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Mark B. Rotenberg - General Counsel
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Mark serves as the University's Chief Legal Officer, providing legal counsel to the Board of Regents, President, Executive Vice President and Provost, campus Chancellors, and other University central officers. He is also Professor of Practice at the University of Minnesota Law School. In addition to directing the University's in-house legal services and retention of outside counsel for all University units, Mark has oversight responsibilities for the Office of Athletic Compliance and the Office of Records and Information Management. He also participates in University-wide policy development and decisionmaking as part of the President's executive leadership group. Before coming to the University, Mark was a partner at Dorsey & Whitney in Minneapolis, specializing in employment litigation and labor law. Previously he served in the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel, which provides legal counsel to the President, the White House staff, and heads of federal executive departments and agencies. He also served in Washington as law clerk to Judge Patricia M. Wald on the United States Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit. Mark earned his B.A., magna cum laude, from Brandeis University, and J.D., M.Phil. and M.A. degrees from Columbia University where he was an editor of the Columbia Law Review and was twice named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar in the Law School. Mark has taught at the University of Minnesota Law School for many years, and has served as an Adjunct Professor in the University's College of Liberal Arts. He also was Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University Law School in Jerusalem. Mark has argued and won cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals, Minnesota Supreme Court, Minnesota Court of Appeals, and other forums. He is a member of the American Law Institute, serves in leadership roles for numerous political, educational, and other non-profit organizations, and has been named a "Super Lawyer" by Minnesota Law & Politics and Twin Cities Business Monthly.
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