Adine Momoh focuses her practice on the areas of complex business and commercial litigation, securities litigation, estates and trusts litigation, and creditors' rights and bankruptcy litigation in the firm’s Business and Commercial Litigation group.  As part of her bankruptcy practice, which has included Midwestern bankruptcies, as well as national bankruptcies in Delaware and California, Adine represents trustees to liquidating trusts by defending them from breach of fiduciary duty allegations, and represents creditors by both defending them from preference claims and fraudulent transfer actions and preparing proofs of claims and documents such as objections to plans of reorganization.  Adine also represents Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 debtors and debtors-in-possession and has prepared, among other things, “First Day Motions,” employment and fee applications on the behalf of debtors, objections to determinations that a debtor’s case is a single asset real estate case under Bankruptcy Code §§ 101(51B) and 362(d)(3), plans and disclosure statements, and motions for orders authorizing authority to reject or assume executory contracts.   

During law school, Adine was a member of the Warren E. Burger Inn of Court, and worked as a research assistant for Professor Afsheen John Radsan and Professor Richard Murphy.  Adine was also recognized by the Minnesota Justice Foundation for devoting more than 50 hours to community service, received the 2009 Clinical Legal Education Association Outstanding Student Award for her work in the William Mitchell College of Law Civil Advocacy Clinic, and continues to be committed to providing pro bono legal services through the Leonard, Street and Deinard Legal Clinic.  Adine received six CALI Awards for excellent academic achievement in legal studies, including Business: Agency, Partnerships, and LLCs; Employment Law; and Evidence.

Additionally, while in law school, Adine served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Jeanne J. Graham of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota.  In 2011, Adine left the firm at Judge Graham’s personal request to serve as her federal judicial law clerk. 

Adine is an active participant of Twin Cities Diversity in Practice, serving as a student mentor, participating as a mentee, and working on other diversity initiatives to attract, recruit, advance and retain attorneys of color in the Twin Cities legal community.

Before joining Leonard, Street and Deinard as an associate, Adine worked at the firm as a 2007 Connections student and 2008 summer associate.  

Professional and Civic Activities

• Director, Young Lawyers Division Board of Directors (national), Federal Bar Association
• Committee Member, Communications Committee, Federal Bar Association, Minnesota Chapter (2010)
• Committee Member, Membership Committee, Turnaround Management Association
• Co-Chair Civil Litigation Section, Member, Hennepin County Bar Association
• Member, American Bar Association, Business Law Section
• Member, MN Black Women’s Network
• Member, Minnesota State Bar Association, Business Law Section and Bankruptcy Section
• Member, Minnesota Women Lawyers
• Member, Risk Management Association

Publications and Presentations

• “‘Being Cursed to be Born in Interesting Times’: State of the Bankruptcy Court Address,” 5 Bar Talk (Issue II) 14 (2011)
• “Leading by Example: Minnesota Chapter Prominent at National Level,” 5 Bar Talk (Issue I) 13 (2011)
• “IP Practice: The Art of Trying Patent Jury Trials,” 4 Bar Talk 6 (2011)
• “FBA National President Ashley Belleau Hopes to Increase the FBA’s Value, Relevance and Visibility,” 4 Bar Talk 18 (2010)
• Speaker, “The Power of the Pen: Publish or Perish!” National Black Law Student Association’s 2010 Midwest Regional Convention, February 2010
• “Gaming the System: ‘Are You Saying If We Plead Guilty We Will Not Be Able to Be Sentenced to Death?’” 35 William Mitchell Law Review 5119 (2009)
• “The Need for International Environmental Law—A Comparison of United States’ and Canadian Responses to the Kyoto Protocol,” Tri-State Academy of Legal Studies in Business Proceedings (2005)

Education

• J.D., magna cum laude, William Mitchell College of Law, 2009
       Mitchell Fellow
       Managing editor, Journal of the National Security Forum, 2008-2009
       Assistant editor, William Mitchell Law Review, 2008-2009
       William Mitchell Trial Team, 2008-2009
       American Association for Justice, 2009 National Trial Advocacy
       Competition (semifinalist in regional competition)
• B.A., summa cum laude, Business Administration—Legal Studies in Business; Psychology; and Pre-Law, University of St. Thomas, 2006
       Aquinas Honor Scholar
       2006 Delta Sigma Pi Scholarship Key recipient for graduating with the
       highest GPA at the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business
       Delta Epsilon Sigma
       Psi Chi 
       First Place Outstanding Paper Award recipient in the 2005 Tri-State
       Academy of Legal Studies in Business Student Paper Competition

Admissions

• State of Minnesota, 2009
• State of North Dakota, 2010
• District of Columbia, 2010
• U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, 2010
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 2010