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Laura Matson practices in LGN’s environmental, political, business, antitrust, employment, mediation, government representation, and complex litigation practice groups, representing numerous public entities, businesses, tribal governments, and individual plaintiffs in complex litigation and transactional matters in state and federal court. Ms. Matson earned her J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Minnesota Law School. She also holds a PhD degree in Geography, Environment, and Society from the University of Minnesota and an MS degree in Development Studies from the University of London. Her PhD research focused on expansions of American Indian Tribal jurisdiction over resource policy and water regulation. While in law school she served as Lead Outside Articles Editor for Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice and as a clinic director for the Human Rights Litigation and International Legal Advocacy Clinic. Ms. Matson currently serves as a council member for the Minnesota State Bar Association’s Environmental, Natural Resources and Energy Law Section. She has taught courses at the University of Minnesota Law School and College of Liberal Arts and has published in the areas of treaty law, environmental law, international law, and natural resource policy.
