Rachel A. Kitze Collins
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Overview
Rachel Kitze Collins practices in the firm’s environmental, business, political law, and employment groups, representing numerous public entities, businesses, and plaintiffs in complex, high-profile litigation involving environmental, constitutional, political, contract, and employment law, in federal and state court. Ms. Kitze Collins has also represented non-profit employers in complex labor negotiations and NLRB proceedings.
Ms. Kitze Collins currently serves as a Board Member and former Co-President of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Chapter of the American Constitution Society and as a Current Council Member and Past Chair of the Minnesota State Bar Association’s Environmental, Natural Resources and Energy Law Section. Ms. Kitze Collins was named an ‘Up & Coming Attorney’ by Minnesota Lawyer in 2019, and has been named a Minnesota Rising Star from 2017-2022 by Super Lawyers. She has also been recognized numerous times by North Star Lawyer for her pro bono work.
Ms. Kitze Collins also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, where she coaches the Environmental Moot Court Competition Team (2019-present). Her team won the 2024 Jeffrey G. Miller National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition at Pace University, competing against 54 teams from across the United States.
Ms. Kitze Collins is a 2014 summa cum laude graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif. While in law school, Ms. Kitze Collins served as a Note and Comment Editor for the Minnesota Law Review and a Clinic Director for the Environmental Sustainability Clinic.
Ms. Kitze Collins clerked for the Honorable James B. Loken of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit before joining Lockridge Grindal Nauen P.L.L.P.
Publications
- Major Lingering Questions from West Virginia v. EPA, MWL With Equal Right (Jan. 20, 2023)
- Note, Moving Past Preemption: Enhancing the Power of Local Governments over Hydraulic Fracturing, 98 Minn. L. Rev. 385 (2013).
- Court cuts back on remedies for errant pesticide overspray, Minnesota Lawyer (Aug. 10, 2012).
Professional Associations
- Board Member and former Co-President (2019-2023), Minneapolis-St. Paul Chapter of the American Constitution Society
- Council Member and former Chair, Minnesota State Bar Association’s Environmental, Natural Resources, and Energy Law Section
- Federal Bar Association
Professional Recognition
- Named a Minnesota Rising Star from 2017-2022 by Super Lawyers®
- Selected as a 2022 Diversity & Inclusion Honoree by Minnesota Lawyer
- Appointed to Merit Selection Panel in 2022 to advise the District of Minnesota on the selection of a new U.S. Magistrate Judge
- Named an ‘Up & Coming Attorney’ by Minnesota Lawyer in 2019
- Named a ‘North Star Lawyer’ by the Minnesota State Bar Association in 2016, 2018, and 2021-2023 in recognition of pro bono work
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