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Brian Schoenborn is managing partner of Leonard, Street and Deinard’s Saint Cloud, Minnesota, office, where he focuses his practice on family and closely held businesses. Brian has substantial experience providing general counsel representation to closely held and family businesses within sports and entertainment; high technology; and manufacturing industries. This experience includes business acquisitions and sales, intellectual property protection, real estate development and estate planning. He is also deeply involved in sports facility development.
Brian is a member of the United States Hockey League Board of Directors and co-owner of the Sioux Falls Stampede of the United States Hockey League. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member at St. Cloud State University, where he teaches courses in law and entrepreneurship.
Brian is very active with various community and civic organizations including serving on the Minnesota Real Estate Foundation, Central Minnesota Community Foundation Board of Trustees and Brian Klinefelter Memorial Foundation Board. In 2006, he was named by the Saint Cloud Times and ROI magazine as one of the Top 5 business people under the age of 40 in Central Minnesota. He recently was honored with the President’s Award from Minnesota Hockey for his dedication to amateur hockey, including serving as legal counsel for nearly a decade. Brian also has been named a "Rising Star" by Minnesota Law & Politics magazine.
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC ACTIVITIES
Member, American Bar Association, Sports and Entertainment, Business and Estate Planning Sections
Member, Minnesota State Bar Association, Business Law Section
Member, Stearns-Benton County Bar Association
Member and past chair, Minnesota Real Estate Foundation
Member, Central Minnesota Community Foundation Board of Trustees
Board Member, Brian Klinefelter Memorial Foundation
Board Member, St. Cloud Area Economic Development Partnership
EDUCATION
J.D., cum laude, University of Minnesota Law School, 1995
Articles editor, Minnesota Journal of Global Trade, 1994-1995
B.A., summa cum laude, Political Science and Communication Studies,
St. Cloud State University, 1992
ADMISSIONS
State of Minnesota, 1995
U.S. Federal District Court, State of Minnesota, 1997 | 