Recognition

Best Law Firm

Firms included in the “Best Law Firms” list are recognized for professional excellence with persistently impressive ratings from clients and peers. Achieving a tiered ranking signals a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise.

Minneapolis – First Tier
Banking and Finance Law
Construction Law
Litigation – Construction
Litigation – Real Estate
Real Estate Law

Best Lawyers

Best Lawyers© has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Corporate Counsel Magazine has called Best Lawyers© “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

Gary Eidson
Individual Best Lawyer in Minneapolis for Real Estate Law

Marv Fabyanske
Individual Best Lawyer in Minneapolis for Litigation-Construction

Kyle Hart
Individual Best Lawyer in Minneapolis for Litigation-Construction

Dean Thomson
Individual Best Lawyer in Minneapolis for Litigation-Real Estate Lawyer
Individual Best Lawyer in Minneapolis for Litigation-Construction

Mark Westra
Individual Best Lawyer in Minneapolis for Real Estate Law
Individual Best Lawyer in Minneapolis for Banking and Finance Law

Chambers USA

The Chambers Guides have been ranking the best law firms and lawyers since 1990, and now cover 185 jurisdictions through the world.

Ranked Law Firm
Band 1 Construction Law Firm

Minnesota – Construction

Mark Becker – Band 3
Marv Fabyanske – Senior Statesmen
Kyle Hart – Band 2
Jesse Orman – Band 3
Gregory Spalj – Band 2
Dean Thomson – Band 1

Minnesota – Real Estate
Mark Westra – Senor Statesmen

Minnesota Super Lawyers

The polling, researching, and selecting of “Super Lawyers” is designed to identify Minnesota lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.

Scott L. Anderson
Gary Eidson
Marv Fabyanske
Kyle Hart
Jesse Orman
Greg Spalj
Dean Thomson
Tom Vollbrecht
Mark Westra

Minnesota Top 10 Super Lawyers

The Top 10 Super Lawyers have received the highest point totals in the Minnesota nomination, research and blue ribbon review process.

Dean Thomson (2006,2015-2017)

Minnesota Top 100 Super Lawyers

The Top 100 Super Lawyers have received the highest point totals in the Minnesota nomination, research and blue ribbon review process.

Kyle Hart
Dean Thomson

Minnesota Rising Star – Super Lawyers

Rising Stars in Minnesota recognizes the top up-and-coming attorneys in the state — those who are 40 years old or younger, or who have been practicing for 10 years or less.

Hugh Brown
Julia Douglass
Katie Welsch

Who’s Who of Construction Lawyers

Since 1996 Who’s Who Legal has identified the foremost legal practitioners in 34 areas of business law. They feature over 16,000 of the world’s leading private practice lawyers in over 100 countries and pride themselves on the integrity and authority of their findings. It is impossible to buy entry into this publication.

Marv Fabyanske
Kyle Hart
Dean Thomson

Burton Award for Legal Achievement 2010

Dean Thomson for his article A Modest Proposal: Conflicting Judicial Decisions Should Mandate Insurance Coverage for the Insured under the Ambiguity Doctrine, which was published in the Journal of the American College of Construction Lawyers (2010)