MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced today that 109 lawyers in the Firm’s Minneapolis office will receive recognition from the North Star Program of the Minnesota State Bar Association for their pro bono work in 2014. Each of these 109 lawyers contributed at least 50 hours of pro bono legal service to the poor and disadvantaged in our community.
“Community is a Dorsey core value, and pro bono work is one of the most important ways we give back to the community,” said Eric Ruzicka, the Firm’s Pro Bono Partner. “Dorsey was an original signatory of the American Bar Association Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge back in 1993. Every year since then, we have surpassed the Challenge by devoting more than 3% of the Firm’s total billable hours to pro bono. The Minneapolis lawyers being recognized for doing more than 50 hours of pro bono in 2014 set a great example, but they are not alone. In 2014, Dorsey lawyers across the Firm performed a total of 37,309 hours of Challenge pro bono work!”
Dorsey’s North Star Program honorees include:
| Jonathan Abram | Beth Forsythe | Michael McCormick | James Schultz | ||||||
| Wesley Anderson | Timothy Goodman | Lawrence McDonough | Betsy Sellers | ||||||
| Katherine Arnold | Kevin Ha | Robert McGarry IV | Jessica Shiffman | ||||||
| Monica Avendano | Mark Hamel | Saiko McIvor | Jesse Sixkiller | ||||||
| Rachel Benedict | Christina Hanson | Patrick McLaughlin | Kristin Stastny | ||||||
| Christopher Bercaw | Richard Helde | Emily Menchaca | Jaime Stilson | ||||||
| Kristin Berkland | Lauren Hertz | Theresa Mielke | Mike Stinson | ||||||
| Rebecca Bernhard | Alexander Hontos | Jessie Mischke | Mary Streitz | ||||||
| Theresa Bevilacqua | Elizabeth Hulsebos | Matt Mlsna | Thomas Swigert | ||||||
| Andrew Brantingham | Samir Islam | Jamie Nafziger | Forrest Tahdooahnippah | ||||||
| Daniel Brown | Kathryn Johnson | Luke Olson | Tom Tinkham | ||||||
| Hugh Brown | William Jonason | Joel O'Malley | Claire Topp | ||||||
| Matthew Buckley | Ken Jorgensen | Katina Peterson | Tiana Towns | ||||||
| Brian Burke | Ben Kappelman | Neal Peterson | Annie Trimberger | ||||||
| Maggie Carnahan | Mark Kaster | Katie Pfeifer | Gary Tygesson | ||||||
| Marilyn Clark | Bryan Keane | Michael Pignato | Thomas Vander Molen | ||||||
| Monica Clark | Chandra Kilgriff | Angela Porter | Mark Wagner | ||||||
| Erin Conti | Jillian Kornblatt | Melissa Raphan | Michael Weinbeck | ||||||
| David Couillard | Melissa Krasnow | Leonard Rice | Steven Wells | ||||||
| Sydney Crowder | Barbara Leonard | Violet Richardson | Brent Ylvisaker | ||||||
| Erin Davenport | Thaddeus Lightfoot | Eileen Roberts | RJ Zayed | ||||||
| Meghan DesLauriers | Benjamin Lindblad | Michael Rowe | Alysia Zens | ||||||
| Paul Dieseth | Lincoln Loehrke | Erik Ruda | Kristin Zinsmaster | ||||||
| Timothy Droske | Nathaniel Longley | Eric Ruzicka | Chris Ziolkowski | ||||||
| Michael Drysdale | Edward Magarian | Thomas Ryan | Jessica Zuba | ||||||
| Skip Durocher | JoLynn Markison | Glenn Salvo | |||||||
| Kieran Dwyer | Nadia Martyn | Lori Sarageno | |||||||
| Evan Everist | James Mason | Kirsten Schubert | |||||||
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