Samuel John Lunde Kramer

Sam practices primarily in the areas of civil rights and employment litigation in federal and state court. His employment practice focuses on helping clients who have been discriminated against or harassed in the workplace, wrongfully terminated, or denied wages they earned. His civil rights practice focuses on seeking redress for clients who have been victims of civil rights abuses by the police or institutions such as prisons and mental health facilities, as well as those who have been discriminated against in public places like restaurants or retail locations. Sam also has experience with whistleblower and consumer protection law.

Sam has won victories for his clients in several types of cases. He has prevailed on behalf of clients in trials with both juries and judges. Most recently, a jury awarded his client more than $400,000 for economic and emotional harm she suffered when her employer discriminated against her during and after her pregancy. He has also successfully resolved cases for six and seven figure settlements for his clients, including a recent case in which his client was wrongfully arrested and prosecuted following his participation in a protest against police brutality.

Sam graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in 2015. He then practiced at the well-known Washington DC employment law firm, Katz Marshall & Banks before moving to Seattle, where he was an associate at the civil rights firm MacDonald Hoague & Bayless. He returned to his hometown of Minneapolis in 2019 to be closer to family and represent clients in the community he has always considered home. After three years of practicing at Madia Newville LLC, Sam returned to MacDonald Hoague & Bayless in December 2022 to help open the firm's Minneapolis office.