Join the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota for the annual Minority Judges Reception, co-sponsored by MNAPABA, Minnesota Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, Minnesota Association of Black Lawyers, Minnesota American Indian Bar Association, Minnesota Disability Bar Association, Minnesota Hispanic Bar Association, Minnesota Hmong Bar Association, Minnesota Somali Bar Association, Minnesota Lavender Bar Association, Minnesota Women Lawyers, and Twin Cities Diversity in Practice. For more information or to register, please click here.

The Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH) is hosting an investiture to formally swear in the 11 judges who joined the bench since 2019. Three of the honorees are part of MNAPABA's community-- congratulations to Assistant Chief Judge N. Amee Pham, Workers' Compensation Judge Nicholas Chang, and Administrative Law Judge Suzanne Todnem. This will be a fun event with live music, free parking, party favors, and more. For more information or to register, please click here.

The Minnesota Board of Law Examiners is soliciting written responses and comment on its seven recommendations regarding bar admission. Responses and comments are due May 1, 2023. For more information, please click here.

Registration is open for the Minnesota Women Lawyers' 51st Annual Meeting, featuring a keynote workshop by Ra'Shya Ghee (Assistant Dean of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, University of Minnesota Law School). To register or for more information, please click here.

The U.S. Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) is seeking qualified candidates from all backgrounds to join its immigration judge corps. Interested parties are invited to attend a virtual information session where senior EOIR staff will discuss the immigration judge career path, duties, qualifications, and benefits of being an immigration judge. There will also be information about applying for immigration judge positions when they become available, as well as a Q&A session. For more information or to register, please click here. 

The next immigration judge position is scheduled to open in early April. Interested parties can receive a notification when the announcement is posted on USAJOBS, by signing up for EOIR's Adjudicators Announcement listserv.

For more information on the immigration judge career path, benefits, qualifications, etc., please click here.

Minnesota Lawyer’s annual awards luncheon celebrates the future leaders of the legal profession alongside those that actually keep the wheels of justice moving.

AWARDS
Up & Coming Attorneys are those who have in their first 10 years of practice distinguished themselves by their:
• Professional accomplishment
• Leadership
• Service to community/profession
• Achievement as in-house counsel

Unsung Legal Heroes are important to their colleagues, their clients and their communities.

They make the lawyers look good in court and the offices look good all the time. And, even more remarkably, they not only can keep their cyber worlds safe and secure, but they also can speak technology to lawyers.

Click here for additional information.

Minnesota Lawyer is proud to celebrate our In-House partners at the annual In-House Counsel Awards. Minnesota Lawyer will recognize Minnesota’s in-house counsel at all levels who among other things, navigate complicated contract negotiations, defend their companies in high stakes litigation and defend some of an organization’s most important assets.

Minnesota Lawyer will recognize Minnesota’s in-house counsel at all levels who among other things, navigate complicated contract negotiations, defend their companies in high stakes litigation and defend some of an organization’s most important assets.

Information on nominations and the event are available on their website.

Join the Very Asian Foundation (VAF) for a mixer at Asian-owned Arbeiter Brewing in Minneapolis. VAF is partnering with We Need Diverse Books to deliver more than 70 books to two Twin Cities schools through the May Book Project, which aims to help schools and libraries build and maintain robust Asian American youth literature collections for all readers, and provides funding to donate books to at-need libraries. Come to learn more about the project, the foundation, and meet other incredible professionals and creators in the Twin Cities. For more information, please click here.

VAF is co-founded by former Twin Cities journalist Gia Vang and St. Louis-based journalist Michelle Li in response to a racist voicemail sent to Li on New Year’s Day in 2022 in a movement to shine a light on Asian experiences through advocacy and celebration. To lean more, please click here.