The law firm of Meagher & Geer is pleased to announce that 11 of our lawyers have been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2016:

Charles Becker – Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions-Defendants
Stacy A. Broman – Insurance Law
Rodger A. Hagen – Medical Malpractice Law–Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants
Laura J. Hanson – Insurance Law
William H. Hart – Appellate Practice
John C. Hughes – Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants
Michael D. Hutchens – Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants, Products Liability Litigation-Defendants
Bradley M. Jones – Insurance Law
Charles E. Spevacek – Insurance Law, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Action-Defendants
Kurt M. Zitzer – Insurance Law, Product Liability Litigation-Defendants
Barbara A. Zurek – Medical Malpractice Law-Defendants

In addition, Meagher & Geer congratulates attorneys Charles Spevacek and Michael Hutchens who received special acknowledgment as 2016 Lawyers of the Year for the Minneapolis market in Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants, and Product Liability Litigation – Defendants, respectively. Each year, only one lawyer is chosen to receive this award for each practice area in each Best Lawyers market.

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which almost 50,000 leading attorneys cast nearly five million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

There are 80 lawyers at Meagher & Geer, practicing in more than 20 areas. Founded in Minneapolis in 1929, with additional offices in Phoenix, AZ and Bismarck, ND, Meagher & Geer has earned a reputation as one of the country’s leading litigation defense and insurance coverage firms, receiving assignments from more than 125 U.S. insurance companies, and often from insurers based in London, Canada and Bermuda. The firm regularly represents businesses of all sizes, public entities, non-profit organizations, and individuals.

The firm’s attorneys are licensed in many states, including Arizona, California, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Meagher & Geer lawyers have been awarded high rankings in Chambers USA, Martindale, and U.S. News – Best Lawyers®. The firm tries cases, having taken more than more than 200 cases to verdict in the recent past. The firm has handled even more appeals.