Katherine Cheolis Bloomquist

Ms. Bloomquist’s law practice involves the areas of corporate, business litigation, employment and equine law and recently expanded to the areas of family law and wills and estates.  She represents numerous small businesses in Chaska, in the multiple manufacturing and service areas.  Ms. Bloomquist is recognized as a leader in animal law and equine law. She is a frequent speaker at the National Equine Law Conference in Kentucky, the equine law conference in California, and is regularly published on this subject.  Her presentation at the 2009 Conference discussed the use of expert testimony in equine litigation, which was also the topic of the chapter she authored in the recently released American Bar Association book “Litigating Animal Law Disputes: A Complete Guide for Lawyers.”  In 2005, she was the first speaker on equine law at the American Bar Association in Chicago, IL.  Ms Bloomquist was the chair of the Animal Law Section of the Minnesota State Bar, for two consecutive years 2005-2007, and chaired the first ever Animal Law Conference sponsored by the Minnesota State Bar Association in April 2006.  She represents equine clients throughout the world.

She received her B.A. degree in 1986 from the University of Minnesota and her J.D. degree from the University Of Oregon School Of Law in 1989. She was a member of the National Moot Court Team, earning recognition as the top regional female oral advocate.

Ms. Bloomquist has a combination of litigation and corporate counsel experience, which provides her with a unique and expansive view of matters.  She has litigated matters involving equine, employment, corporate, commercial, contract, tax, and police excessive force, prosecution, and officer/director liability.  Her litigation experience involves jury trials, court trials, appeals, arbitrations and ADR proceedings. She has managed litigation as an in-house corporate attorney.   Ms Bloomquist has handled diverse corporate and transactional matters, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and a variety of commercial contracts.  She has handled numerous governmental and regulatory investigations, international advertising, employment and contractual matters.  She established innovative in-house counsel guidelines, litigation budgets and value billing fees, policies and procedures. Reported cases include: Gross v. Victoria Station Farms, 578 N.W.2d 757 (1998).  She recently litigated precedent-setting equine cases in Texas Federal Court and California Federal Court on product liability matters, and the Minnesota Supreme Court on a workers’ compensation case.