The Ramsey County Public Defender, located in St. Paul, MN, represents defendants who cannot afford an attorney. The Public Defender fulfills the Constitutional guarantee of the right to have an attorney.
The City of Minneapolis is pleased to offer the new Just Deeds Project. The initiative gives Minneapolis homeowners the chance to learn about and discharge the racial covenants recorded on their properties.
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The City Attorney’s Office strives to create a more inclusive, safe, and welcoming city in Saint Paul. Our office provides legal advice to elected officials and city departments, represents the city in civil litigation, and prosecutes criminal cases while focusing on victim-centered programming and justice reform.
Our Criminal Division prosecutes violations of city ordinances and state statutes, including petty misdemeanors, misdemeanors, and gross misdemeanors within Saint Paul.
Our Civil Division provides ongoing day-to-day legal advice to our city’s elected officials, departments, boards, and commissions.
Our Civil Litigation Division represents the City, its employees, and public officials through all phases of civil litigation in federal, state, and appellate courts.
The Saint Paul City Attorney’s Office is a team of knowledgeable and talented attorneys who provide justice in criminal prosecution and give excellent legal advice to our city’s employees, departments, boards, and committees.
At the Saint Paul City Attorney’s Office, we cannot provide legal guidance or counsel to our residents. Rather, we represent the city and its employees, departments, boards, and committees in criminal, civil, and civil litigation cases.
According to the lawsuit, Lesch, who worked in the St. Paul City Attorney’s Office for about 15 years, previously applied for the job Olson now has.
Olson is the first woman to serve as the general counsel and deputy staff judge advocate for the Minnesota National Guard.
The suit alleges that “little was done” to address a superior officer’s unwelcome sexual advances and instead, Olson “quickly became the target of repeated gender discrimination and retaliation” that escalated over time by a small group of men in the Guard.
While Lesch and Olson never worked together directly in the Guard, the lawsuit said they knew many of the same people.
In 2006, he was appointed by Mayor Chris Coleman as Saint Paul City Attorney. As city attorney, Choi served as the city's chief legal counsel and supervised misdemeanor prosecutions.
Thomas Academy and Marquette University. In 1995, he received a juris doctor from Hamline University Law School and graduated from the University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Affairs as a Humphrey Fellow.
John J. Choi (born June 2, 1970) is an American attorney and politician who has served as the county attorney of Ramsey County, Minnesota, since 2011. He served as Saint Paul City Attorney from 2006 to 2010. Choi is a first-generation Korean-American immigrant and the first Korean American to serve as a county attorney in the United States. He has gained attention for his office's successful prosecutions of human trafficking and for his support of criminal justice reform efforts.
Early life and career. Choi was born in Seoul and immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1973. The family resided for a time in Saint Paul's Skyline Tower, the largest subsidized housing complex in the United States west of Chicago.