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.