As a seventh-year litigator in a major Minneapolis firm, the notion of eight weeks' paid vacation is dreamlike.

"Most advertising is not very good," acknowledges Bill Westbrook, whose Minneapolis firm was just named Agency of the Year by Adweek.

After retiring from the court in 1981, Sheran practiced with the Minneapolis firm of Lindquist & Vennum for 20 years.

Heins Mills & Olson, a Minneapolis firm, counts among its clients the Minnesota State Board of Investments, which governs the state's pension funds.

Harvard Law School came next, followed by a federal appeals court clerkship and law practice at a prominent Minneapolis firm.

James H. O'Hagan was a lawyer in a Minneapolis firm who learned that a client of the firm planned to make a big takeover offer.

"We probably get 200 queries a week," said Paul C. Sprenger, whose Minneapolis firm, Sprenger & Lang, specializes in employment litigation.

It was designed by the Minneapolis firm of Bell and Kinports.

He worked 26 years as a trial lawyer for a Minneapolis firm and was active in politics before he was nominated to be a Federal judge in 1985.

Honeywell, an old Minneapolis firm, has been sold to Allied Signal; the merged operation will be called Honeywell but will move East.