About Dennis Conner
Dennis Conner was born and raised in Great Falls and graduated from the University of Montana School of Law in 1974. He has spent his career representing Montanans against manufacturers, large corporations and insurance companies. His work helped shape Montana law on product liability, insurance bad faith, FELA and general tort claims, and he is responsible for dozens of Montana Supreme Court opinions.
He has served on the boards of the Western Trial Lawyers and the Montana Trial Lawyers, and was named Montana Trial Lawyer of the Year for 1990-1991, received the Trial Lawyer Career Achievement Award for 2009-2010, and received the Appellate Advocacy Award for 2018-2019. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (past president of its Montana chapter) and a Fellow of the International Society of Barristers. He holds a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent rating and is listed in Best Lawyers in America.
Proven verdicts and settlements
Robert Dannels, a BNSF railroad trackman, suffered a permanently disabling back and spine injury in 2010 when a skid-steer loader he was operating struck a buried steel wellhead. A Cascade County jury in 2013 found BNSF 100 percent at fault and awarded $1.7 million under the Federal Employers' Liability Act. The court denied BNSF's motion for a new trial, and BNSF paid the full verdict amount.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
