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Nicole focuses her practice primarily on professional liability defense for healthcare providers, including physicians, dentists, chiropractors, nurses, and others, as well as long-term care litigation. She handles a wide variety of claims, including those alleging negligence and lack of informed consent, as well as claims involving health care providers in administrative proceedings before their respective licensing boards. Nicole has successfully represented clients in all phases of civil l...
Benjamin W. Johnson is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Public Finance Law. Benjamin W. practices law in Minneapolis, Minnesota Best Lawyers has recognized Benjamin W. Johnson since 2027. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Benjamin W. Johnson is held by other lawyers.
Peder A. Larson advises clients on environmental, regulatory, government relations, energy and land use matters. He has completed environmental impact statements, environmental assessment worksheets and state and local permitting processes for companies in a wide range of industries, including metallic and nonmetallic mining, materials processing, ethanol production, residential and institutional land development and waste management. Peder provides compliance &l...
Andrew Carlson is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice areas of Commercial Litigation and Litigation and Controversy - Tax. Andrew practices law in Minneapolis, Minnesota Best Lawyers has recognized Andrew Carlson since 2025. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Andrew Carlson is held by other lawyers.
Brian practices primarily with the firm’s litigation group and focuses on commercial, landlord-tenant, real estate, and employment litigation. He also draws upon his litigation experience to counsel his clients on methods of avoiding litigation in the first place. Brian represents a wide range of businesses and individuals involved in a variety of disputes, including disagreements over partnership, real estate, and asset purchase agreements, leases, mortgages, mechanic’s liens, an...
Stacy is the Managing Partner of Meagher + Geer and served on its Management Committee for 10 years. For nearly three decades, Stacy has focused her practice on complex commercial litigation where she defends insurers in insurance coverage and bad faith litigation, and represents professionals in professional liability litigation. For her work on behalf of the insurance industry, Stacy has been named to the Super Lawyers ® list by Minnesota Super Lawyers magazine. She is listed in The Bes...
Jennell C. Bilek advises clients on a wide range of intellectual property and legal matters. Jennell’s litigation experience includes pre-filing investigations, motion practice, Markman hearings, all aspects of fact and expert discovery, trials, appeals to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and Inter Partes reviews before the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Her patent infringement trial experience includes the direct examination of key experts and cross-examination of fa...
Valerie T. Herring is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice areas of Administrative / Regulatory Law, Energy Law, Energy Regulatory Law and Utilities Law. Valerie T. practices law in Minneapolis, Minnesota Best Lawyers has recognized Valerie T. Herring since 2022. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Valerie T. Herring is held by ot...
Phaedra brings her creative and strategic acumen to individuals and a broad range of entities, including condominium, townhouse, cooperative, and other community associations. She provides legal advice and representation on a wide variety of issues affecting associations. Phaedra also represents property owners and others in the real estate sector on issues. Whether working with individuals or commercial entities in real estate, community association law, or collections, creditor’s righ...
Jacob W. Steen is a shareholder at Larkin Hoffman and head of the firm’s real estate and land use department. He advises and represents businesses, developers, and property owners seeking government approvals, including zoning, environmental, real estate, and other regulatory matters. Jake's clients include data center developers and operators, developers of single-family subdivisions, multi-family developments, and commercial and industrial projects. In the evolving field of data cente...
Brian Melendez is a veteran litigator with more than two decades of experience in trial and appellate practice, and a former president of the Minnesota State Bar Association. His practice focuses on consumer-credit litigation and business torts. He has defended consumer-financial-services providers in more than 300 cases in over 40 states. Brian was named by Minnesota Lawyer magazine in 2002 as one of the Top Ten Attorneys of the Year; he won the award a second time in 2008, only the second p...
Tara C. Norgard is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice areas of Litigation - Intellectual Property, Trade Secrets Law and Trademark Law. Tara C. practices law in Minneapolis, Minnesota Best Lawyers has recognized Tara C. Norgard since 2015. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Tara C. Norgard is held by other lawyers.
Alan G. Carlson, recognized by Best Lawyers® since 1991, has more than 40 years of experience representing plaintiffs and defendants in jury and bench trials throughout the U.S. in almost every sort of intellectual property case. In 2010, Best Lawyers named Carlson as “Lawyer of the Year 2010, Intellectual Property Law – Minnesota.” He has won a number of multimillion-dollar jury verdicts in diverse technologies and is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers.
Heather McElroy is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Commercial Litigation. Heather practices law in Minneapolis, Minnesota Best Lawyers has recognized Heather McElroy since 2022. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Heather McElroy is held by other lawyers.
