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Linda R. Allen

Family and Divorce Law

400 Robert St N, St Paul, MN 55101, USA

Linda R. Allen is a shareholder at Wolf, Rohr, Gemberling & Allen, P.A. She limits her practice to family law cases including dissolutions, custody and parenting time, post decree motions, child support, paternity, grandparents rights, third party custody, spousal maintenance/alimony, appeals, antenuptial agreements, orders for protection and harassment restraining orders. Ms. Allen is a Rule 114 Qualified Neutral and also provides mediation, parenting consultant, parenting expeditor and consensual special magistrate services. Ms. Allen has been licensed to practice law since 1994 and has successfully argued at the Minnesota Court of Appeals, twice been quoted by the Associated Press, appeared on Minnesota Public Radio, testified before a House Committee regarding family law legislation, and been a faculty member for The Family Law Institute. She has been named in Minnesota Super Lawyers and Top Women Lawyers. She has a passion for helping her clients successfully accomplish family transition.

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Mark R. Bradford

Mark R. Bradford

Distinguished Lawyer

Appellate Law

3600 American Blvd W suite 670, Bloomington, MN 55431, USA

Mark is an accomplished appellate attorney and commercial litigator. He has argued more than 150 appeals in state and federal courts in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, and regularly consults clients at all stages of the appellate process. Mark also tries cases. He has tried 16 cases to jury verdict, including high-stakes commercial matters—winning all of them. Mark’s blend of trial and appellate expertise has earned him recognition in?The Best Lawyers in America?in both Commercial Litigation and Appellate Practice each year since 2019, and a place on the Minnesota Super Lawyers “Top 100” list since 2018. He was named a “Top Lawyer” by?Minnesota Monthly?in Commercial Litigation and Appellate Law in 2022, and again in 2025 Mark is a Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Attorneys, the American Board of Trial Advocates, and the International Academy of Trial Attorneys. Beginning in 2013, the Minnesota Supreme Court appointed Mark to serve on the Advisory Committee on the Rules of Civil Appellate Procedure. Mark is also a contributing author of the Eighth Circuit Appellate Practice Manual. For the past 14 years, he has taught appellate advocacy at the University of St. Thomas Law School. In 2022, the school awarded Mark the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Teaching. Mark also devotes a substantial amount of time to pro bono matters. He has been involved with the Innocence Project for many years, including winning post-conviction relief following a two-week evidentiary hearing for a client wrongly convicted of second-degree murder. Mark represented the same client before the Minnesota Court of Appeals and Supreme Court (and won). He then represented the client at his retrial (and won again), securing a not guilty verdict. The Great Northern Innocence Project recognized Mark as its volunteer of the year in 2022 and 2025. He is the only two-time recipient of that recognition.

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Matt Thibodeau

Personal Injury Law

302 W. Superior Street, Suite 800, Duluth, MN 55802

Area of Practice: Toxic Torts -- Asbestos, Catalyst and Silica

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