Best
& Flanagan is pleased to announce that former U.S. Attorney
(Minnesota) Thomas
B. Heffelfinger has returned to private practice
as a partner of the firm, and Anne C.
Stephenson has joined the firm as an associate.
Best
& Flanagan is pleased to announce that Sarah
E. Ruter and Jason
C. Tarasek have joined the firm as associates
practicing in commercial litigation, and Christopher
J. Huntley, Bart R. McIlonie, Adam
C. Speer, John M. Stern and Kathy
Yip have joined the firm as associates practicing
in commercial real estate.
Mary
E. Shearen has been elected to the Alumnae Association
Board of the College of St. Catherine.
Best & Flanagan
is pleased to announce that Cynthia
L. Hegarty has been made a partner in the firm.
Best
& Flanagan is pleased to announce that Edward
P. (Ted) Sheu and Dennis S. Puzz, Jr. have joined
the firm as associates.
John
Burton andE.
Joseph LaFave have been selected by a group of their peers and listed
by Woodward/White, Inc., as two of the leading Trust and Estate
Attorneys in the country.
Congratulations
to Mary Shearen
on her recent election as a Fellow of the American College
of Trust and Estate Counsel. Mary joins Bob
Crosby, John
Burton and Joe
LaFave, who are already Fellows in the college.
The
Minnesota American
Indian Bar Association members have elected
Lenor Scheffler president of the organization. In honor of this
achievement, the Minnesota Office of the Attorney General
Mike Hatch presented Ms. Scheffler with a Certificate of Recognition
of distinguished service and dedication to the State of Minnesota.
Best
& Flanagan is pleased to announce that Daniel
L. Grimsrud, Nancy J. Krutsch
and John D. Seiner
have joined the firm as associates.
Minnesota
Law & Politics named E.
Joseph LaFave and Robert
D. Maher as two of the Top 40 Trust and Estate
Super Lawyers in the state. This list from the 2003
Super Lawyer survey is published in the October/November issue
of Minnesota Law & Politics magazine.
On March 21, 2003
Lenor Scheffler
was appointed by Governor Tim Pawlenty to the Commission on
Judicial Selection as an at-large attorney member. The important
tasks of the Commission include soliciting judicial candidates,
evaluating applicants and recommending finalists for district
court and Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals vacancies.
Best & Flanagan
is pleased to announce that Duane
L. Paulson and James
M. Christenson have joined the firm's Real
Estate and Commercial
Lending practice as partners effective March 15,
2003. Focusing on commercial lending, mortgage banking
and real estate finance, development, purchase, sale and leasing,
Messrs. Christenson and Paulson represent lenders, borrowers,
developers, sellers and purchasers in all aspects of commercial
business and real estate.
Mary
Shearen, a partner in Estate
Planning, is featured on the Minnesota
Community Foundation web site. For more than fifty
years, the Minnesota Community Foundation has facilitated investment
in the future of Minnesota through its work as a community endowed
public charity.
Congratulations
to Daniel Kaplan
who was inducted into the Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame
at Mounds Park Academy on September 22, 2002. Daniel was
part of MPA's first graduating class, and went on to major in
Political Science at the University of Massachusetts.
He received his law degree from the University of Minnesota
School of Law in 1993 and has been with Best & Flanagan
since 1997 in the Business
and Real
Estate Law.
Lenor
Scheffler was inducted into the Redwood Valley
Hall of Fame in the category of Outstanding Alumni in May, 2002.
Lenor is the Chair of the Native
American Law Practice Group at Best and Flanagan
and also Chief Judge of the Upper Sioux Community Tribal Court.
Minneapolis,
MN
55402-4690