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Berglind is Business Litigation Counsel at Faegre Drinker in Minneapolis. Prior to joining the firm, she spent more than 15 years in the international disputes practice of a prominent New York City law firm, where she represented and advised both corporations and sovereign states in investor-state and commercial disputes in a range of industries, including mining, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, and financial services. She has a robust pro bono practice, particularly in the areas of immigrant rights and educational equity. After the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, she led her firm’s successful representation of more than thirty Afghan asylum seekers, including young female professionals and college students, journalists and media workers. She has likewise secured relief from removal and other immigration protections for clients from Chile, Cote d’Ivoire, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ireland, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Nigeria, Poland, Sudan, Trinidad, and Tibet. Berglind is a native of Iceland and a proud graduate of the University of Minnesota (B.A.) and NYU Law School (J.D.).