Agenda - Council Work Session - 05/07/2013

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with students representing indigents, both in civil matters and in criminal matters. Mr. Berglund was a student director of the Law Clinic in he criminal area and tried his first criminal matter when he was in his final year of law school. After law school Mr. Berglund worked as in -house attorney for a title insurance company. In that position he examined titles, cleared title issues and problems, and worked with municipalities, lenders and developers in closing real estate transactions, both residential and commercial. For six years, from 1977 to 1983, Mr. Berglund was the Ham Lake City Attorney for both civil and criminal matters. As prosecutor for the City of Ham Lake, he prosecuted hundreds of matters, including numerous jury trials and contested evidentiary hearings. Since that time, Mr. Berglund has continued to practice extensively in the areas of real estate and development and criminal law. Over the course of his career, Mr. Berglund has been the lead attorney in hundreds of trials and has represented both the Appellants and Respondents in dozens of appeals to the Minnesota Court of Appeals and the Minnesota Supreme Court. Mr. Berglund presently sits on the Minnesota Board of Title Standards, which is responsible for setting Minnesota title standards for title examination lawyers and title examiners. Mr. Berglund's real estate practice has earned him the respect and confidence of hundreds of clients and dozens of city attorneys, city managers, and other city officials. On behalf of his clients, Mr. Berglund has worked with municipalities and their legal representatives addressing all areas of municipal law. These matters have included real estate development, plats, condemnation proceedings, assessment appeals, development agreements, and land use issues along with any number of other municipal land related issues that have arisen. Mr. Berglund has handled numerous matters involving private client interaction with municipalities in Anoka County, including the sale of the land to the City of Blaine where the City Hall presently sits. He has worked with many different City Engineers, Planners and City Attorneys on numerous commercial developments, including North Central Commons and frontage road eminent domain proceedings Mr. Berglund is licensed to practice law before the Minnesota Bar Minnesota Supreme Court and the Federal District Court for the District of Minnesota. He is a member of the Minnesota State Bar Association, Anoka County Bar Association and the Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association. 2