Minnesota Lawyer

In business litigation, the question will often arise whether a corporation is what it appears to be.

John Mandler has tried and won numerous product liability and toxic claims, including claims of contamination, economic loss and personal injury.

Ed Magarian wants his tombstone to say, “He did good.”

It's pretty hard to pin Chris Madel down to an area of law. His clients and cases range all over the spectrum, from commercial real estate to federal bid-rigging charges to legal malpractice.

Wall Street was shaken to its core by the Oct. 19, 1987, stock market crash. On one day, the Dow Jones industrial average lost 23 percent of its value.

It’s darn near impossible to find anyone to say a bad word about the Rider Bennet law firm, even though it closed in 2007.

It’s been about three years since 3M settled PFA claims with the state of Minnesota, paying $85 million in damages for water pollution from the chemicals and bringing the issue to most Minnesotan’s attention.

Thomas Hamlin is one of the only two lawyers at Robins Kaplan to recover more than a billion dollars in two cases.

When a company runs into trouble either from the inside or the outside, an investigation follows.

In 2007, securities regulators approved a merger between the enforcement arms of the New York Stock Exchange and the National Association of Securities Dealers, creating a single watchdog for brokers from Wall Street to Main Street.