About Grace Dokken
Grace Dokken is an attorney in Meshbesher and Spence's Rochester office. She grew up in Rochester and brings experience across criminal defense, immigration law, and civil litigation. She earned her undergraduate degree summa cum laude from the University of Northwestern-St. Paul (2019) and her J.D. from Mitchell Hamline School of Law (2023), where she served as Associate Editor-in-Chief of Volume 49 of the law review. She has been recognized by The National Trial Lawyers as a Top 40 Under 40 attorney and serves on the Advisory Board for the Women in Leadership Certificate Program at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Meshbesher & Spence
These results are credited to Meshbesher & Spence. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Dakota County jury awarded Jeffrey Wu and his wife $18.4 million after his 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee's defective monostable gear shifter caused a rollaway that crushed his left leg and required amputation.
Thirteen years after Minneapolis florist Robert Nachtsheim was shot and killed in an officially unsolved homicide, a Hennepin County jury found businessman Norman Wartnick civilly liable and awarded his widow $2,350,000 in compensatory and punitive damages, a verdict the Minnesota Court of Appeals affirmed in 1987.
Dakota County paid $2.25 million to settle a wrongful death suit brought by Tory Hart after county child protection workers recommended reuniting his six-year-old son with the mother, who fatally shot the child ten days after a court terminated its jurisdiction.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.