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Philip Sieff


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Experience

Other Experience

  • Practiced civil litigation in the Twin Cities area from 1985-1994.
  • Joined Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. in 1995.

Selected Results*

$25 million policy limits settlement for families of Senator Paul Wellstone, his wife, daughter and three staff members who died in a plane crash (2004, co-counsel).

$7 million recovery for plaintiffs in class action involving illegal searches conducted at the St. Croix County, Wisconsin jail (2004).

$3.9 million recovery for a mother and her minor son who survived a head-on, highway speed crash with an SUV (2005).

$3.8 million jury verdict for a 10-year-old whose arm was amputated due to a defective product (2001). 

$3.8 million recovery in a case where the death of a 6-year-old was witnessed by her parents (2007).

$3.1 million recovery for an 18-year-old whose arm was amputated in a boating accident (2007).

$2 million recovery for a 26-year-old worker electrocuted while working with a crane (2004).

$2 million settlement for plaintiffs in class action involving illegal strip searches at Mille Lacs County, Minnesota jail (2005, co-counsel).

$1.55 million recovery for the wrongful death of a 53-year-old man killed in a trucking accident (2007).

$1 million policy limits settlement with school district on behalf of the families of the victims of the March 2005 shooting at Red Lake High School (2006).

$1 million judgment for wrongful death of a 4-year-old killed in a car crash, affirmed on appeal (2005).

Seven figure recovery for a 54-year-old woman whose kidneys were injured in a recreational accident (2001).

$872,000 recovery for the wrongful death of a 17-year-old injured in a car crash (2005).

$750,000 recovery for a retired couple who were hit by a semi truck (2006).

$750,000 recovery for an 86-year-old woman injured in a car accident (2003).

$700,000 recovery in a wrongful-death lawsuit involving an 18-year-old man who died while in custody of a county jail (co-counsel) (2007).

$600,000 recovery for a retirement age man whose arm was injured by a defective product (1999).

$530,000 recovery for foot injuries to a 24-year-old injured in a car accident, sustained on appeal (2005).

$500,000 recovery for the wrongful death of a 65-year-old woman (2000).

$310,000 recovery for a terminally ill laborer who fractured his foot in a construction accident.

$250,000 recovery for a driver of a car that ran into a standing train (1999).

$136,000 jury verdict for a man who injured his shoulder in car accident (2002).

Media

  • New York Times
  • USA Today
  • Minneapolis Star Tribune
  • St. Paul Pioneer Press
  • Minnesota Lawyer
  • KSTP Television
  • WCCO AM Radio
  • Minnesota Public Radio

Recognition

  • Named in "Minnesota's Top Personal Injury Lawyers," Minnesota Law & Politics (2007) **
  • Listed as a "Super Lawyer" of Minnesota Law, Minnesota Law & Politics (2000-2007) ** 
  • Listed as a "Rising Star" of Minnesota Law, Minnesota Law & Politics (2000) **
**Being named to the list or receiving the award is not intended and should not be viewed as comparative to other lawyers or to create an expectation about results that might be achieved in a future matter.

Memberships

  • Minnesota State Bar Association
  • American Association for Justice (formerly the American Trial Lawyers Association)
  • Minnesota Association for Justice (formerly Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association)
  • National Crime Victim Bar Association
  • Trial Lawyers for Public Justice

Civic Associations

  • Sieff Family Foundation

Bar Admissions

  • Minnesota
  • U.S. District Court, Minnesota
  • U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin

Education

  • Hamline University Law School, J.D., cum laude (1985), Associate Member, Hamline Law Review and Associate Editor-In-Chief, Hamline Law Review Symposium
  • Cornell College, B.S.S., Politics, with distinction

Books and Articles

Selected Speeches

    • Advanced Expert Witness Deposition Tactics in Minnesota
      National Business Institute (2004)
    • Advanced Legal Training Course - Personal Injury
      NALS, The Association for Legal Professionals (2003)
    • The Holidazzle Parade Trial- An Examination
      Minnesota Trial Lawyer Association Convention
    • The Evidence Factor - Spoliation of Evidence
      Minnesota State Bar Association (2003)
    • Mold - Why Mold? Why Now? Evaluating the Case - A Reality Check
      Minnesota State Bar Association (2002)
    • Discovery Tactics
      Year 2000 Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association Convention
    • Premises Liability Seminar
      MTLA (2000)

    * Past results are reported to provide the reader with an indication of the type of litigation in which we practice and do not and should not be construed to create an expectation of result in any other case as all cases are dependent upon their own unique fact situation and applicable law.

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