Professional Education
Professional Associations, Memberships, Teaching, Awards and Education
Mr. Borg has been an adjunct professor of law at William Mitchell College of Law and guest adjunct at the University of Minnesota and Hamline University Law Schools. He has also been a Team Leader for the Minnesota State Bar Association CLE Trial Advocacy Institute and for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) Midwest Conference and a faculty member for the NITA National Conference.
Continuing Legal Education presentations are numerous and include evidence, sentencing, white collar crime, trial skills and advocacy, international risk management, litigation management, compliance, negotiation, ADR, intellectual property and corporate law.
Mr. Borg has served on several judicial nominating panels including several assignments for U.S. Magistrate-Judge selection (chair, 1996) and for the Minnesota State Courts (4th District).
He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the CAFC, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, and all Minnesota Federal and State Courts.
Mr. Borg is a former Master of the Inns of Court. He is a member of the American, International and Minnesota Bar Associations. He is a past director of the Minnesota State Bar Association CLE Board of Directors. He is also a past member of the Minnesota Judges Association Board of Governors. Mr. Borg is also a founding member of the Academy of Court Appointed Masters (ACAM).
He is a recipient of the Medtronic Star of Excellence award (one of the company’s two highest employee awards), Outstanding Alumni Award from Bemidji State University, Alumni Certificate of Honor from the Minnesota Community College Board, and an Inductee of the Rochester Community College Alumni Hall of Fame. Named to the Lawdragon 500 Leading Judges in America, 2006. Named to The Best Lawyers in America, 2007 and 2008.
Mr. Borg received his J.D. from William Mitchell College of Law in St.Paul, Minnesota. His B.S. was earned from Bemidji State University in Minnesota. He also completed an executive MBA course at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul.