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  2. Terry Wade
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Terry L. Wade

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tlwade@rkmc.com 612.349.8775 vCard Address
    • Minneapolis
    • 800 LaSalle Avenue
    • 2800 LaSalle Plaza
    • Minneapolis, MN 55402-2015

Practice Areas

  • Medical Malpractice Attorneys
  • Education
    • University of Minnesota Law School, J.D., cum laude (1976)
    • University of Minnesota, Duluth, B.A., summa cum laude (1973)
  • Certifications
    • Certified as a Civil Trial Specialist by the Civil Litigation Section of the Minnesota State Bar Association
  • Professional Associations
    • American Bar Association
    • American Bar Foundation, Life Fellow
    • American Board of Trial Advocates
    • American College of Trial Lawyers
    • American Association for Justice
    • American Society of Law & Medicine
    • Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Foundation
    • Minnesota State Bar Association
    • Minnesota Association for Justice (formerly Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association)
    • Academy of Certified Trial Lawyers of Minnesota
    • State Bar of Wisconsin
    • Wisconsin Association of Trial Lawyers
    • Hennepin County Bar Association
    • Ramsey County Bar Association
  • Bar Admissions
    • Minnesota
    • U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
    • U.S. District Court, Minnesota
    • Wisconsin
  • Experience

    • Practice focuses on plaintiffs' medical negligence and legal negligence, drug and medical products litigation, products liability litigation and general personal injury litigation.
    • Co-developed the University of Minnesota Medical Malpractice course with Professor Donald Marshall.
    • U.S. Navy, Antarctica and Vietnam with Honorable Discharge (Active Duty 1966-1970)
  • Recognition*

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    • Attorney of the Year
      Minnesota Lawyer (2007)
    • Minnesota Super Lawyer
      Super Lawyers (2003-2012)
    • Invited to Fellowship
      American College of Trial Lawyers (2005)
    • The Top 100 Minnesota Super Lawyers
      Minnesota Law and Politics (2005 and 2008)
    • Member of the Year
      Minnesota Trial Lawyer Association (2003-2004) for outstanding contributions and tireless effort on behalf of the Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association.
    • Lawyer of the Year
      Minnesota Lawyer (2003)
    • Member of Founder’s Society, Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association
      Presented on August 14, 1999, for long-standing contributions and services made to the objectives and goals of the Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association.
    • Millennium Lawyer Award, Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, Inc.,
      Presented on November 21, 2000, in recognition of contributions made to the Campaign for Legal Aid as a leader of the Urban Campaign Committee and New Markets Committee, with appreciation for dedicated commitment to providing access to justice for the disadvantaged in our community.
    • 2003 21st Century Leadership Award
      Presented by the Campaign for Legal Aid on November 25, 2003. The award honors leaders in the legal community who have provided extraordinary efforts on behalf of Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services (SMRLS) and Legal Aid.
    • Law and Leading Attorneys
      Selected for listing in Law and Leading Attorneys, Minnesota Consumer Guidebook
    • Who's Who in American Law
      Selected for listing in Who's Who in American Law

     
    *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.

  • Selected Case Results**

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    February 2010 settlement for $625,000 in case involving death of newborn due to delayed diagnosis of intrauterine fetal distress necessitating emergent delivery.

    December 2009 settlement for $2,800,000 in case involving death of married school teacher a few weeks after the birth of her second daughter due to inadequately treated post-partum hypertension.

    In October, 2009, a Hibbing, MN jury returned a verdict in favor of the parents of a young boy who died of a ruptured appendix that had been misdiagnosed on two separate occasions in the days prior to his death including an office examination on the day before he died. The jury found the defendant physician's negligence caused the toddler's death and awarded $1,257,000.00 in damages.

    $9,566,500 verdict, in Morris MN, for a baby with brain damage, cerebral palsy and severe, lifelong disability resulting from negligence at delivery (November 2008).

    2008 verdict of $1,123,448 in Wisconsin against anesthesiologist for placing a neck line in the carotid artery rather than the internal jugular vein resulting in a stroke in an elderly lady.

    Represented a client who suffered serious injuries after undergoing gastric bypass surgery.  The Minnesota Supreme Court held that hospitals owe a duty to patients to use reasonable care in granting hospital privileges to physicians.  This duty exists even when the physician is not an employee of the hospital.  This is the first time that an appellate court in the State of Minnesota has recognized a common law cause of action for negligent privileging.  Larson v. Wasemiller 738 N.W.2d 300 (Minn. 2007)

    $4,500,000 for improper augmentation of labor with Pitocin and failure to intervene timely, resulting in catastrophic brain injury with significantly impaired life expectancy.

    Represented woman not advised by her daughter's pediatrician that daughter's mental disability was genetic.  Many years later, woman gave birth to son with same genetic disease.  The Minnesota Supreme Court held that pediatrician had a duty to mother even though daughter was the physician's patient.  The Court also held that the time limit for bringing suit did not begin to run before conception of the son.  Molloy v. Meyer 679 N.W.2d 711 (Minn. 2004).  The case was settled the morning trial began for a confidential sum.

    $6,500,000 settlement in interventional neuroradiology case resulting in cosmetic deformity.

    $4,659,433 verdict and a settlement that will pay $65 million with normal life expectance for a brain-damaged baby.

    $3,160,000 settlement for a delayed delivery of baby in distress resulting in persistent vegetative state and severely impaired life-expectancy (2004).

    $3,080,000 settlement of kernicterus case from failure to treat hemolytic disease of the newborn.

    $2,350,000 settlement for death of 50-year-old man from defendant's failure to follow manufacturer's safety recommendations following administration of drug.

    $1,900,000 for a baby damaged from negligence at delivery.

    $675,000 for a 70-year-old man who suffered injury during laparoscopic gall bladder removal.

    $1 million for a 42-year-old man who died of a heart attack after being treated with antacid for chest pain.

    $1.245 million for a woman who died of cervical cancer following improperly interpreted pap smears.

    $1.6 million for a woman who was partially paralyzed from neurosurgical malpractice.

    $1.175 million where a man lost his leg from contact with an 8,000 volt power line.

    $612,000 for delayed diagnosis of breast cancer.

    $1.15 million partial settlement for paralysis from improperly designed bicycle.  Balance of case settled for a confidential sum.

    **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.

  • Community Service

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    • The Nature Conservancy
    • Sierra Club
    • Vietnam Veterans of America, Lifetime Member
    • Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, Inc., Campaign for Legal Aid Leadership Committee (1994-present)
  • Publications and Speeches

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    Publications

    • Does CIVJIG 91.40 Accurately Set Forth Minnesota Law
      (Summer 2000)
    • Pap Smears and Health Cost Containment
      Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. (September 29, 1999)
    • Vacuum-Assisted Delivery Devices - an Under-Reported Danger
      (September 3, 1999)
    • Death of the Papanicolaou Smear Future Litigation
      American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vol. 180, No. 2, Part 1 (February 1999)
    • Jury Questionnaire: The Mechanics
      Civil Litigation News, a publication of the Minnesota State Bar Association Civil Litigation Section (January 1997)
    • Trial Tactics and Considerations
      Minnesota Medical Malpractice (1990)
    • The Indivisible Injury: Guiding the Jury to Full Recovery
      Minnesota Trial Lawyer (Fall 1988)
    • Minn. Stat. §604.07: What Happened and What Happens Next?
      Civil Litigation News (1988)
    • Overview of Medical Malpractice Issues Trial Tactics and Considerations
      Minnesota Continuing Legal Education (1983) reprinted MTLA, CLE (1984)
    • Statute of Limitations: Will Minnesota Adopt the Discovery of the Injury Rule?
      Minnesota Trial Lawyer (1984)
    • Wrongful Birth and Wrongful Life Cases: Trends and Developments
      Great Plains Organization for Perinatal Health (October 1983) reprinted in Minnesota Trial Lawyer (1984)
    • Arsenic Poisoning - A Case of Unpursued Test Results
      Minnesota Trial Lawyer (1982)
    • Res Ipsa and Malpractice in Minnesota: Recent Developments
      Minnesota Trial Lawyer (April 1980)
    • Recurring Areas of Legal Malpractice Litigation
      Minnesota Trial Lawyer (February 1980)
    • 7 or 9: When Does the Child's Statute of Limitations Run?
      Minnesota Trial Lawyer (Summer 1995)

    Newsletters

    • The Robins Justice Report - Vol. 7, No. 1 (Winter 2013; Updated in April 2013)
    • The Robins Justice Report - Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring 2011; Updated in April 2013)
    • The Robins Justice Report - Vol. 4, No. 1 (Summer 2010; updated in April 2013)
    • The Robins Justice Report - Vol. 3, No. 3 (Fall 2009; Updated in March 2013)

    Speeches

    • Battle of the Experts: Persuading the Applicable Audience when Experts Disagree
      Minnesota Association for Justice, Minneapolis, Minnesota (December 9, 2011)
    • Why Should a Health Lawyer Care if Proposed Medical Malpractice Reform Hurts Trial Lawyers and Muzzles the Jury?
      2011 Health Law Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota (June 9, 2011)
    • Closing Arguments: Achieving Justice from Rural Communities
      Minnesota Association for Justice (December 2010)
    • Insights From Our Trial Lawyer Members on Two Multi-Million Verdicts in Western Minnesota
      Minnesota Association for Justice, Alexandria, Minnesota (August 13, 2010)
    • Medical Malpractice and Risk Management Trends and Evolving Strategies: Why You Need to Know More About Med Mal Than How to Call Someone Else if it Happens
      Minnesota CLE, MSBA Health Law Section and MSBA Food & Drug Law Section (June 10-11, 2010)
    • Preparing and Winning with the Deposition
      Minnesota Association for Justice, Minneapolis, Minnesota (May 14, 2008)
    • The Patient's Lawyer: An Update for Primary Care Physicians
      HealthPartners, Holiday Inn Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota (September 20, 2007)
    • Voir Dire Demonstration
      Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. Exceptional Advocates Training Program (2006)
    • Tort Reform, Negligent Privileging, Statutes of Repose and Other Controversial Stuff
      2005 Medical Malpractice Conference, Co-Sponsored by Hennepin County Bar Association, Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association and Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association (April 21, 2005)
    • Deposition Strategies for Defendants and Professional Fact Witnesses - Keeping the Genie Outside of the Bottle
      2004 Medical Malpractice Conference, Co-Sponsored by Hennepin County Bar Association, Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association and Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association (June 16, 2004)
    • Wrongful Death Damages for the Death of a Child–the Plaintiff's Perspective
      MDLA 28th Annual Trial Techniques Seminar, Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association (August 15, 2003)
    • Medical Malpractice:  Will Lightning Strike You?
      Invited Continuing Medical Education Speaker, North Memorial Medical Center, Staff Physicians (September 23, 2003)
    • Medical Malpractice 2001 - "The Good, the Bad and the Truly Frightening," Course Chair
      Sponsored by MTLA (September 21, 2001)
    • Plaintiff's Perspective - CIVJIG 91.40 - Accurate Statement of Minnesota Law or Not?  You Be the Judge
      Sponsored by Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association (April 19, 2001)
    • Test Driving Your Case: How to Use Jury Focus Groups
      Sponsored by Minnesota State Bar Association, Civil Litigation Section (February 9, 2000)
    • New Civil JIGS and New Special Verdict Forms
      Sponsored by Minnesota State Bar Association, CLE, cosponsored by Civil Litigation Section of the MSBA, Office of Continuing Education for State Court Personnel and William Mitchell College of Law (January 20, 2000)
    • Test Driving Your Case: How to Use Jury Focus Groups
      Civil Litigation Annual Meeting, sponsored by Minnesota State Bar Association (April 14, 1999)
    • The Intersection of Race & Poverty: The Impact of Bias in the Administration of Justice--Bias in the Adjudicatory Process
      Second Annual Elimination of Bias CLE, sponsored by SMRLS, Campaign for Legal Aid, Ramsey County Bar Association, and RCBA Diversity Committee (November 24, 1998)
    • What Makes Jurors Tick?-- Cheap Focus Groups that Work
      Sixth Annual Civil Litigation Institute, sponsored by Minnesota Continuing Legal Education (a division of the Minnesota State Bar Association) (October 8-9, 1998)
    • Traumatic Birth Injuries
      Medical Malpractice Seminar, sponsored by Law & Politics (June, 1998)
    • Unique Settlement Presentations
      Tri-State Trial Lawyers Law on the Mississippi Seminar for the Wisconsin Academy of Trial Lawyers in Cooperation with the Iowa and Minnesota Trial Lawyers Associations, LaCrosse, Wisconsin (September 13, 1997)
    • Settlement Strategies Updated
      Course Chair, Settlement Update, Minnesota Institute of Legal Education Seminar (March 14, 1997)
    • How to Conduct Purposeful and Strategic Depositions--Effective Use of Expert Depositions at Trial
      Faculty Speaker, MSBA CLE Seminar (March 12, 1997)
    • How to Conduct Purposeful and Strategic Depositions -- Practical Tips on How to Deal with Problems at the Deposition
      Minnesota State Bar Association (March 1996)
    • Evaluating a Medical Malpractice Case: Taming of the Beast
      Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association New Lawyer Seminar (June 1995)
    • Medical Malpractice: Preparing You For the Future
      Minnesota Institute of Legal Education, panel discussion (April 1993)
    • Risk Management: Taking Control of Your Practice
      Guest lecturer, 9th Annual Convention of NAACOG, The Organization of Obstetrical, Perinatal and Neonatal Nurses (June 1992)
    • Risk Management from the Claims Perspective
      Guest lecturer, Great Plains Organization for Perinatal Health Care, 22nd Annual Meeting, panel discussion (May 1992)
    • Causation in Medical Negligence Cases
      Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association (March 1992)
    • Medical Negligence: Strategies for the 90's
      Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association (December 1990)
    • Settlement Update
      Minnesota Institute of Legal Education (November 1990)
    • Minnesota Medical Malpractice Conference
      Professional Education Systems, Inc. (October 1990)
    • Depositions Course
      Minnesota Advocacy Institute, Minnesota State Bar Association (March 1989)
    • Perinatal Centers: Intrauterine Injury: Is There a Bad Guy?
      Great Plains Organization for Perinatal Health Care (May 1988)
    • Legislative Update--Discount of Future Damages-Pending Cases
      Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association (May 1988)
    • Medical Negligence 1988
      Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association (April 1988)
    • Top 1987 Verdicts and Settlements--B.A. v. Group Health Plan, Inc. Verdict of $4,600,000
      Minnesota State Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (February 1988)
    • Strategies for Successfully Handling Personal Injury Claims--The Role of the Economist
      Minnesota Institute of Legal Education (February 1988)
    • Discount to Present Value
      Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association, Minneapolis, MN (September 1987)
    • Medical Malpractice in Minnesota
      National Business Institute, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (June 1987)
    • Civil Jury Instructions--The Impact of JIG III
      Minnesota Institute of Legal Education (March 1987)
    • Legal Aspects of Medical Practice
      Visiting lecturer, University of Minnesota Medical School (March 1987)
    • Developments in Obstetric Malpractice
      Hospital Shared Services Obstetrical Chiefs Seminar, Dallas, Texas (April 1985)
    • Instructing the Civil Jury with the New Jury Instruction Guide-Medical Malpractice
      CLE Seminar (February 1985)
    • Legal Issues for Obstetricians
      Minnesota Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology, December 1984
    • Effectively Preparing the Medical Negligence Case for Trial
      MTLA Seminar, November 1984
    • Legal Aspects of  Labor and Delivery in Family Practice a seminar for family practice physicians
      Minnesota Medical Insurance Exchange, July 1984
    • Effective Use of Demonstrative Evidence in Complex Negligence and Product Cases
      Effective Trial Advocacy, CLE accredited seminar, June 1983
    • Preparing and Trying a Medical Malpractice Case
      CLE Seminar, “Overview of Medical Malpractice Issues, Trial Tactics and Consideration,"  May 1983
    • Written Discovery--A Plaintiff’s Perspective
      CLE Seminar, November 1982
    • Guest lecturer, Great Plains Organization for Perinatal Health Care--an organization of obstetricians, family practitioners and obstetrical nurses, 1981 and 1983
    • Overview of Teratogens, DES, Progestins
      MTLA Seminar, The Toxicity Connection, February 1981
    • MTLA Case Evaluation Panels
      Panel Member, 1981 to present
    • In Depth Analysis of Medical Malpractice Cases
      MTLA Seminar, October 1980
    • Damages seminar
      Sponsored by MTLA, 1978
  • In the News

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    • Attorneys Named as "Minnesota Super Lawyers and Rising Stars 2012"
    • Attorneys Named as "Minnesota Super Lawyers and Rising Stars 2011"
    • Martin R. Lueck is Minnesota’s Top Super Lawyer 2010
    • Minnesota Supreme Court Recognizes Cause of Action Against Hospitals for Negligent Privileging of Physicians
    • Terry Wade Admitted into American College of Trial Lawyers
    • District Court Recognizes Cause of Action Against Hospital for Negligent Privileging of Physician; Certifies to Appellate Court as Important and Doubtful
    • Terry Wade and Marty Lueck Among Minnesota Lawyer’s Attorneys of the Year for 2003
    • Campaign for Legal Aid Honors Two Partners for Providing Access To Justice for the Disadvantaged
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