In a guest post for this past Black History Month with a focus on inequality, LGN Law Clerk Dev Mistriotti reflects on his recent decision to shed the name of his ancestors’ enslavers as he outlines the current state of Black Name Discrimination in the U.S.
Read more
Partner Kate Baxter-Kauf, who practices in the firm’s data breach, antitrust law, business litigation, and securities litigation practice groups, participated on a reproductive justice panel at Carleton College regarding the state of reproductive access in Minnesota with Dr. Julie Amaon, medical director of Just the Pill, and TL Jordan grassroots organizer at Planned Parenthood North Central States.
Read more
Lockridge Grindal Nauen Associate Rachel Kitze Collins was recently elected to her fourth term as Co-President of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society.
Read more
Lockridge Grindal Nauen P.L.L.P. partner Kate Baxter-Kauf, who practices in the firm’s data breach, antitrust law, business litigation, and securities litigation practice groups, recently participated as one of the legal minds in the Minnesota Supreme Court Historical Society’s Justice Jeopardy Event.
Read more
LGN Law Clerk Eura Chang was recently featured in the Minnesota Law Review’s Issue 2. Eura’s Note focuses on the racially disparate impacts of the bar exam and how willful blindness to the bar exam’s disparate impacts is condoned in part by two legal doctrines that protect decision-makers from legal accountability—absolute immunity doctrine and an uncompromisingly limited interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Read more
Interested parties should provide a cover letter, first-year transcript (when available), writing sample, and resume to Samantha E. Girard at segirard@locklaw.com.
Lockridge Grindal Nauen (LGN) seeks a first-year law student to join the firm as a summer associate during the summer of 2022. Summer associates at LGN gain experience with complex litigation in Minnesota and across the country, including matters involving antitrust, commercial, environmental, employment, healthcare, and products liability. LGN’s attorneys rely on summer associates to perform substantive work — such as drafting briefs, motion papers, and research memoranda. Throughout the summer program, LGN also offers summer associates the opportunity for ongoing mentorship and training.
Minnesota employers facing a year-end sprint to comply with federal mandates for COVID-19 vaccines have been granted a reprieve — at least for now.
Federal courts in recent weeks upheld challenges to a trio of Biden administration mandates that, taken together, were poised to mandate a wide swath of employers institute vaccination rules on its workers in January.
Read more
LGN Partner Kate Baxter-Kauf, who practices in the firm’s data breach, antitrust law, business litigation, and securities litigation practice groups, was a panelist on a live webinar entitled Texas Abortion Law: Implications and Consequences, presented by the American Constitution Society’s Minneapolis-St. Paul chapter.
Read more
LGN Attorney Arielle Wagner moderated the CLE “Savanna’s Act: Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women” co-hosted by Minnesota Women Lawyers and the Minnesota American Indian Bar Association.
Read moreMillions of Americans will be subject to new vaccine mandates issued by President Joe Biden, including more than 1.4 million workers in Minnesota.
The announcement this week comes as the highly contagious delta variant continues to sweep the nation, putting unvaccinated people at higher risk of hospitalization and death.
Biden only described his plan in broad strokes during a White House press conference Thursday, but the strategy is already drawing applause from some corners — and a lot of questions from others.
Read more