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Kim A. Pennington

Retired Lawyer — Active Mediator/Arbitrator

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As of July, 2022, Kim has ended his nearly 43 year tenure as an attorney licensed to practice law in Minnesota, all of which was spent in private practice in St. Cloud. He will continue to be affiliated w/the law firm by providing mediation, arbitration and related ADR services (pre-suit and in litigation) throughout the state of Minnesota (online sessions and in-person sessions). His contact phone number and email address through PCG Law is unchanged.
 
The ADR services (facilitative and adjudicative) which Kim will continue to offer include the subject matters of serious injury and wrongful death claims, business and employment litigation, commercial and real estate-related litigation, discrimination, harassment and defamation claims, family law disputes (including marriage dissolutions, family disputes related to estates, trusts, inheritances and related family legal conflict) and various additional matters involving legal conflict within the jurisdiction of the state and federal courts of Minnesota.*
 
Mediations, arbitrations and other hybrid ADR services provided by Kim will continue to be scheduled through PCG Law staff and/or this website.
 
Kim has been listed as a qualified neutral on the Minnesota Supreme Court’s civil facilitative/hybrid and civil adjudicative/evaluative roster since 1994 and on the family adjudicative, evaluative and facilitative/hybrid rosters since 1998. In retiring his license to practice law, he is not eligible to remain on those rosters. However, he will continue to serve as a facilitative and adjudicative neutral (as determined by counsel and her/his clients in each matter).

Areas of Dispute Resolution

  • Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
  • Civil litigation
  • Business and commercial law
  • Personal injury law
  • Family law
  • Employment law
  • Wrongful death claims
  • Insurance claims
  • Probate

Bar Admissions

  • Minnesota, 1979-2022
  • North Dakota, 1979-1979
  • U.S. District Court of Minnesota, 1979-2022

Education

  • University of North Dakota School of Law, Grand Forks, North Dakota
    • JD (With Distinction) - 1979
  • Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota
    • General Mediation Training and General Arbitration Training - 1994
  • University of North Dakota, Grand Forks
    • B.A. - 1975
    • Honors: magna cum laude

Honors and Awards

  • Who’s Who in ADR
  • Super Lawyers, one of the top 21 attorney ADR practitioners in Minnesota, Minnesota Law and Politics
  • Top Rated Alternative Dispute Resolution Lawyer in the state of Minnesota, Minneapolis/St. Paul magazine's Super Lawyers in 2015 and 2016
  • Super Lawyers

Prior Professional Associations and Memberships

  • Seventh Judicial District Bar Association, President
  • Minnesota State Bar Association
  • American Trial Lawyers Association
  • Minnesota Association for Justice (fka Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association)
  • Stearns/Benton Bar Association, Past president
  • John E. Simonett American Inn of Court
  • Minnesota Supreme Court ADR Qualified Neutrals Roster, 1994 to 2022

Languages

  • English
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