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Mr. Sheehy has concentrated his practice on criminal defense and
civil trial work ranging from civil rights to medical
malpractice. He has successfully tried dozens of jury
trials in both the criminal and civil areas including
murder, assault, theft, conspiracy, drug distribution,
criminal sexual conduct, police brutality and medical
malpractice. Mr. Sheehy's civil work has been concentrated
in cases involving castrophic injuries and death. His
major cases include several million dollar settlements
and verdicts.
He was the lead counsel with his partners Michael Snyder
and Ronald Meshbesher in Koehler v. Abbott Northwestern
Hospital (1996), a medical malpractice case for which
he received a $16 million dollar verdict, the largest
personal injury verdict in Minnesota at that time. In
April 2000, he and his co-counsel received a $5.9 million
dollar verdict in St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota
in a case involving a school bus and pedestrian accident
and in July 2001 a $3.5 million verdict in Owatonna,
Steele County, Minnesota, in a construction accident
involving wrongful death. More recently in October of
2002 as lead counsel he received a jury verdict of $35.3
million dollars in a product liability case involving
traumatic brain injury in Minneapolis, Hennepin County,
Minnesota, by far the largest personal injury verdict
in Minnesota to date.
In March 2003 Mr. Sheehy represented the
family of a 20-year old motorcyclist and obtained a
$3 million dollar wrongful death verdict in Hennepin
County, Minnesota. In September 2003 he tried the case
of a semi-tractor trailer - mini van crash that resulted
in traumatic brain injury. The jury returned a verdict
of $11.3 million dollars in Foust v. USF Holland. Mr.
Sheehy’s most recent verdict was in July 2004
in Glencoe, McCleod County, Minnesota where a jury returned
a verdict of $1.8 million in a medical malpractice case
involving a three year old boy who died during a routine
tonsillectomy.
Mr. Sheehy has been perennially selected as a "Super
Lawyer" by Law & Politics.
Mr. Sheehy is married. He and his wife
Kathleen and their three daughters live in Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
Education: JD 1984 cum laude, University of
Minnesota; BA 1981, University of Minnesota.
Admitted: 1984 Minnesota; 1984 U.S. Ct. App. (8th
Cir.).
Employment History: 1982-present,
Shareholder, Board of Directors - Meshbesher & Spence, Ltd
Representative Clients: Mr. Sheehy represents various
clients.
Professional Associations:
- NACDL - National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
- Minnesota Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
- ATLA - American Trial Lawyers Association.
- MTLA - Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association.
In The News
John P. Sheehy: Procures $35.3M verdict in brain-injury case
Brain-injury case leads to $35 million jury verdict
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