Kate Flom, a personal injury attorney, and Vice-President and Board Member of Meshbesher & Spence, Ltd, has over twenty years experience in the courtroom representing individuals. As an Assistant Hennepin County Public Defender, and now at Meshbesher & Spence, Kate has worked with clients who found themselves in difficult circumstances, and in need of help. She firmly believes that justice is for everyone, not just for the big and powerful, and has developed a practice that reflects this belief.
Ms Flom is a Certified Civil Trial Specialist, certified both by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and the Minnesota State Bar Association. She has been recognized as a "Super Lawyer" for successive years since 2000. She was elected President of the Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association for 2004 - 2005. Ms Flom has specialized in personal injury and wrongful death litigation with the Minneapolis office of Meshbesher & Spence, Ltd. since 1990.
Ms Flom's representative clients range from people with muscle and ligament injuries, scarring, fractures, or psychological trauma, and includes those who have suffered paralysis, limb loss, and death. Her goal is to aid those whose lives are disrupted through income loss, job loss, medical bills, disability and the effects of pain and injury. She also represents families who have lost a loved one to tragic circumstances and face issues of lost financial support and loss of companionship. Ms. Flom's case work ranges from motor vehicle accidents to complex medical malpractice, and also includes victims of sexual abuse.
Education: JD 1982, Hamline University School of Law; BA 1977, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine.
Admitted: 1982 Minnesota; 1990 U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota; 1995 United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Employment History: Currently, shareholder, Meshbesher & Spence. Hennepin County Public Defender's Office, 1984 - 1990. Minneapolis City Attorney's Office, Assistant City Attorney. Judicial Law Clerk, Hennepin County, Minnesota.
Representative Clients: Dedicated to those who have been harmed due to another's carelessness, or through sexual harassment/abuse.
Community
Involvement: Working Opportunities for Women, Board of Directors, 1991 - 1994; American Lung Association of Hennepin County, Board of Directors, 1994 - 1997.
Extensive
Experience In:
- Personal Injury
- Product Liability
- Construction Accidents
- Dram Shop
- Sexual Abuse
- Criminal Defense
Professional Associations:
- Board of Governors of the Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association 1993-present, President 2004 - 2005.
- Board of Directors of the Minnesota Consumer Alliance 1995 - 1998, President 1997 to 1998.
- Hennepin County and Minnesota State Bar Associations, Minnesota Women Lawyers Association.
- American Board of Trial Advocacy Douglas K. Amdahl, American Inns of Court.
- Law & Politics Super Lawyer 2000 - 2006.
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