As the temperatures drop, LGN is proud to support the Hennepin Healthcare Foundation by donating more than 60 cold-weather items, including coats, scarves, hats, and mittens. These essential items will help keep Hennepin Healthcare patients and families in need warm this winter.
This initiative, led by the LGN DEI Committee, was part of our Martin Luther King Jr. Day service project. A big thank you to our team members who contributed to this effort! Your generosity makes a real difference.
To learn more about the impact of the Hennepin Healthcare Foundation and how you can help click below.
We are proud to recognize LGN partner David Asp for his distinguished public service and recent accomplishments.
David recently completed his one-year term as Chair of the Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board, a prestigious position to which he was appointed by Governor Walz. During his tenure, he led the Board through significant administrative rule-making and the implementation of new statutory changes. He continues to serve as a member of the Board.
In November 2024, David was appointed to the Nominations Committee by Congressman Tom Emmer and Minnesota’s Republican Congressional delegation. This committee plays a vital role in recommending candidates for U.S. Attorney, U.S. Marshal, and other federal appointments in Minnesota. Former Minnesota Supreme Court Justice G. Barry Anderson chairs this committee.
Additionally, David has been reappointed to the Minnesota Supreme Court’s Compensation Council by Chief Justice Natalie Hudson, marking his fourth appointment to this critical body. The Council evaluates and recommends compensation levels for judges and constitutional officers, further highlighting David’s commitment to serving the legal profession and the broader community.
Please join us in celebrating David’s notable contributions and his dedication to public service.
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We are proud to announce that five outstanding attorneys have been elevated to partner at our firm. Their dedication, expertise, and commitment to excellence continue to strengthen our team and the service we provide to our clients. You can read more about each of these new partners below.
Jennifer Jacobs co-leads the firm’s employment group. She provides clear, nuanced advice to clients navigating the frequently changing landscape of employment laws and managing complex workforce issues, including disability, leave, termination, and wage and hour issues. Clients appreciate the insight and thoughtfulness Jennifer brings when conducting sensitive employment investigations. Jennifer represents clients in administrative charges and employment litigation in state and federal court on a wide range of claims including discrimination, non-competes, and breach of contract.
Jennifer’s practice also includes advising LGN’s corporate, nonprofit, and government clients on general business matters, and she has significant litigation experience in matters ranging from insurance fraud to constitutional challenges of licensing requirements to county-based health care purchasing.
Simeon Morbey practices in the firm’s antitrust and e-discovery groups. He is a 2010 graduate of the University of St Thomas School of Law, where he was elected Chairman of the Board of Advocates and was a Senior Editor for the Journal of Law and Public Policy. Before law school, Mr. Morbey worked as a high school English and Mathematics teacher in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. In 2021, Mr. Morbey won the prestigious American Antitrust Institute Award for Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement by a Young Lawyer for his work in In re Peanut Farmers Antitrust Litigation, Case No. 2:19-cv-00463 (E.D. Va.).
Kyle Pozan has spent his career focusing his practice on antitrust class actions, complex business litigation, and other civil litigation matters. Kyle has considerable experience with written and oral fact discovery, having taken depositions in some of the nation’s largest class action cases, briefing class certification, and drafting and arguing dispositive motions. He is also well-versed in all areas of e-discovery and has used his experience in that field to leverage outstanding results for his clients.
Kyle currently serves as a member of The Sedona Conference, Working Group 1’s Drafting Team on eDiscovery Implications of the Internet of Things, and he was previously a member of The Sedona Conference, Working Group 1’s Brainstorming Group on Discovery and Preservation of Data from the Internet of Things (IoT). He also serves as Co-Chair of the Corporate Practice Committee for the Chicago Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Section.
Steve Teti is the Lead Attorney in the Firm’s Boston office, and practices in the Firm’s Antitrust and E-Discovery groups. Steve has significant experience drafting and arguing dispositive motions, taking depositions, working on complex e-discovery matters, and leading massive discovery efforts.
Steve is a member of and contributor to the Complex Litigation E-Discovery Forum, which is a forum for plaintiffs-side complex litigation attorneys to discuss best practices for e-discovery. Steve is also a member of the American Bar Association Antitrust Section and the American Agricultural Law Association.
Arielle Strong Wagner practices primarily in the firm’s antitrust, generative AI, data breach, and tribal government representation groups, representing consumers, small businesses, and tribes in complex litigation throughout the United States. In her antitrust practice, Arielle focuses on plaintiffs-side class actions involving claims of price fixing, restraint of trade, monopolization, and attempted monopolization in various industries such as pharmaceuticals, food and agriculture, technology, and retail products.
In her generative AI practice, Arielle represents creators who find their work replicated or utilized without consent. Arielle’s tribal government representation practice includes experience in the areas of Federal Indian Law, tribal sovereign immunity and environmental law and regulations.
These attorneys have demonstrated exceptional leadership, advocacy, and commitment to their clients and our firm. Please join us in celebrating their well-deserved achievement!
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LGN was pleased to sponsor the 83rd annual state convention of the Minnesota Farmers Union. The annual convention aims to bring the community together and focus on the future. Speakers included officials from the Farm Service Agency, the DOJ Antitrust Division, and many local elected leaders. LGN associate Eura Chang and government relations team member Amos Briggs were in attendance.
The Minnesota Farmers Union works to protect and enhance the economic interests and quality of life of family farmers and ranchers and rural communities. MFU is a nonprofit membership-based organization. Membership is open to everyone.
You can learn more about the Minnesota Farmers Union on their website: https://mfu.org/
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Rachel and Jennifer provide exceptional leadership and subject matter expertise to this practice. Clients appreciate their responsiveness and nuanced advice in managing complex situations and ensuring compliance with ever-changing employment laws. When litigation is necessary, the team provides skilled representation in state and federal court. In addition to Rachel and Jennifer, LGN’s experienced employment law team includes David Asp, Marty Munic, Toni Konkoly, David Hahn, Derek Waller, and Consuela Abotsi-Kowu, along with support staff Heather Potteiger and Samantha Girard.
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We were proud to sponsor and attend the 2024 Mayors Challenge fundraiser in honor of The Minnesota Urban Debate League (MNUDL) last week. Since 2012, the Mayors Challenge event has brought together education advocates from across the Twin Cities to celebrate and empower debate students. The event raised an impressive $162,087 in celebration of the MNUDL’s 20th anniversary.
The program featured an informative showcase debate discussing issues related to AI, the 2024-25 policy debate topic. Experts in AI and intellectual property rights served on the VIP panel. Other notable speakers included Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.
The keynote speaker was First Lady of Minnesota, MNUDL Board Member, and former speech & debate coach Gwen Walz. She shared:
“What educators and coaches work at, and dream of, is the possibility of transformation – for students to find their voices, to articulate their ideas, and to challenge, most of all, themselves. What we know about debate is that it does just that for students, and for all of us . . .
If ever there was a time to research and discuss and engage one another, it is now. If ever there was a time to support ideas with real information and real facts and real evidence, it is now.
Our hope is that our democracy looks much more like a debate team.”
LGN has been a longtime supporter of the Minnesota Urban Debate League. LGN partner Gregg Fishbein is a founding member of the Advisory Board, and LGN partner Kate Baxter-Kauf currently serves as incoming Vice Chair of the Advisory Board and volunteers at St. Paul Central. LGN attorneys Karen Hanson Riebel and Arielle Wagner, as well as state government relations specialist Jess Lindeen, also attended the event.
A team of LGN attorneys, government relations professionals, and close family members paddled a 24-foot canoe and raced down the Mississippi River on Saturday. The more than 5-mile canoe race was part of Wilderness Inquiry’s annual Great River Race. The event raised over $190,000 to fund outdoor opportunities for youth and families across Minnesota and beyond.
Every fall, Wilderness Inquiry brings together hundreds of youth, paddlers, sponsors, volunteers, and community members to raise support and awareness for Canoemobile, a program to close the opportunity gap and create equitable pathways into the outdoors for youth of all backgrounds and abilities. The Canoemobile program works with more than 25,000 youth annually through a “floating classroom” to help improve school performance, cultivate a stewardship ethic, and create pathways to higher education and career opportunities in the outdoors.
You can learn more about Wilderness Inquiry including how to donate on their website
LGN is proud to announce that associate Laura M. Matson has been named a 2024 Up & Coming Attorneys honoree by Minnesota Lawyer. Each year, Minnesota Lawyer recognizes a group of new attorneys off to a fast start in their legal careers and legal professionals making impacts within the companies and communities they serve. All the Up & Coming Attorneys honorees are in their first decade of practice.
Dr. Laura M. Matson, JD, PhD, joined Lockridge Grindal Nauen as an associate in 2020, and practices in the firm’s environmental, political, business, antitrust, employment, mediation, government representation, and complex litigation practice groups, representing numerous public entities, businesses, tribal governments, and individual plaintiffs in complex litigation and transactional matters in state and federal court.
Dr. Matson has been particularly active in the last several years representing tribal, governmental, and private clients in environmental matters and consulting on regulatory issues, including work for the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, representing the City of Minneapolis in litigation related to environmental review, and representing a small independent flower farmer in an environmental action.
In addition, Laura has been at the forefront of technology-related cases at LGN and represents plaintiffs in complex and class action cases on the cutting edge of the next generation of litigation. She is actively involved in antitrust litigation related to data privacy against a major social networking site, has helped to establish and leads LGN’s new Generative AI litigation practice, which includes various cases representing artists and authors whose copyrighted works were infringed to train generative AI models, and has also been developing a practice related to copyright and entertainment law negotiating options for book rights and music licensing. In addition to her busy litigation practice, Dr. Matson is an active professional and community volunteer, currently serving as a Council Member for the Minnesota State Bar Association, Environmental, Natural Resources, and Energy Law Section. She previously served on the board of directors of Frank Theater and was an adjunct professor for the International Law Moot Court at the University of Minnesota Law School from 2018-2020. She is a popular speaker and writer and has written articles on environmental and tribal issues, as well as a three-part series in Attorney at Law Magazine about the career of the Honorable John R. Tunheim, former Chief Judge of the District of Minnesota.
Lockridge Grindal Nauen is proud to announce that LGN partner Brian Clark has been appointed to the American Antitrust Institute (AAI) Advisory Board. This high honor comes as no surprise, as Brian is a proven leader in antitrust litigation nationwide.
Brian focuses on plaintiffs-side antitrust class actions and has led the charge in many recent antitrust cases in the agricultural area, including price-fixing cases involving chicken, pork, beef, turkey, and peanuts. To date, in these cases alone, Clark has helped recover over $500 million.
He is a prominent member of the antitrust community, frequently presenting at CLEs regarding e-discovery, and is a past member of the Sedona Conference Working Group 1. Clark also co-founded and is President of the Board of Directors for the Complex Litigation E-Discovery Forum (CLEF), which is a forum for plaintiffs-side complex litigation attorneys to discuss best practices for e-discovery.
The AAI Advisory Board consists of outstanding experts in the fields of antitrust law, economics, and business in the United States and abroad. Congratulations to Brian for joining this prestigious group.
You can learn more in the official announcement from AAI by clicking below:
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