International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced today that 22 lawyers in the Firm’s Minneapolis office have been named to the 2020 Minnesota Super Lawyers® list and an additional 16 attorneys have been named to the 2020 Minnesota Rising Stars® list, published by Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters.

Super Lawyers Honorees

  • William J. Berens
    Estate & Probate
  • Theresa M. Bevilacqua*** 
    Business Litigation
  • Andrew B. Brown
    Energy & Resources
  • Skip Durocher
    Business Litigation
  • Mark E. Hamel
    Real Estate
  • Jocelyn Knoll*****      
    Construction Litigation
  • James K. Langdon
    Securities Litigation
  • Thaddeus R. Lightfoot* 
    Environmental
  • Michael A. Lindsay
    Antitrust Litigation
  • Bridget A. Logstrom Koci*** 
    Estate & Probate
  • Edward B. Magarian* 
    Criminal Defense: White Collar
  • John Marti
    Criminal Defense: White Collar
  • David A. Meyer
    Real Estate: Business
  • Ryan E. Mick
    Employment & Labor: Employer
  • Marcus A. Mollison
    Real Estate
  • Melissa Raphan*** 
    Employee Litigation: Defense
  • Robert A. Rosenbaum
    Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Eric A. O. Ruzicka
    Construction Litigation
  • William R. Stoeri
    Personal Injury Medical Malpractice: Defense
  • Claire H. Topp*** 
    Health Care
  • Steven J. Wells
    Business Litigation
  • RJ Zayed
    Intellectual Property Litigation


Rising Stars Honorees

  • Rachel Benedict*** 
    Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Brian Burke
    Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Shannon Bjorklund*** 
    Business Litigation
  • Andrew Brantingham
    Health Care
  • Erik Detlefsen 
    Banking
  • Richard Greiffenstein
    Employment & Labor: Employer
  • Andrew James
    Employment Litigation: Defense
  • Ben Kappelman
    Business Litigation
  • Jillian Kornblatt*** 
    Employment Litigation: Defense
  • Benjamin Lindblad
    Tax
  • Lincoln Loehrke
    Construction Litigation
  • Joshua P. Oie
    Business Litigation
  • Kirsten Schubert*** 
    Business Litigation
  • Jack Sullivan
    Employment & Labor
  • Forrest Tahdooahnippah
    Intellectual Property Litigation
  • Sarah Zach*** 
    Real Estate

* This is the tenth consecutive year Thaddeus Lightfoot and Edward Magarian have been named Minnesota Super Lawyers honorees.

** In addition to being named a Minnesota Super Lawyers honoree, Jocelyn Knoll was also listed in the Top 50: 2020 Women Minnesota Super Lawyers.

*** In addition to being named Minnesota Super Lawyers honorees, Theresa Bevilacqua, Jocelyn Knoll, Bridget Logstrom Koci, Melissa Raphan and Claire Topp will be included in the forthcoming Minnesota Super Lawyers Women’s edition, along with Minnesota Rising Stars honorees Rachel Benedict, Shannon Bjorklund, Jillian Kornblatt, Kirsten Schubert and Sarah Zach.

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. Only a small percentage of attorneys in each state are named each year to these annual lists – no more than 5 percent to the Super Lawyers list, and no more than 2.5 percent to the Rising Stars list. The selection process is multi-phased and includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations.