Dillon M. White - Minneapolis, MN

Dillon White is an attorney in Messerli Kramer’s litigation group, where he focuses on complex, high-stakes cases that are venued throughout the country, often serving as co-counsel to represent clients in almost every state. His clients frequently seek him out in cases involving significant media attention, knowing that he has the ability to deftly handle both the media spotlight and the legal work.

In addition to his practice, Dillon also serves as the Director of Business Development at MK, where he helps to drive firm growth by overseeing client interactions and working directly with his fellow attorneys on business planning, networking skills, go-to-market strategies, marketing tactics, and spotting client needs before even the client can.

In the former, Dillon partners with firms all over the country on a variety of high-stakes cases and in-the-news litigation files, and he is frequently brought in to assist in complicated matters that touch multiple issues and span jurisdictions. He has a deep background in mass torts, employment law, personal injury, discrimination, advertising and media law, medical malpractice, product liability, wrongful death, and Title IX, and he started his career representing victims of sexual assault and sexual harassment across a variety of institutional organizations and governmental entities.

In the latter, he works closely with each practice group in both the Minneapolis and St. Paul offices, differentiating his role from that of his counterparts in other firms by focusing on the particularized strategies of clients. Dillon meets regularly with businesses and individuals in Messerli Kramer’s legal portfolio and tries to learn their needs, situations, and aspirations, so that he can spot opportunities within both his and the firm’s network to drive client success. Using his background as both an attorney and an entrepreneur, Dillon is able to “speak the language” of both clients and lawyers.

Dillon’s approach to law is the same as his approach to business development — let the client lead the way, rather than the other way around. He strives to meet both his clients and his colleagues where they’re at, a byproduct of not only his legal background, but also his educational one, formerly serving as a constitutional law professor with a focus in the First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Fifth Amendment, Sixth Amendment, and the Fourteenth Amendment — and currently authoring one of the most popular Substack publications on constitutional law.

Dillon is also a regular guest on local and national outlets for his opinions on the law as they relate to current events, primarily due to his status on social media. With a following of over 6 million people across platforms, Dillon is more commonly known as dadchats, where he operates one of the largest individual social media presences in Minnesota, including the biggest legal platform.

Representative Experience

• Co-counsel on prominent Multi-District Litigation (MDL) out of the Northern District of Florida, representing a significant portion of the thousands of affected women in a multi-state product liability lawsuit, with represented plaintiffs covering almost every state.
• Co-counsel on prominent Multi-District Litigation (MDL) involving a large number of sexual assault claims against a rideshare company
• Co-counsel in wrongful death lawsuit involving a major hospital network out of Colorado
• Co-counsel in multiple state-based Human Rights Act cases involving improper terminations out of New York, Illinois, and more, from major national and international corporations
• Co-counsel in multiple high-profile lawsuits involving a popular diet drug and its life-altering side effects on plaintiffs’ nervous systems
• Co-counsel on a wrongful death lawsuit involving a nursing home out of Kansas and Medicaid bed hold policies
• Co-counsel on a wrongful death lawsuit involving a nursing home out of Florida and the treatment of its residents
• Represented the victim of sexual assault against a major University under Title IX, finding fault with both the assaulter and the University’s improper handling of the grievances
• Represented the victim of retaliation by a corporate HR department for reporting sexual assault by a colleague, finding fault with the organization
• Represented a healthcare worker in her improper termination by a hospital after disclosing her medical status