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LGN’s Kate Baxter-Kauf Speaks at Class Action Forum
Partner Kate Baxter-Kauf, who practices in the firm’s data breach, antitrust law, business litigation, and securities litigation practice groups, recently participated on a panel at the Third Annual Western Alliance Bank Class Action Law Forum, in collaboration with the University of San Diego School of Law.
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LGN Partner Kristen Marttila Serves as a Panelist in Federal Bar Association Webinar
LGN Partner Kristen Marttila recently participated as a panelist for the Federal Bar Association’s webinar Nuts and Bolts of Federal Clerkships, designed to equip law students and newer lawyers from a variety of backgrounds to apply for federal clerkships. Her fellow panelists were the Honorable Rossie D. Alston, Jr., U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, and John S. Moran, a partner with McGuireWoods in Washington, D.C., and moderator Charles B. Molster, III a principal in the Law Offices of Charles B. Molster, III PLLC, in Washington, D.C.
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EMPLOYERS’ BIG DECISION – WHETHER TO MANDATE VACCINATION FOR EMPLOYEES
Now that three COVID-19 vaccines have finally received emergency use authorization (“EUA”) from the Federal Food & Drug Administration (“FDA”) and President Biden just announced that all eligible adults should be able to sign up for a vaccine appointment by May 1, the question employers have pondered for some time is ripe for decision: Can employers require their employees to get vaccinated? And the related questions: Can employers ask employees for proof of vaccination? Can employers prohibit employees from coming to the workplace without having been vaccinated? And can employers terminate employees who refuse to be vaccinated?
The short answer to all of the above is yes. But as with every employment decision, it comes with lots of caveats, careful navigation through the legal landscape, risk assessments, and employee morale considerations.
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Congratulations to LGN’s newest partner, Rebecca Peterson
Lockridge Grindal Nauen is proud to announce that Rebecca Peterson is a partner in the firm’s class action group with a focus on consumer protection, product liability, and pet food regulation cases, and accompanying regulatory issues.
Read moreLockridge Grindal Nauen is proud to announce that Rebecca Peterson is a partner in the firm’s class action group with a focus on consumer protection, product liability, and pet food regulation cases, and accompanying regulatory issues.
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LGN Attorney Rachel Kitze Collins Profiled in Lawyers of ACS
LGN Attorney Rachel Kitze Collins serves as the Co-President of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Chapter of the American Constitution Society and was recently profiled in the January 2021 publication of Lawyers of ACS, a monthly publication by ACS National featuring ACS leaders and members from around the country, which is distributed to ACS Chapters in more than 50 cities across the United States.
The full feature can be found below and on the ACS website.
Lawyers of ACS, January 2021 – Rachel Kitzen Collins
My upbringing instilled in me a passion for social justice and a love of the environment. In college, political science and environmental studies were natural choices for my majors, although I resisted for a while the assumption that I would attend law school. But after internships in Washington, DC, at Environment America, a local nonprofit in Northfield, Minnesota, and in the legal clinics at William Mitchell College of Law (now Mitchell Hamline), I decided that pursuing a law degree was the best way to follow my passions and make a difference.
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LGN Attorneys File Amicus Brief on Behalf of COSAL
LGN attorneys Charles Nauen, Heidi Silton, Joe Bruckner, Kristen Marttila, and Justin Erickson, on behalf of the Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws (“COSAL”), filed an amicus brief supporting the petition for rehearing en banc in the Eleventh Circuit in Johnson v. NPAS Solutions, LLC. In Johnson, a divided panel categorically banned courts from granting service awards to class representatives.
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