Cathy E. Gorlin is a member of the firm’s Family Law practice area. She represents parties in a range of family law matters, including marriage dissolution cases with complex financial estates and business valuations. She has more than 40 years of experience litigating and negotiating family law disputes, including marriage dissolutions, post-decree disputes, parentage and custody disputes, prenuptial agreements, living together agreements and appeals. She is a mediator and has considerable experience representing clients in alternative dispute resolution, including Collaborative Law. Cathy is an aggressive and effective advocate for her clients.

Justin P. Short is a partner in the firm’s Construction, Real Estate and Litigation practice groups where he represents prime contractors, subcontractors and commercial landowners.
Justin is recognized on the Minnesota Super Lawyers list and is a national lecturer on construction and real estate industry topics through the Minnesota State Bar Association, Thompson-West Corporation, HalfMoon Education Inc., and private seminars to contractors and commercial landowners throughout the United States.

Amy is an experienced litigator from pre-suit counseling to trial. She has advised clients regarding compliance in FCC, DOJ, SEC, and international and state regulatory investigations, and provided guidance on professional licensing regulations, “know-your-customer” policies, FCPA compliance, anti-money laundering policies, warranties, advertising, marketing and promotional materials.

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Kumayl is an intellectual property attorney helping clients from individual inventors to large multinational corporations obtain patent protection on their inventive ideas. He works closely with inventors to understand the original concepts behind their ideas in order to get a broad yet meaningful scope of coverage for their work. Kumayl's patent practice covers a wide swath of technology areas including aerospace, mechanical, and electrical applications. He loves learning from inventors about their work, and is committed to obtaining an in-depth understanding of each invention.