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DARA ALVARADO

Where were you born?
Naranjito, Guayas, Equador

Who is/was an important mentor to you?
My Parents

Favorite TV show involving a lawyer?
Not a show, but My Cousin Vinny

Favorite movie that doesn't involve a lawyer?
Encanto, Finding Nemo

List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point?
(1) Travel
(2) Food
(3) Animals

What was your very first paying job?
Grocery Store Bagger

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CHELSEY BUCK

 List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Travel
(2) Food
(3) Movies & TV

List three topics you are least likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Politics
(2) Religion
(3) Sports

Best piece of advice you ever received?
"Nothing worth having comes easy."

If you were not a lawyer, had no capital and had to start a business from scratch tomorrow to make ends meet, what would that business be?
A wedding photographer business

 It's your last meal...what's on the menu?
Pizza from Naples, Pizza Hut breadsticks, and S'mores (lots of them).

Famous person (dead or alive) with whom you’d most like to have dinner?
I would love to have dinner with Steve Carell and Rainn Wilson.  What can I say? I love the Office.

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MIKE COHEN

List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Intellectual Property
(2) Basketball
(3) Television

List three topics you are least likely to blog about at some point.
(1) The weather
(2) Religion
(3) Politics

Favorite TV show involving a lawyer?
Boston Legal

Favorite Movie that doesn’t involve a lawyer?
The Sound of Music

What was your major in college?
Urban Planning and Russian — I was going to design cities in Russia

If you were not a lawyer, had no capital, and had to start a business from scratch tomorrow to make ends meet, what would that business be?
A 24-hour hardware store that serves 10 varieties of soup

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LINDSEY DAY

List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Wisconsin sports
(2) Outdoors
(3) Travel

List three topics you are least likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Politics
(2) Religion
(3) Exotic foods

Favorite TV show involving a lawyer?
Ed (about the bowling-alley lawyer)

What was your major in college?
Accounting

What was your very first paying job?
Rink monitor at open skate at the local ice arena

It’s your last meal...what’s on the menu?
A little bit of a lot of things: cheese pizza, the steak and those delicious rolls with cinnamon butter at the Texas Roadhouse, shrimp, and Red Lobster cheddar bay biscuits

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MICHAEL EWALD 

List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Book Reviews
(2) Science and the Environment
(3) My Dogs

If you were not a lawyer, had no capital and had to start a business from scratch tomorrow to make ends meet, what would that business be?
I would start a podcast interviewing entrepreneurs, scientists, athletes, artists and public intellectuals on their passions and interests. 

It’s your last meal…what’s on the menu?
Hopefully fresh seafood around a campfire or from the grill

Who is/was an important mentor to you?
Professor Frank Fommersheim, a professor at the University of South Dakota School of Law 

If you could describe your career path in one word, what would it be?
Winding


LUKE GREINER

List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point. 
(1) Sports
(2) Food
(3) Television

List three topics you are least likely to blog about at some point. 
(1) politics
(2) religion
(3) Justin Bieber

Favorite Movie that doesn’t involve a lawyer? 
Remember the Titans

It’s your last meal…what’s on the menu? 
Anything on the grill, as long as I can eat outside, watch the sunset, and wash it down with a cold beer.

If you were not a lawyer, had no capital and had to start a business from scratch tomorrow to make ends meet, what would that business be?
Private hockey-skills coach.

Best piece of advice you ever received? 
Control what you can control, ignore the rest.


TUCKER GRIFFITH 

List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Intellectual Property Law
(2) Movies, TV and general pop culture
(3) Food

List three topics you are least likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Tax Law
(2) The Bachelor/Bachelorette
(3) The contrasting influences of Keynesian and Monetarist economics on modern day societies

What was your major in college? If you had to do it all over again, what would you study?
Mechanical Engineering, though if given the opportunity to do it all over again, I would study Biomechanical Engineering – I’m fascinated by the advances in prosthetic technologies.

It’s your last meal…what’s on the menu?
Easy! – full Thanksgiving dinner – turkey, all the fixings, and of course a variety of pies to finish it off.

What's the most ridiculous Halloween costume you've ever worn?
When I was 10 or 11, I made my own hippopotamus costume, including painstaking efforts to craft a realistic head out of papier maché. I was disheartened when everyone thought I was a dragon.

If you could describe your career path in one word, what would it be?
Scholarly



BRANDI LAWLER

List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Volcanoes
(2) Travel
(3) Science

What was your major in college? 
I double majored in Finance and Risk Management

Favorite TV show involving a lawyer?
Suits (sometimes it would be great to have a photographic memory)

Famous person (dead or alive) with whom you'd most like to have dinner?
Neil deGrasse Tyson (who doesn't love astrophysics?)

It's your last meal...what's on the menu?
Margherita pizza from Il Leone Rosso in Sorrento, Italy

What was your very first paying job?
I ran the cash register and was chief leech counter at a bait and tackle shop when I was about 7 years old (it wasn't cash compensation, and we won't get into child labor laws). My first real job was loading beef jerky onto semi-trucks. 



LU LI

List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point. 
(1) The intersection of finance and law
(2) Business Plan drafting
(3) Exotic cultures and business models 

List three topics you are least likely to blog about at some point. 
(1) Sports
(2) Religion
(3) Politics

Where were you born?
Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, China

Who is/was an important mentor to you?
My dad is definitely the most important and valuable mentor I have ever had. He is a typical self-made man who is resilient, positive, and caring. He never went to college, but he tried his best to support my younger brother and me all the way through doctoral programs. 

Favorite TV show involving a lawyer?
The Good Fight. I love seeing how Diana survives and thrives at her lowest point in life (bankruptcy at retirement, loss of reputation and clients, and separation from her husband). There are definitely ups and downs in life, the point is how we handle them.

Best piece of advice you ever received?
There are always two sides to a coin. If you want the best side, you need ot take the worst side of it too. 


HANNAH LUTZ

List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point.
(1) The internet
(2) Music
(3) Science fiction

List three topics you are least likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Finance
(2) Religion
(3) Politics

What was your major in college? 
I double majored in music and philosophy.

Where did you attend law school? What did you like most about that location?
I attended law school in New York City. I loved being able to walk or take the subway anywhere, and to make a grocery run or have food delivered at any time of day. As a fan of classical music and musical theater, I also benefited from the incredible opportunity to go to world-class opera, orchestra, and Broadway performances.

Favorite TV show involving a lawyer?
Arrested Development. Definitely more of a lesson in what not to do...

What’s the first food booth you visit on a trip to the state fair? 
Cheese curds, of course.


DAVE MOREHOUSE

Three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point?
(1) Generally, books—maybe a movie here and there or even a current event
(2) What we all might learn from Indiana Jones (or other sources that entrepreneurs might not readily embrace)
(3) Enlightened self interest

Three topics you are least likely to blog about at some point?
(1) Celebrities and their public meltdowns
(2) Intricate details of arcane provisions of the tax code (I have partners for that!)
(3) How to make a humongous fortune (if I knew, I might already have done it)

Favorite TV show involving a lawyer? 
Rumpole of the Bailey (Masterpiece, PBS). Otherwise, I tend to avoid law-oriented shows. Truth is stranger than fiction.

Favorite movie that doesn’t involve a lawyer?
How the West Was Won—It may not be particularly accurate historically, but it captures the American impulse to create, to build, and to improve. Plus, it has an awesome score.

Famous person (dead or alive) with whom you’d most like to have dinner? 
Winston Churchill or Franklin Roosevelt—it’s a toss-up. If those guys are busy that night, William the Conqueror. I’d have a drink with Jimmy Page.

It’s your last meal...what’s on the menu?
A reprieve?

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ALEX REED

List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point. 
(1) Kansas City Sports
(2) Small Towns 
(3) Racquet Sports

List three topics you are least likely to blog about at some point. 
(1) Reality TV
(2) Nuclear Politics 
(3) Celebrity Gossip

Where were you born?
Ottawa, Kansas 

Favorite TV Show involving a lawyer?
Better Call Saul

What is the most ridiculous Halloween costume you've ever worn?
Rex, owner of Rex Kwon Do martial arts center (from Napoleon Dynamite)

What was your major in college? If you had to do it all over again, what would you study now?
Finance and Accounting. I really enjoyed (and enjoy) finance and accounting, but I think having a construction science degree and helping to construct large projects would be very cool. 

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JULIAN SANSANO

Where were you born?
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Best piece of advice you ever received?
Someone has to be the best, why not you?

Favorite Movie that doesn’t involve a lawyer?
Good Will Hunting

List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Cryptocurrency, Blockchain technology
(2) NIL deals in collegiate athletics
(3) Tax code changes

It’s your last meal…what’s on the menu?
My grandmother’s lasagna!

Famous person (dead or alive) with whom you’d most like to have dinner?
(1) Dead: Kobe Bryant (his mentality was unmatched)
(2) Alive: Gennaro Gattuso (famous Italian soccer player)

If you could describe your career path in one word, what would it be? 
Unique

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DAN TENENBAUM

List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Musical theatre
(2) Animation
(3) Raising capital and/or children

List three topics you are least likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Country music
(2) The British royal family
(3) Celebrity marriages

Favorite TV show involving a lawyer? 
Modern Family, because it doesn’t really center around the fact that Mitchell is a lawyer

Favorite movie that doesn’t involve a lawyer? 
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Gaston wasn’t a lawyer, although I’ve seen plenty of lawyers who act like that...)

Famous person (dead or alive) with whom you’d most like to have dinner?
Walt Disney

It’s your last meal...what’s on the menu? 
Chicken wings, Gino’s East pizza (with sausage—crumbles, not patty—mushrooms, and pesto), and chocolate mousse cake (from Carnegie Deli)

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LORI WIESE-PARKS

List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Trademarks
(2) Advertising
(3) Dogs

List three topics you are least likely to blog about at some point.
(1) The war in Afghanistan
(2) Insurance
(3) Sushi

Favorite TV show involving a lawyer?
LA Law—I was a newer attorney when the show started, and I appreciated that it wasn’t particularly realistic, at least with respect to MN Law. I didn’t watch it so much in the later years, but admit that I loved the episode where the nasty managing partner stepped into the elevator that wasn’t there. It still makes me smile. I am also a sucker for the old black and white Perry Mason episodes (not the later made-for-TV movies).

If you had it to do all over again, what would you study now?
Archeology or museum administration

Famous person (dead or alive) with whom you’d most like to have dinner?  
Lee Harvey Oswald—I really want to know!

It’s your last meal...what’s on the menu?  
Blutwurst and grit—an old German recipe that died with my aunt (it’s not as gross as it sounds)

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DAVID WOGER

Where were you born? 
I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Where did you get your undergraduate degree?
Indiana University

What did you like most about that location?
I loved the beautiful campus, moderate climate, and the supportive academic environment fostered by the faculty and fellow students.

Where did you attend law school?
University of Minnesota Law School

What did you like most about that location?
The Twin Cities have been incredibly welcoming. My wife and I often spend weekends searching for new fun restaurants or breweries and have just scratched the surface in our 4 years here.

What was your very first paying job? 
Landscaping during summers off—it was hard work!

What was your major in college? 
Bachelor’s of Music in Instrumental Performance (Trombone)

If you had it to do all over again, what would you study now? 
If I could go back I would not change by major—but I wish I could talk 18 year old me into also receiving a minor or a double major in economics.

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