International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced today that 45 lawyers in the Firm’s Minneapolis and Fargo offices were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2016. In addition, three lawyers from the Firm’s Fargo and Minneapolis offices have been named Best Lawyers' 2016 Lawyers of the Year.

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. Over 79,000 leading attorneys globally are eligible to vote, and Best Lawyers reports that it has received more than 12 million votes to date on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2016 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©, 6.7 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 55,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor.

The lawyers listed in Best Lawyers do not decide in which areas of the law they are listed. They are included in areas as a result of the votes they receive from their peers. The areas listed are based on information from a variety of sources. For more information, visit the Best Lawyers website.

Listed below are the Minneapolis and Fargo Dorsey lawyers named as Best Lawyers, the areas in which they are named, the first year they were listed and their office location.

Best Lawyers’ 2016 Lawyers of the Year:

      • Jonathan B. Abram
        Minneapolis Securities/Capital Markets Law
      • Michael J. Ahern
        Minneapolis Administrative/Regulatory Law
      • Thomas D. Vander Molen
        Minneapolis Public Finance Law

The Best Lawyers in America 2016:
FARGO, ND

      • Sarah Andrews Herman (1995)
        Employment Law – Management
        Labor Law – Management
        Litigation – Labor & Employment

MINNEAPOLIS, MN

      • Jonathan B. Abram (2007)
        Securities/Capital Markets Law
      • Michael J. Ahern (2010)
        Administrative / Regulatory Law
        Government Relations Practice
      • Timothy B. Arends (2013)
        Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
      • William J. Berens (1993)
        Litigation – Trusts & Estates
        Trusts and Estates
      • B. Andrew Brown (2007)
        Litigation – Environmental
      • Elizabeth C. Buckingham (2010)
        Copyright Law
        Trademark Law
      • Robert E. Cattanach (2008)
        Litigation – Environmental
      • Ken Cutler (2006)
        Corporate Law
        Mergers & Acquisitions Law
      • Skip Durocher (2013)
        Commercial Litigation
        Native American Law
      • George G. Eck (2011)
        Commercial Litigation
        Litigation – Environmental
      • L. Joseph Genereux (2007)
        Banking and Finance Law
      • Mark E. Hamel (1995)
        Real Estate Law
      • Joseph W. Hammell (2016)
        Litigation – Labor & Employment
      • Timothy S. Hearn (2009)
        Corporate Compliance Law
        Corporate Governance Law
        Securities/ Capital Markets Law
      • Stuart Hemphill (2016)
        Litigation – Intellectual Property
      • Nathan E. Honson (2013)
        Tax Law
      • J David Jackson (2016)
        Commercial – Litigation
      • Gary M. Johnson (1995)
        Trusts and Estates
      • Mark R. Kaster (2010)
        Administrative / Regulatory Law
      • Jocelyn Knoll (2016)
        Construction Law
        Litigation – Construction
      • Bridget A. Logstrom Koci (2008)
        Litigation – Trusts & Estates
        Trusts and Estates
      • Peter M. Lancaster (2011)
        Litigation – Intellectual Property
        Litigation – Patent
      • Thaddeus R. Lightfoot (2007)
        Environmental Law
        Litigation – Environmental
      • Jay R. Lindgren (2006)
        Land Use & Zoning Law
        Public Finance Law
      • Michael A. Lindsay (2008)
        Litigation – Antitrust
      • Stephen P. Lucke (2010)
        Commercial Litigation
        Litigation – ERISA
      • Edward B. Magarian (2011)
        Litigation – Antitrust
      • Saiko Y. McIvor (2010)
        Immigration Law
      • Steven C. Nelson (2013)
        Mergers & Acquisitions Law
      • Robert J. Olson (2013)
        Construction Law
      • Michael J. Radmer (2007)
        Mutual Funds Law
      • Melissa Raphan (2009)
        Employment Law – Management
        Litigation – Labor & Employment
      • Julia L. Rau (2012)
        Tax Law
        Trusts and Estates
      • Robert A. Rosenbaum (2006)
        Corporate Compliance Law
        Corporate Governance Law
        Corporate Law
        Mergers & Acquisitions Law
      • Eric A. Ruzicka (2016)
        Construction Law
      • Mary J. Streitz (2012)
        Native American Law
        Tax Law
      • Jay L. Swanson (2007)
        Corporate Compliance Law
        Corporate Governance Law
        Corporate Law
        Mergers & Acquisitions Law
      • Thomas W. Tinkham (1989)
        Commercial Litigation
      • Gary L. Tygesson (2007)
        Corporate Governance Law
      • Bryn R. Vaaler (2013)
        Corporate Law
      • Thomas D. Vander Molen (2008)
        Non-Profit / Charities Law
        Public Finance Law
      • J. Thomas Vitt (2013)
        Litigation – Intellectual Property
      • Steven J. Wells (2012)
        Commercial Litigation
        Franchise Law
      • RJ Zayed (2015)
        Litigation - Intellectual Property