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Jack Amaral
Associate

Minneapolis

Spencer Fane attorney Phil Ashfield

Spencer Fane attorney Phil Ashfield

Phillip J. (Phil) Ashfield
Partner

Minneapolis

Spencer Fane attorney Carmen Bickerdt

Spencer Fane attorney Carmen Bickerdt

Carmen Michelle Bickerdt
Partner

Detroit, Minneapolis

Jack Amaral focuses his practice on data privacy and trusts and estates with a steadfast commitment to protecting clients’ rights and assets. With extensive experience navigating complex privacy regulations such as the CCPA and a multitude of other state consumer privacy laws, Jack provides strategic counsel to national businesses and startups alike, ensuring compliance and mitigating risks amid a rapidly evolving digital age.

Phil Ashfield represents equipment financing and leasing companies, unsecured creditor committees, corporate debtors, trustees, banks, and other entities in bankruptcies, workouts, receiverships, and other commercial disputes, maximizing recoveries and minimizing risks both in and out of the courtroom so clients can maintain a focus on improving and growing operations.

Carmen Bickerdt represents clients in product liability, toxic tort, warranty, company car, and trucking litigation, defending both individual cases and claims and coordinated mass actions with proven strategies geared toward mitigating liability and preserving clients’ reputations regardless of scope, including with early resolution programs.

Spencer Fane attorney Michael Bondi

Spencer Fane attorney Michael Bondi

Michael A. Bondi
Partner

Minneapolis

Spencer Fane attorney Kaela Brennan

Spencer Fane attorney Kaela Brennan

Kathleen (Kaela) Brennan
Of Counsel

Minneapolis

Matthew Cavanaugh
Associate

Minneapolis

Michael Bondi takes a pragmatic approach to protecting a client’s intellectual property, looking at whether potential benefits outweigh costs with his deep analysis enhancing trust in the business relationship.

Kaela Brennan’s governmental and general counsel practice addresses the full range of identifying and responding to potential risks, from proactive, preventive counsel to handling all aspects of dispute resolution, with an intentional focus on providing clients with legal outcomes that align with client objectives. Kaela’s diverse work specifically includes handling complex agreements and litigation, along with appellate procedures and experience serving as outside general counsel for government entities.

Matthew Cavanaugh focuses his practice on addressing the full range of litigation risks businesses of all types might encounter in the course of normal operations or due to unforeseen and complicated circumstances. He provides thoughtful and aggressive advocacy to achieve favorable outcomes in state and federal courts, as well as pursuing alternative dispute resolution when beneficial. This includes an intentional focus on strategies to win or favorably resolve disputes while avoiding potentially lengthy and expensive litigation proceedings.

Ryan K. Crayne
Partner

Dakota Dunes, Minneapolis

612.268.7031 / 605.906.6355

Lindsay Doman
Associate

Minneapolis

Spencer Fane attorney Haley Ekhaml

Spencer Fane attorney Haley Ekhaml

Haley Ekhaml
Associate

Minneapolis

Ryan Crayne helps clients craft effective estate plans, allowing families to transition, and protect wealth for future generations. He develops a deep understanding of each individual situation to provide creative solutions that account for all eventualities while dealing with often difficult or uncomfortable topics.

Lindsay Doman is a member of the firm’s Banking and Financial Services group. Her practice focuses on bankruptcy. She represents creditors, receivers, trustees, and others in bankruptcy, restructuring, and non-bankruptcy insolvency matters.

Haley provides legal counsel to clients across a broad array of industries to help them through the intricacies of legal disputes. With a keen understanding of her clients’ objectives, Haley is committed to delivering tailored and strategic legal solutions that fit her clients’ unique goals. Her goal-oriented approach ensures that businesses are not only well-represented in litigation but also equipped with the tools to avoid unnecessary legal battles. Known for her dedication to understanding her clients’ needs, Haley works tirelessly to achieve favorable outcomes and protect their interests.

Jon L. Farnsworth
Partner

Tampa, Minneapolis

Spencer Fane attorney Maureen Foster

Spencer Fane attorney Maureen Foster

Maureen Foster
Associate

Minneapolis

Donald G. Heeman
Partner

Minneapolis

Jon Farnsworth assists clients with all aspects of business and technology law, motivated by the belief that the best way to drive progress is to empower business owners and executives with innovative solutions. His guiding principle is clear: “Help good people do good things.” With a steadfast conviction that an attorney should foster business, not inhibit it, Jon has built his career on being a trusted advisor, enabling entrepreneurs and companies to innovate, grow, and thrive.

Maureen Foster is a member of the firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution group, representing clients in commercial, employment, and real estate litigation matters. She strives to proactively meet her client’s needs throughout the entire litigation process, using a wide range of dispute resolution methods to achieve optimal outcomes.

Donald G. Heeman represents clients in business litigation and professional licensing matters, obtaining verdicts and judgments through both trial and motion practice in state, federal, and appellate courts. Don routinely represents defendants in nationwide class actions involving various state and federal claims, including antitrust claims and claims brought under ERISA.

Spencer Fane attorney Johanna Hyman

Spencer Fane attorney Johanna Hyman

Johanna Hyman
Senior Associate

Minneapolis

Spencer Fane attorney Kirstin Kanski

Spencer Fane attorney Kirstin Kanski

Kirstin D. Kanski
Of Counsel

Minneapolis

Spencer Fane attorney David Koob

Spencer Fane attorney David Koob

David J. Koob
Partner

Minneapolis

Johanna Hyman advises, counsels and advocates for clients across various industries in support of their unique business objectives. Her work spans a range of industries, including financial institutions, manufacturing, real estate, technology, art, media, and entertainment.

Kirstin Kanski maintains a comprehensive banking and financial services practice in which she provides strategic legal advice to financial institutions on a variety of bank regulatory matters, including enterprise risk management, corporate governance, charters and activities, data privacy, consumer compliance, payment systems, digital assets, third-party risk, regulatory applications, mergers and acquisitions, exams, enforcement actions, and remediation. She has significant experience in the design and implementation of enterprise compliance, risk, data privacy, ethics, and investigation programs.

David Koob defends his clients in commercial, general liability, premises liability, complex product liability, drug and medical device, automotive, and toxic tort matters, with an impressive track record across all areas of his practice.

Ariel K. Lierz
Partner

Minneapolis

Spencer Fane attorney Steve Ling

Spencer Fane attorney Steve Ling

Stephen A. (Steve) Ling
Partner

Minneapolis

James (Jim) Lodoen
Partner

Minneapolis

Serving clients across a broad spectrum of industries, Ariel Lierz focuses her national practice on high-stakes business and employment-related litigation. She has extensive experience in complex multiparty, multi-claim disputes in the areas of antifraud, antitrust, breach of contract, indemnification, insurance coverage, insurance defense, and commercial disputes. Ariel also has a background in Federal Indian Law as a certified student attorney in Menominee Tribal Court.

Steve Ling provides collaborative legal counsel to developers, builders, corporations, small businesses, lenders, and investors, helping those clients to efficiently close sophisticated real estate and commercial transactions beneficial to all stakeholders involved in the deal. He regularly drafts and negotiates purchase agreements, leases, and general business contracts, while utilizing his business background to provide strong advocacy for his clients’ interests. Steve also helps builders and developers obtain zoning and land use approvals.

Jim Lodoen helps businesses and entrepreneurs prepare for and resolve financial challenges whether arising from changing market conditions, excess leverage, operational issues, or unanticipated events. His 35 years of experience dealing with all aspects of financial distress informs his counsel to clients as they consider alternatives to preserve and maximize value, return to profitability, and to restructure the business enterprise. Jim also helps secured lenders, subordinated lenders, private equity firms, and portfolio companies with the structuring and restructuring of indebtedness and the monetizing of assets.

Spencer Fane attorney Sam Logterman

Spencer Fane attorney Sam Logterman

Samuel J. Logterman
Associate

Minneapolis

Serena O'Neil
Partner

Minneapolis

Toni Ojoyeyi
Associate

Nashville, Minneapolis

Samuel Logterman represents clients in business and commercial litigation as well as financial services litigation, providing robust defense strategies and alternative dispute resolution methods geared toward quickly and efficiently resolving issues, minimizing current and prospective legal risks, and advancing business and operational interests.

Serena O’Neil has a person-centered estate planning practice in which she partners with her clients to create estate plans that put their wishes at the forefront. Just as every person is unique, she strongly believes that every client deserves a uniquely designed estate plan to fit their family, wealth, charitable, and business goals.

Toni Ojoyeyi counsels clients on the implementation of effective best practices and policies while helping them navigate an increasingly complex regulatory and compliance environment for businesses. This helps them to avoid employer-employee disputes and potentially costly litigation. Having worked with companies of all sizes, Toni works to develop creative solutions to highly consequential legal issues. Her wide range of global experiences has prepared her to represent a variety of clients. She is fluent in Spanish and conversational in Portuguese.

Karen D. Olson
Partner

Minneapolis

Spencer Fane attorney Sarah Porter

Spencer Fane attorney Sarah Porter

Sarah Porter
Of Counsel

Minneapolis

Sandra K. (Sandy) Radeke
Staff Attorney

Minneapolis

Karen D. Olson is an experienced regulatory, compliance, and litigation attorney that uses her significant government and private practice experience to represent her clients. Most recently, Karen served as Deputy Attorney General for the State of Minnesota for more than a decade. As Deputy Attorney General, Karen represented the Attorney General, Governor, Legislature, and state agencies and boards on complex and high-profile legal matters.

With a legal career spanning over a decade, Sarah has established herself as a highly skilled and dedicated technology and licensing attorney that empowers technology-driven businesses to thrive in the digital landscape, ranging from closely held emerging businesses to publicly trade corporations. She has a deep understanding of the intricacies of technology-based agreements and has successfully represented SaaS companies, resellers, and e-commerce providers, guiding them through the complexities of licensing agreements, intellectual property protection, and compliance matters.

Sandy is a member of the firm’s e-discovery and Data Management Practice. She focuses her practice in e-discovery, assisting with complex and often voluminous reviews concentrating on efficiency and accuracy. She has experience with higher level review, including privilege review and logging, identifying, and executing redactions for confidential client information, general privacy protections, and HIPAA protected health data, as well as production preparation. She works closely with litigation teams in identifying documents to prepare for depositions, motions, trials, and appeals.

Spencer Fane attorney Ian Rubenstrunk

Spencer Fane attorney Ian Rubenstrunk

Ian M. Rubenstrunk
Of Counsel

Minneapolis

Spencer Fane attorney Randi Winter

Spencer Fane attorney Randi Winter

Randi Winter
Partner

Minneapolis

Leslie Witterschein
Of Counsel

Minneapolis

Ian Rubenstrunk represents a wide array of clients including banks, credit unions, non-traditional lenders, private equity, equipment financers, receivers, landlords, and asset buyers in financial services matters. His extensive experience in financial services is focused on all sides of distressed transactions and turnaround matters, with specific experience in commercial foreclosures, receiverships, bankruptcies, out of court workouts, and litigation involving financial transactions.

Randi Winter helps her clients achieve favorable litigation outcomes with respect to business, employment, and licensing disputes. She also represents clients in matters involving health law, labor law, and utility law. She is experienced in all facets of litigation and arbitration, but has particularly enjoyed helping clients, both large and small, obtain trial victories before judges and juries in federal and state court.

Leslie Witterschein serves as eDiscovery counsel and co-leads the e-discovery and Information Governance team. She works closely with clients to help them through complex litigation or investigative matters. With over 25 years of experience handling all facets of litigation, Leslie focuses on finding resolutions to disputes while advancing the business and financial objectives of her clients. Leslie embraces the collaborative team approach at Spencer Fane and advises co-counsel and clients on eDiscovery strategy, using effective tactics to minimize risk and maximize the desired outcome.

Luke J. Wolf
Senior Associate

Minneapolis

Luke Wolf guides clients through all aspects of litigation with a dynamic skill set that allows him to quickly and efficiently navigate shifting objectives. He has specific experience in class actions, wage and hour litigation, noncompetition agreements, antitrust matters, residential mortgage-backed securities, and shareholder disputes.