International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced today that 22 lawyers in the Firm’s Minneapolis office have been named to the 2020 Minnesota Super Lawyers® list and an additional 16 attorneys have been named to the 2020 Minnesota Rising Stars® list, published by Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters.
Super Lawyers Honorees
- William J. Berens
Estate & Probate - Theresa M. Bevilacqua***
Business Litigation - Andrew B. Brown
Energy & Resources - Skip Durocher
Business Litigation - Mark E. Hamel
Real Estate - 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: Business - Ryan E. Mick
Employment & Labor: Employer - Marcus A. Mollison
Real Estate - 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
- Rachel Benedict***
Mergers & Acquisitions - Brian Burke
Mergers & Acquisitions - Shannon Bjorklund***
Business Litigation - Andrew Brantingham
Health Care - Erik Detlefsen
Banking - Richard Greiffenstein
Employment & Labor: Employer - Andrew James
Employment Litigation: Defense - Ben Kappelman
Business Litigation - Jillian Kornblatt***
Employment Litigation: Defense - Benjamin Lindblad
Tax - Lincoln Loehrke
Construction Litigation - Joshua P. Oie
Business Litigation - Kirsten Schubert***
Business Litigation - Jack Sullivan
Employment & Labor - Forrest Tahdooahnippah
Intellectual Property Litigation - Sarah Zach***
Real Estate
* This is the tenth consecutive year Thaddeus Lightfoot and Edward Magarian have been named Minnesota Super Lawyers honorees.
** In addition to being named a Minnesota Super Lawyers honoree, Jocelyn Knoll was also listed in the Top 50: 2020 Women Minnesota Super Lawyers.
*** In addition to being named Minnesota Super Lawyers honorees, Theresa Bevilacqua, 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 Rachel Benedict, Shannon Bjorklund, Jillian Kornblatt, 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.