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  • Yale Law School (J.D., 1983)
  • Washington University (A.B., English Literature and History, 1980), summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

  • Minnesota
  • Admitted to practice before the United States Claims Court
  • The United States District Court for the District of Minnesota

David Y. Trevor

Attorney
Minneapolis
P: (612) 340-8718
F: (612) 340-2777
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Attorney in the Trial group.  Practices in the areas of employment litigation, securities litigation, general commercial litigation and arbitrations.

Representative Litigation

  • Lindgren v. Harmon Glass, (489 N.W.2d 804, Minn. App. 1992) (established absenteeism as legitimate basis for termination of disabled individual claiming under Minnesota Human Rights Act; obtained summary judgment and successfully defended appeal)
  • Obtained summary judgment for employer in numerous employment discrimination and wrongful discharge cases
  • Represented securities broker-dealers in substantial securities fraud class actions
  • Obtained summary judgment for broker-dealer in $30 million RICO action
  • Successfully tried case and defended appeal in $175,000 dispute involving cancellation of real estate purchase agreement
  • Saudi American Bank v. Suad Azhari et al, (460 N.W.2d 90, Minn. App. 1990) (Established applicability of collateral estoppel to forum non conveniens dismissals; obtained dismissal and successfully defended appeal)
  • Successfully pursued several arbitrations before the NASD for various brokerage firms
  • Prosecuted criminal misdemeanors (including six jury trials) while "on loan" to the Minneapolis City Attorney's Office for 3 months in 1986

Attorney Articles

June 2002
Employment Law Update
November 1991
"Medical Judgments to be Crucial in New Disability Act," (co-author) Minnesota Medicine
1990
"Managing the Disabled Employee: The Duty to Accommodate," (co-author) Eighth Annual Upper Midwest Employment Law Institute