Name: Sonia Miller-Van Oort
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Sonia Miller-Van Oort is a founding member, President, and Chief Manager of Sapientia Law Group, one of the few minority-owned and women-owned law firms in Minnesota. Sonia is an experienced litigator and trial attorney who has handled multi-million dollar commercial disputes, employment-related matters, and product liability cases for companies of all sizes. She has obtained summary judgment for her clients in bet-the-company litigation, and she has also obtained substantial jury verdicts, including punitive damages, in her clients' favor in other cases. In addition to her trial advocacy in federal and state court, Sonia has argued a variety of cases in the Eighth Circuit and Minnesota Court of Appeals. In addition to her success as a litigator and trial attorney, Sonia has also demonstrated herself as a leader in the legal profession who is admired and respected by her peers. In 2007-2008, Sonia served as one of the youngest Hennepin County Bar Presidents, as well as its first Latinx President. Ten years later, in 2017-2018, Sonia served as the Minnesota State Bar Association’s 104th President, it’s fifth female President, and its first Latinx President. In 2019, Sonia was appointed by the ABA President to serve as the Eighth Circuit Representative to the prestigious ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary that evaluates Presidential nominations to the federal judiciary and provides the Committee’s peer rating to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Department of Justice, and the White House.

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