Anthony J. Nemo

"My goal is to provide professional and ethical legal representation, while helping the 'little guy' assert and protect his or her legal rights."

Tony Nemo’s practice focuses on class action, personal injury, and product liability, with a special emphasis on helping people who have been injured by defective drugs and medical devices. Throughout his over 15 years of practice, Mr. Nemo has recovered more than $50 million in settlements and verdicts for his clients. 

Mr. Nemo has extensive experience in both the state and federal appeals courts, involving complex issues of federal court jurisdiction, mass tort resolution, and bankruptcy law. He has represented thousands of people injured by medical devices, such as pacemakers, the Copper-7 and Dalkon Shield IUDs, cardio defibrillators, cochlear implants, and surgical mesh.  He has also helped clients injured by drugs and over-the-counter medications, including Fen-Phen, Redux, Baycol, Permax, Vioxx, and Zicam.

An attorney with Meshbesher & Spence since 1990, Mr. Nemo currently serves on the Firm's Board of Directors. He has lectured at both local and national continuing legal education seminars, has been recognized as a “Rising Star” by Law & Politics, and is listed in Who's Who in American Law and Who's Who in the World.

Mr. Nemo is also actively involved in the Knights of Columbus, the Laymen's Retreat League, the Minnesota Territorial Pioneers, the Owatonna Aware Shrine Club, and the Saint Paul Vulcans.

Bar Admissions 1991 Minnesota Supreme Court; 1992 U.S. District Court (MN and AZ); 1995 U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals; 1996 U.S. Supreme Court; 2000 U.S. District Court (Eastern WI and CO); 2008 Wisconsin Supreme Court; 2009 U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals Also admitted to practice on an annual basis before the tribal courts of the Prairie Island Indian Community and the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe.		Education JD 1991, William Mitchell College of Law BA 1986, University of St. Thomas (cum laude)
Associations Minnesota State Bar Association American Bar Association Hennepin County Bar Association Minnesota Association for Justice American Association for Justice Million Dollar Advocates Association John P. Sheehy Legal History Society