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collaboration with commercial partners, and creates a welcoming place that builds in residential condos and apartments, conference facilities, and retail and other commercial users.
UMF and the University entered into a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) and a Real Estate Exchange Agreement (REEA) to guide the UMF-led development process. Those agreements call for the Foundation Board of Trustees to form a joint University-UMF East Gateway Project Committee to oversee project development and advise the Board of Trustees. The REEA also provides the terms under which the University and UMF will swap parcels of land important to future East Gateway development. The University expects the land it will acquire to become an integral part of the University’s future clinical campus.
Litigation and Contested Matters
OGC attorneys represent the University in a variety of litigation and contested matters. They defend labor and employment, personal injury, statutory and constitutional, and student-related claims brought against the University. These matters found OGC attorneys in state and federal trial and appellate courts, in arbitrations, and in University internal proceedings. In one case, after a ten-day trial, a Hennepin County district court jury rejected a multi-million dollar claim asserted by a company that had been retained to—but failed to—negotiate agreements with the University and the major telecommunications carriers to enhance cellular phone coverage on the Twin Cities campus.
37
ARBITRATIONS
36
AGENCY CLAIMS
11
FAVORABLE RULINGS
0
UNFAVORABLE RULINGS
11
SETTLED CASES
Labor and Employment
17
INTERNAL GRIEVANCES
94% Litigation Success Rate (FY16-FY20)
180 160 140 120 100
80 60 40 20
0
164 8 2
WON LOST MIXED RESULT
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