Hinshaw Adds Seasoned Intellectual Property/Insurance Partner in Minneapolis

Thursday, December 10, 2020
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP today announced that Jonathan D. Jay has joined the firm’s Business Litigation Practice Group as a partner in the Minneapolis office. Formerly a partner with Hellmuth & Johnson PLLC, where he led the intellectual property and insurance defense litigation groups, Jay is a seasoned trial attorney and defends businesses accused of alleged infringement in a wide variety of intellectual property disputes. Jon also represents property and casualty insurance companies directly in various coverage matters.

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Cozen O’Connor’s Corporate Practice Continues Rapid Growth, Adding Minnesota Attorney Katheryn A. Gettman

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

As part of the ongoing build-out of its Corporate Practice, Cozen O’Connor today announced veteran Minnesota attorney Katheryn A. Gettman, who brings nearly two decades of experience as an internal/external corporate counsel, has joined its Minneapolis office. Gettman joins as a member and comes to the firm from Messerli Kramer. In the past two weeks, eleven prominent attorneys have joined the firm’s Corporate Practice, including corporate and technology attorney Frank A. Pugliese, who joined the New York City office, and nine attorneys from Baer Crossey McDemus LLC, a nationally recognized tech and corporate law boutique, who joined the Philadelphia office.

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Lewis Brisbois Establishes Office in Minneapolis With Team of Four Products Liability Partners

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Lewis Brisbois has hired a team of four partners to open its 52nd location in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Michelle R. Gilboe, an experienced trial attorney with a national products liability practice, joins as managing partner of the new office. She is accompanied by Partners Richard G. Morgan, Carli D. Pearson, and Doug L. Pfeifer. All four partners join Lewis Brisbois’ Products Liability Practice and bring to the firm nearly a century of combined experience in complex, high-exposure products liability and class action litigation. The team joins from the Minneapolis office of Bowman & Brooke LLP. More >>

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Peter Ekberg Joins DLA Piper’s Corporate Practice in Minneapolis

Monday, September 16, 2019

DLA Piper announced today that Peter Ekberg has joined the firm’s Corporate practice as a partner in Minneapolis. Ekberg was a cavalry officer in the United States Army before earning his law degree at Columbia University, with the goal of focusing on international M&A. He began his career at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York before spending more than a decade at Faegre & Benson, where he led the firm’s emerging companies practice. He then spent five years at Barnes & Thornburg, where he was the managing partner of the firm’s Minneapolis office, and later was one of the founding partners of the Minneapolis office of Jones Day. More >>

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