These are some of the high-profile cases recently tried by Jill Clark and/or Jill Waite
November 2007: Argued before the state Supreme Court for Shawn Fraser's right to paddle his 12-year-old son as discipline. Hennepin County had intervened on behalf of the boy. The Supreme Court has yet to rule.
August 2007: Won a $110,000 police brutality settlement from Minneapolis for Philander Jenkins, who is in jail and charged with shooting two men to death in early 2007. He won a lawsuit against the police filed in 2005 that alleged an officer kicked Jenkins while handcuffed. They are defending Jenkins in his murder trial.
July 2007: Defended state Rep. Mark Olson on spousal abuse charges. He was convicted of misdemeanor assault but acquitted of intentionally harming or trying to harm her.
Ongoing: Represented Ali Dunham in a lawsuit over her dismissal from the Wayzata Country Club. Last fall, two years after the case was dismissed after Dunham went golfing rather than show up for a deposition, it was revived by the state Court of Appeals. The revival prompted a Ramsey County district judge to issue an angry order.
ROCHELLE OLSON
