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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
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Blethen Berens, a mid-size, full-service law firm with offices in Mankato and New Ulm, is seeking a Family Law Associate Attorney.
We are committed to attracting and retaining talent that values relationships, community engagement, teamwork, collaboration, legal excellence, and personal commitment.
This role involves working closely with our collaborative family law team on matters like dissolution, custody, adoption, and more. The position is open to new graduates seeking to build a practice in southern Minnesota and experienced attorneys looking for growth. All associates receive mentorship, resources, and the opportunity to manage their own caseload efficiently within our team-based approach.
Qualified candidates should excel at client counseling, relationship building, business development, and possess a strong commitment to legal excellence.
We Offer: A supportive, positive workplace that values work-life balance and celebrates accomplishments. Compensation includes a competitive base salary plus bonus potential, along with a full benefits package (Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k) Profit Sharing) and professional development.
Applicants should send a resume and cover letter to Lisa Jasperson, Director of Office Administration, at ljasperson@blethenberens.com.
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Blethen Berens, a mid-sized, full-service law firm, is seeking an attorney with at least five years of business and commercial law experience. This position will be located in our Mankato office. Our business and commercial law attorneys represent small to mid-market businesses in a wide variety of industries across Minnesota.
Qualified candidates must have significant experience not only in business and commercial law, but in counseling clients, relationship building and business development, will have a strong commitment to legal excellence, and will possess the ability and desire to work efficiently within the firm’s team based approach to confidently serve our clients.
Blethen Berens provides unparalleled legal services to meet a full range of business and individual needs. Smart, experienced and responsive, we serve clients throughout Minnesota with dedication, energy and a track record of success. Based in Mankato and New Ulm, we invest in our community and are committed to supporting the region’s health and vibrancy.
We Offer: A supportive, positive workplace that values work-life balance and celebrates accomplishments. Compensation includes a competitive base salary plus bonus potential, along with a full benefits package (Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k) Profit Sharing) and professional development.
Applicants should send a resume and cover letter to Lisa Jasperson, Director of Office Administration, at ljasperson@blethenberens.com.
SUMMER ASSOCIATE PROGRAM
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The Summer Associate Program is 10-12 weeks in length and is designed to provide an encompassing look at what it means to be an attorney at Blethen Berens.
During the program, summer associates are given meaningful research and writing assignments, affording them the opportunity to work with many different lawyers in as many practice areas as possible. The program also incorporates many opportunities for summer associates to observe and participate in events such as trials, depositions, hearings, negotiations and closings. The firm also provides Summer Associates with a housing stipend.
While the summer associates gain a working knowledge of our law firm, our clients and our expectations for new attorneys, we get to know the summer associates, taking the opportunity to consider each for a position with our firm after they finish law school.
Our goal through this program is to find those individuals who have the potential for outstanding legal careers and that can deliver meaningful contributions to the firm, our clients and the community.
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Summer associates receive a variety of challenging assignments, ranging from client meetings and courtroom exposure, to revising agreements and composing memos. Each experience is designed to enhance reasoning, research, oral presentation and writing skills. Our experience is that varying the assignments enables both the summer associate and us to get a more complete picture upon which to comfortably base an employment decision.
The format for our program exposes our summer associates to a wide range of activities, including:
Contact with firm clients and occasional visits to client facilities;
Exposure to the court system;
Observation of closings, depositions, trials, arbitrations, mediations or oral arguments;
Opportunities to produce various legal documents that are reviewed and actually used for the benefit of clients;
Participation in a wide variety of research projects; and
Exposure to many of the practice areas within the firm.
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An integral part of our summer associate program is the support our participants receive from their Blethen Berens mentors.
Each associate is assigned two mentors – a partner from our litigation department and a partner from our transactional department – whose role it is to help guide the associate through the summer experience.
Each mentor takes a genuine interest in ensuring a well-rounded summer associate experience and helps ensure that our summer associates receive diverse, interesting and challenging assignments while at the firm.
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We believe that receiving feedback is an integral component of the growth process. Summer associates receive both informal and formal feedback from the attorneys in our office.
Informal feedback is delivered through direct, ongoing feedback to the summer associates as they work on current assignments.
When an assignment is completed, the assigning attorney submits a formal evaluation form. These are reviewed with the associate during formal monthly reviews with their mentors. Not only does this review process allow for a greater understanding of the expectations we have for our Blethen Berens associates but allows them the opportunity to get to know our attorneys better and experience each practice’s culture and day-to-day atmosphere.
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Beyond obtaining legal experience, training, mentoring, and building relationships with staff and the community, Blethen Berens Summer Associates earn a weekly salary that is competitive in the marketplace.
We also act as a resource assisting Summer Associates with securing housing in our community by utilizing our deep rooted connections and relationships we’ve built within the community.
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Our summer associate program includes many opportunities to meet and get to know our attorneys and staff in both professional and social settings. Networking opportunities are plentiful and include accompanying Blethen Berens attorneys to community group functions and meetings and attending Chamber functions and other professional networking events.
While we expect the summer associates to work hard and demonstrate their abilities, there is also a social component to the program that provides further opportunities to interact with our attorneys and staff and to see and experience what the Mankato and New Ulm communities have to offer.