Education: University of Minnesota Law School
Degree: JD
Year: 2000
Honors: magna cum laude, editor Minnesota Law Review

Key Practice Experience

• Product liability litigation
• Commercial litigation
• Supply-chain litigation
• Whistleblower litigation
• White collar criminal and civil fraud litigation
• Shareholder disputes

Key Industry Experience

• Manufacturing
• Recreational Products
• Food Production and Distribution
• Hospitality
• Communications
• Technology
• Industrial Equipment

Representative Cases/Transactions

• Bly v. Pan-O-Gold Baking Co.: Early case assessment and favorable settlement for the client.
• Ginkel v. Babel, et al.: Contract dispute, tried to verdict for client.
• Lindabaur v. Segway: Segway product liability, favorable motions and settlement.
• Rasmussen v. Yamaha: Motorcycle product liability, favorable motions and settlement.
• Hammes v. Yamaha: Motorcycle product liability, favorable motions, partial trial and settlement.
• Meshbesher & Spence v. Sprint: Contract, fraud and promissory estoppel claims regarding an alleged lease, court trial with complete defense decision.
• Bernal v. Ronell Managed Services: Identity theft and breach of privacy, summary judgment for client.
• Hormel v. Cereol: Olive oil brand ownership dispute, favorable settlement for client.
• Lindabaur v. Segway: Segway products liability, favorable motions and settlement for the client.
• Chial v. Sprint: Whistleblower and defamation claims, summary judgment for the client affirmed on appeal.
• Hayes v. Minneapolis Public Schools: Race discrimination and retaliation claims, tried to the court with complete defense decision.
• U.S. v. Afremov: Successful petition for remission of forfeited funds for the corporation victim.

Professional Recognitions/Honors

• Law Clerk, Minnesota Supreme Court (2000-2001)
• Chair, DRI Young Lawyer’s Committee (2009-2010)
• Steering Committee, DRI’s Young Lawyer’s Committee (2004 – 2010)
• Steering Committee, DRI’s Products Liability Committee (2006 – present)
• Steering Committee, DRI’s Commercial Litigation Committee (2005 – present)
• Chair, Business Torts Substantive Litigation Group, DRI (2012-present)
• Chair, Biomechanics and Injury Causation Substantive Litigation Group, DRI (2012-present)
• Seminar Chair, DRI Hospitality Litigation Seminar 2011
• Rising Stars, Minnesota Law & Politics (2008, 2007, 2006, 2004, 2003)

Selected Publications/Presentations

• Managing Electronic Discovery in Your Business, AEM Product Liability Seminar, April 2012
• Business Torts 101, National Business Institute 2011
• Infectious Disease Boot Camp, ALFA Hospitality Seminar, November 2011
• Computer Fraud and Abuse Act’s Application to Departing Employees, DRI Annual Meeting, October 2011
• The Importance of Trial Themes, DRI Young Lawyers Seminar, June 2011
• PCA: A Case Study in Foodborne Illness, DRI Products Liability Seminar, April 2011
• AEP v. Connecticut: Will the U.S. Supreme Court Change Public Nuisance Lawsuits, webcast, April 21, 2011
• Products Year in Review, DRI Products Liability Seminar, April 2009
• The E-Discovery 30(b)(6) Deposition – How to Prepare Your Technology Witness and be Prepared to Take on Plaintiff’s Witness, DRI Teleconference Presentation, May 2007
• Fifty Other Toasters Also Spontaneously Exploded! – Strategies for Avoiding the Déjà vu of Other Incident Evidence, CLE Presentation, DRI Products Liability Seminar, February 2007
• The New Activist State Attorney General: the Parens Patriae Approach, Article, For the Defense, August 2006 (co-written with P. Ryan Beckett)
• Incorporating Witness Interviews Into Your Litigation: Who Where When & How to Interview, CLE Presentation, DRI Young Lawyers Seminar, June 2006
• Viability of Contractual Jury Trial Waivers Without Accompanying Arbitration Clauses, Article, Minnesota Defense, Spring 2006
• Protecting Your Computer from E-Discovery Requests, CLE Presentation, DRI Products Liability Seminar, February 2006
• Confidential Settlement Agreements: Can a Confidentiality Clause Keep it from a Non-Settling Defendant? Article, DRI Business Suit, December 2005
• Removal and Forum Selection Clauses: Can a Party Do One Without Losing the Right to Enforce the Other? Article, DRI Business Suit, November 2005
• Zealous Advocacy versus Duty of Candor, Article, DRI Whisper, July 2005
• Revenge of the Accountants: How the Supreme Court’s Treatment of Andersen’s Conviction Affects Your Ability to Advise Clients, DRI Business Suit, May 2005
• Bad Faith Damages, MSBA CLE, March 2005
• Total Recall: Avoiding the Pitfalls of a Product Recall, DRI Products Liability Seminar, Young Lawyers Panel, February 2005
• Why (and How) Defendants Should Get Private Product Inspections, DRI Products Liability Seminar, Young Lawyers Panel, February 2004

Professional Associations

• DRI
• Ramsey County Bar Association

Bar Admissions

• Minnesota State Courts
• North Dakota State Courts
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit

Other Education

• B.A., University of Minnesota, College of Liberal Arts, magna cum laude