Minnesota Lawyer

This edition of POWER 30 focuses on personal injury lawyers. We have focused on those whose mere presence on a case signifies the stakes, who have influenced the direction of the law, whose leadership in the community is pervasive and whose respect within the bar is undeniable.

A trip to Mazatlan turned bad for Richard Tholen, who injured his knee while zip-lining. Tholen, a plastic surgeon, and his wife quickly realized the medical care he was receiving was making his situation worse.

Nate Bjerke’s career trajectory sounds like the plot of a John Grisham novel.

If you get a package delivered within a couple of days, Jed Chronic would like you to remember the truck drivers who made that possible.

The Bair-Hugger MDL against 3M for its allegedly defective forced-air warming device is “back on track” after it was remanded last August by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, says Michael Ciresi, one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs.

There are no silos in either the North Dakota or Minnesota offices of Conlin Law Firm. Tom Conlin started it in 2006 and Stacy Deery Stennes joined in 2010.

With the courts closed or slowed because of the pandemic, trial schedules are pushed back in at least some counties. That pushes settlements back as well.

Minnesota lawyers are no strangers to mass tort litigation, either here or in other jurisdictions. Even relatively smaller lawsuits involve many lawyers from different firms.

Minneapolis attorneys Kathleen Flynn Peterson and Robert King brought home a verdict last December for $13.14 million in a traumatic brain injury case from Kandiyohi County.

St. Cloud attorney Michael Hall has made a reputation by winning big verdicts from outside the metropolitan area, which is commonly viewed as nearly impossible.