so in minnesota all lawyers have to get

a license through the minnesota supreme

court

but only three percent of the lawyers

actually less than three percent are

board certified and in order to become

board certified you have to

pass a special examination

uh get references from your peers from

lawyers and even judges

and that tells the world that you are

a specialist

among the best in in the area that you

are board certified in so and we’ve got

lawyers including myself who are board

certified in family trial law

so i was

awarded the from the ramsey county bar

association the distinguished

humanitarian service award

one of the greatest honors that i’ve had

in my legal career a short version of is

it basically shows that you

have made significant contributions to

the ransom county bar association and

the legal community in in the the county

of

ramsey county minnesota two of the other

great honors i’ve had as i was the

president of the ramsey county bar

association and the president of the

minnesota chapter of the american

academy of matrimonial lawyers