinic is an outgrowth of a successful particularly near meatpacking poverty-related challenges immi- two-year-long initiative in which facilities and dairy farms.” grants face is a very powerful lesson,” Law School faculty and students, Up to a half dozen students may Mayell says. ❘❘❘❘ along with volunteer attorneys, have enroll in the program, which, over periodically provided legal assistance the course of a semester, includes a By Mark A. Cohen to immigrants in pop-up legal clinics weekly classroom component and in greater Minnesota and the regular participation in legal clinics Dakotas. The new clinic formalized outside the Twin Cities metro area. the program and converted it from The pop-up clinics are run in partner- a one-off experience for students to a ship with other legal assistance semester-long learning opportunity. providers, including the ACLU-MN, It is the 25th clinic at the Law School, Volunteer Lawyers Network, and the and the fourth immigration-focused Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. clinic run through the James H. The mobile clinics are hosted in Binger Center for New Americans. venues that local immigrants can Deepinder Mayell, executive easily access, including schools, director of the Binger Center, says churches, libraries, and community that at the start of the rural immi- centers. grant access initiative in January Mayell believes that having a 2017, it quickly became apparent dedicated cohort of students provides that there were a lot of unmet legal an advantage not only to the rural needs and community concerns. immigrant clients—who receive “We immediately began seeing very assistance from individuals who have large turnouts,” he observed. the high level of proficiency that

Mayell also notes that immigrants comes from regularly handling these Deepinder Mayell, executive director of the are a fast-growing segment of the types of matters—but also to the James H. Binger Center for New Americans population in a number of rural students, who gain a deep knowledge

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IMPACT of GIVING Job Fair Fund Helps Students Make Key Employment Connections

ROBERT J. OWENS ’69 grew up on a farm in Blue Earth, Minnesota. A summer job at Green Giant provided enough income to pay his tuition to Carleton College. A combination of scholarships and loans funded his years at the Interview program and the Lavender Moss also was working as an extern University of Minnesota Law School. Law Career Fair. for a judge and earning class credit. He recognizes that today’s students “I wanted to cast as wide a net as Trips to New York and San Francisco have a much more difficult financial possible, and the name recognition for interviews and job fairs would have situation. Not only do many of them of the firm was just as important as required him to take out extra loans. graduate with five- or six-figure debt, the location,” Moss says. “I wanted “It’s an investment I would have they struggle with basic expenses like some flexibility as to where I made, but the scholarship provided transportation, as well. launched my career.” some major relief,” he says. Each year, with a gift of $100,000 Moss, who is the 2019-20 executive Owens describes the Job Fair that is matched by other donors, editor of the Minnesota Journal of Student Support Fund as “a logical Owens endows a Law School scholar- Law, Science & Technology, received extension of my scholarship giving, ship—but he wanted to expand his an offer from Morrison Foerster’s because it helps support students’ giving. Director of Advancement San Francisco office and will spend career development choices. Many of David Jensen suggested a new fund the summer working with that firm’s the Law School students are not from that would help students make the corporate team. the Twin Cities or Minnesota and leap from school to employment. Moss initially planned a career they may not have the Minnesota ties The Robert J. Owens Job Fair in patent litigation but changed to make them want to stay here. Student Support Fund provides cash his mind after his first summer “And if you want to work for assistance to students who wish to internship. He reoriented his class someplace like the Department of travel to job fairs in other cities. Last schedule toward corporate work, Justice,” he adds, “you can’t do that year, the fund helped 44 students thanks in part to conversations in Blue Earth, Minnesota.” travel to fairs in Chicago, New York, with working lawyers. Students who benefited from the Washington, D.C., and other markets. “The 1L curriculum is very fund last year accepted jobs at such One of these students is 2L Hunter litigation-oriented, so talking to top firms such as Skadden, Arps, Moss, a San Francisco native who attorneys in different practices Slate, Meagher & Flom in Chicago; flew to New York for the Off Campus informed my decision,” he says. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan

14 MINNESOTA LAW SPRING 2019 in New York; and Latham & Watkins the travel funds and hopes other Owens spent his own career at in San Francisco. Others found students learn about the program. West Publishing, now Thomson employment at such organizations as Her scholarship and loans cover Reuters. He started in 1970 as an Earthjustice, Legal Aid, and the tuition and living expenses but do editor in the statutes division, earning American Bar Association not leave money for travel. $800 a month, and worked his way Commission on Immigration. Her friend and classmate up to vice president and editor-in- 2L Andrew McCarty, who 3L Dante Harootunian also chief. When Thomson acquired West accepted a summer job from traveled to the Equal Justice Works Publishing in 1996, Owens took early Kirkland & Ellis in New York, says fair. He interviewed for several retirement and now splits his time the scholarship allowed him to positions and accepted a summer job between Golden Valley, Minnesota, interview in multiple markets instead at the Mississippi Office of Capital and Palm Springs, California. of budgeting for a trip to one city. Post-Conviction Counsel. The office “The older I get, the more critical He attended fairs in New York and reviews cases in which defendants I think it is, for those of us who have San Francisco via the Midwest- sentenced to death have exhausted the ability, to provide higher educa- California-Georgia Consortium, all appeals but may have had their tion for young people,” he says. “It is which works with the University of rights violated in the process. so incredibly expensive now. I tell all Minnesota and six similarly ranked “I probably want to do immigra- my friends who are in that position law schools to organize job fairs in tion law, and I wanted experience to help those who either would not major U.S. markets. with different types of law before be able to do it or would be left with “The exposure to different I graduated,” Harootunian says. insurmountable debt.” ❘❘❘❘ market cultures is valuable,” he “I never would have been able to says. “The New York legal culture is get that job if I hadn’t been able to By Jessica Griffith, a freelance writer based in the different than here, and you can interview in D.C.” Twin Cities even tell that from the interviews.” Students who lack the resources to travel to out-of-state job fairs and interview sessions can apply to firms in other cities, but opportunities to interview outside the formal events is hit-or-miss, McCarty says. “The job fairs give you a few more bites at the apple,” he says. “And with every interview you get better at interviewing.” The interviewing and networking process is valuable even if you do not accept the job offers, says 3L Kelsey Friberg. Last spring, she attended the Equal Justice Works event, a public-interest job fair in Washington, D.C. She met law students from around the country, heard Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speak about her career, and received offers from two of the three employers with whom she interviewed. “It’s good to remember that the four walls of Mondale Hall are not the confines of the world. Had I not decided I wanted to stay in Minneapolis, I would have taken one Left to right: 3L Dante Harootunian, 2L Andrew McCarty, of the positions I was offered,” she 3L Kelsey Friberg, and 2L Hunter Moss. says, adding that she is grateful for

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“It’s challenging, but I love the freedom of being a storyteller. There’s nothing I’d rather do.”

—LAURA COATES ’05 CNN LEGAL ANALYST

WHEN MEDIA IS YOUR MEDIUM

16 MINNESOTA LAW SPRING 2019 BY DICK DAHL

In a Highly Dynamic Industry, Alumni Are Making Their Mark

aura Coates ’05 always knew she was a storyteller at heart. A St. Paul native, Coates always loved performing on L stage with school and community theater groups and was drawn to the law because it offered a different kind of stage—the courtroom. As her career unfolded, Coates did put her persuasive storytelling skills to good use in court—initially as an intellectual-property litigator in Minneapolis and New York and then as a federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., where she first handled voting-rights cases in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and then prosecuted major

felonies as an assistant U.S. attorney. CONT >

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< CONT Then, 10 years on, Coates stepped back and did a career assessment. Pregnant with her second child in 2015, she began to contemplate what she might want next in her career. The answer soon became clear. She had things to say about criminal justice, about voter fraud, about the presidential race that was beginning to take shape. And ROSHINI she wanted an audience. RAJKUMAR ’97 “I had no experience in journalism or broadcasting,” FOUNDER/CEO, she says, “but I knew I was a storyteller and that I had ROSHINI conviction. And I said, ‘It’s now or never.’ If one day PERFORMANCE my children come to me and say they have a dream for GROUP themselves in what they want to pursue, I didn’t want to be the person who says, ‘I never tried, but you should.’ So I said, ‘I’m going to try it and see what happens.’” The result of that commitment has been a rapid ascent in the world of broadcasting. Through a connection provided by a former paralegal of hers, Coates met SiriusXM satellite radio talk-show host Karen Hunter, “If someone has to testify in who gave Coates opportunities to provide legal analysis front of Congress, my clients would on her show. “I would break down issues that were be well prepared and would not fall happening in the law,” Coates recalls, “oftentimes with apart like we saw Mark Zuckerberg my baby in my Bjorn in front of me—I’d be sure she had or the CEO of Wells Fargo fall apart.” a bottle or was being quiet at the time—and it eventually led me to doing television.” She began making appearances on MSNBC and CNN, and then in 2016 she signed an exclusive deal with CNN. In 2017, she launched her own daily radio program, starting law school in 1994. During that year, she took The Laura Coates Show, on SiriusXM’s Urban View channel, her next steps into television as an intern for PBS’s providing commentary and guest interviews dealing with Newton’s Apple (produced at TPT in St. Paul) and as a “the intersection of law and politics and pop culture and sports intern for KARE 11. whatever interests me.” Her escalating popularity as a Rajkumar began law school thinking about how she legal commentator even caught the attention of Jeopardy might combine law with a career in TV. Then, during game-show host Alex Trebek, who, when asked to her 2L year, the O.J. Simpson trial became a national recommend a potential successor, named Coates. obsession and changed the landscape for aspiring legal Combined with a class she teaches at George journalists and commentators. “It made it a possibility Washington University Law School on legal writing for in my mind that I could mesh my law degree with TV,” criminal litigation, Coates is balancing an extremely she says. “I was thinking that maybe one day I could work busy schedule. She rises at 4:30 a.m. to appear on early for Court TV.” CNN programming and prepare for her radio show After law school, Rajkumar embarked on that path, and is often summoned on very short notice by CNN working as a reporter and anchor for TV stations in Fargo, for commentary on breaking news. Des Moines, Nashville, Minneapolis, and Detroit. “It’s challenging, but I love the freedom of being a Sometimes her stories involved courts and legal angles. storyteller,” she says. “There’s nothing I’d rather do.” Today, she is based in Minneapolis and is a regular contributor for KARE 11 and Twin Cities Live on KSTP-TV. She has her own weekly show on WCCO Radio, as well as Media Was Her Plan a new podcast, Real Leaders with Roshini. Both can be found on iTunes. Another Minnesota Law alum who created a career as For the last 13 years, her full-time job has been her a media personality, Roshini Rajkumar ’97, took a business, Roshini Performance Group, where she provides somewhat different path in that she had her sights set services as a mainstage speaker—keynoter, conference or on television even before law school. event emcee, panel moderator. When not on stage, a large Rajkumar emigrated from Sri Lanka when she was portion of her work involves strategic communication 2 and grew up in Edina. She did her undergraduate and crisis prevention for C-suite executives, frequently studies at Boston College, where she had her first prepping them for how to deal with the media or other experience interviewing people for the campus TV station inquirers. during her freshman year. After college, she returned to “Little by little, the coaching practice grew,” she says. Minneapolis and took a year away from studies before “Early on, I was coaching all levels of people; now I’m

18 MINNESOTA LAW SPRING 2019 mainly coaching high-level executives or the equivalent in heard anybody on the other side trying to shape the professional services—strategic leaders at law firms, narrative or turn the story in a different direction. It was hospitals, and banks. It’s more than just prepping them to like, ‘This is going to be a really bad story about XYZ,’ and get on a stage and speak. For example, if someone has to nobody was trying to do anything to fix that.” testify in front of Congress, my clients would be well Rotenberg saw an opportunity to shift her career in a prepared and would not fall apart like we saw Mark new direction: crisis communication. She assembled a Zuckerberg or the CEO of Wells Fargo fall apart. That pitch to Padilla Speer Beardsley (now Padilla), a large would not happen with my clients.” Minneapolis public-relations firm, and the company brought her in as a vice president in 2001 to launch its first “litigation and critical issues communication Media Lawyer practice.” In 2004, she left to launch her own company, Rotenberg Associates, which remained Minneapolis-based Turned Consultant until 2013, when her husband, former University of Minnesota general counsel Mark Rotenberg, was named Another alum who has followed a career path to crisis vice president and general counsel at John Hopkins management and media coaching is Amy Rotenberg ’92. University. She opened a second office in Baltimore, and After completing her undergraduate studies at Harvard, then, when her husband took a new position last year, the Rotenberg came to the Law School, where her experiences couple moved to Washington, D.C. Rotenberg relocated led her unexpectedly to practice media law. her Baltimore office to Washington and continues to She recalls being inspired by constitutional law profes- maintain her Minneapolis office to better serve her sors Philip Frickey (who died in 2010) and Dan Farber national client base. (now at University of California Berkeley School of Law) She describes her work as “helping clients at the and then by Chief Judge Donald Lay of the U.S. Court of intersection of legal claims, regulatory attacks, and media Appeals for the 8th Circuit, who taught a law-school scrutiny,” and contends that her status as a licensed seminar on the U.S. Supreme Court. Lay hired Rotenberg attorney is a valuable benefit for her clients. “I work very to be his law clerk after she graduated in 1992, and during closely with my clients’ lawyers, and we set the engage- that clerkship a case came along that piqued her interest ment up so that we can best protect the client under in media law. Ruzicka v. Conde Nast Publications involved a attorney-client privilege,” she says. CONT > breach of promise by a magazine writer not to reveal the plaintiff’s identity in a Glamour magazine article on therapist-patient sexual abuse. Following her clerkship, Rotenberg headed to New York to join Cravath, Swaine & Moore, which had a well-estab- “I work very closely lished media-law practice, and to work with partner Stuart with my clients’ Gold, one of the lead lawyers for Time Warner. She lawyers, and we set worked extensively on media-law matters there for two the engagement up years and then returned to Minneapolis to join Dorsey & so that we can best Whitney, initially handling complex commercial litiga- protect the client tion. But when a partner who represented many of under attorney- Dorsey’s media clients transitioned to a nonlitigation client privilege.” role, another partner asked Rotenberg if she was interested in taking over that portfolio. She was, and she began representing a number of TV and radio stations, newspapers, and book publishers. “I loved it,” Rotenberg recalls. “I really loved learning AMY ROTENBERG ’92 about how the news is put together and also counseling FOUNDER/PRESIDENT, the reporters, producers, and editors. I helped them ROTENBERG understand what could and couldn’t be on the air, helped ASSOCIATES them get access to information under Freedom of Information, protected them against claims of privacy invasion and other things that go wrong during news gathering. And then, when they got sued, I defended them in court.” By 2000, Rotenberg had begun to notice a curious recurrent reality about the matters she was handling. “When I was on the side of the media and they were doing investigative pieces, I was always astonished that I never

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SHANNON Amendment class made a big impact, but it wasn’t until JANKOWSKI ’17 she took a First Amendment practicum from Kitrosser ASSOCIATE, that she knew media law was for her. FAEGRE BAKER In that practicum, she and other students worked DANIELS with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, looking into the practices for unsealing criminal records in Minnesota and writing a report for that committee. “It was a wonderful opportunity to get hands-on experience dealing with media law and access-to-records issues,” Jankowski says. “I knew then that I was really interested in this and wanted to go further with it.” After receiving her J.D., Jankowski joined Faegre Baker Daniels, where she works in the firm’s TCAM (trademark, copyright, advertising, and media) practice area, in which she has done a significant amount of media-law-related work, including assisting a “major news organization” with obtaining access to judicial and government records and defending clients in defamation cases. In addition to her practice, Jankowski is continuing to Shannon Jankowski ’17 has helped a work pro bono with the James H. Binger Center’s Federal major news organization gain access Immigration Litigation Clinic, where she served as to government records and worked student director and had the opportunity as a 3L to argue on defamation cases. a case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. “I got such a broad range of experience at the Law School, at the Immigration Clinic where I was able to argue the case at the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, and then doing the practicum with Professor Kitrosser. I feel < CONT One of the biggest recent upticks in her work, she says, that I received not only a strong academic training but has been the #MeToo movement, which has resulted in excellent practical experience as well.” sexual-misconduct allegations against individuals and a sea change in how institutions are beginning to deal with bad press. Tackling Today’s “Years ago, I think there was more opportunity for institutions facing claims like this to make them go Nontraditional Media away by paying a settlement to the accuser and having the accuser sign a nondisclosure agreement,” Rotenberg When Los Angeles attorney Benjamin Mulcahy ’94 talks says. “Then the accused was quietly removed from their about his media clients, it becomes apparent that many of position—or, in many cases, the accused stayed in the them are quite untraditional. After working as a litigator position and it was the accuser who went away. What in the Minneapolis firm of Winthrop & Weinstine I have observed in the last couple of years, however, is following law school, Mulcahy moved to LA for personal that the nondisclosure and the quiet payment options reasons in 1997 and became an entertainment lawyer in are really gone. They’re rarely enforceable anymore and the firm of Hill Wynne Troop & Meisinger. At first, he was the public won’t tolerate anything that looks like silencing an associate in the litigation department, but he then a victim.” moved to the transaction side of the practice and has continued in that vein ever since. Last year, he joined DLA Piper in Los Angeles, where Making Her Way he is a partner in the firm’s intellectual property and technology practice, heading the firm’s national advertis- In Media Law ing practice. “My practice is focused on the creation, distribution, and monetization of content for traditional Shannon Jankowski ’17 was inspired by her experiences media companies,” he says, “but also for nontraditional at the Law School to pursue a career in media law. media clients.” Long active in theater—she has a B.A. in theater from Mulcahy’s clients are diverse, including major film the College of St. Catherine and has frequently acted studios and retailers, but a large portion of his practice professionally in the Twin Cities—Jankowski recalls is devoted to the broadcast industry—which, he points starting law school drawn to any subjects that dealt with out, is changing very rapidly. First, he says, traditional freedom of expression. Professor Heidi Kitrosser’s First companies like Fox Broadcasting are moving in new

20 MINNESOTA LAW SPRING 2019 directions; second, the kinds of clients are changing. “An example of the first is recent projects we’ve done for Fox that have involved launching FX+ and Fox Nation, which are two over-the-top online and mobile channel content delivery platforms. They’re designed to reach predominantly younger viewers who consume media through digital media channels, as opposed to traditional television, on their mobile devices and their computers. An example of the second type is REI, which is now producing a significant amount of original content, all themed around outdoor activity and outdoor recreation and not necessarily branded REI, but designed to encourage people to spend more time outdoors.” It’s been almost 25 years since Mulcahy left law school, but he still credits it for the base that allowed him to make the transition from litigation to transactional law. “I loved law school,” he says. “So many of our professors at the University of Minnesota laid such a strong FLIPPING THE SCRIPT: foundation for what it means to think like a lawyer.” ❘❘❘❘ When a Reporter Dick Dahl is a freelance writer based in St. Paul who writes frequently on the law and legal issues. Becomes a Lawyer

The discussion of alums who work in the space where law and media intersect also includes somewhat of a reverse story in the person of Daniel Oberdorfer ’92, a partner in the Twin Cities firm of Stinson Leonard Street. That’s because “My practice is Oberdorfer started out as a journalist—he was focused on the a prize-winning reporter for the Minneapolis creation, distribution, Tribune and the Minneapolis Star Tribune— and monetization before becoming a lawyer. of content for Oberdorfer joined the Tribune in 1979 after traditional media graduating from the University of Michigan companies, but also and stayed for 12 years. Over the final five years for nontraditional before law school he was a courts reporter, media clients.” a beat that convinced him that he wanted to give lawyering a shot. “I was watching the courtrooms and seeing how lawyers could make a difference,” he says, “and I thought: I’d like to try this.” Oberdorfer says he knew immediately after BENJAMIN he started law school that he’d made the right MULCAHY ’94 decision. He also knew that he had a leg up on his PARTNER, fellow students due to the fact that the skills he’d DLA PIPER, developed as a journalist were similar to those L.A. OFFICE that are important to lawyers: “Basically, in both professions you have to gather information, sift through the information to figure out what’s important, and then you need to communicate it.” He joined Leonard, Street and Deinard (now Stinson Leonard Street) in 1993 and has been practicing employment law, mostly counseling and litigating for businesses on employment issues, ever since. ❘❘❘❘

—Dick Dahl

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MINNESOTA LAW ALUMNI Take Center Stage at State Capitol

BY MIKE MOSEDALE

n January, when the Minnesota House of dropped to its lowest level in more than a century. Representatives convened for the first session In kicking off the session, Hortman, Winkler, of the new biennium, the spectacle at the and the new DFL House majority have unveiled an I front of the chamber looked a bit like a Law ambitious legislative agenda that includes potentially School reunion. contentious bills relating to health care, gun regula- At the center of the action was Rep. Melissa tion, and boosting K-12 funding. To advance these Hortman ’95, who, after successfully engineering items, they have a daunting obstacle to overcome: the DFL takeover of the House in November, had just Minnesota is the only state in the nation with a been formally elected speaker. When it came time for divided legislature, which means they’ll have plenty the eight-term representative from Brooklyn Park, of opportunity to use their lawyerly skills of persuasion Minnesota, to officially commence the proceedings, negotiating with their counterparts in the GOP- it was Secretary of State Steve Simon ’96 who controlled state Senate. stepped to the podium to present her with the gavel. It’s a tall order, but Hortman is hopeful that she And when the House finally got down to the and Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka will be able business of the day—enacting a temporary set of to find common ground. And she vows to avoid the procedural rules—there was Rep. Ryan Winkler ’01, sort of end-of-session partisan meltdowns that have assuming his new role as House majority leader. many observers complaining about rising dysfunction at the Minnesota Capitol. Lawyer, Lawmaker, Leader “As a litigator, I know that conflict is expensive and That a couple of attorneys might wind up in two risky and that settlement can produce a more efficient of the most powerful legislative positions at the and fair outcome,” explains Hortman. “I think Sen. Capitol is hardly a shock. After all, the business of Gazelka and I have similar personalities. We don’t the Legislature is making laws, so legal training desire to have a fight for the sake of having a fight.” presents some obvious advantages for anyone trying But can bipartisanship prevail in the current to get ahead. hyperpartisan political environment? Still, Hortman and Winkler’s ascent marks the first Winkler thinks Hortman has the right stuff to make time in more than three decades that two lawyers have it happen. simultaneously occupied the number one and number “She brings valuable personal skills to her role. She two posts in Minnesota House leadership. And it tends to be low drama, she sticks to the facts, and comes at a time when the number of lawyers in the she doesn’t play games,” Winkler says. “Those are all Legislature (now 21 out of 201 total members) has qualities of a good lawyer.” CONT >

22 MINNESOTA LAW SPRING 2019 WITH THE ASCENSION OF REP. MELISSA HORTMAN ’95 TO SPEAKER AND REP. RYAN WINKLER ’01 TO MAJORITY LEADER, BOTH TOP HOUSE LEADERSHIP POSTS ARE NOW IN THE HANDS OF MINNESOTA LAW ALUMS

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< CONT “AS A LITIGATOR, I KNOW THAT A Similar Pathway CONFLICT IS EXPENSIVE AND RISKY Winkler, who grew up in Bemidji, Minnesota, followed AND THAT SETTLEMENT CAN PRODUCE a somewhat similar trajectory. He had an active interest in politics from an early age and, like Hortman, headed A MORE EFFICIENT AND FAIR OUTCOME.” to Boston for his undergraduate degree—in his case, —House Speaker Melissa Hortman ’95 Harvard—and then returned to his home state for a legal education at Minnesota Law. Winkler says he knew that a law degree would be useful for the two careers he was interested in, business and politics. “The Law School was a great setup for what I wanted to do,” Winkler says. “A lot of schools offer a great legal education. But if you plan to have a career in Minnesota, Head of the House there’s no better place to go than the University of Hortman’s rise to the upper echelon of power at the Minnesota, because the legal community is pretty small Capitol is testament to, among other things, dogged and people tend to know each other. You can’t replace persistence. She made two failed bids for her House seat the fact that you’re going to school in the community in before a successful run in 2004. Since then, Hortman which you will practice.” has steadily climbed the ranks of her caucus, serving as To this day, Winkler says, the connections and friend- assistant majority leader, minority whip, deputy minority ships he made at law school are among the most enduring leader, and, last year, minority leader. of his adult life. Hortman has always had an interest in politics and After getting his law degree, Winkler went to work for public policy. As an undergraduate at Boston University, a small Minneapolis firm, Smith Parker, before moving she majored in philosophy, a specialty without an obvious on to a succession of in-house counsel posts at tech career path. So, given what she refers to as her “save companies. Winkler says he chose the jobs in part because the world” ambitions, law school seemed a natural fit. they allowed him the luxury of pursuing a career in the She returned to her home state and enrolled at Legislature. At many large law firms in town, serving in Minnesota Law. the Legislature is not an option. (Winkler notes that After obtaining her J.D., Hortman worked for Walter Mondale ’56 had to resign from Dorsey when Central Minnesota Legal Services, where she focused he ran for the U.S. Senate in 2002). on landlord-tenant and housing discrimination work. First elected to the House in 2006, Winkler quickly In 1997, she garnered a then-record-setting verdict in a garnered a reputation as a sharp-tongued progressive. housing discrimination lawsuit. But she also soon realized After his wife accepted a job overseas, Winkler resigned his that there was only so much she could accomplish seat midway through his fifth term to move abroad with through such litigation. his family. Last year, he flirted with a run for state attorney “I represented mostly poor women with children, general when the then-DFL incumbent, Lori Swanson, many of whom came from several generations of poverty. jumped into the gubernatorial primary. But in the end, It wasn’t just cockroaches or inadequate heat or [landlord Winkler opted to run for his old House seat, which was demands for] sexual favors that was the sum total of vacated when his successor, Peggy Flanagan, joined Tim problems,” she says. “Their problems came from inade- Walz’s successful gubernatorial campaign and was elected quate wages and inadequate education. I grew frustrated lieutenant governor. in my inability to address those economic and social In the end, it was another Law School alum—former problems.” Congressman Keith Ellison ’90—who stepped into, and With two young children, Hortman also needed to make won, the election to replace Swanson as attorney general. more money, so she made the leap to the storied (and While Hortman, Winkler, and Ellison are the most now-defunct) Minneapolis-based law firm Rider Bennett, publicly visible Law School alumni to step into prominent where she overlapped briefly withGov. Tim Pawlenty roles at the Capitol this year, Minnesota Law grads also ’86. After she was elected to the Legislature, Hortman are well represented in the new governor’s cabinet. switched up again and went to work for her family’s Gov. Tim Walz tapped Rebecca Lucero ’07 as commis- auto parts business, where she remained until her father sioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Rights sold the company in 2012. She then went to work for and Nancy Leppink ’85 as the commissioner of the Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman ’74 for a few Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry. ❘❘❘❘ years, only moving on after she was elevated to minority leader—a position that, she says, is in effect a full-time job. Mike Mosedale is a Twin Cities-based freelance writer.

24 MINNESOTA LAW SPRING 2019 In the Room Where It Happens Chris Schmitter ’13 Takes on New Role: Governor's Chief of Staff

Almost immediately after being elected governor, Tim Walz tapped longtime friend and aide Chris Schmitter ’13 for what is probably the administration’s biggest behind-the-scenes job, chief of staff. Schmitter’s connection to Walz stretches back to his undergraduate days at Georgetown, when he took off a semester to work on John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign. It was there that he met Walz, then a Mankato, Minnesota, high school teacher. Walz and Schmitter stayed in touch, and when Walz decided to run for Congress two years later, Schmitter signed on as his field director. Walz won, and Schmitter became his legislative assistant. Schmitter later managed Walz’s successful re-election campaign and became his deputy chief of staff and legislative director. Schmitter returned to Minnesota in 2010 to go to Minnesota Law, where, he says, he was “trained by some of the best professors in the world.” He was editor-in- chief of the Minnesota Law Review and graduated first in his class. Like Ryan Winkler, Schmitter says the connections he made during those years have proved invaluable, as have the experiences of clerking at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit and, later, for Chief U.S. District Court Judge John Tunheim ’80. Schmitter also worked at the boutique Minneapolis law firm Greene Espel, where his practice consisted of a mix of private- and public-sector litigation. “It was a great training ground for a lot of the legal and policy issues I face in this job,” he observes. Since signing on as Walz’s chief of staff, Schmitter says he’s bumped into plenty of fellow Minnesota Law alums. “The Law School is well represented at the Capitol, and that’s not surprising,” he adds. ❘❘❘❘

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THEORY at WORK

PROTECTOR OF PRIVACY Professor William McGeveran’s Policy Work and Innovative Practicum Are Helping to Tame the Wild West of Privacy Law and Data Security

BY DAN HEILMAN

ata privacy has become an issue of pressing could form the basis of proposed privacy-protection concern to virtually every technology user. legislation that will be sent for consideration to the Minnesota Law Professor and Associate Dean legislatures of all 50 states. D for Academic Affairs William McGeveran, “The California law is more far-reaching than any other who was in the vanguard of legal experts entering the field, state laws have been,” says McGeveran. “The question is working both inside and outside of academia to shed now is whether there’s a way for states to harmonize their light on the challenges of data privacy in the digital age. approaches so that we don’t have a lot of disuniformity.” McGeveran, a frequent media commenter on data privacy matters, established the Law School’s innovative Professor McGeveran Goes to Washington Data Privacy Practicum, which introduces students to top The national impact of McGeveran’s work was recently privacy practitioners and offers them the opportunity to on display when he was tapped to speak on data security become certified in the field. enforcement at a Federal Trade Commission hearing in McGeveran was recently appointed to the crucial role Washington, D.C. of reporter for the Uniform Law Commission’s newly The gist of his testimony was that it is better to have formed Study Committee on Online Privacy Protection. flexible standards and an agency with the power to enforce Part of the impetus for the formation of the study them rather than “really detailed cookbook recipes for committee was a law passed in California last June that, rules.” While the FTC partially performs this function, among other things, aims to provide residents with McGeveran says, “it doesn’t quite have the authority, the the right to know what personal information is being resources, or the penalties to really do that job as well as collected about them and whether that information we need it to be done.” is sold or disclosed and to whom. Europe and Brazil McGeveran’s colleagues in the privacy compliance have also enacted major new regulations related to world applaud his efforts to prepare students to grapple data protection. with privacy issues and to spur legislative and regulatory “The committee is considering whether there should action to help tame this still-wild frontier. be a model or uniform online privacy law,” notes “With so much activity that is important to Minnesota McGeveran. Ultimately, the committee’s recommendations businesses and the people who live here, having a legal

26 MINNESOTA LAW SPRING 2019  Professor William McGeveran participates in a Federal Trade Commission hearing on data security enforcement in Washington, D.C.

expert that specializes in information law is critical,” says Mitchell W. Granberg ’98, chief privacy officer at Eden Prairie-based Optum. “Bill does a fantastic job in preparing students for a career in legal privacy, and he performs important public policy work.” Sarah Rohne, director of employment and talent development at the Law School’s Career Center, points out that Minnesota Law is one of only a handful of schools partnering with the International Association of Privacy Professionals to offer the Privacy Pathway, which gives students the opportunity to take the association’s Certified Information Privacy Professional exam at a highly discounted rate. Rohne also notes that the practicum course developed by McGeveran “offers students an opportunity to shadow privacy professionals working in the area, allowing them to see firsthand the application of their academic learning to the world of work.”

The Next Big Thing: The Internet of Things The breakneck pace of tech innovation means that data privacy will forever be a moving target. McGeveran predicts that the next great shift will come in response to the fact that more and more information collection is coming from sources other than our traditional digital devices. “We’re accustomed to thinking of online privacy as having only to do with your screens—your computer or smartphone,” he explains. “But increasingly, there will be information collection happening out in the world with the Internet of Things, including driverless cars or automated checkout at the store. It will make the everyday world part of the issue of data privacy.” ❘❘❘❘ Photos: Jay Mallin Jay Photos: Dan Heilman is a St. Paul-based freelance writer.

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Faculty News, Awards & Grants

the Eastern District of Texas in HTC Corp. v. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson. His scholarship on anonymous speech was cited by the Arizona Court of Appeals in its opinion in Doe v. Hon. Margaret Mahoney.

Linus Chan received a faculty Kristin Hickman’s work with Mark research award for an interdisci- Thomson ’12 on judicial review of plinary immigration data-collection agency rulemaking was cited by U.S. project—co-proposed by Jack District Court Judge James Browning DeWaard, professor of sociology in New Mexico Health Connections v. in the College of Liberal Arts— U.S. Department of Health and Human entitled “Promoting Transparency Services. In the Cornell Law Review, and Engagement in U.S. Immigration Hickman and Thomson documented Court by Ensuring the Quality and Allan Erbsen was elected to and discussed judicial responses to Utility of Data Collected by Volunteer membership in the American agency procedural violations. In his Observers.” The project aims to build Law Institute. ALI is the leading opinion, having found that the a systemized way to access soft data independent organization in the agency action at issue violated collected by volunteer observers at United States producing scholarly procedural requirements, Judge immigration proceedings. work to clarify, modernize, and Browning highlighted a lack of improve the law. clarity in 10th Circuit jurisprudence regarding vacatur of agency action as injunctive relief, declared his own view that remand without vacatur is an inappropriate remedy, and cited the Hickman and Thomson article as documenting issues raised by that remedy.

Tom Cotter was invited to speak at a Federal Trade Commission Barry Feld’s research on juvenile hearing on innovation and intellec- interrogation, adolescents’ tual property policy. In his remarks, diminished criminal responsibility, Cotter noted, among other things, and school searches has been cited that patents can serve different recently by a number of state courts. purposes in different industries. Feld is one of the nation’s leading The event was part of an ongoing scholars of juvenile justice. In series of FTC hearings entitled 2008, he received the American Heidi Kitrosser delivered the keynote “Competition and Consumer Bar Association’s Livingston Hall address at the Cline Symposium Protection in the 21st Century.” Award, which recognizes lawyers at the University of Illinois on Cotter’s scholarship on practicing in the juvenile delinquency democracy, the separation of powers, persuasive authority on the subject field who have demonstrated a high and the future of American constitu- of determining royalties for the use degree of skill, commitment, and tionalism. The annual symposium of standard essential patents was professionalism in representing invites a prominent intellectual to cited by the U.S. District Court for their young clients. address the University of Illinois

28 MINNESOTA LAW SPRING 2019  FACULTY SPOTLIGHT

campus community on a topic of Public Employees’ Retirement System, Professors Meili, great public significance. a case addressing whether certain changes to public employee Schwarcz Appointed pensions enacted by the California to Endowed Chairs Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013 were legally permissible.

Fionnuala Ní Aoláin—as part of the broader University human rights faculty—was awarded a $325,000 Steve Meili was named the Grand Challenges Research Grant inaugural James H. Binger that will support “The Minnesota The Institute on Metropolitan Professor in Clinical Law. Model,” an interdisciplinary initiative Opportunity, directed by Myron Meili writes and teaches about to understand and propose Orfield, recently played a pivotal the rights of noncitizens, solutions to the recent backsliding role in a case against a Connecticut- particularly those seeking in human rights around the world. based bank that yielded a fair asylum. He also serves as housing settlement of more than director of the Law School’s $16 million. As a part of a broader Immigration and Human Rights effort to evaluate lending patterns Clinic, where students represent in Connecticut, the Institute asylum-seekers, trafficking produced data that suggested that victims, and detained individu- Liberty Bank disproportionately als in various immigration and located branch offices in white appellate court proceedings. neighborhoods, excluded African American and Latinx neighborhoods from its service area, and treated William McGeveran was appointed loan applicants differently based on to serve as reporter for the Uniform race and ethnicity. Law Commission’s Study Committee on Online Privacy Protection. The committee’s charge is to study the need for and feasibility of a uniform or model law providing protection of online privacy. As reporter, Daniel Schwarcz was appointed McGeveran’s function is to serve as the Fredrikson & Byron the committee’s subject-matter expert. Professor of Law. Schwarcz, who entered law teaching in 2007, focuses his research on Susan Wolf, along with co-principal insurance law and regulation, investigators at the University, risk and risk management, was awarded a $325,000 Grand consumer protection, and Challenges Research Grant to fund insurance coverage litigation. a project entitled “Toward His articles have appeared in Pharmacogenomics-Enabled a wide range of leading law Healthcare at Statewide Scale— reviews and journals, and he Implementing Precision Medicine.” is a co-author of the leading Amy Monahan’s work was cited Wolf will lead a team investigating insurance law casebook in the by the California Supreme Court the ethical, legal, and social issues of country, Insurance Law and in Cal Fire Local 2881 v. California the project at a state level. ❘❘❘❘ Regulation (6th Edition). ❘❘❘❘

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AUTHOR in QUESTION Prof. Tom Cotter

Patent Wars: What are just a few of the interesting What is something surprising that dispute areas (or “wars”) you delve you discovered in researching or How Patents into in the book? writing the book?

Impact Our The book discusses most of the The health care system in the United Daily Lives major controversies in patent law States is so insanely complicated. that people might read about in Patents do play a role in the high cost Professor Tom Cotter’s the news. These include the smart- of health care, but they are only one phone patent wars, in which all the piece of the puzzle. We also don’t new book, Patent Wars: major tech companies periodically know as much as we should about How Patents Impact Our Daily find themselves embroiled in exactly how much patent protection Lives, is not an academic litigation around the world. is necessary to innovation in the drug But it also includes other pressing industry. If there’s any industry that treatise for those versed in questions on which people often needs patent protection to recoup its the intricate complexities of disagree. Should patent protection costs of research and development, extend to subject matter such as life it’s the pharmaceutical industry. patent law, but a down-to-earth forms, genes, software, business But that doesn’t necessarily mean guidebook educating members methods, diagnostic methods? How that pharma should get everything do patents contribute to the high it wants, or should be able to evade of the general public on the cost of prescription drugs? Do any sort of price regulation. innumerable ways that patents “patent trolls” help solo inventors receive compensation for their What are a few common misconcep- shape the world they live in. inventions, or are they actually a tions about this area of law? The 360-page book, available drag on innovation? One is the myth of the solitary both digitally and in hardcover, What inspired you to write a book on genius, who toils away to create the was published last July by this topic for a general audience? clichéd better mousetrap, after which Oxford University Press. the world will surely beat a path to I like to read popular science books— his door. In fact, as others have books by people like the late Stephen pointed out, most inventors aren’t Hawking, trying to explain the Big solitary and they aren’t geniuses— Bang to people like me. It occurred to which is just as well, because true me that, although people often come genius is in short supply. Moreover, across stories about, say, the smart- most patents are not commercially phone wars, or patent trolls, in the successful—we grant more than news, the average person who isn't 300,000 of them every year in the already a specialist in this field U.S.—so the simple assumption that probably doesn’t know a great deal patents are monopolies, or a ticket to about what patents are, how the riches, is usually false.  patent system operates, and so on. And yet innovation is so important What are some of the key things to the modern economy! I thought you would like readers to take away Video of Prof. Cotter it would be good to have a book from your book? discussing his book is about these topics that the educated available at law.umn.edu/ nonspecialist reader could pick up Patents generate both social benefits bookbites to better understand them. and social costs, so stronger patent

30 MINNESOTA LAW SPRING 2019 “ There really isn't another book like this on the market. Most are geared either to specialists, or they are more in the nature of how-to books. ... Mine aims to make the subject understandable.” —Professor Tom Cotter

rights are not always good for society. At the same time, patent protection is important to ensure innovation in certain fields, such as pharma. But there’s a lot of uncertainty. It’s difficult today to get a patent on a new method for diagnosing disease, and I worry that this might inhibit some develop- ments in personalized medicine— but we honestly don’t know for sure. Governments often have to make decisions about the patent system without knowing for certain which legal rules will best foster innovation, but empirical evidence can help, at least at the margin.

What differentiates your book from other patent law titles on the market today?

There really isn’t another book like this on the market. Most are geared either to specialists, or they are more in the nature of how-to books. Mine aspires to make the subject understandable, but at a reasonable level of sophistication, to enable readers to come to their own views about the role of patents in making the world a better place.

Is there anything else you would like to share about your book or the experience of writing it?

It was enjoyable writing a book that draws on my (and many other people’s) scholarly work, and to try to make it relevant to a wider audience. ❘❘❘❘

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At the Intersection of Law and Medicine Professor Susan Wolf’s Cutting-Edge Work Connects the Dots Between Disciplines

SUSAN WOLF HAS LONG BEEN a leading theorist of the physician- FASCINATED by medicine and the patient relationship. “I began to see biological sciences. She pored over how I could marry my love for the history of surgery and medical biomedicine with law and ethics,” biographies in elementary school she says. and studied behavioral evolution in After clerking for a federal judge college. Yet after graduating from in New York City, Wolf became a Princeton University, Wolf found litigator at a large law firm, where herself in a quandary about whether she collaborated with a partner who to pursue medicine or law. chaired the presidential commission “I was interested in bioethics long on bioethics during the Carter before it was a recognized subject,” administration. She then plunged she says. “And truth be told, I was full-time into bioethics at The better at talking than at lab work. Hastings Center, an interdisciplinary I loved argumentation.” institute addressing ethical issues in Today, Wolf holds professorships health care, science, and technology. in law and medicine. She also chairs “I was fortunate to spend eight years the groundbreaking Consortium at the epicenter of bioethics,” she says. Health & the Life Sciences, and on Law and Values in Health, then the University-wide Consortium Environment & the Life Sciences, At the Intersection of on Law and Values in Health, which links 19 member centers at Science and Law Environment & the Life Sciences. the University to conduct research In 1993, the University of “The Consortium deals with and advance dialogue on pressing Minnesota recruited Wolf to forge issues at the intersection of law, issues at the intersection a crucial connection between law, ethics, policy, and the biomedical of science and society. biomedicine, and ethics at a time and life sciences, such as how to when concerns about end-of-life oversee emerging technologies,” Propelled on a Path care, health care reform, and genetics says Wolf. “These are ‘perfect storm’ Wolf’s path after college led her to were exploding. She joined the problems that obey no disciplinary work at Southbury Training School, faculty, based in the Law School borders and require interdisciplinary a state-run facility in Connecticut but with half of her time allocated collaboration.” for people with disabilities. That to the Center for Bioethics in the The Consortium’s pioneering experience propelled her to think Academic Health Center. work has attracted funding from the deeply about the ethics of care and Wolf quickly began to build National Institutes of Health, the patients’ rights. A few years later, at programs—first, the University’s National Science Foundation, and Yale Law School, she met Jay Katz, Joint Degree Program in Law, others. A recent series of NIH-funded

32 MINNESOTA LAW SPRING 2019 “ I was interested in bioethics long before it was a recognized subject. And truth be told, I was better at talking than at lab work. I loved argumentation.” —Prof. Susan Wolf

projects analyzed whether to offer reactions to medications—can research participants individual-spe- advance health throughout cific genomic findings of potential Minnesota. Professor Susan M. importance to their health. “We asked On the national level, Wolf is an Wolf is the McKnight questions that were brand-new,” says elected member of the National Presidential Professor Wolf. “What should researchers do Academy of Medicine, where she of Law, Medicine & when they find something unex- serves on a committee that addresses Public Policy; Faegre pected, beyond what they are study- issues in public policy. She also sits Baker Daniels Professor ing? Our work built a foundation for on the advisory panel for an NIH of Law; and Professor what is now a burgeoning field of program on genomic analysis in large of Medicine. She also research and innovation.” population studies. serves as chair of the With support from the University “The challenges posed now by Consortium on Law of Minnesota provost’s Grand biomedicine and the life sciences are and Values in Health, Challenges program, the Consortium huge,” says Wolf. “These are the Environment & the Life now is partnering across the problems our collaborative teams are Sciences. University and state to investigate trying to solve.”❘❘❘❘ how pharmacogenomics—the study of genetic factors affecting patient By Kathy Graves, a writer based in Minneapolis.

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 LEADING QUESTIONS 1L Navin Ramalingam Raised in India, Ramalingam has been active in diversity, wellness initiatives at the Law School

WHY MINNESOTA LAW: LANDING A SUMMER JOB: Because of its welcoming and Primarily because of my kind and collaborative culture, impressive knowledgeable career counselor, faculty, breathtaking number of Wendy Griak, at the Career Center, clinical and concentration options, who was instrumental in making and the Twin Cities location. sure I was interview-ready, and through Twin Cities Diversity CAREER ASPIRATIONS: in Practice, a group of leading I'm interested in pursuing a career Twin-Cities legal employers in civil litigation, and maybe class dedicated to advancing diversity in action and complex litigation if I the legal community in Minnesota. get those opportunities along the way. I also plan to do public service FAVORITE MINNESOTA LAW work, especially in the human and MOMENT: Meeting Chief Justice civil rights area, after I gain litiga- John Roberts and having the tion experience in the private opportunity to ask him questions. sector. He visited the school for the 2018 Stein Lecture and our constitu- LAW SCHOOL EXPERIENCE: tional law class had the good Law School has been the most fortune of meeting him for an hour challenging and thrilling experience before the official lecture in the I have had in my adult life. It is evening. intellectually demanding yet fulfilling too. I have received great TIPS FOR INCOMING STUDENTS: support from the administration, Have an open mind, be ready to my classmates, and especially the work hard, unlearn and adapt your upper-level students. They have strategies as you go through the been there for me, providing their first year. More importantly, make assistance every step of the way. friends and make use of the amazing breadth of outside-the- classroom experiences that Minnesota Law has to offer. ❘❘❘❘

34 MINNESOTA LAW SPRING 2019 Navin Ramalingam was born and raised in the city of Chennai in southern India. Prior to law school, he was a business consultant at Deloitte and Ernst & Young. This summer, he is going to work at Gray Plant Mooty in Minneapolis. He enjoys biking, running, reading, and traveling.

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Student News

Two 3Ls Receive Fellowships Einsatzgruppen, mobile killing from World Without Genocide squads responsible for the deaths of more than a million Jews during World Without Genocide, a St. Paul- the Holocaust. He received convic- based human rights organization, tions for every one of the accused. recently awarded Benjamin B. Ferencz He has committed his life to Fellowships in Human Rights and advocating for justice and peace Law for the 2018-19 academic year around the world, and he was a key to 3Ls Abigail Hencheck and figure in the development of the N. Georgette Marling. International Criminal Court. The fellowships provide financial support for work on core areas of 3L Alicia Granse Wins 2019 human rights including research, MWL Equal Justice Award policy development, and action at local, state, national, and 3L Alicia Granse won the 2019 international levels. Minnesota Women Lawyers Equal Hencheck was selected to work Justice Award for her note, “Gun on legislation to address gender Control and the Color of the Law.” discrimination and violence. Marling The award, granted for a paper or was selected to work on legislation article on a social justice topic, to address climate change. includes a $1,000 cash prize and N. Georgette Marling, 3L The fellowships are recognition at MWL’s 47th annual named for one of the meeting luncheon on April 26. world’s leading advocates Granse is the editor-in-chief of for human rights, the Journal of Law & Inequality and Benjamin B. Ferencz. In a student director for the Detainee Nuremberg, Germany, in Rights Clinic. After graduation, 1947, Ferencz prosecuted she will work at the office of the members of the Nazi Hennepin County Public Defender.

Alicia Granse, 3L

Abigail Hencheck, 3L

36 MINNESOTA LAW SPRING 2019 David Hahn, 3L

3L David Hahn Wins Burton Award for Distinguished Legal Writing

The Burton Foundation has announced that 3L David Hahn is the winner of a 2019 Distinguished Legal Writing Award. Jessica Wheeler, 3L In the 20 years since the award’s creation, Law School students have received it 11 times. Only two other law schools—Georgetown University 3L Jessica Wheeler Places information in integrated care Law Center (13) and the University Second In National Health settings, even for the purpose of of Pennsylvania Law School (12)— Law Writing Competition treatment,” explains Wheeler. “My have won the award more. note proposes changes at both the Hahn’s winning entry, “Late for 3L Jessica Wheeler recently won state and federal level that would an Appointment: Balancing second place in the Epstein Becker help CCBHCs and other integrated Impartiality and Accountability Green Writing Competition for her care arrangements share patient in the IRS Office of Appeals,” was note, “Certified Community information for treatment purposes written as a note for the Minnesota Behavioral Health Clinics: Privacy while still protecting the patient’s Law Review. The piece discusses Protections in Integrated Care.” privacy.” constitutional issues raised by the The competition is designed to Wheeler expressed her gratitude to structure of the Internal Revenue encourage J.D. and LL.M. students in Professor Amy Monahan and to her Service and its tax collection the preparation of scholarly papers peers at Minnesota Law Review for procedures. on current topics of interest relating their feedback throughout the Hahn says he is “grateful to the to health law. Second place carries writing process. Law School for prioritizing quality with it a $2,000 cash prize. “This national recognition of legal writing in its curriculum.” He Certified Community Behavioral Jessica’s research and writing is also says he “owes much to my peers Health Clinics (CCBHCs) are clinics well-deserved,” said Professor on Minnesota Law Review for their where patients receive care for Monahan, who is also associate thoughtful feedback and work in substance use disorders and physical dean for research and planning. “She preparing the note for publication.” and mental health conditions from chose a cutting-edge issue that was various providers working together to receiving little attention and wrote deliver holistic treatment. about it in a way that is valuable to “The clinical and financial benefits all stakeholders—patients, health care of integrated care are numerous and professionals, lawmakers, and well-documented, but current federal regulators. Her note is a great and state privacy regulations make it example of the ability of students to difficult for providers to share patient serve the legal profession.” CONT >

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3Ls J.J. Pristanski and Matt Mirabella

3Ls Ted McGee, Allison Chadwick, Brendan Johnson, team (3Ls Fatjon Kaja and Kelly Nizzari, Caroline Schmitz, and Paul Dimick Matt McCord) had a perfect 3-0 record in the preliminary rounds. Also in February, the Duberstein Bankruptcy moot court competition team (3Ls Charles Shafer, < CONT Law School National Andrew Leiendecker ’17. Other Nora Steinhagen, and Kevin Moot Court Team Wins local attorneys and Clinical Cunningham) placed second in Regional Title Professors Brad Clary ’75 and the Chicago regional, narrowly losing Chris Soper judged practice rounds in the final round before a panel of The Law School’s National Moot and provided additional valuable bankruptcy judges. The team also Court Competition teams continued feedback. performed well in the national the program’s success in achieving At the national level in New York competition, in New York City. outstanding results at the Region 14 City, the Respondent team placed In March, 3Ls J.J. Pristanski tournament, with one team making 8th in the brief competition and and Matt Mirabella won the MIPLA it to the semifinals and the other made it to the round of 16. Cup, sponsored every year by the emerging as regional champions. In the last 37 years, 54 out of Minnesota Intellectual Property The Region 14 competition was 74 Minnesota Law teams in the Law Association. hosted by the University of South competition have qualified for the Minnesota Law moot court teams Dakota Law School in Sioux Falls region quarterfinals, 36 have qualified have done well in several other recent on Nov. 16-17. The Respondent team for the region final four, and 22 have competitions: (3Ls Allison Chadwick, Kelly gone on to the national finals. This • The Jeffrey G. Miller National Nizzari, and Brendan Johnson) is the sixth time a Minnesota Law Environmental Law Moot Court completed a clean sweep of the team has outright won the Region Competition team (3L Adam awards: Region 14 champions; best 14 tournament, and this year’s Ratchenski, 3L Maya Digre, and Respondent brief; best overall brief; Respondent team was the 13th 2L Sam Duggan) in February placed and best oral advocate in the finals team in the last 17 years to go to 6th out of 54 teams in the brief- (Nizzari). New York. writing portion of the competition, The Respondent team defeated in White Plains, New York. a team from the University of Iowa Moot Court Teams Continue • The ABA moot court teams in a spirited, well-argued final round String of Impressive Showings (3Ls Christopher Conway, Rob to take the championship. Wild, Kalyssa Maile, Christie The Petitioner team (3Ls Ted In the McGee National Civil Rights Geter, and Breanna Helland) in McGee, Caroline Schmitz, and competition held in February, the March narrowly missed advancing Paul Dimick) went a perfect 4-0 Respondent team (2L Isabel through the prelims, with Conway through the preliminary rounds and McClure, 3L Zachary Hofeld, winning 4th best oralist. quarterfinals. The team advanced to and 3L Tariq Miller) advanced • The NYU National Immigration the semifinals, where they suffered through the quarterfinals and Law Competition moot court team their only loss of the tournament to semifinals to the final round, where (2Ls Jiaqi Li and Kimberly Medina) their classmates on the Law School they ultimately lost a split decision. advanced beyond the preliminary Respondent team. McClure was named best overall rounds in February to the quarterfi- The teams were coached by adjunct oralist. The team also placed 8th in nal round. Their brief scored in the professors Kyle Hardwick ’13 and the brief competition. The Petitioner top third of the competition. ❘❘❘❘

38 MINNESOTA LAW SPRING 2019 Hail to the (Editors-in) Chief These enthusiastic 2Ls are ready to take the reins of the Law School’s four student-edited law journals

IN AN ANNUAL RITE OF as an undergraduate. Prior to  Left to right: 2Ls Cindy Shi, Makenzie Krause, Will Dooling, and Gina Tonn PASSAGE at the Law School, the attending law school, she was an are the incoming editors-in-chief newly elected editors-in-chief of the administrative assistant for the city four student-edited law journals are of Delano. She hopes to one day work making their plans for the next in business, municipal, or health law. volume of their publications. 2L Will Dooling, editor-in-chief University. He likes criminal law, but 2L Cindy Shi, editor-in-chief of of the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science is open as to what areas he would like the Minnesota Journal of International & Technology, obtained his B.A. in to practice in after law school. Law, is a graduate of Arizona history and communication from 2L Gina Tonn, editor-in-chief State University, where she studied Saint Louis University and his M.A. of the Minnesota Law Review, obtained marketing and business law. Prior in library and information science her B.A. in economics and religion to attending law school, she worked from the University of Wisconsin- from St. Olaf College. Before law at a law office that primarily dealt Madison. Before going to law school, school, she worked in nonprofit with employment law and bank- he worked in a variety of roles fundraising as a volunteer manager, ruptcy issues. Her career aspirations including as a science, literature, and including for the St. Olaf Fund. include working on employment history teacher in Taiwan, a research This summer, she will work at a law and health law issues. intern for the Center for Media and Chicago law firm focusing on civil 2L Makenzie Krause, editor- Democracy in Madison, Wisconsin, litigation. Her legal areas of interest in-chief of the Journal of Law & and in library reference/information also include administrative law, labor Inequality, attended the College of positions at the University of and employment, and higher St. Benedict and St. John’s University Nebraska-Lincoln and Creighton education. ❘❘❘❘

SPRING 2019 MINNESOTA LAW 39 ALL RISE Big Picture

STUDENTS DRAFT RADON LEGISLATION

Students in the Law School’s Community Legal Partnership for Health Clinic worked closely with a Minnesota state senator to draft legislation that would require landlords to test for radon and mitigate where there are high levels. The bill was introduced in the Senate, and managed to gain bipartisan support. While the bill will not get a hearing this session, students are hopeful that it will be reintroduced in the next one. The nine students who worked on the legislation included (left to right in photo) 2Ls Rebecca Zadaka, Alex Eschenroeder (the student director of the clinic), and Julie Griep. The six participating students not pictured are 2L Becca Barberio, 2L Nathan Fawley, 2L Rebecca Hare, 3L Laura Lukey, 2L Katie Miller, and 2L Alex Park. Photo: Tim Rummelhoff Tim Photo:

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TORT PRESENTS: On March 29-30, the Theatre of the Relatively Talentless presented its 17th annual show, Tale as Old as Time. TALE AS OLD Performed at the Pantages Theatre, this fun-filled musical production on the foibles of law school life was a parody AS TIME of the beloved classic Beauty and the Beast.

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ALUMNI Interrogatory Kyle Hawkins ’09

Last fall, Kyle Hawkins ’09 became the solicitor general of Texas—a high-profile position nationally, given the amount of U.S. Supreme Court litigation the state generates. Former occupants of the office include Sen. Ted Cruz. Hawkins previously served as an assistant solicitor general in the office; prior to that, he was engaged in private practice at the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

44 MINNESOTA LAW SPRING 2019 I’m the chief appellate lawyer for the state, and I run a “ department with 18 lawyers. Much of my day is spent formulating strategy in ongoing and upcoming appeals.” —Kyle Hawkins ’09

Were there any formative Can you very briefly describe What advice would you give to a experiences at Minnesota Law a typical day as Texas solicitor current Minnesota Law student that helped send you on your path general? trying to determine his/her own (a class, a clinic, a professor, etc.)? career path? I’m the chief appellate lawyer Yes, many, but I’ll pick two. First, for the state, and I run a department Find a mentor—ideally, a professor Professor Kristin Hickman’s with 18 lawyers. Much of my day you really connect with. That mentor administrative law class opened is spent formulating strategy in can help you identify your strengths, my eyes to the power of the adminis- ongoing and upcoming appeals. weaknesses, and long-term goals. And trative state and its pervasive role in I also spend a lot of time editing briefs once you’ve got that figured out, your our daily lives. Second, serving on and preparing for oral arguments. mentor can help you plot a course. the Minnesota Law Review introduced It’s very difficult to do all that on me to legal scholarship on dozens of What might people find surprising your own without help. different topics and made me a better about your work? writer and clearer thinker. Being solicitor general of Texas When I’m in court, the judges is no doubt a very stressful job. Did it ever occur to you while you sometimes address me as “General What do you do to maintain wellness were roaming the corridors of Hawkins.” I thought that title was and/or life balance? Mondale Hall that you might one reserved for senior military leaders day be Texas solicitor general? with armies and tanks, but apparently This job definitely can be all-consum- it also covers certain government ing. I try to maintain my physical No way. I grew up in Minnesota lawyers. health with regular trips to the gym. and always assumed I’d wind up I try to maintain my mental health practicing law in Minneapolis. I fell What are a few interesting items by having dinner with my wife every in love with Texas when I moved that one might find decorating night, even if I have to hop back on here after law school to clerk on the your desk or office? the laptop after dinner. That helps 5th Circuit. The January weather me maintain my mental balance and sealed the deal. I inherited from my predecessor a keep things in perspective. bobblehead collection of the lawyers You were a law clerk to U.S. named “Jurist of the Year” by the Is there anything else you’d like Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. Texas Review of Law and Politics. to share with the Minnesota Law What was that experience like, and I also have a framed photo of all community? how does it inform what you do my colleagues from volume 93 of today as solicitor general? the Minnesota Law Review. And I I always encourage students have a bunch of photos from my to enjoy law school to the fullest. Clerking for Justice Alito was wedding. Mondale Hall offers a special a dream come true. By interacting opportunity to learn something with the justices every day, clerks Previous occupants of your office interesting every day and interact come away with profound insight have gone on to the U.S. Senate with some of the brightest minds in into how the Court works as an and the federal appellate bench. the country—both in the classroom institution and how to advocate Any thoughts about what you might and (perhaps more importantly) persuasively. As solicitor general, do in the next stage of your career? at the Town Hall Brewery. I really I practice in the Supreme Court enjoyed my time at Minnesota and regularly, and every day I draw from I have no idea what’s next, and am grateful for the opportunities my experiences as a law clerk there. hopefully I won’t have to figure that it prepared me for. ❘❘❘❘ out for a few more years! I have the best job in Texas. When it’s eventually time to move on, I’m sure I’ll look for opportunities to keep practicing law in the areas that I love.

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Alumni News

Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson ’83 Named Chief Executive of the Year

Chief Executive magazine recently named Arne M. Sorenson ’83, the president and chief executive officer of Marriott International, its 2019 Chief Executive of the Year. Sorenson joined Marriott in 1996 and held a number of positions before serving as president and CEO. He became CEO in 2012, the first person to hold the post without the Marriott family name. “Since becoming CEO, Mr. Sorenson has led a vast expansion of the business, including the acquisition of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide in 2016,” the magazine notes. “The company now has more than 7,000 properties Hon. Alan Page ’78 across 130 countries and territories and 30 brands. An outspoken corporate leader, he has advocated Hon. Alan Page ’78 Receives The White House release for environmental sustainability, Presidential Medal of announcing the awards described a more open, safe, and inclusive work- Freedom Page as follows: “Justice Page is an place, and a welcoming culture accomplished jurist, athlete, and around the world.” Former Minnesota Supreme Court philanthropist. After a successful The selection committee, Justice Alan C. Page ’78 received college football career at the composed of other CEOs, cited the nation’s highest civilian honor, University of Notre Dame, he played Sorenson’s outstanding performance the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 15 years in the National Football running one of the most complex, This prestigious award may be given League with the Minnesota Vikings global businesses in the world in the by the president to individuals who and Chicago Bears. He started in four face of daunting cultural and have made especially meritorious Super Bowls, was named the NFL’s technological change. contributions to the security or Most Valuable Player in 1971, and “I am deeply honored by this national interests of the United States, was inducted into the Pro Football tremendous recognition, and I thank to world peace, or to cultural or other Hall of Fame in 1988. While playing my peer CEOs for the nomination,” significant public or private endeavors. for the Vikings, he obtained his law Sorenson told Chief Executive President Donald J. Trump degree and practiced law during the magazine. “I stand on the shoulders awarded the medals to Page and six off-season. After retiring from the of an icon, Bill Marriott, and the other individuals at a ceremony at NFL in 1981, Justice Page practiced 730,000 people around the world the White House on Nov. 16. Also law full-time before winning a seat who wear a Marriott name badge. attending were First Lady Melania on the Minnesota Supreme Court in Together, we work each day to Trump, several Cabinet members, 1992. He served for more than 20 uphold a legacy of creating opportu- six Supreme Court justices, U.S. years. Since 1988, his Page Education nities—for our guests, our associates, Senator Amy Klobuchar, and Foundation has provided scholar- and the local neighborhoods where numerous other dignitaries. ships to nearly 7,000 students.” we operate.”

46 MINNESOTA LAW SPRING 2019 Over the past 33 years, Chief industry leadership, community Seidel is immediate past chair of Executive of the Year winners have service, civic engagement, and more. the Law School’s Board of Advisors. been a who’s who of American Seidel leads FaegreBD’s public She and other “Women in Business” business leadership, including Bill companies and securities practice, honorees will be honored at an Gates, Jack Welch, Michael Dell, A.G. which represents over 50 public awards luncheon and expo on May Lafley, John Chambers, Bob Iger, companies. She has been practicing 23, in Minneapolis. Anne Mulcahy, Larry Bossidy, Andy law for over 20 years and handles Grove, and Herb Kelleher, among some of the most complex securities Nancy Leppink ’85 Appointed others. compliance and corporate governance Commissioner of Minnesota Sorenson’s selection as 2019 CEO legal work for companies of all sizes, Department of Labor and of the Year will be celebrated at an including Fortune 100 companies. Industry invitation-only event hosted by Chief In a sophisticated web of regulations, Executive Group at the Nasdaq she marks a path to compliance for Gov. Tim Walz appointed Nancy MarketSite in New York in late July. public companies and executes Leppink ’85 as commissioner of exemplary work—supporting manage- the Department of Labor and Amy Seidel ’98 Named a 2019 ment teams and boards of directors. Industry. ‘Women in Business’ Honoree In addition to her legal practice, She was previously chief of labour Seidel has served many leadership administration with the Labour Amy Seidel ’98, a partner at Faegre positions within FaegreBD. She Inspection and Occupational Safety CONT > Baker Daniels, was been named a was recently elected to the firm’s 2019 “Women in Business” honoree management board. She headed by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business FaegreBD’s recruiting committee Journal. for several years and also served as The awards honor industry-leading a member of the firm’s nominating professionals, taking into account committee and several strategic individual accomplishments, initiative teams.

Nancy Leppink ’85

Arne Sorenson ’83

Amy Seidel ’98

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< CONT and Health Branch of the Rebecca Lucero ’07 Named International Labour Organization Commissioner of Minnesota in Geneva, Switzerland. Department of Human Rights Leppink has more than 25 years’ experience as a strategist and leader Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz appointed in employment and labor policy, law, Rebecca Lucero ’07 as commissioner administration, enforcement, and of the state’s Department of compliance. Her experience includes Human Rights. work at the international, national, At the time of her appointment, and state levels working with public, Lucero was serving as the public private, and nonprofit sectors. policy director at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits. She previously served as policy and advocacy manager and global village leader for Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity, as senior community representative for then-U.S. Rep. Cheryl Dalby ’95 Keith Ellison ’90, as an unemployment law judge with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, and as The combined CEO position was an attorney with a civil rights firm created after the boards of directors and with the Legal Aid Society of of the three associations decided in Minneapolis. She is a board member June 2018 to adopt a shared staff for Gender Justice. model to better coordinate efforts, increase efficiencies, and improve Cheryl Dalby ’95 Becomes member value. Dalby, who has served CEO of MSBA, HCBA, as executive director of the Ramsey and RCBA County Bar Association for the last 18 years, was selected after a nation- Cheryl Dalby ’95 accepted the wide search. position of chief executive officer “I am thrilled to lead the bar of the Minnesota State Bar associations into a collaborative Association, Hennepin County Bar future,” said Dalby in a joint Rebecca Lucero ’07 Association, and Ramsey County announcement that the bar groups Bar Association. sent to members. ❘❘❘❘

WE  TORT REUNION FEBRUARY 12, 2019 | DAY BLOCK BREWING

This year’s TORT cast invited alumni to join them at the annual We  TORT event. The event is a chance for alumni and students to connect over their love of the TORT experience. We  TORT was organized and hosted by 3L producer Ellen Levish, 2L producer Kenzie Gerber, and the Office of Advancement. Donations can be made to TORT at z.umn.edu/Give2TORT

 2L Mika Millard, 1L Bree Crye, and 1L Maddie O’Mara

48 MINNESOTA LAW SPRING 2019 Class Notes NEWS ABOUT YOUR CLASSMATES AND COLLEAGUES

Lawrence Joe Price was Catherine Barbara Shiels Zelle has selected as an Cella of Edina, was honored 59 joined JAMS, 72 honoree of 78 Minnesota, 83 with an In- the largest private provider Minnesota Lawyer’s joined the board of trustees House Counsel Award of alternative dispute inaugural Icons class. for the Minneapolis-based by Minnesota Lawyer for resolution services The publication hailed Sheltering Arms lifetime achievement. She worldwide, in its Price as a national pioneer Foundation. is senior associate general Minneapolis office. in medical products counsel for the University Zelle has served as lead liability. He is senior Tom McDonald of Minnesota. or co-lead counsel in more counsel at the Minneapolis moderated a than 300 cases that were office of Faegre Baker 79 roundtable Mark Kimball tried to completion, Daniels. discussion for the speaker was honored arbitrated, or settled of the California State 84 with an In- through mediation or Daniel H. Assembly on diversifying House Counsel Award negotiation. Mabley joined California’s state affairs. by Minnesota Lawyer for 74 JAMS, a private McDonald, who served as lifetime achievement. Robert provider of alternative U.S. ambassador to He was senior vice Weinstine was dispute resolution services, Zimbabwe from 1997 to president and chief legal 69 selected as an in its Minneapolis office. 2001, is an attorney with and risk officer with Sleep honoree of Minnesota Mabley previously served Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Number Corp. Lawyer’s inaugural Icons for 26 years as a Hennepin Pease in Washington, D.C. class. Weinstine is one of County District Court Nancy Leppink the founders of Winthrop judge, including a term as Cheryl was appointed & Weinstine, one of chief judge, and another Heilman was 85 commissioner Minnesota’s 10 largest 15 years in prosecuting 81 appointed of the Department of firms. attorney roles in Dakota, chief legal counsel of the Labor and Industry by Hennepin, and Ramsey Wisconsin Department of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Tom Johnson counties. Natural Resources. She had Leppink was formerly chief was honored served as deputy counsel of labour administration 70 by Minnesota William Lubov of the Wisconsin DNR with the Labour Inspection Lawyer for Outstanding was honored since 2011. and Occupational Safety Service to the Profession. 76 by Minnesota Ronald Schutz was and Health Branch of the Johnson is a principal in Lawyer as a 2018 Attorney selected as an honoree International Labour the Minneapolis office of of the Year. Lubov is a of Minnesota Lawyer’s Organization in Geneva, Gray Plant Mooty. principal of Lubov inaugural Icons class. The Switzerland. Anderson in Golden Valley. publication noted Schutz’s Michael Ciresi Heidi Wilson was storied career as an Ruth S. was selected as honored with an In-House attorney, which has Marcott has 71an honoree of Counsel Award by included a number of 86 joined Kutak Minnesota Lawyer’s Minnesota Lawyer in the major intellectual property Rock’s national employee inaugural Icons class. public company category. verdicts. He is managing benefits and executive Among his lifetime She is senior vice president, partner at Robins Kaplan’s compensation practice achievements, the general counsel, and New York office. group in its Minneapolis publication noted, are secretary with Tennant Co. office. Marcott has more the state of Minnesota’s Richard than 20 years’ experience in historic litigation over Barbara Grahn Ostlund was employee benefits law, as tobacco, the Bhopal gas was selected as 82 elected chair well as 10 years’ experience leak disaster in India, and 77 an honoree of of the Fairview Health in commercial litigation. the Dalkon Shield case. Minnesota Lawyer’s Services board of directors. Michelle Miller of Ciresi is a founding partner inaugural Icons class. The Ostlund is a senior partner Medtronic was honored of Ciresi Conlin in publication hailed Grahn and executive committee with an In-House Counsel Minneapolis. as “a trademark-law member of Anthony Award by Minnesota Lawyer pioneer.” Grahn is a Ostlund Baer & Louwagie in the public company partner in Fox Rothschild’s in Minneapolis. category. Minneapolis office. CONT >

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< CONT Elena Ostby was term as a judge on the in the healthcare organiza- Heidi Neff reelected as a district North Las Vegas Justice tion category. She is senior Christianson court judge in Minnesota’s Court. She was also vice president, general 95 was named 2nd Judicial District. She appointed a professional counsel, and secretary to president of Nilan Johnson has served on the bench boxing judge by the the Allina Health board Lewis in Minneapolis. since 2004. Nevada State Athletic of directors. She joined the firm in 2012 Commission. and represents health care Diane Bratvold Michael and nonprofit entities. was reelected Keith Ellison Ouyang was Melissa Hortman was 87 as a judge on was elected to 93 honored with elected speaker of the the Minnesota Court of 90 the office of an In-House Counsel Minnesota House of Appeals, where she has Minnesota Attorney Award by Minnesota Lawyer Representatives. Hortman served since 2016. From General. He was previously in the public company was first elected to the 2014-16 she served on a member of the U.S. category. He is vice Minnesota House in 2004 the Hennepin County House of Representatives, president, intellectual and has previously served District Court. serving Minnesota’s 5th property at CommScope. in a number of leadership Scott Lepak was Congressional District Kristin Jones Pierre roles, including House honored as the Anoka from 2007–2019. became a partner at minority leader. County Bar Association’s Kristine Kubes was Faegre Baker Daniels, Pamela H. Nissen joined 2018 Lawyer of the Year. elected as chair-elect of the specializing in labor and the Minneapolis office of He was recognized for his American Bar Association employment workplace Reinhart Boerner Van outstanding legal services Forum on Construction matters. She represents Deuren as a shareholder in and his support to the Law. She practices in employers of all sizes, its employee benefits community during his Minneapolis in the area of including public and practice and Taft-Hartley 30-year career as an design and construction. private companies, group. attorney practicing in labor Mark Fredrickson was emerging businesses, and Bethany Owen was relations and employment elected to the board of nonprofit organizations. elected president of Duluth- matters affecting local DRI, the Voice of the based Allete Inc. She has government. He is a Defense Bar, as its north Daniel G. been with the company for shareholder with the firm central regional director. Lugo was more than 16 years and has of Barna, Guzy & Steffen in He is a shareholder with 94 named the previously held a number Coon Rapids, Minnesota. Lind, Jensen, Sullivan & 21st president of Queens of operational and legal David Stork was named Peterson in Minneapolis. University of Charlotte in leadership roles. chief legal officer of Lithia Charlotte, North Carolina. Motors Inc. Previously, Lorie Lugo previously served as Kristyn M. he worked for most of Humphrey vice president for college Anderson of his career at Jeld-Wen 91 accepted the advancement at Colby 96 the Minnesota Inc., most recently as role of director of employee College in Waterville, Management and Budget general counsel. relations for the University Maine. Office was honored with an of Minnesota. She has Benjamin Mulcahy In-House Counsel Award Robyn been with the University was selected for Variety’s by Minnesota Lawyer in the Millenacker since 2015. 2018 Dealmakers Impact nonprofit or government 88 was reelected Report. Working in organization category. as a district court judge in Jeanne DLA Piper’s Los Angeles John Dragseth was Minnesota’s 2nd Judicial Cochran was office, Mulchahy is a honored by Minnesota District. She has served 92 appointed a partner in the intellectual Lawyer as a 2018 Attorney on the bench since 2010. judge on the Minnesota property and technology of the Year in the group Tracy Smith was Court of Appeals. She was practice and co-chair of category for his work on reelected as a judge on previously an administra- the firm’s national the Fish & Richardson the Minnesota Court of tive law judge with the advertising team. team that secured high- Appeals, where she has Minnesota Office of Timothy Mulrooney profile patent litigation served since 2016. Administrative Hearings. was reelected as a district wins for Arctic Cat. Elizabeth Truesdell court judge in Minnesota’s Steve Simon was Natalie Tyrrell Smith was honored with 2nd Judicial District. He reelected to the office of was reelected an In-House Counsel has served on the bench Minnesota Secretary of 89 to a fourth Award by Minnesota Lawyer since 2016. State. He has served in the

50 MINNESOTA LAW SPRING 2019 position since 2015, and Diego Bryan which includes portions of was previously a member Edber was Bleichner the cities of Golden Valley, of the Minnesota House of 98 appointed to 01 was named a Plymouth, and St. Louis Representatives. a judgeship on the Los shareholder of Chestnut Park in Hennepin County. Michael Sullivan Jr. was Angeles Superior Court Cambronne in elected managing officer of by California Gov. Edmund Minneapolis and was Brandon Derry Gray Plant Mooty’s board G. Brown Jr. Edber was elected to the firm’s board was recognized of directors. Sullivan has formerly a commissioner of directors. 02 with the Class served on Gray Plant at the Los Angeles County Mike Skoglund was of 2019 Leaders in the Law Mooty’s board since 2014 Superior Court. honored with an In-House award from the Wisconsin and chairs its corporate and M. Gayle Packer was Counsel Award by Law Journal. Derry is a business practice group. He named president and Minnesota Lawyer in the shareholder with Hupy and concentrates his practice on CEO of Terracon private company with Abraham, working out of mergers and acquisitions, Consultants Inc., a annual revenues over $500 the firm’s Madison, corporate governance, 4,000-employee design million category. He is a Wisconsin, office. general corporate/business firm. Most recently, she senior commercial lawyer Julie Engbloom was counseling, and securities was executive vice president at Cargill. elected president of the offerings—including and chief administrative Ryan Winkler was U.S. District Court of private placements, venture officer, coordinating the elected majority leader of Oregon Historical Society. capital financings, and integration of 50 acquired the Minnesota House of She is a shareholder with private equity and debt companies. Representatives. He Lane Powell in Portland, offerings. represents District 46A, Oregon. CONT >

RICHARD OSTLUND KEITH ELLISON ’90 ’82 ELECTED ELECTED MINNESOTA CHAIRMAN OF ATTORNEY GENERAL FAIRVIEW HEALTH SERVICES’ BOARD Before his election as OF DIRECTORS attorney general, Ellison served as a member of A member of the Congress for 12 years. In Minneapolis-based Congress, Ellison was nonprofit’s health system’s a vice-chair of the board since 2013, Ostlund Congressional Progressive oversaw the selection of the Caucus and a chief deputy organization’s president and CEO two years ago. whip. He also sat on the House Committee on Financial He also helped lead the renegotiation of Fairview’s Services. Ellison also served as the Deputy Chair of the new M Health Fairview partnership between Fairview, Democratic National Committee from 2017-18. the University of Minnesota, and University of Minnesota Ellison was the first Muslim to be elected to Congress Physicians. and the first African American U.S. representative from Ostlund practices at the Minneapolis law firm of Minnesota. Anthony Ostlund Baer & Louwagie P.A., where he is Before entering politics, Ellison spent 16 years as an an executive committee member and an officer. He attorney specializing in civil rights and defense law, has tried complex cases in more than 30 states, including five years as the executive director of the spanning a 33-year career. Past accolades include Legal Rights Center. being a Minnesota Lawyer Attorney of the Year (2009) and being selected as Business Litigation Attorney of the Year by Corporate INTL magazine, based in London, England.

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< CONT Teresa Lavoie, Ph.D., Kristy L. wide range of commercial Joshua Taggatz was received the 2019 Diversity Peters was litigation, labor and named a shareholder of Leader Award from Profiles 06 honored with employment disputes, Reinhart Boerner Van in Diversity Journal. She is the 2019 International and both ERISA and Deuren in Madison, a principal with Fish & Law Office’s Client non-ERISA life, health, Wisconsin. He works in the Richardson. Choice Award as the and disability matters.. firm’s litigation practice. exclusive winner in the Claire Deason was Laura Nelson Employment & Benefits promoted to shareholder Daniel S. Block was re-elected category for the state of at Littler Mendelson’s was elected 03 as a district Arizona. She is a Minneapolis office. She 11 director at court judge in Minnesota’s shareholder at Littler has been with the firm Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein 2nd Judicial District. She Mendelson in Phoenix, since 2012. & Fox in Washington, D.C. has served on the bench where she represents and Joshua Feneis has He is a director in the since 2016. counsels employers joined Lommen Abdo in firm’s electronics practice regarding all types of Minneapolis, focusing on group, where his practice Julia Decker labor and employment the firm’s family law and primarily focuses on patent joined the matters. business litigation and anti-counterfeiting 04 ACLU of practices. litigation at the Minnesota as its policy Rebecca Jeff Justman became International Trade counsel. She was previously Lucero was a partner at Faegre Baker Commission and in federal a staff attorney at the 07 appointed Daniels, specializing in district court. Immigrant Law Center commissioner of the securities and appellate Sharon Markowitz was of Minnesota. Minnesota Department litigation. He has been elected partner at Stinson Sarah Morrison was of Human Rights by Gov. with the firm since 2011. Leonard Street in its sworn in as a magistrate Tim Waltz. She previously John McIntire was Minneapolis office, where judge for the 7th Circuit in served as the public policy promoted to counsel at she focuses her practice in South Dakota. Before director at the Minnesota Faegre Baker Daniels in the areas of financial becoming a judge, Council of Nonprofits. its Minneapolis office. services litigation, appellate Morrison served as a Zaviel T. Simpser joined Having joined the firm litigation, and class actions. prosecutor for the state’s Dorsey and Whitney’s in 2014, he helps clients Matthew Tews was attorney’s office, with a regulatory affairs group as implement intellectual elected partner at Stinson focus on juvenile cases. a partner in its Minneapolis property strategies, Leonard Street in its office. He has served clients specializing in patent Minneapolis office, where Zach Crain was in the energy industry for drafting and prosecution, he assists employers with promoted to more than a decade. patent invalidity, and complex employment and 05 shareholder non-infringement traditional labor law issues. at Nilan Johson Lewis in Julie Nagorski investigations and Minneapolis. He joined the was promoted opinions. Heather firm in 2015. His clients 08 to partner at Abraham joined include businesses, DeWitt in its Minneapolis Linnea Eiden 12 the Georgetown hospitals and medical office. She has been with became a University Law Center Civil providers, social services the firm since 2016. 10 partner at Rights Clinic as a teaching charities, insurers and Sarah B. Riskin was Faegre Baker Daniels in fellow and supervising nonprofit health plans, promoted to shareholder Minneapolis, specializing attorney. She teaches civil and trade associations. at Nilan Johnson Lewis. in corporate debt finance. rights law and litigation Anne Stephenson was She has been with the firm She joined the firm in skills, with a focus on Fair honored with an In-House since 2013. 2015. Housing Act impact Counsel Award by Sean Somermeyer litigation. Her scholarship Minnesota Lawyer in the Alexander became a partner at addresses the future of fair rising stars category. She Baggio Faegre Baker Daniels in housing, including is general counsel with 09 has joined Minneapolis, specializing legislative strategies to Reuter Walton. Hinshaw & Culbertson in serving college, expand its scope and as an associate in the firm’s university, and secondary enforcement. Minneapolis office, where education institutions. He he advises businesses in a joined the firm in 2011.

52 MINNESOTA LAW SPRING 2019 Kristen Barlow Emily McNee has been Jill Jensen Ashlynn Kendzior was has joined named to Littler has become a awarded a Benjamin B. 13 Dorsey & Mendelson’s Diversity & 16 deputy Brown Ferencz Fellowship in Whitney in Minneapolis Inclusion Council. She County attorney in New Human Rights and Law. as a consultant with joined the firm’s Ulm, Minnesota. Rhett Schwichtenberg Dorsey Health Strategies. Minneapolis office in 2014. Kim VandenAkker has joined Gislason & Previously, she was a Chris Schmitter was started a new position as Hunter as an associate in senior consultant with named chief of staff to legal counsel for Western its New Ulm, Minnesota, the Advisory Board Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Digital. office.❘❘❘❘ Company, where she was Claire Zhao was pro- responsible for assisting moted to counsel at Faegre Taher Ali has health industry companies Baker Daniels in its joined Plunkett with strategic, operational, Shanghai office. She advises 18 Cooney as an SEND US and compliance challenges. multinational companies associate in its Bloomfield YOUR NEWS! Jim Kiner was elected in labor and employment Hills, Michigan, office. To be included in class notes, send to the Minnesota House matters, including support Jacob C. Harksen has your news to [email protected] or at Office of Advancement, of Representatives for of mergers and acquisi- joined Fox Rothschild as Suite 321, University of Minnesota Law School, 229 19th Ave. S., District 51A. tions and joint venture an associate in its Minneapolis, MN 55455, attn: transactions. Minneapolis office. Ryan Sendelbach.

BETHANY OWEN ’95 MICHAEL SULLIVAN JR. NAMED PRESIDENT ’96 NAMED MANAGING OF ALLETE INC. OFFICER AT GRAY PLANT MOOTY Owen is the first woman ever to hold the role at In his new role, he leads the Duluth-based energy approximately 175 lawyers company. She has been in 10 practice groups with the company for spanning the firm’s offices 16 years in a number of in Minneapolis, Washington, legal and operational D.C., St. Cloud, Minnesota, positions, including, and Fargo, North Dakota. most recently, as senior vice president and chief legal Sullivan has served on Gray Plant Mooty’s board of and administrative officer. directors since 2014 and chairs its corporate and business In her new position, Owen oversees the publicly practice group. He concentrates his practice on mergers traded company’s growth strategy and its five and acquisitions, corporate governance, general corpo- operating divisions: Minnesota Power, Superior Water rate/business counseling and securities offerings—includ- Light and Power, Allete Clean Energy, U.S. Water ing private placements, venture capital financings, and Services, and BNI Energy. private equity and debt offerings. He has been recognized Prior to joining Allete, Owen worked for the U.S. numerous times for his practice excellence, including Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and being named to The Best Lawyers in America for the last in the office of former Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana. three years. She also acted as legal counsel for various public and “I am honored to have the opportunity to lead our firm,” private ventures. Sullivan said. “We have aggressive growth goals, which include adding attorneys, expanding our geographic reach, and building relationships with new clients in key practice areas.”

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Return. Reconnect. Celebrate. Spring Alumni Weekend 2019 brought together more than 1,000 alumni and friends for a host of events where they celebrated their connection to Minnesota Law.

1 The Honorable Lois Lang ’79, Jennifer Wellner ’79, Wanda Young Wilson ’79 2 Anthony Begon ’14, Sarvesh Desai ’14, Bryce Riddle ’14 3 Hal Ulvestad ’69, Joy Erickson 3

54 MINNESOTA LAW SPRING 2019 4 Tim Schmidt ’09, Georges Tippens ’09, Robbie Barton ’09, Jeff Justman ’09, Bree Dalager ’08, Mark Torma ’09, Shana Marchand ’09 5 Mary Lindall, Bob Lindall ’69, The Honorable Phil Carruthers ’79 6 Bibi Black ’79, Nita Luis ’77, Dean Garry W. Jenkins 7 Jenny Monson-Miller ’15, Linhda Nguyen ’14

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SPRING ALUMNI WEEKEND 2019 | April 12-14, 2019

SPRING 2019 MINNESOTA LAW 55 RAISING THE BAR Recent Gifts

GIFTS OF $100,000+

Karin Birkeland ’87 and Lee nearly 26 years of Parkinson’s disease. Support Fund. Bob was editor-in- Mitau ’72 established the Karin David and Karen’s generosity will chief at Thomson Reuters (formerly Birkeland and Lee Mitau Scholarship. help to secure the Law School’s place West Publishing) before retiring in Karin was a partner in the commercial at the forefront of legal education. 2002. Bob’s contributions will help to real estate practice at Faegre & Benson enhance the resources available to and associate general counsel at the Bruce ’80 and Tracy Mooty made an recruit and support students and University of Minnesota. Lee was additional gift to the John W. Mooty advance their professional develop- formerly executive vice president, Public Service Summer Fellowship ment as they transition to successful general counsel, and secretary of and the Bruce and Tracy Mooty careers. U.S. Bancorp and currently serves Scholarship. Bruce is a principal with as chairman of Graco Inc. Their gift Gray Plant Mooty, representing and Gregory Soukup ’76 and Mary Jo Carr will be matched with $50,000 from counseling public and private made an additional gift to the Robert the Robina Foundation as part of companies in a wide variety of J. and Rosemary Soukup Scholarship. the Driven to Lead Scholarship industries. Bruce and Tracy’s gift, Greg spent his entire career with Challenge Program. which will benefit students with Ernst & Young’s tax practice and academic promise and financial need, retired in 2008. The scholarship was David* ’63 and Karen Beadie chose is dedicated to the goal of promoting created in honor and loving memory to include the Law School in their leadership, community service, of Greg’s parents, Robert and estate plan, dedicating a portion of problem-solving skills, academic Rosemary Soukup, and helps make a their assets toward the Law School’s excellence, and justice for all. first-rate legal education accessible greatest needs. David enjoyed a long and affordable. Greg and Mary Jo’s career practicing law with Faegre & Robert J. Owens ’69 made additional additional gift will be matched with Benson in Minneapolis. He passed gifts to the Law School Scholarship $50,000 from the Robina Foundation away peacefully on April 5, 2018, at Match Incentive Program and the as part of the Driven to Lead the age of 81, from complications of Robert J. Owens Job Fair Student Scholarship Challenge Program.

GIFTS OF $25,000–$99,999

Patricia A. Beithon ’81 M. Nazie Eftekhari Dan ’85 and Kim McDonald+ Lisa A. Rotenberg ’85

Rachel S. Brass ’01 David R. ’86 and Anne R. Charles N. Nauen ’80 Bill ’68 and Carol Tempest Johanson+ and Pati Jo Pofahl ’86 Joseph T. Dixon Jr. ’69 Laurance R. ’69 and and Eugenia C. Dixon William A. Johnstone ’69 Mark ’69 and Jackie Nolan Diane E. Waldoch

+ These donors also made a William T. Dolan ’63 Randall E. ’89 and Terrence P. ’74 and larger estate gift at the and Jane E. Tilka Elisabeth A. Kahnke Valerie C. O’Brien same time. * Deceased

TESTAMENTARY BEQUESTS

Jeannine L. Lee ’81 and C. Roger Finney Meredith McQuaid ’91 and Brad Delapena

56 MINNESOTA LAW SPRING 2019 Tributes

WARREN PLUNKETT working toward his J.D. After CLASS OF 1948 graduating cum laude, he joined the family law firm in Austin, where he Warren Francis Plunkett, practiced with his father and three who served for 26 years as a judge brothers. in Minnesota’s 3rd Judicial District, Plunkett was appointed to the 3rd died Dec. 30 in Austin, Minnesota, Judicial District bench in 1955 by of complications from pneumonia. Minnesota Gov. Orville Freeman ’46. He was 98. He served as president of the Born in St. Paul and raised in Minnesota District Court Judges Austin from the age of 7, Plunkett Association in 1976, and, following received his undergraduate degree his retirement from the bench in from the University of Minnesota in 1981, he returned to practicing law; 1942. He was an All-American player in fact, he kept his license to practice on the celebrated Gopher football active until 2018. team that went undefeated and won A man of many interests, Plunkett national championships in both 1940 enjoyed fishing, hunting, travel, and ’41. After spending a year playing coaching youth hockey, and flying (he professional football for the NFL’s was an instrument-rated pilot). He Cleveland Rams, Plunkett served in was a principal shareholder of the WWII as a U.S. Navy boat group Minnesota Surety and Trust Frank Lloyd Wright–designed Elam commander in the Pacific theater. Company as well as the First House, a notable exemplar of He attended the Law School on the Heartland Surety Casualty and Wright’s Usonian architectural GI Bill and was a member of the Insurance Company. In 1959, he and aesthetic. Plunkett lived in the house Minnesota Law Review while his first wife, Ellie, purchased the for 59 years.

D. KENNETH LINDGREN and best-known full-service business CLASS OF 1958 law firms, with more than 20 areas of practice. Derbin Kenneth Lindgren Jr., Outside the office, Lindgren the last surviving founding partner devoted himself to a number of of the Twin Cities law firm Larkin, community organizations, among Hoffman, Daly & Lindgren, died them the Minnesota Landscape peacefully on Jan. 16 at the age of 86. Arboretum, the Minneapolis College Lindgren grew up in Edina, of Art and Design, and the University Minnesota, attended high school at of Minnesota Founders Society. His Minnehaha Academy in Minneapolis, generous support of the Law School and earned both his undergraduate goes back nearly 40 years. degree and J.D. at the University. Throughout his life, Lindgren After serving as an officer in the enjoyed participating in sports, U.S. Air Force, he went into partner- especially handball, skiing, golf, ship with James Larkin ’54, Robert and tennis. He served twice as Hoffman ’55, and Jack Daly ’57, president of Interlachen Country all of whom predeceased him. As Club in Minneapolis. He was an an attorney, Lindgren specialized avid gardener, a collector of Native in trusts and estates as well as tax American art, and, with his late Smith, Larkin Hoffman president. and business law; as a partner, he wife, Patricia, a traveler of the world. “He will be dearly missed by his helped guide Larkin Hoffman to a “Ken was a great lawyer and an family, colleagues, friends and position as one of Minnesota’s largest exceptional civic leader,” said Paul clients.” CONT >

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< CONT BERT J. McKASY Minnesota House in 1983. After CLASS OF 1968 leaving the legislature in 1988, he moved to Washington, D.C., to Bert J. McKasy, who was elected work as chief of staff for Republican to three terms in the Minnesota Sen. Dave Durenberger, a close friend. House of Representatives and later Two years later, McKasy returned served as commissioner of the to Minnesota, having been appointed Minnesota Department of commissioner of the state’s com- Commerce, passed away peacefully merce department by Gov. Arne at his home in Mendota Heights on Carlson. He was later appointed Feb. 8. McKasy had undergone three to the Metropolitan Airports years of chemotherapy for colon Commission by Gov. Jesse Ventura, cancer until deciding in August 2018 where he served for 11 years. to enter hospice care. He was 77. McKasy was active in business, Born in St. Paul, McKasy attended as well. He founded McKasy Travel St. Mark’s Catholic School—where Agency with Carolyn, and he served he met Carolyn, his wife of 54 years, on the boards of directors of in second grade—and earned his numerous enterprises, including undergraduate degree in political Mairs & Power Mutual Funds science at the University of St. (where he was board chair), UCare, Thomas. After receiving his J.D. Lec Tec, Northstar Ice, and the the famous Lake Phalen Ice Palace from the Law School, he practiced American National Bank of St. Paul. was erected; and serving as treasurer law at the venerable Twin Cities firm He was equally active as a civic of Children’s Hospital, trustee of of Lindquist & Vennum (now Ballard leader, chairing the board of the the F.R. Bigelow Charitable Spahr), where he became a partner. St. Paul Chamber of Commerce; Foundation, and president of McKasy was elected to the first leading the St. Paul Winter Carnival Somerset Country Club, where of his three consecutive terms in the in its centennial year, 1986, when he played golf for 42 years.

BUCKY ZIMMERMAN litigator, Zimmerman’s legal insights CLASS OF 1972 and courtroom skills brought him accolades from clients, colleagues, Charles Selcer “Bucky” opponents, and judges. Outside the Zimmerman—nationally known courtroom, Zimmerman was a litigator, founder of the law firm talented athlete—a member of the Zimmerman Reed, and a dedicated Professional Tennis Association, he supporter of the Law School—passed was nationally ranked and medaled away Feb. 24 at his home in at the World Maccabiah Games in Scottsdale, Arizona, after a short Israel—as well as an avid golfer, battle with cancer. He was 72. dancer, motorcyclist, and world Born and raised in Minneapolis, traveler. In addition to his generous Zimmerman attended West High donations to the Law School, he was School and earned his undergraduate a proud supporter of University of and law degrees at the University of Minnesota Athletics as well. In the Minnesota. He formed Zimmerman last decade of his life, Zimmerman Reed in 1983 in Minneapolis; the firm devoted time to actively sharing his now also has offices in Phoenix and legal expertise, frequently lecturing Los Angeles and practices in the areas to professional associations and, as of consumer protection, antitrust, an adjunct professor at the Law sports law, and defective drugs and School, finding great satisfaction in medical devices, among others. teaching and mentoring those just During his 47-year career as a entering the legal profession. ❘❘❘❘

58 MINNESOTA LAW SPRING 2019 In Memoriam

CLASS OF 1948 CLASS OF 1958 CLASS OF 1973 CLASS OF 1989 Warren F. Plunkett D. Kenneth Lindgren Jr. Edward A. Backstrom III Anne D. Lah December 30, 2018 January 16, 2019 June 23, 2018 August 22, 2018 Austin, Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota Cloquet, Minnesota

CLASS OF 1950 CLASS OF 1960 CLASS OF 1976 CLASS OF 1991 Clinton C. Fladland Ronald E. Martell James M. Meehan Michael D. Michaux October 3, 2018 February 25, 2019 December 6, 2018 February 20, 2019 Annandale, Minnesota Longville, Minnesota Burnsville, Minnesota St. Paul, Minnesota

CLASS OF 1951 A. Charles Olson CLASS OF 1977 CLASS OF 2018 Alf LeCaptain October 2, 2018 Richard E. Tollefson Lawrence Philbin January 21, 2019 Duluth, Minnesota February 6, 2019 January 28, 2019 Billings, Montana Owatonna, Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota CLASS OF 1966 CLASS OF 1952 Allen B. Hyatt CLASS OF 1981 Patricia E. Heinzerling November 5, 2018 Sandra Burge February 23, 2019 Minneapolis, Minnesota October 25, 2018 Sarasota, Florida St. Paul, Minnesota Scott W. Johnson CLASS OF 1954 September 29, 2018 John M. Burman Julius C. Smith Edina, Minnesota February 21, 2019 September 8, 2018 Laramie, Wyoming Chaska, Minnesota CLASS OF 1968 Glenn R. Ayres CLASS OF 1982 CLASS OF 1955 February 27, 2019 Patricia E. Hansell Philip J. Franklin Coronado, California August 28, 2018 November 1, 2018 Minneapolis, Minnesota St. Paul, Minnesota Bert J. McKasy February 8, 2019 Ruth S. Martinson Norman T. Shaft St. Paul, Minnesota August 24, 2018 November 21, 2018 Alexandria, Minnesota Falls Church, Virginia CLASS OF 1969 Stephen H. Munstenteiger CLASS OF 1983 CLASS OF 1956 September 24, 2018 Sandra R. Boehm Donald J. Diesen Anoka, Minnesota October 27, 2018 December 22, 2018 St. Paul, Minnesota Hermantown, Minnesota John P. St. Marie August 17, 2018 CLASS OF 1985 William S. Fallon Minneapolis, Minnesota Jan M. Zender November 27, 2018 October 4, 2018 St. Paul, Minnesota CLASS OF 1971 St. James, Minnesota James R. Berens CLASS OF 1957 January 7, 2019 CLASS OF 1988 Richard J. Mattson St. Paul, Minnesota Joan Altman August 1, 2018 February 8, 2019 Hibbing, Minnesota CLASS OF 1972 Groton, South Dakota Charles S. Zimmerman Ronald L. Simon February 24, 2019 Sherri L. Rohlf November 12, 2018 Minneapolis, Minnesota December 25, 2018 Hopkins, Minnesota Eagan, Minnesota

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WHY I GIVE Joshua Colburn ’07

oshua Colburn climbed “I can’t imagine anyone the Lockhart GOLD saying they would have passed (Graduates of the Last on this course in their first year,” J Decade) giving ladder Colburn says. “These soft skills in part to take advantage of his distinguish a good practice firm’s matching-donation from a great practice.” program. Lockhart GOLD is part of the William B. Lockhart Club, HOMETOWN: Brandon, the Law School’s leadership South Dakota annual giving society. “The money was on the table CURRENT HOME: Wayzata, and I wanted it to go to my Minnesota school,” says Colburn, a partner in the corporate practice at GIVING: Lockhart Club member Faegre Baker Daniels in Minneapolis. “It was a conve- WHAT YOU WON’T FIND nient way to donate, and an ON HIS RESUME: Organizes easy way to increase participa- a day each year for FaegreBD tion each year.” lawyers to work on a Colburn directs part of his Habitat for Humanity house. gifts to the general fund but Longtime season ticket sets aside some for the Theatre holder for Gophers of the Relatively Talentless, football and hockey. which stages an original musical each spring that is written and ADVICE TO performed entirely by Minnesota FIRST-YEAR Law students. Colburn sang in STUDENTS: the chorus as a 1L and then “You get out of it served as a producer for two what you put into musicals. it, even long after He also attended the graduation.” ❘❘❘❘ University of Minnesota as an undergraduate and credits the Law School for providing him with career opportunities and an extensive network. A second longtime commitment to the Law School—11 years and counting—is Colburn’s role as an adjunct instructor. He’s a member of the teaching team for Law in Practice, a required first-year course that allows students to practice client interactions, depositions, negotiations, and other lawyering essentials with actors in the roles of clients and witnesses.

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