MINNEAPOLIS – June 22, 2020. Winthrop & Weinstine is pleased to announce that Kyle Kroll, attorney in the Business & Commercial Litigation practice, has been recognized by the Minnesota State Bar Association New Lawyers Section as this year’s Outstanding New Lawyer of the Year. To be eligible, a nominee must be a licensed attorney under 36 years of age or in practice less than 6 years who has shown outstanding dedication to the Minnesota State Bar Association or a local bar affiliate.

Kyle’s complex commercial litigation experience includes class action, antitrust and unfair competition, false advertising, intellectual property, and utilities matters. Kyle’s colleagues know him to be a consummate professional, passionate advocate, and a skilled writer and oralist. In addition to Kyle’s for-profit work, he is heavily involved in Winthrop & Weinstine’s pro bono efforts; his most recent cases have involved First Amendment rights and disability discrimination.

Kyle served as the co-chair of the Social Committee of the MSBA New Lawyers section for the 2019-20 bar year. He also attended this year’s ABA Mid-year Meeting as an ambassador for the section. Additionally, Kyle is an active member of the Minnesota bar, such as in the Appellate Practice, Civil Litigation, and Public Utilities sections. Even with these roles, Kyle finds time to serve as the co-chair of the FBA Newer Lawyers committee, regularly participates in HCBA events, and is co-chair of the HCBA’s Wine Club. In these involvements, Kyle has led and co-led teams to orchestrate events ranging from luncheons with judges, to a CLE on social media ethics, to social events for new lawyers. Outside of bar activities, Kyle has been appointed to serve terms on the City of Minneapolis’s Ethical Practices Board and University of Minnesota’s Student Legal Service’s Board of Directors. Despite such a long list of obligations, Kyle also manages to find time to mentor others and serve as an Adjunct Legal Research and Writing Professor, and Fundraiser, for the University of Minnesota Law School.

MINNEAPOLIS – June 9, 2020 – Sixteen attorneys from Winthrop & Weinstine have been named “North Star Lawyers” by the Minnesota State Bar Association (MSBA), celebrating attorneys who donated at least 50 hours of pro bono legal services in 2019. The North Star Lawyer Program seeks to change lives through donations of time, talent and resources to help achieve justice for those who otherwise could not afford it.

Winthrop & Weinstine’s 2019 North Star Lawyers are:

• Emily Anderson
• Thomas Boyd
• Sarah Braman
• Tammera Diehm
• Andrew Escher
• Reid Golden
• Alexander Hagstrom
• Thomas Hanson
• Katherine Johnson
• Kyle Kroll
• Kristy Lieblein
• Amber Peterson
• Elizabeth Schmiesing
• Timothy Sitzmann
• Ann Steingraeber
• Michele Vaillancourt

To learn more about the MSBA North Star Lawyers program, visit https://www.mnbar.org/public/access-to-justice/pro-bono/northstar

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