LGN’s Kristen Marttila and Joe Bourne were recently featured as panelists at the Mitchell Hamline Antitrust Law Symposium. Joe Bourne joined MN Attorney General Keith Ellison and MN State Representative Emma Greenman for an informative discussion on “Antitrust Enforcement Trends in Minnesota and Around the Country.” Kristen Marttila moderated a panel on “Antitrust as a Career for Law Students.” Thanks to all who joined us!
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LGN Partner Heidi Silton recently participated in COSAL’s 2023 Leadership & Diversity Summit in New York City. She led a panel titled “Settlement Strategy for Emerging Leaders.” Heidi was joined by panelists from around the country including Greg Asciolla (DiCello Levitt), Fatima Brizuela (Scott + Scott), and Michelle Looby (Gustafson Gluek PLLC). Heidi is a past-President of COSAL, and continues to work tirelessly on enforcement, policy and leadership in the antitrust field. Thank you to all who joined us for this thought-provoking event!
LGN was proud to sponsor the inaugural Gender Justice Brunch as a Justice Defender. The Q&A between Gender Justice’s legal director Jess Braverman and featured speaker Professor Melissa Murray explored the impact of recent Supreme Court decisions on race- and gender-based discrimination around the country. LGN partners Kristen Marttila and Rachel Kitze Collins currently serve as co-counsel with Gender Justice attorneys representing a woman in greater Minnesota whose pharmacist refused to fill her emergency contraception prescription because of his personal beliefs. Kristen and Rachel were joined at the event by LGN colleagues Charlie Nauen, Derek Waller, and Jessica Lindeen.
Several members of LGN’s Government Relations team spent Saturday night at Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party’s Founders Day Dinner. Hearing from Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer made for an amazing event.
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LGN represents Minnesota tenants who rent single-family homes from Home Partners in Hennepin County District Court. Those tenants have been litigating consumer protection, housing, contract, and other claims against Home Partners and Pathlight Property Management since 2022. LGN recently achieved a critical milestone in the litigation, as the Court (the Honorable Christian M. Sande) certified the class of Home Partners tenants in Minnesota, allowing the claims to proceed on a classwide basis. The Court also appointed LGN and their co-counsel at Hellmuth & Johnson PLLC and Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman, LLC, as class counsel. LGN looks forward to continuing to litigate the class’s claims as the case continues.
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LGN’s Kristen Marttila and Joe Bourne will be featured speakers at the upcoming Mitchell Hamline and the MSBA Antitrust Law Section Antitrust Law Symposium on Monday October 23, 2023. The MSBA Antitrust Section is excited that this will be a star-studded event, including Minnesota Attorney General Ellison, Jonathan Kanter from the DOJ, Claire Kelloway from the Open Markets Institute, plus other antitrust luminaries. The Symposium’s discussion will center on trending topics in antitrust, antitrust in agriculture, potential careers in antitrust for law students, and more.
On Monday, several LGN government relations team members were fortunate enough to spend the first official Minnesota state holiday of Indigenous Peoples’ Day with the Indian Health Board at a site blessing for the new Menaandawiwe Wellness Campus in Minneapolis. The Lockridge Grindal Nauen GR team has the privilege of representing the Indian Health Board at the Capitol, and were thrilled to be able to support their efforts to secure state capital support for this visionary project, which will expand available medical, dental, counseling, and recovery services. LGN team members joined Governor Walz, Lieutenant Governor Flanagan, US Senator Tina Smith, DHS Commissioner Jodi Harpstead, Senators Kunesh, Wiklund, and Mohamed, and Representative Sencer-Mura (and Representative Heather Keeler who was with us in spirit but honoring Indigenous Peoples’ Day in her own community). Finally, we heartily thank Dr. Patrick Rock, IHB’s CEO and Medical Director, for the opportunity to support your leadership and vision.
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LGN Partner Kristen Marttila was recently hosted at Harvard law School by the Plaintiff’s Law Association and the Harvard Law School Antitrust Association on the panel “Become an Antitrust Plaintiff’s Lawyer: Fight Corporate Abuse and Help Consumers and Small Businesses.” The panel was a joint project by those groups and the Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws (“COSAL”) to introduce students to careers in private antitrust enforcement. Ms. Marttila chairs COSAL’s amicus committee. Other panelists included Swathi Bojedla, Deborah Elman, Karin Garvey, and Jennifer Scullion.
LGN is a longtime member of COSAL, which was founded in 1986 to promote and support the enactment, preservation, and enforcement of a strong body of antitrust laws in the United States.
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On Tuesday LGN Associate Eura Chang participated in a panel discussion at the Twin Cities Diversity in Practice (“TCDIP”) General Members Meeting. Eura and her co-panelists spoke about the importance of TCDIP’s 1L Clerkship program, which is open to all first year law students. LGN has participated in this program, in partnership with the Metropolitan Council, for several years and we are thrilled to have met and worked with many wonderful law students, including Eura who joined us as an associate after she graduated from the University of Minnesota School of Law in 2022. Congratulations, Eura!
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Along with Free Speech For People, LGN represents a group of prominent Minnesota voters who have filed a petition to keep former president Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot in the state because of his role in the insurrection on January 6, 2021. The petition asks the Minnesota Supreme Court to direct Secretary of State Steve Simon to withhold Trump’s name from next year’s primary and general election ballots.
The petition invokes the insurrection disqualification clause in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This section prohibits officials who have sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution from holding public office if they have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the Constitution. No criminal conviction is required.
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