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Melissa Muro LaMere Featured in Twin Cities Diversity in Practice February Newsletter
February 26, 2020
Melissa Muro LaMere, partner in Maslon's Litigation and Labor & Employment Groups, is featured in the Twin Cities Diversity in Practice (TCDIP) February newsletter. The article highlights Melissa's impactful career, including her pivotal experience working with Senator Amy Klobuchar, finding community with the Minnesota Hispanic Bar Association, and her tireless efforts to advance diversity in the Twin Cities legal community.
"I found a new family within the Minnesota Hispanic Bar Association (MHBA). The organization creates an automatic connection among its members and the members of the other local affinity bars, as well as a platform for being your authentic self within the larger Twin Cities legal community," Melissa shared. "You need a place where you can be your authentic self, because that is the only way you can do your best work and be the kind of lawyer that is going places."
To read the full interview, go to: "Melissa Muro LaMere: Finding Community and Your Authentic Self."
Melissa is an employment and business litigation attorney who enjoys working with clients to protect and grow their business in a competitive marketplace. She focuses her practice on the full spectrum of employment counseling and litigation matters in addition to business disputes involving non-competition and non-solicitation agreements, trade secrets, business contracts and torts, and unfair competition and trade practices.
Melissa has been selected as a 2020 40 Under 40 Honoree by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, and she is recognized as a 2019 "Top Lawyer Under 40" by the Hispanic National Bar Association, an award recognizing lawyers who have demonstrated professional excellence, integrity, leadership, commitment to the Hispanic community, and dedication to improving the legal profession. She was also recognized as part of the 2019 "Diversity and Inclusion Awards" and as a 2017 "Up & Coming Attorney" by Minnesota Lawyer.