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Paralegal Faculty Profiles


Instructors in the paralegal bachelor and associate degree programs and the Legal Administrative Assistant diploma program at Globe University/Minnesota School of Business bring a wealth of legal experience to the classroom. As attorneys and paralegals, they know what skills our graduates need to meet challenges and take advantages of professional opportunities in law firms, corporations, government agencies and the military.

Instructors on Page 2 of the Paralegal Faculty Listings:

  • Cathy Kennedy, Online Instructor
  • Meg Neubauer, Instructor
  • Colleen Norgren, Instructor
  • Jen Lessinger, Instructor
  • Tracy J. Harris, Instructor
  • John M. Wegner, Instructor
  • Haley Kalla, Instructor
  • J. Chris Klippen, Instructor
  • Denis Hynes, Instructor
  • Teri Kuffel, Online Instructor
  • Bree Hagen, Instructor

Terri LindforsTerri L. Lindfors, J.D., Dean of Paralegal Programs


Educational Background

  • JD:  William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota
  • BA: Journalism/Mass Communication, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Paralegal Certificate:  Minnesota Paralegal Institute, Minnetonka, Minnesota

Professional Experience

  • Attorney/Solo Practitioner in Estate Planning
  • Attorney in General Practice
  • Paralegal in Corporate Litigation

Terri Lindfors is currently the Dean of Paralegal Studies. She oversees the paralegal programs at all of the Globe University/Minnesota School of Business and Utah Career College campuses. In this role, she oversees curriculum development and evaluation, monitors market trends, maintains community and professional legal contacts, monitors enrollments, provides program training works with marketing to promote the program, assures compliance with accreditation bodies, assists with implementation of new programs and program changes, monitors and participates in advisory group, promotes legal technology and library resources. She started working with the Brooklyn Center campus in 2004 as a legal faculty member. From 2005-2008, Ms. Lindfors worked as the Legal Program Coordinator at the Richfield campus,

Ms. Lindfors has over 20 years of experience in the legal field. She currently has her own law practice, mainly in the area of estate planning. Prior to having her own practice, she worked as an attorney for a general practice firm, counseling clients in family law, adoption law, estate planning, probate, and litigation. She has also worked at several other law firms and Honeywell Inc.’s corporate legal department for over nine years as a litigation paralegal and legal assistant.

While serving as an associate editor of the William Mitchell Law Review, her law review article on property law and regulatory takings was published. Ms. Lindfors also reviews paralegal textbooks for a variety of legal publishers.

Joseph Bazan, J.D., Legal Program Chair, St. Cloud Campus


Educational Background

  • JD: The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, IL. 1992
  • BA: Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. 1989

Professional Experience

  • Instructor and Legal Program Chair: Minnesota School of Business – St Cloud
  • Private Attorney: Focused on criminal defense, bankruptcy and small business issues including contracts and intellectual property
  • Assistant Public Defender: Tenth Judicial District, Minnesota
Joseph Bazan has been an attorney since 1993 and owned his own firm from 1993 into 2000. He also worked for the public defender’s office from 1997-1999. His first legal career job was as a law clerk at a plaintiff’s personal injury firm in downtown Chicago. He was also a law clerk for Weiss Memorial Hospital’s (Chicago) in-house legal department.

Joseph began teaching at the Brooklyn Center Campus in September 2002, then shared time with the Plymouth campus, and has been at the St. Cloud campus since April 2005. He has been the Legal Program Chair at St. Cloud since October 2005.

Joseph is a past President of the Minnesota State Bar Association’s 18th District (Wright, Sherburne, and Isanti Counties) Bar Association and is a past Chairman of the MSBA’s Criminal Law Section. Joseph’s teaching passions were discovered while tutoring and judging high school and college students in local and national mock trial competitions.

Kofi Montzka, J.D., Legal Program Chair, Brooklyn Center Campus


Educational Background
  • J.D., Hamline University School o f Law
Professional Experience
  • Instructor and Legal Program Chair: Minnesota School of Business/Globe University
  • Private Attorney
Ms. Montzka grew up in Washington State where she completed her undergraduate work. She moved to Minnesota to attend law school at Hamline Unviversity. After law school, she took the Minnesota and Washington State Bar exams. She then moved back to Washington to clerk for Justice Charles Z. Smith at the Washington State Supreme Court. After the year-long clerkship, she moved back to Minnesota to work at Rider Bennett for two years.   She then worked at Howse & Thompson, a small firm in Plymouth for almost four years in the areas of real estate, family law, and civil litigation. Ms. Montzka has experience teaching at National American. Outside of work, Ms. Montzka enjoys spending time with her husband and three boys.

Gabrielle ReuleGabrielle Reule, J.D., Legal Program Coordinator, Plymouth Campus


Educational Background

  • JD: Drake University Law School
  • BS: University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
Professional Experience
  • Instructor and Legal Program Coordinator: Minnesota School of Business/Globe University
  • Private Attorney:  Focus on Family Law
  • Thomson West:  Trained attorneys and paralegals how to perform legal research on Westlaw

Gabrielle Reule is currently the Legal Program Coordinator at the Plymouth campus.  Prior to that, she was a full-time instructor at various campuses at Globe University/Minnesota School of Business.  Gabrielle has been an attorney since 2003 and has worked as a private attorney for the past several years handling family, criminal, estate planning, and real estate law cases.  She also spent several years working at Thomson West training attorneys and paralegals how to use Westlaw to perform legal research.

Matthew Telleen, J.D., Legal Program Coordinator, Shakopee Campus


Educational Background

  • JD: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
  • BA: Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA

Professional Experience

  • Instructor and Program Coordinator, Shakopee campus, Minnesota School of Business
  • Associate Attorney, Collins, Buckley, Sauntry & Haugh, St. Paul, Minnesota. Practicing in areas of family law, litigation, and corporate law.
  • Instructor, Testmasters, Los Angeles, California. Instructor in LSAT classes for students considering law school.

Matthew Telleen has a diverse legal background, with experiences in many different areas of law. Matthew also has an extensive teaching background, and loves combining his passion for the law with his interest in teaching at Globe University/Minnesota School of Business.

 

Matthew was drawn to education and the idea of teaching even in law school. He was named the Best Oralist of his section in Law School, and he taught LSAT classes in the evening to potential law students.

 

Prior to attending law school, Matt had extensive experience in business and journalism. He has written for several newspapers and while in college, was nominated as one of the best columnists on the west coast.

 

Matt currently lives in Minneapolis with his wife and their three children. In his free time he enjoys movies, reading and writing, in addition to being a huge sports fan.  

Barton SeebachBarton L. Seebach, J.D., Legal Program Coordinator, Rochester Campus


Educational Background

  • JD: Yale Law School, New Haven, CT
  • MAI: St. Mary’s University of Minnesota, Winona, MN
  • BA: Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IA

Professional Experience

  • Instructor and Program Coordinator: Minnesota School of Business – Rochester.
  • Private Attorney: Business litigation and business advice practice in Minneapolis, New York City, and Los Angeles from 1985 through 2005.

Bart Seebach has been an attorney since 1985 and was a founding partner of Seebach & Seebach, a private law firm in Los Angeles, California. His first position after law school was with a business law firm in Minneapolis, Minnesota, doing business litigation—much of the practice in products liability defense. Following that, he moved to New York City and did business litigation with a midtown Manhattan law office—much of the practice related to securities trading and takeover transactions. After a winter vacation to southern California, he moved to Los Angeles and did business litigation with a branch office of a New York law firm, one of the world’s largest firms—much of the practice related to energy, insurance and reinsurance, and financial products. After the birth of his first child, he began a part-time solo practice as a generalist, practicing business advice, estate planning and probate, and even some criminal defense. That solo practice eventually became Seebach & Seebach, a firm in which he did primarily business advising and contracts for a wide variety of small and medium-sized businesses and helped to manage the business litigation practice, which focused on environmental litigation. At the end of 2005, he retired from private practice.

Bart’s experience in private education, before teaching for Minnesota School of Business/Globe Education Network, began in Los Angeles. He worked as a volunteer in one public and one private high school, and led one parent-teacher organization for several years. Loving the work in education, Bart chose to enroll in a degree program at St. Mary’s University in Winona, and he earned a Master of Arts in Instruction degree there in 2006. You can still find his commencement address on the university’s website as of this writing (January 2009).

Brian CraigBrian Craig, J.D., Legal Program Chair, Online Campus

Educational Background

  • JD: University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
  • BA: Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

Professional Experience

  •  Instructor and Program Coordinator
  • Attorney
  • Legal Editor 
  • Judicial Law Clerk
  • Legislative Aide

Brian Craig is a legal instructor at Globe University/Minnesota School of Business where has taught both online and traditional face-to-face courses. He also developed several of the online legal courses at Globe University/Minnesota School of Business. He was an adjunct instructor from 2005-2008 and became a full-time instructor and the online legal coordinator in March 2008.

 

Prior to joining the faculty of Globe University/Minnesota School of Business, Brian worked as an attorney at Thomson-West in Eagan, Minnesota from 2002-2008 where he provided research assistance for attorneys and paralegal using Westlaw. He also previously worked as a legal editor for publisher Wolters Kluwer. During law school, Brian clerked for District Court Judge Carl Kerrick in Lewiston, Idaho. He also worked as a legislative aide for Senator George Runner in the California State Legislature.

 

Brian is also a volunteer attorney with the Legal Assistance of Dakota County and a mentor for law students with the J. Reuben Clark Law Society (Twin Cities Chapter). He is admitted to practice law in Minnesota (active) and California (inactive).

 

Brian taught legal writing to first-year law students at the University of Minnesota Law School from 2007-2008. He is also an articles reviewer for the American Business Law Journal and a member of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business.

 

He has written articles appearing in the North Dakota Law Review, Real Estate Law Journal, Real Estate Review, Perspectives: Teaching Legal & Writing, and Raven: A Journal of Vexillology. His research interests focus on intellectual property, privacy, and constitutional issues with emerging technologies. Brian has also written scholarly articles on legal research and writing. Brian lives in Eagan, Minnesota with his wife and two sons.

Scott GunemScott Gunem, J.D., Legal Program Coordinator, Eau Claire Campus


Educational Background
  • J.D., Creighton University, Omaha, NE
  • M.B.A., University of Wisconsin – Whitewater
  •  B.S., University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point
Professional Experience
  • Assistant Attorney General, State of Nebraska
  • Senior Attorney Editor, Thomson West
  • Lecturer, University of Wisconsin System
Scott Gunem is currently the Legal Program Coordinator at the Eau Claire campus.  Scott has taught at the Eau Claire campus since it opened in the summer of 2008.  His professional career has focused on law and education.
 
Scott has served as Assistant Attorney General for the State of Nebraska.  As a member of the Criminal Appellate Section, Scott represented the State of Nebraska in criminal appeals before the Nebraska Court of Appeals and the Nebraska Supreme Court.  He also represented Nebraska public officials in civil litigation.
 
Scott has also worked as Senior Attorney Editor at Thomson West.  As a member of the State Cases Team, he analyzed case law from state appellate courts and wrote editorial enhancements for the Westlaw database, state reporters, and legal bulletins.
 
Scott has eight years of experience in higher education.  He has taught at public and private universities in Wisconsin and Japan.

Scott lives in Eau Claire with his wife and their one son.  Scott enjoys reading, traveling, and cheering for the Green Bay Packers.

Patti Kruger, Online Instructor

 

Educational Background:

  • B.A. Hamline University, St. Paul, MN
  • A.A. Rochester Community & Technical College

Professional Experience:

  • Senior Litigation Paralegal
  • Paralegal/Office Manager
After working in litigation and class action cases with Meshbesher & Spence – Rochester branch, Patti became interested in teaching paralegal students after working with several interns from a local university. At her prior job Patti was also in charge of hiring and training new employees in various positions. 
 
Patti is a member of NFPA and MPA.

Patti currently resides in Rochester with her husband, two daughters and two dogs. She enjoys playing volleyball, scrap booking and traveling.

Kristin BrunerKirstin Bruner, J.D., Legal Program Instructor, Online Campus

 

Educational Background.

  • HS: Honors Social Sciences and History, Choate Rosemary Hall
  • BA: Humanistic Area Studies (emphasis: Writing Sems., English Lit., & Psych.): Johns Hopkins University
  • JD: Washington College of Law at American University
  • Comparative Justice Institute: Public Policy Division American University
Professional Experience
  • Professor and Curriculum Developer in the areas of Humanities, Communications, Business, and Law
  • Legal Research Consulate for several firms
  • Research, Writing, and Ghostwriting for projects in the areas of Gender Studies, Law & Psychology, & Women’s Studies
Kirstin has been a Legal Instructor at Globe University/Minnesota School of Business for several years, teaching both Legal Studies and MBA classes, and in the world of online teaching for close to a decade as an Online Professor in Humanities and Communications as well. She also develops on-line paralegal courses.   Her studies in Criminal Justice have taken her to the Netherlands to study in Rotterdam and in the Hague, as well as to great Britain to study at the bobby training facility, and Russia.
 

Kirstin’s background is in legal research, and as a ghostwriter and textbook author in a number of genres. Kirstin also shows art nationally and internally each year as a geometric abstractionism. She resides in Washington, DC.

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