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The Minnesota Legislature recently enacted a new Minnesota Trust Code, with the assistance of a committee chaired by Chris Hunt of Fredrikson & Byron. The committee spent about 3,500 hours—yes, you read that right—over 4 and ½ years preparing the bill. Christopher Burns, attorney and Chair of the Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Group at…

Super Lawyers Magazine named more than half of Henson Efron attorneys to the 2015 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists for the state of Minnesota. Family law attorney Alan C. Eidsness was recognized in the top 10 of the overall Minnesota Super Lawyers list, a distinction he has received eight times since 2005. For the…

Stuart Williams, business and environmental litigation attorney, was re-appointed by Governor Mark Dayton to a second four-year term to the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy. He will continue to serve as president of the Board in 2015 and has been a member of the Board since 2011. The mission of the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy is…

Henson Efron announced that five of its attorneys were honored by the Minnesota State Bar Association (MSBA) as North Star Lawyers, recognizing their commitment to pro bono service in 2014. Each attorney volunteered 50 hours or more of their time serving low income Minnesotans last year. Christopher J. Burns – Estate Planning, Trust and Probate…

Christopher Burns, attorney and Chair of the Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Group at Henson Efron, P.A., will share strategies for working with your professional team to develop an intelligent estate plan together with stories of those who have failed to intelligently plan and the consequences of their failures. This June 9 seminar is part…

Bruce C. Recher, business litigation attorney, represented three Minnesota residents who were minority shareholders in an Iowa family farm corporation and were awarded more than $4.2 million in a cash buyout as “fair value” of their shares by a judge of the Iowa Business Specialty Court. This was the first trial conducted by the Iowa…

Litigation attorney Stuart T. Williams was appointed by the St. Louis Park Mayor and City Council to serve on the Fire Civil Service Commission. Mr. Williams also was elected president of the Commission, which is vested with the authority to regulate and supervise the employment, promotion, discharge and suspension of all sworn full-time fire positions…

In a series of short videos, litigation attorney David Bradley Olsen covers a variety of topics in relation to the First Amendment from libel and slander to public figures and defamation. See more on his ReelLawyers.com page.

Twin Cities Business magazine’s Lawsuits Of The Year: 2014 included the successful representation of Ventura in a defamation case. Ventura’s legal team was led by David Bradley Olsen and included Court Anderson, John Bisanz, Jr., Benjamin Hamborg, and paralegal Emily Erickson.

Henson Efron elected business law attorney Rochelle L. Hauser as shareholder while family law attorney Lisa T. Spencer was re-elected to serve on the firm’s management committee. Hauser represents and advises companies and individuals on a wide variety of corporate and business matters, including business formation, reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, various commercial transactions, and other…

The team of Henson Efron attorneys that successfully represented Jesse Ventura in his defamation case against the estate of American Sniper author Chris Kyle has been selected as one of Minnesota Lawyer’s Attorneys of the Year honorees for 2014. The legal team won a successful verdict in July 2014 when Ventura was awarded $500,000 for…

Lisa Spencer, Katy Graves, Melissa Nilsson, Kelli Jordan, Elizabeth Sumpton and Lisa Thoreson were recently featured in a special issue of Attorney At Law magazine, Women in Law of the Twin Cities. Read more

Henson Efron congratulates estate planning, trust, and probate chair, Christopher J. Burns, on his re-election to the Woodbury City Council.  He was first elected in 2010 and currently chairs the Woodbury Street Rehabilitation Task Force. According to the Woodbury Bulletin newspaper, “Burns termed himself a tax ‘watchdog’ and said he’ll continue focusing on efficient government…

Litigation attorney Stuart T. Williams was appointed by Governor Mark Dayton to the Minnesota Board of Psychology.  He is one of three public members on the eleven-member Board. The mission of the Minnesota Board of Psychology is to protect the public through licensure, regulation, and education to promote access to safe, competent, and ethical psychological…

Litigation attorney Stuart T. Williams was appointed by the President of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) to the Task Force to Examine Strategies for Preventing and Reacting to Pharmacy Robberies and Theft. The newly formed Task Force will address the recent increase of theft of controlled substances caused by the national epidemic…

Litigation attorney Stuart T. Williams was appointed by the Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Services to the Drug Formulary Committee. He is the sole public member and will serve a three-year term. The Committee, whose other members are made up of physicians and pharmacists, advises the Commissioner on drug coverage issues for Minnesota’s…

Henson Efron announced today that six of its attorneys were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2015. (Copyright 2014 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.) The six Henson Efron attorneys named as Best Lawyers for 2015 are: Joseph T. Dixon, Jr. – Bet-the-Company Litigation and Commercial Litigation Alan C….

Jesse Ventura was awarded $500,000 for defamation and more than $1.34 million for “unjust enrichment” by a jury in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota Tuesday, having successfully established that Chris Kyle defamed him in his book American Sniper and in later promotional interviews. In order to succeed, Ventura had to…