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Michael Snyder is a partner with the firm of
Meshbesher & Spence, Ltd. and has been Vice-President and
a member of the Board of Directors for several years.
Mr. Snyder's practice is exclusively limited to
representing victims of personal injury and families in cases
involving wrongful death. He has extensive experience in
automobile and semi-tractor trailer accidents, premises
liability, construction accidents, and medical malpractice. He
has considerable experience in cases involving catastrophic
loss such as traumatic brain injury, paraplegia and
quadriplegia, which have significant issues of life care
planning. He is often involved in cases in other
jurisdictions, including Nevada, Kansas, North Dakota, South
Dakota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. He also has extensive experience
in appellate practice. His major cases include several million
dollar verdicts and settlements.
Mr. Snyder was
co-counsel with his partners John Sheehy and Ronald Meshbesher
in Koehler v. Abbott Northwestern Hospital (1996), a medical
malpractice case for which they received a $16 million dollar
verdict - the largest personal injury verdict in Minnesota at
that time. In April 2000 Mr. Snyder 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 dollar
verdict in Owatonna, Steele County, Minnesota, in a
construction accident involving wrongful death. In October of
2002, Mr. Snyder and his co-counsel 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 he assisted a family of a motorcyclist that obtained a $3 million dollar wrongful death verdict in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Most recently, in September 2003 he worked on 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. Snyder'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. Snyder has been repeatedly selected as a "Super Lawyer" by Law & Politics.
Mr. Snyder is married. He and his wife Lane Kirchner have a daughter attending Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota and a daughter attending Cretin-Durham Hall High School in St. Paul. He is a parishioner at Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Church in St. Paul.
Education:
- William Mitchell College of Law, JD 1982 cum laude
- University of Minnesota, BA 1977 magna cum laude
Licensure:
- Admitted in Minnesota 1982
- Admitted in Wisconsin 1988
- Admitted in US District Court (MN) 1982
Employment History:
- 1980 - present, Meshbesher & Spence, Ltd.
- Shareholder
- Vice-President
- Board of Directors
Professional Associations:
- MTLA - Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association (Amicus Curiae Committee).
- HCBA - Hennepin County Bar Association.
- MSBA - Minnesota State Bar Association.
- WSBA - Wisconsin State Bar Association.
- ATLA - American Trial Lawyers Association.
- AAA - American Arbitration Association (Arbitrator)
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