Grace Dokken

Rochester, MNAdmitted 2023

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.

$12.88 millionVerdictTop 20 in Minnesota · #7

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.

Dakota County District Court, Minnesota · 2026Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$2.35 millionVerdictTop 20 in Minnesota · #18

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.

Hennepin County District Court, Minnesota · 1986Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$2.25 millionSettlementTop 20 in Minnesota · #19

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.

Dakota County, Minnesota · 2024Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$750,000Verdict

A Becker County jury awarded $750,000 against WE Fest organizers and their security contractor after finding both negligent for hiring a campground attendant with a prior felony sex-offense conviction who assaulted a female camper in 2006.

Becker County District Court, Minnesota · 2008Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Education

Mitchell Hamline School of Law
J.D., 2023
University of Northwestern-St. Paul
Undergraduate, 2019

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Minnesota, admitted 2023

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