2021 Attorneys of the Year: 3M N95 Mask Seizure Litigation
Amid the pandemic, 3M saw plenty of companies selling fraudulent versions of its N95 face masks.
2021 Attorneys of the Year: Bair Hugger MDL Plaintiffs
A team of attorneys led by Meshbesher & Spence managed the rare feat of convincing a federal district court to reinstate litigation over a 3M Bair-Hugger product that hospitals use to warm patients before, during and after surgeries.
2021 Attorneys of the Year: Brown, Lee, and Young v. Reese Pfeiffer and United States v. Pfeiffer
These two lawsuits, a collaboration between Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid and the U.S. Department of Justice, per-manently removed a dangerous landlord from property management.
2021 Attorneys of the Year: The Hall Law Team
Last year Minneapolis-based Hall Law PA teamed up to win a $6.7 million jury verdict and three of the top 10 auto-RFN settlements in Minnesota history.
2021 Attorneys of the Year: Minor Does v. The Hills Youth and Family Services
In the summer of 2018, a group of boys ran away from The Hills Youth and Family Services, a juvenile detention and treatment center in Duluth.
2021 Attorneys of the Year: Mohamed Noor appellate team
The case of convicted former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor ended up turning on a key factor: What constitutes a depraved mind?
2021 Attorneys of the Year: N.H. v. Anoka Hennepin School District
In 2017, the Anoka-Hennepin School District prohibited a transgender high school student who identified as male from using the boy’s locker room — which he had been doing for months without incident.
2021 Attorneys of the Year: Protecting Minnesotans from Medicaid Fraud, State v. Remona Lysa Brown
When health care providers defraud the Medicaid system, the expense not only comes out of taxpayers’ pockets, it also prevents other vulnerable people in need from receiving health care services they deserve.
2021 Attorneys of the Year: Protecting Tenants as Consumers, State v. Steven Meldahl
Consumer protection laws are typically viewed as protecting those who purchase goods or services. However, as Assistant Attorney General Katherine Kelly says, “Every AG has their own flavor of things they want to pursue.”
2021 Attorneys of the Year: ResCap Liquidating Trust Litigation Team
A Spencer Fane team of attorneys closed out a major case last year involving residential mortgage originator GMAC-RFC (ResCap).
2021 Attorneys of the Year: RightCHOICE Managed Care, Inc. et al v. Hospital Partners Inc. Case Team
John Grisham hasn’t written any legal thrillers about medi-cal fraud cases, but a team of attorneys in the Health Care Practice group of Robins Kaplan is fine with that.
2021 Attorneys of the Year: Shefa v. Attorney General Keith Ellison, et al.
Delving into late 19th century source materials from the Minnesota Historical Society is not a routine part of the job for Scott M. Flaherty, an appellate attorney with Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP in Minneapolis.
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