Awards and Recognitions

Peg Birk was selected as a 50 Over 50 Inspiring Leaders in Minnesota by AARP Minnesota and Pollen for not only reinventing her own career numerous times, but for helping hundreds of others reinvent theirs. Read more.

Peg Birk ’83 (WMCL)

I am so very honored and privileged to have been selected by @aarpmn & @PollenMidwest’s #50Over50 list of amazing people who are shattering myths about aging!  Read the announcement.

Brad H. Lehrman ’81 (WMCL)

Traci Capistrant has been named to the Minnesota Super Lawyers® list for the 15th year in a row. Attorneys named to the list go through an extensive selection process including nominations, validated third-party research and evaluations by a credentialed panel of attorneys.  Traci has been practicing exclusively in family law since 1995.

Traci Capistrant ’88 (WMCL)

Nicholas Zinos’ academic paper, Fundamental Rights in Early American Case Law: 1789-1859, has been accepted for publication by the British Journal of American Legal Studies for their Spring 2018 issue. This paper was written while he was a student at Hamline School of Law with financial help provided by the Bakken Fellowship. Zinos’ faculty adviser …

Nicholas P. Zinos ’15 (HUSL)

The law firm of Maslon LLP is pleased to announce that Steve Schleicher, trial attorney in Maslon’s Litigation Group and William Mitchell alumnus, has been honored with the 2017 Presidents Award by the Minnesota State Association of Narcotics Investigators (MSANI)-an organization made up of over 300 local, county, state, and federal law enforcement officers as …

Steven L. Schleicher ’95 (WMCL)

The National Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA) is pleased to announce that John Crawford of the Lommen Abdo Law Firm, has successfully achieved recertification as a civil trial advocate. Mr. Crawford has been a NBTA member is good standing for since April of 1997. John Crawford is part a growing number of trial attorneys that …

John R. Crawford ’84 (WMCL)

Robert S. Burk was presented with the annual Leonard Lindquist Distinguished Practice Award from the Labor & Employment Section of the MN Bar Association. The Award was presented by Judge David Doty at a dinner on June 13, 2017 at U.S. Bank Stadium.

Robert S. Burk ’65 (WMCL)