When you join our team, you will be joining a firm that values professional excellence, client service, respect and teamwork. We offer numerous resources that are designed to ease your transition into the culture and daily routine at the firm.

Leonard, Street and Deinard attorneys are able to meet the challenges of the continually changing legal market while maintaining balance in their personal lives.

Professional Development

For all new lateral attorney hires, Leonard, Street and Deinard offers immediate access to two programs that enhance individual growth and professional development.

PACE

The PACE program helps new hires skillfully navigate administrative channels, easily access our extensive resources and clearly understand the culture and structure of our firm. This program provides the training, resources and information needed by new employees to foster professional and personal success at Leonard, Street and Deinard. All new employees will be contacted approximately three times throughout their first year by a Human Resources staff member who will provide insight and direction, facilitate additional training, and ensure you’re positioned for success.

Deinard University

Our firm is dedicated to our clients’ success; we are equally dedicated to our employees’ professional success. As represented in our Core Values, the firm supports and encourages a culture of continuous learning and improvement. We created Deinard University to promote experiential learning. Learning tracks are customized—and progress evaluated—based on individual employee goals.

The goal of Deinard University is to prepare you to become professionally excellent, so that, in turn, you can deliver excellence to each of our clients. All employees are asked to embrace the concepts of continuous learning, regardless of position or job category. Our goal is to offer abundant and relevant learning opportunities to deepen the professional knowledge of all employees while encouraging them to embark upon new challenges and greater success.

“Deinard University is a positive thing for associate attorneys. It shows that the firm is committed to putting a mechanism in place to help new attorneys succeed. That’s the kind of place where I want to work.”
—JT Naples, Associate

Benefits

At Leonard, Street and Deinard, we believe in providing eligible employees with a comprehensive compensation and benefits package, including:

• Medical and dental insurance (dependent and same-gender domestic partner coverage available)
• Firm-provided life and AD&D insurance (optional life and AD&D available for purchase)
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Flexible spending accounts (medical and dependent care)
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time and firm holidays off
• 401(k)
• Profit sharing
• Continuing legal education reimbursement
• Free Metropass
• Pre-tax parking options
• Backup daycare
• In-home elder and child care
• Employee assistance program (dor)
• Reduced rates for fitness facility in building (Mnneapolis office only)
• Deinard U professional development training
• Wellness program (financial seminars, health fairs, flu shots)
• Relocation expenses
• Paid attorney license, bar association and trade association fees
• Smart phones

Terms and conditions of benefit plan participation are subject to eligibility requirements and subject to change.