Robins, Kaplan, Miller, & Ciresi, L.L.P.

• General business and commercial litigation;
• Large property insurance subrogation and coverage litigation;
• Catastrophic loss investigation, adjustment and recovery;
• Products liability defense; and
• Food contamination and food recalls, defense against food-borne illness claims and recovery of costs and losses caused by food contamination outbreaks.

• The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation, Member
  The purpose of The Fellows is to support the program of the American Bar Foundation and to contribute to the attainment of the Foundation's objectives.  The Fellows consists of 1/3 to 1% of the lawyers in the state.
• Named a "2010 Riser" by the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Minnesota (2010)

 
*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.

Acted as trial counsel in American Steamship Company v. Hallett Dock Company, et al. A federal jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota in Duluth, Minn., awarded our client American Steamship Company $4,682,322.55 for repair damages and lost business income after a 11-day trial. The jury decided that Hallett Dock Company was 100 percent responsible for causing the M/V Walter J. McCarthy Jr., 1,000-foot-long vessel, to partially sink and flood at Hallett’s dock in the Duluth-Superior Harbor.

State of Minnesota v. James Anthony Brown: Pro bono appellate Counsel for disabled defendant convicted of driving while impaired while in a motorized wheelchair.  Waged a statutory interpretation and constitutional challenge to the statute under which the client was charged. We successfully achieved a reversal of Mr. Brown’s conviction. The published decision was not appealed by the State. 

Lunds Food Holdings, Inc. v. PM Beef Holdings, LLC: Achieved confidential recovery for Lund Food Holdings (“Lunds/Byerly's”) in the E. coli O157:H7 contamination litigation after Lunds/Byerly's responded to the 2007 recall of ground beef and hundreds of reports of contamination and illness.

Represent a large national retailer in disputes related construction defects in stores around the country. 

Selected Reported Cases** 

American Steamship Company and Armstrong Steamship Company v. Hallett Dock Company et al., 862 F. Supp. 2d 919 (D. Minn. 2012).

State of Minnesota v. James Anthony Brown, 801 N.W.2d 186 (Minn. Ct. App. 2011).

**Past results are reported to provide the reader with an indication of the type of litigation in which we practice and does 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.

• EFFJAY PROJEKTS, Advisory Board

• Jury Awards American Steamship Company Nearly $4.7 Million
• Gerardo Alcazar Named "2010 Riser" by the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Minnesota