Kirsten Schubert

Kirsten is a partner in the Trial Group of the Minneapolis office of Dorsey & Whitney and is a member of Dorsey’s Policy Committee, the firm’s governing board. Kirsten represents corporate and individual clients in all aspects of commercial litigation, focusing primarily on securities, financial services, and health care litigation, including securities class actions, shareholder disputes, ERISA litigation, FINRA actions, advisor fee litigation, internal investigations, and other types of fiduciary and contract disputes.

Kirsten has defended financial services clients in class actions relating to the sale of municipal derivatives, reverse convertible notes, and other sophisticated securities products. She has significant experience representing broker dealers and asset managers in internal investigations, regulatory inquiries, and FINRA arbitration, and has represented multiple companies and boards of directors in shareholder disputes. Kirsten also represents ERISA benefit plan sponsors, administrators, and fiduciaries in both the retirement and health plan spaces. She has defended class action challenges to retirement plans, including stock drop, proprietary fund, and excessive fee cases, health plan claims for benefits, and provider-driven mass actions.

Kirsten has appeared in matters pending in the District of Minnesota, Southern District of New York, Central District of California, Southern District of Indiana, and Western District of Wisconsin; the Second, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits; Delaware Chancery Court; and state courts in Minnesota, California, Iowa, Michigan, and Florida, as well as in FINRA arbitration.

Kirsten was recently elected to serve as the representative for Dorsey’s newer partners on the Policy Committee, and previously served as Recruiting Chair and Hiring Partner for the firm. In her leadership roles, Kirsten has focused on recruiting and retaining highly skilled lawyers who bring a diverse set of backgrounds, viewpoints, and experiences to the Firm. Kirsten is actively working with senior management to improve our diversity and inclusion efforts to recruit and retain excellent attorneys.

Kirsten also devotes a significant portion of her practice to pro bono work. Alongside a team of Dorsey lawyers, she recently won release of her intellectually disabled client, Bruce Webster, from federal death row. As a result of the firm’s work on Mr. Webster’s case, Kirsten received the 2020 HCBA Excellence Award for Pro Bono Service, and Dorsey was given the ABA’s 2020 Exceptional Service Award. She was also named the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota’s 2018 National Advocate of the Year for her work on behalf of a child refugee during the Trump Administration’s first travel ban.