International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced today that 27 lawyers in the Firm’s Minneapolis office have been named to the 2019 Minnesota Super Lawyers® list and an additional 14 have been named to the 2019 Minnesota Rising Stars® list, published by Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters.
Super Lawyers Honorees
- William J. Berens
Estate & Probate - B. Andrew Brown
Energy & Resources - Robert Cattanach
Environmental Litigation - Ken Cutler
Securities and Corporate Finance - Skip Durocher
Business Litigation - George G. Eck
Business Litigation - Laura Graf***
Real Estate - LB Guthrie
Real Estate - Mark E. Hamel
Real Estate - J David Jackson
Securities Litigation - Jocelyn Knoll*****
Construction Litigation - James K. Langdon
Securities Litigation - Thaddeus R. Lightfoot
Environmental - Michael A. Lindsay
Antitrust Litigation - Bridget A. Logstrom Koci***
Estate & Probate - Edward B. Magarian
Criminal Defense: White Collar - John Marti
Criminal Defense: White Collar - David A. Meyer
Real Estate - Marcus A. Mollison
Real Estate - Matthew F. Ralph
Antitrust Litigation - Melissa Raphan***
Employee Litigation: Defense - Robert A. Rosenbaum
Mergers & Acquisitions - Eric A. O. Ruzicka
Construction Litigation - William R. Stoeri
Personal Injury Medical Malpractice: Defense - Claire H. Topp***
Health Care - Steven J. Wells
Business Litigation - RJ Zayed*
Intellectual Property Litigation
Rising Stars Honorees
- Shannon Bjorklund***
Business Litigation - Andrew Brantingham
Health Care - Brian Burke
Mergers & Acquisitions - Erik Detlefsen
Banking - Beth Forsythe***
Criminal Defense: White Collar - Richard Greiffenstein
Employment Litigation: Defense
- Andrew James
Employment Litigation: Defense - Ben Kappelman
Business Litigation - Benjamin Lindblad
Tax - Lincoln Loehrke
Construction Litigation - Kirsten Schubert***
Business Litigation - Jack Sullivan
Employment & Labor - Forrest Tahdooahnippah
Intellectual Property Litigation - Sarah Zach***
Real Estate
* This is the tenth consecutive year RJ Zayed has been named a Minnesota Super Lawyers Honoree.
** In addition to being named a Minnesota Super Lawyers honoree, Jocelyn Knoll was also listed in the Top 100: 2019 Minnesota Super Lawyers and Top 50: 2019 Women Minnesota Super Lawyers.
*** In addition to being named Minnesota Super Lawyers honorees, Laura Graf, Jocelyn Knoll, Bridget Logstrom Koci, Melissa Raphan, and Claire Topp will be included in the forthcoming Minnesota Super Lawyers Women’s edition, along with Minnesota Rising Stars honorees Shannon Bjorklund, Beth Forsythe, Kirsten Schubert and Sarah Zach.
Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Only a small percentage of attorneys in each state are named each year to these annual lists – no more than 5 percent to the Super Lawyers list, and no more than 2.5 percent to the Rising Stars list. The selection process is multi-phased and includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations.