Kudos to the Lind Jensen Sullivan & Peterson P. A. Attorneys who are featured in the most recent edition of the Federal Bar Association Bar Talk Newsletter MN Chapter. Lead by Pro Bono Chairperson Jack Moore, LJSP attorneys have handled over 90 Pro Bono matters in the last six years. See attached article below. fba-bar-talk-article-september-2016
Jack Moore recently obtained an emergency temporary restraining order blocking a landlord’s attempt to evict Jack’s client, a single mother of two young children, from her house. The landlord wrongly claimed the client hadn’t paid rent, and served the eviction notice just before Christmas. Jack produced evidence the rent has in fact been paid. The court ordered the eviction be suspended until further notice.
Lind Jensen Sullivan & Peterson P.A. was named as the Top Mid-Sized Litigation Firm in Minnesota for 2015. This will appear in the 2015 Super Lawyers Business Edition which is coming out in November.
Lind, Jensen, Sullivan & Peterson, P.A. is pleased to announce that 11 lawyers have been named Super Lawyers™ and an additional 4 lawyers have been named Rising Stars™ by Minnesota Super Lawyers.
2015 Minnesota Super Lawyers
William L. Davidson
Appellate
Mark A. Fredrickson
PI General: Defense
Thomas D. Jensen
Civil Lit: Defense
Patrick J. Larkin
Construction Litigation
Richard A. Lind
Business Litigation
Jack D. Moore
PI General: Defense
Timothy J. O’Connor
Civil Lit: Defense
Paul C. Peterson
Prof. Liability: Defense
Matthew D. Sloneker
Civil Lit: Defense
Eric J. Steinhoff
Civil Lit: Defense
Brian A. Wood
PI General: Defense
2015 Minnesota Rising Stars
Connie I. Armstrong
Construction Litigation
Thomas J. Evenson
General Lit
Amber N. Garry
Prof. Liability: Defense
Elizabeth M. Sorenson Brotten
PI-Products: Defense
In addition to being named a Super Lawyer, Paul C. Peterson was named one of the Top 100 Minnesota Super Lawyers.
Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The select process is multi-phased and includes independent research, peer nomination and peer evaluations. Within the state of Minnesota, 5% of attorneys are selected to Super Lawyers and 2.5% of attorneys are selected to Rising Stars.
Thomas J. Evenson, a Shareholder at Lind, Jensen, Sullivan & Peterson, PA, was reappointed as an HCBA representative to the MSBA Assembly for the 2015-16 term.
Brian Wood, Bill Davidson, and Peter Stiteler successfully won a declaratory judgment action brought on behalf of their insurer client in which the insurer argued that its policy did not provide UM/UIM coverage for an accident arising between the insured semi-tractor trailer and a snowmobile. The United States District Court, District of Minnesota, agreed, reasoning that a snowmobile was not an “auto” as defined by the policy and was not required to be insured under Minnesota’s No-Fault Act. The Court therefore concluded that there was no UM/UIM coverage under the policy and granted the insurer’s motion for summary judgment. The opinion is United Financial Casualty Company v. Bradley Nelson, and can be found at MemoOpinion&Order
Tim O’Connor, Bill Davidson, and Peter Stiteler successfully defended Forest Lake Area Schools and two of its teachers against a claim from a student who was injured during a physical education class. The Minnesota Court of Appeals reversed the district court’s decision to not dismiss the negligent supervision lawsuit, holding that the teachers were entitled to official immunity and the school was entitled to vicarious official immunity. The Court reasoned that the “active and dynamic nature of physical-education classes requires teachers to constantly exercise independent judgment regarding how best to supervise students.” The opinion, Lisa Miller, et. al., v. Forest Lake Area High School, A14-1448 (Minn. App. May 18, 2015), is available at Lisa Miller, et. al., v. Forest Lake Area High School
On March 27, 2014, Tim Jung and Matt Sloneker spoke at the Minnesota Trucking Association’s Trucking Law Conference. Tim and Matt discussed the “reptilian approach” now being utilized by personal injury plaintiffs in increasing numbers, and offered insight into how to combat such tactics. They also discussed the preparation of safety managers and drivers for depositions in this new environment.
