A Modern Practice Built on
Timeless Legal Traditions
Somermeyer PLLC is a boutique law firm that specializes in employment and education matters.
Our team has decades of real-world experience and understands the complexity of applying traditional legal frameworks to complicated modern issues. Our holistic approach provides the most relevant, strategic, and creative legal guidance, tailored to the needs of an organization’s size, stage, or industry.
We also proudly support non-profit organizations, from setting up entities to guiding venerated institutions in compliance and governance.
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We partner with colleges, universities, secondary schools, and educational organizations to navigate the unique and shifting challenges they face. From policy development to dispute resolution, our attorneys provide tailored advice and representation to promote compliance and positive outcomes for institutions and students alike.
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Our firm advises clients on their most challenging issues relating to state, federal, and local employment laws. Our attorneys are experienced in employment litigation before state and federal courts and administrative agencies. We conduct sensitive and complex internal corporate and workplace investigations.
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We represent clients in complex litigation across state and federal courts, as well as in alternative dispute resolution forums. Our attorneys are skilled in crafting effective strategies to resolve disputes efficiently and favorably, whether through trial, arbitration, or settlement.
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Our firm guides non-profit organizations through the complexities of governance, compliance, and strategic growth. Our team supports clients with tax-exempt status, board management, and regulatory matters, allowing non-profits to focus on achieving their mission.
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The Ballast team helps educational institutions navigate the complexity of Title IX requirements by delivering comprehensive training, compliance, and investigations with confidence and compassion. Ballast’s solutions are shaped by a holistic approach, tailored to each institution’s culture, and help institutions build trust with their communities.
For more information visit www.weareballast.com.
The expertise you need, the service you want.
With decades of experience across many industries, our firm has a global perspective on business and non-profit legal issues today. Our experienced team is also backed by a vast network of specialists, ensuring you get the best counsel, no matter the topic. This model allows us to provide you the highest service at the highest value.
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Sean Somermeyer
PARTNER
Sean is a nationally recognized lawyer, litigator, and strategic client advocate. Sean’s work has resulted in precedential decisions from appellate and trial courts that protect the important and varied missions of the institutions, businesses, and non-profits he works with. -
Carl Crosby Lehmann
PARTNER
Carl has nearly 30 years of experience advising institutions in all aspects of higher education legal services, including complex transactional, regulatory, and litigation matters. Carl has served as the General Counsel to St. Olaf College for the past eight years. -
Mary Dunnewold
PARTNER
Mary brings extensive practical experience in higher education to her work as a campus investigator, advisor, and trainer. Her work is grounded in over twenty years of experience as a law school teacher and administrator. -
Nina Harris
PARALEGAL & LEGAL OPERATIONS MANAGER
With over a decade of litigation experience with Am-Law 100 Firms, Nina brings extensive knowledge and efficient, thorough service to a wide-range of matters, including high-stakes litigation and investigations.
Contact us
If you would like to learn more about our services or discuss an important legal issue you are facing, please contact us. You can also email us at hello@somermeyerlaw.com.