Kirsten Schubert

Kirsten is a trial lawyer and partner in the Minneapolis office of Dorsey & Whitney whose practice focuses primarily on the financial services and healthcare industries. Kirsten represents ERISA benefit plan sponsors, administrators, and fiduciaries in both the retirement and health plan spaces. She has defended class action challenges to retirement plans, including stock drop, proprietary fund, and excessive fee cases, health plan claims for benefits, and provider-driven mass actions.

Kirsten represents financial services companies and other commercial clients in securities litigation, FINRA enforcement and litigation, shareholder disputes, and SEC, DOJ, and FINRA investigations. She has defended financial services clients in class actions relating to the sale of municipal derivatives, reverse convertible notes, and other sophisticated securities products. She has significant experience representing broker dealers and asset managers in internal investigations, regulatory inquiries, and FINRA arbitration, and has represented multiple companies and boards of directors in deal litigation. Kirsten has also handled complex trust and estate litigation matters, and regularly represents individual and commercial clients in other types of fiduciary and contract claims.

Kirsten has a nationwide practice and has appeared in matters pending in the District of Minnesota, Southern District of New York, Central District of California, and Southern District of Indiana; the Second, Seventh, and Eighth Circuits; Delaware Chancery Court; and state courts in Minnesota, California, Iowa, Michigan, New Jersey, and Florida, as well as in FINRA arbitration.  

Kirsten has also devoted a significant portion of her practice to pursuing pro bono habeas claims on behalf of death row prisoners, refugees, and immigrant detainees. Kirsten was named the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota’s 2018 National Advocate of the Year for her work on behalf of a child refugee during the Trump Administration’s first travel ban.