Minnesota Lawyer Interviews

Eagan, MN: After spending three years in prison, Kuoa Fong Lee is now trying to reacquaint himself with his family and pull his life back together, says Brent Schafer, the attorney who realized last January that Lee was likely the victim of a wrongful conviction for vehicular homicide. "He can't forget about what happened to him," says Schafer, "every night when he goes to bed, he can't believe he is actually free."

Minneapolis, MN: If you believe you may have been harmed by the use of Avandia, it is important to note that your time to file a lawsuit against the maker of the drug could be running out. According to Stuart Goldenberg, senior partner at Goldenberg & Johnson, the statute of limitations in many states is coming up soon, and there still may be people who do not realize that the injury they have suffered could be related to their Avandia use.

Minneapolis, MN: There's little doubt that chemical maker BASF hoped that attorney Doug Nill and his class action suit--on behalf of hundreds of American farmers--would just shrivel up and die. The corporate giant hired a crew of lawyers and sprayed courtrooms from Minnesota to Washington D.C. with a cloud of motions for more than a decade.

St. Paul, MN: Attorney Jeff Anderson is a genuine firebrand. He has handled not hundreds, but thousands of cases on behalf of sexual abuse survivors across the US, and even outside the US over the last 25 years. "I have sued psychologists, psychiatrists, family members, movie stars, politicians, and every religious denomination you can think of including the Latter Day Saints, the Jehovah Witnesses and the Catholic Church," he says.

Minneapolis, MN: Fred Pritzker and the lawyers at his Minneapolis firm always have a lot on their plate, so to speak.

Minneapolis, MN: The next time you are in a Wal-Mart store in Minnesota, you might want to ask one of the staff if they have had lunch that day.

Minneapolis, MN: Bryce Johnson of Griffel & Dorshow Chartered specializes in product liability, including defective products such as CertainTeed shingles. His law firm has over 70 years combined experience dealing with issues and litigating civil claims, including product defect claims, injury cases and professional malpractice.

Rochester, MN: Over 500,000 people have taken Permax and lawyers Paul R. Dahlberg and Anthony Nemo of Meshbesher & Spence estimate that tens of thousands of those people are likely affected with heart damage, particularly moderate to severe valve regurgitation, because of this drug.