Jeff Anderson, attorney and founder of Jeff Anderson & Associates, is widely recognized for his decades of work representing survivors of childhood sexual abuse and their families.

Over a career spanning five decades, Anderson has tried more than 250 jury trials to verdict across the country. He is credited with being instrumental in exposing the large-scale cover-up of pedophile priests in the early 1980s and was among the first trial lawyers in the United States to publicly and aggressively pursue lawsuits against sexual predators, with a focus on holding accountable both individual offenders and the institutions that concealed and protected them.

Anderson has represented thousands of survivors and their families throughout his career. His work extends beyond the courtroom, where he is a frequent lecturer, survivor advocate and author. He has dedicated significant effort to advancing legislative and judicial protections for children and the prevention of childhood sexual abuse.

Anderson has noted that his greatest honor is the trust placed in him by survivors and their families.

Ciresi Conlin LLP Partner Rachel L. Barrett where she specializes in medical malpractice and nursing home abuse cases and leads the firm’s nursing home abuse practice group. A fluent Spanish speaker, Barrett has dedicated her career to holding negligent healthcare providers accountable on behalf of individuals and families.

Barrett is a proven trial attorney who has negotiated numerous favorable settlements and won multiple jury verdicts for her clients. She was part of the trial team that secured the largest medical malpractice verdict in Minnesota history — a federal jury award of more than $111 million for a client who suffered a catastrophic leg injury resulting from a failure to diagnose and treat compartment syndrome. Other notable verdicts include a $16.5 million wrongful-death verdict following a delayed diagnosis of fungal pneumonia and a $5.4 million verdict for the family of a nursing home resident who died after a fall resulting from inadequate care protocols.

In addition to her trial work, Barrett uses her litigation experience to shape the law for the benefit of injured Minnesotans.

Robins Kaplan LLP Partner Robert Bennett has built one of the most accomplished plaintiff-side civil litigation practices in Minnesota over a career spanning four decades.

Bennett handles civil rights and police misconduct cases, wrongful death claims, product liability matters, and commercial disputes. His case results reflect the breadth and significance of his work. In 2019, he negotiated a $20 million settlement in the wrongful death case arising from the murder of Justine Ruszczyk by Minneapolis Police Officer Mohamed Noor — at the time the highest known result in the nation for a police shooting death.

Additional significant results include a $7.5 million settlement following Derek Chauvin’s 2017 excessive force assault of John Pope, a $6.2 million settlement for a man left paralyzed after being shot by a Carlton County officer with his hands raised, and a $2.995 million civil rights settlement in the police killing of Philando Castile.

Bennett is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and multiple federal circuit and district courts.

Katie Bennett, a partner and deputy chair of the National Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, and Civil Rights Group at Robins Kaplan LLP, has built a practice centered on federal civil rights, police misconduct, jail neglect, and catastrophic personal injury litigation.
Inspired by her father, a nationally recognized civil rights and personal injury attorney, Bennett has dedicated her career to representing those harmed by powerful institutions. Her case results include a $12.2 million settlement — the largest known Minnesota recovery for Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment claims against a jail — for a man who suffered bilateral arm amputations due to medical neglect at Scott County Jail. She also secured settlements totaling $8.875 million for two clients subjected to excessive force by former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin years before his murder of George Floyd.
Additional results include a $6.2 million settlement for a man left paralyzed after being shot by a Carlton County officer with his hands raised, and a $3.175 million settlement for a man shot nine times by police during a mental health crisis.

Michael A. Bryant is a partner at Bradshaw & Bryant, PLLC where his practice focuses on personal injury and wrongful death claims throughout the state. His work encompasses auto and truck accidents, underinsured motorist claims, premises liability, medical malpractice and other serious and catastrophic injury matters.

Bryant earned his law degree from William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul in 1991 and holds an undergraduate degree from Gustavus Adolphus College. He was admitted to the Minnesota bar and U.S. Federal Court the same year.

Over the course of his career, Bryant has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Super Lawyers in Minnesota and among the Top 40 Personal Injury Lawyers in the state for four of the last five years. He has received the Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association Trial Lawyer of the Year award and the MTLA Excellence Award. He served as president of the Minnesota Association for Justice from 2009 to 2010 and is a member of the Academy of Certified Trial Lawyers of Minnesota.

Jed Chronic is managing partner at Maschka Personal Injury where he focuses on serious injury and wrongful death cases involving defective products, tractor-trailer accidents and railroad accidents. He has obtained verdicts and settlements for clients totaling more than $25 million.

Chronic began his legal career in 2004 at Crowder and Scoggins, handling general civil litigation and trial practice. He later joined Langdon and Emison as an associate attorney before becoming a partner at Sullivan, Morgan & Chronic LLC in 2009. He joined Maschka, Riedy, Ries & Frentz as a partner in 2013, assuming his current role as managing partner of Maschka Personal Injury in June 2025.

Chronic earned his law degree from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis in 2004. He is a member of the American Association for Justice, the Minnesota Association for Justice and the Minnesota State Bar Association. The Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Services appointed him to the Traumatic Brain Injury State Advisory Committee.

Siegel Brill PA Shareholder John Dornik has built a practice spanning aviation accidents, medical malpractice, motor vehicle accidents, personal injury, and wrongful death litigation, earning recognition over more than two decades as one of Minnesota’s most accomplished plaintiff’s attorneys.
His case results include a $7 million settlement for a family affected by an aviation accident that killed one member and injured two others, a $4.5 million product liability settlement for the family of a pilot killed when a faulty engine part caused a crash, and a $3.5 million recovery for a motorcyclist who lost a leg in a collision with a commercial carrier.
Dornik has been selected as a Top 100 Super Lawyer for more than 20 consecutive years and is certified as a civil trial specialist by the Minnesota State Bar Association. He received the Minnesota State Bar Association’s Professional Excellence Award in 2017 as its sole recipient. He serves as a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School teaching product liability law and has held leadership positions including president of the Hennepin County Bar Association and multiple committee chairs within the Minnesota State Bar Association.

Storms Dworak Managing Partner Paul Dworak focuses his practice on complex personal injury litigation, with particular emphasis on sexual abuse survivor cases, civil rights, product liability, and medical malpractice.

Dworak’s case results include an $8 million workplace death settlement in 2024, a $2.85 million settlement for a young man shot in the back by a police officer after Dworak first won a full acquittal for the same client on related criminal charges, and a $1.75 million resolution in a school-based sexual assault case in 2025. He currently represents more than 150 women who developed brain tumors after taking Depo-Provera in complex product liability litigation against the manufacturer.

Minnesota Lawyer has named Dworak its Attorney of the Year three times — in 2016 for a free speech case involving a student’s unconstitutional expulsion, in 2020 for securing the largest payout in a Minnesota Government Data Practices Act case, and in 2025 for his work on a pregnancy discrimination case against 3M. Those multiple recognitions led to his induction into Minnesota Lawyer’s Circle of Excellence before age 40.

Wil Fluegel is the owner of Fluegel Law Office in Minneapolis, where his practice focuses on plaintiff’s personal injury trials and appeals in Minnesota and Wisconsin, including motor vehicle collisions, premises liability, product liability and malpractice matters. He founded the firm in October 1994 after 14 years as an attorney at Sieben Grose VonHoltum & Carey, where he led appellate practice.

He is a board-certified civil trial specialist by both the National Board of Trial Advocacy and the Minnesota State Bar Association, and is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and the Million Dollar Roundtable.

Fluegel served as president of the Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association in 2005-2006 and has held appointments on the Minnesota Supreme Court’s No-Fault Standing Committee, the state’s Campaign Finance & Public Disclosure Board, the Quie Commission on judicial integrity, and the Board of Law Examiners. A founding member of the Minnesota Supreme Court Historical Society, he has authored chapters in eight texts, more than 50 legal periodicals and presented at more than 200 seminars.