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Beth BertelsonBeth E. Bertelson

MSBA Certified Labor & Employment Specialist
Attorney, Arbitrator, Mediator & Investigator

Beth Bertelson has over 25 years of experience as a certified mediator in private practice. Beth is also on the American Arbitration Association panel as a mediator and arbitrator. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota School of Law teaching a mediation and arbitration skills course: Spring 2023, Spring 2024 and upcoming in Spring 2025.

Beth Bertelson has over 35 years of labor and employment law practice. Beth has extensive experience and knowledge in employment law including but not limited to pre-litigation and litigation mediations and advocacy involving discrimination, retaliation, and employment agreements, and other employment related issues. Beth also conducts neutral, prompt workplace investigations.

ADMISSIONS

  • Admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, the Minnesota Supreme Court and all other Minnesota State Courts
  • Qualified neutral under Rule 114 of the Minnesota General Rules of Practice


SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Member of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals
  • American Arbitration Association, Arbitrator and Panelist for Employment Law and Consumer Law Arbitrations and Mediations
  • MSBA Certified Labor & Employment Specialist
  • Selected to MN Super Lawyers for over 15 years
  • Best Lawyer, Minnesota Monthly and S. News
  • Top 50: Women Minnesota Super Lawyers
  • 10 “Superb” rating from Avvo
  • Recognized as a North Star Lawyer
  • Best Attorney, Rue Rating
  • Lawyers of Distinction


EDUCATION

  • William Mitchell College of Law: St. Paul, MN
    J.D., 1987
  • St. Olaf College: Northfield, MN
    B.A., 1984.


SCHOLARLY LECTURES

  • Speaker, Harassment Update – Including the New Speak Out Act, MN CLE Upper Midwest Employment Law Institute, May 2023
  • Speaker, Hot Topics and Effective Techniques in Employment Mediation: Communications with Parties Impacted by Trauma, Dealing with Sensitive Specific to Harassment and Racial Discrimination,
  • Ramifications of the George Floyd Experience, Trends in Gamesmanship and More.” MN CLE ADR Institute, October 2023
  • Speaker, 2023 Year-End Coffee Talk Employment Law, MSBA Labor and Employment Law Section, December 2023
  • Speaker, Reprise of Harassment Update, MN CLE live webinar, December 2023
  • Speaker, Age Discrimination: an update and Best Practices for Both Plaintiff and Defendant,
    Employment Law Institute, 2019
  • Panelist: EEOC Updates & Insights – Employment Law Trends and Developments, Age Discrimination, 2018
  • Presenter, Adapting Your Strategies to New and innovative Techniques and Tactics”, ACI’s 9th Annual Forum on Defending and Managing Employment Discrimination Litigation Expert Strategies for Leading Litigators and In-House Counsel, 2017
  • Presenter, ADA in Real Time, Part II, Hennepin County Bar Association, 2017
  • Presenter, ADA in Real Time, Part I, Hennepin County Bar Association, 2016
  • Presenter, Adapting Your Strategies to New and Innovative Techniques
    and Tactics”, 8th Annual Forum on Defending and Managing Employment Discrimination Litigation, 2016
  • Presenter, “Cutting-Edge Age Discrimination Litigation Issues”, The 2016 Upper Midwest Employment Law Institute
  • Presenter, Pregnancy Discrimination: Life After Young v. UPS, Minnesota State Bar Association, 2015
  • Presenter, Investigator Training: Pregnancy Leave and Accommodation, Minnesota State Bar Association 2015
  • Presenter, Catching Up on Workplace Law Developments that are Breaking New Ground, 2014
  • Presenter, MSBA Labor & Employment Law Section Investigator Training: Retaliation Update, 2013
  • Panelist, Federal Pro Se Project, 2013
  • Presenter, Cutting-Edge and Re-Emerging Disparate Impact Issues, Minnesota CLE-Upper Midwestb Employment Seminar, 2011
  • Presenter, MSBA Employment Law Section, 2010
  • Moderator, “Investigating Disability Claims after the ADA Amendments”, 2010
  • Presenter, “Layoffs & Reductions in Force”, Ramsey County Bar Association, 2010
  • Presenter, “Challenging Releases-OWBPA complexities, Minnesota CLE-Age Discrimination In Employment”
  • Panels, Negotiation, Motion Practice-Discovery, Spoliation, Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, and Sexual Harassment, Minnesota State Bar Association

VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES

  • Volunteer Mediator, Minnesota Department of Human Rights
  • Volunteer Mediator, Minneapolis Civil Rights Commission
  • Volunteer, Federal Pro Se Project
  • Volunteer, Hennepin County Speaker’s Bureau
  • Volunteer District of Minnesota’s Thurgood Marshall Open Doors Project
  • Executive Board Member, Employment Law Section, Minnesota State Bar Association
  • Member, Minnesota State Bar Association, ADR Section and Employment
  • Member, Minnesota State Bar Association, Employment & Labor Law Section

 

References and Further Information

Website: http://www.bertelsonlaw.com
Email: [email protected] or call: 612-278-9832

 

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