About Grim Howland

Grim Howland focuses on personal injury, medical malpractice, defective product injuries, dog bites, workers' compensation, and wrongful death at Meshbesher and Spence. He began his career as a defense attorney handling catastrophic injury defense and construction defect litigation before moving to plaintiff representation. He holds a B.A. from St. Olaf College (1994), an M.Ed. from the University of Minnesota (1996), and a J.D. with honors from Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology (2004). He received Minnesota Rising Star recognition from Super Lawyers for three consecutive years (2012-2014) and was selected as a Top 100 Trial Lawyer in 2014.

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.

Practice areas

Education

Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
J.D., 2004
St. Olaf College
Undergraduate, 1994

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Minnesota

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$29.07 million · $29 Million Verdict for Cerebral Palsy After Midwife Failed to Call the OB in a Fetal Heart-Rate Crisis

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