Education: University of South Dakota School of Law
Degree: JD
Year: 1987
Honors: Sterling Honor Graduate

Key Practice Experience

• Business torts litigation
• Breach of contract claims
• Non-compete and trade secret litigation
• Tortious interference with business relations
• Defamation
• Unfair competition
• Gaming law and litigation
• Fraud and trade disparagement
• Patent, copyright and trademark infringement
• Products liability litigation
• Complex disaster litigation; fire and explosion
• Transportation and trucking litigation
• Personal injury

Key Industry Experience

• Manufacturing
• Hospitality
• Gaming
• Industrial
• Insurers
• Hospitality
• Governmental entities
• Agricultural

Representative Cases/Transactions

• 20 years of litigation experience having represented businesses, individuals, governmental entities, and insurers in a wide variety of business and commercial disputes and large casualty losses, arbitrations, and trials in state and federal courts in more than twenty-five states

Professional Recognitions/Honors

• Named two years in a row (2008 and 2009) as one of Minnesota’s Top 40 Attorneys in business litigation in Minnesota Law and Politics
• Selected to be listed in Minnesota Super Lawyers® every year for the past decade
• Who’s Who in Business Litigation and Who’s Who in Intellectual Property by Minnesota Law & Politics, Twin Cities Business and Mpls.St.Paul Magazine – a distinction received by less than 5 percent of Minnesota lawyers
• Federal law clerk for the Honorable Donald P. Lay, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
• Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America, Trial Lawyer Honorary Society

Selected Publications/Presentations

• Frequent author and lecturer on matters relating to civil litigation, and has participated in a number of continuing legal education programs with an emphasis on complex litigation issues

Professional Associations

• Civil Litigation Section of the Minnesota State and American Bar Associations
• Intellectual Property Law and Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Sections of the American Bar Association
• Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association
• Defense Research Institute and Trial Lawyers Association
• Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America, Trial Lawyer Honorary Society

Bar Admissions

• Minnesota Supreme Court
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit