Minneapolis partner
David Crosby will serve as Stinson LLP’s next deputy managing partner, alongside Kansas City-based Managing Partner-elect Allison Murdock. Their term will begin July 2021, at the conclusion of current Managing Partner Mark Hinderks’ term.
Crosby has held multiple leadership positions during his 27-year tenure at the firm. He currently serves as co-chair of a Business Litigation division and as a member of the firm’s associate evaluation committee. He completed a five-year term with Stinson’s board of directors in 2019. As deputy managing partner, Crosby will serve and support nearly 500 attorneys in Stinson’s 13 locations.
Crosby’s experience in both commercial and estate and trust litigation spans from handling billion-dollar family trust disputes to defending large software manufacturers in multidistrict class actions. He has also successfully argued numerous federal and state court appeals for clients across the country.
National Gallery of Art announces new staff appointed to key positions across the museum
Eric Bruce began as Head of Visitor Experience and Evaluation in August 2020.
WASHINGTON, DC
.-The National Gallery of Art announced today the appointment of four new staff to positions that will support the National Gallery s mission to serve the nation. These positions advance the National Gallery s strategic priorities to make the museum more visitor-focused, inclusive, and equitable, as well as to provide deeper connections to the museum s content through digital access to its collections, exhibitions, programs, and research.
Mikka Gee Conway began her tenure as Chief Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Officer and EEO Director in September 2020. As part of the museum leadership team, Conway reports to Feldman and leads diversity, equity, and inclusion work across the National Gallery, as well as oversees the institution s EEO office. Conway comes to the National Gallery from the J. Pau
Governors Wind Energy Coalition
‘Energy’ Is Its Name. But What Can the D.O.E. Actually Do on Climate? Source: By Brad Plumer, New York Times • Posted: Thursday, January 28, 2021
President Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Energy would control powerful levers to promote clean-energy technologies, though that’s not the agency’s only job. Still, here are five possible steps.
Jennifer Granholm, President Biden’s nominee for energy secretary, is scheduled for a Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday.Amr Alfiky/The New York Times
WASHINGTON Jennifer M. Granholm, who faced a confirmation hearing Wednesday morning as President Biden’s nominee to head the Department of Energy, is widely expected to play a central role in the administration’s efforts to confront climate change.
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Choi is also a member of the Mitchell Hamline Board of Trustees; Graves and Palmer are adjunct professors at Mitchell Hamline.
The project, funded through a federal grant, is a collaboration between the attorney general’s office and the Great North Innocence Project (formerly the Innocence Project of Minnesota). The Innocence Project of Minnesota was previously headquartered at Hamline University School of Law until the 2015 combination of William Mitchell and Hamline Law. It now is housed at the University of Minnesota Law School but continues to utilize Mitchell Hamline students in working on cases.
The organization has helped free several people from prison, most recently Myon Burrell. Burrell was released after spending 18 years in prison and after an independent panel of experts from across the nation recommended his release. He maintained his innocence after being sentenced to life in prison for killing an 11-year old girl, Tyesha Edwards. The Executiv
Marcel Leshaun Thompson, 31, may not apply for reinstatement until Jan. 21, 2024.
Thompson was convicted in August 2019 of making terroristic threats and second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon, both felonies. He received a stayed prison sentence two months later and was placed on five years’ probation.
“I think the three-year discipline is representative of the conviction of a felony involving crimes of violence,” said Lawyers Professional Responsibility Office Director Susan Humiston.
Her office could not verify that the lawyer under suspension is the same Marcel Thompson who, according to the city of Minneapolis website, served on the city’s Human Rights commission in 2019.