Evan B. Rice - Vice President & Assistant General Counsel

Evan B. Rice has a notably strong background in commercial real estate business transactions and law. Evan most recently served as an Associate at the law firm of Faegre & Benson, LLP, where he worked for seven (7) years in their commercial real estate group.

At Faegre & Benson his main concentration was in the negotiation and documentation of complex commercial real estate and business transactions (including related finance, entity creation, and eminent domain litigation), land use, and environmental law. During his tenure at the firm he was honored by being named a "Rising Star" by Minnesota Law & Politics magazine. He has recently worked on a number of complex commercial real estate transactions including the Ivy Hotel and Condominium Development in downtown Minneapolis, real estate work for 3M Company as well as several other prominent Twin Cities real estate developers.

Evan also has been recogized for his scholarship and teaches at the William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, MN. He has taught several law school courses including Professional Responsibility (legal ethics), advanced Real Estate Transactions, and the first year required course of Property (including both real and intellectual property) as a full-time Visiting Assistant Professor of Law during the 2006-2007 academic year and as an Adjunct Professor during the current 2007-08 law school term. As part of his legal career he has made a very strong Pro Bono commitment to the community by serving as Lead Counsel in Menendez-Donis v. Ashcroft (where he presented oral argument to the United States Court of Appeals). Evan also has co-chaired Faegre & Benson Campaigns, United Way of the Twin Cities, where the law firm was able to raise over one million dollars for the local United Way and the campaigns work was nominated for United Way's "Best Of" awards.

Prior to his law firm work in the private sector, Evan served as a Judicial Law Clerk, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Fargo, North Dakota, 1998-2000. He served two terms as judicial law clerk to the Honorable Myron H. Bright, Senior Circuit Judge. He also had the opportunity to serve as a summer associate for the law firms of Dorsey & Whitney and Faegre & Benson in Minneapolis MN, and Foley & Lardner in Milwaukee, WI.