Awards and Honors

Education

Current Employment Position(s)

• Attorney

Past Positions

• Minnesota State Court District Judge, 10th Judicial District, Anoka County, January 4, 2010 - May 10, 2019
• Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP (now Robins Kaplan LLP) Minneapolis office, Partner, 1993-2009; Associate Attorney, 1988-1993
• Morrison & Foerster, Washington, D.C. office, Associate Attorney, 1986-1988

Classes and Seminars

• “The Essentials of Cross Examination” with Annamarie Daley at MSBA, Sept. 23, 2019
  
• “Debt Collection: A Judicial Perspective,” Consumer Law Issues Seminar, Jun. 14, 2013
  
• “Electronic Discovery and Electronic Evidence: Have You Ever Faced A Motion to Compel a ‘Data Dump’ or Had a Party Offer His Cellphone into Evidence?” MDJA/MDJF Annual Meetings & MDJF Fall Educational Conference, Sept. 4-7, 2012
  
• “Federal Preemption Update and the Effects in Railroad, Aviation, and Drug and Device Litigation,” Minnesota Association for Justice, Products Liability Seminar, Mar. 26, 2008
  
• “So You Are in Federal Court – Now What,” MTLA Summer Convention, Aug. 9, 2007
  
• “The Importance of Understanding and Eliminating Bias to the Trial Lawyer,” Ethics and Elimination of Bias Seminar, MTLA CLE, May 18, 2007
  
• Adjunct Professor, Hamline School of Law – Taught medical malpractice class with Wendy Zeller (Fall 2003)
  
• 30-Hour Civil Mediation Skills Training with the Mediation Center, 7400 Lyndale Ave. S., Richfield, MN 55423 (September 25-28, 2019)
  
• Rule 114 Qualified Neutral for Civil Facilitative/Hybrid and Civil Adjudicative/Evaluative (approved October 18, 2019)

Published Works

Articles

• "Wyeth v. Levine: The United States Supreme Court Rejects Preemption of Failure to Warn Claims Involving Prescription Pharmaceuticals,” Minnesota Trial, Summer 2009 (with Anne Workman)
  
• “Tort Reform: Perception Verses Reality,” Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association, Winter 2003 (with Bruce A. Finzen and Brooke B. Tassoni)
  
• “The Recovery of Emotional Distress Damages in Negligence,” Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association, Spring 2002 (with Brooke B. Tassoni)
  
• “The Future of Products Liability in America,” 27 William Mitchell Law Rev. 86, Oct. 2000 (with Gary Wilson and Vincent Moccio)
  
• “Tort Reform, The Jury Questionnaire and Striking Jurors For Cause,” Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association, Oct. 1996
  
• “Acquiring AIDS Through a Blood Transfusion: A Product Liability Analysis Under United States Law,” International Bar Association, Oct. 1996
• "Drug Overpromotion: When is a Warning Not Enough,” Trial, 1992 (co-author with Martha Wivell)

Bar Admissions

• Minnesota, 1989
• Virginia, 1986
• District of Columbia, 1988
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Virginia, 1988
• U.S. District Court District of Minnesota, 1990
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 2005
• U.S. District Court for the District of Montana, pro hac vice

Other Affiliations

• Former Member, Minnesota Association for Justice (MNAJ). While active, served on the MNAJ Board of Governors, MNAJ Executive Board, and as the co-chair MNAJ Trial PAC (2 terms) and MNAJ Products Liability Committee
• Former Member, Ramsey County Bar Association, Former Co-chair for “Families First” Event
• Amdahl Inn of Court
• Former State Delegate, American Association for Justice
• Minnesota Bar Association (MSBA)
• MSBA Civil Litigation Section, Governing Council, Treasurer