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About James Lavoie
James Lavoie is of counsel at Meshbesher and Spence, representing individuals injured and families who have lost loved ones. He served as Mille Lacs County Attorney from 1978 to 1985, prosecuting financial crimes, murder, rape, and child sexual abuse, then practiced in St. Cloud before moving to Minneapolis in 1991 to focus on civil litigation. Before law, he flew as an Army helicopter pilot with the 101st Airborne during the Vietnam War (1970-1971) and later worked as an agricultural crop-dusting pilot. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota (1973) and earned his J.D. cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School (1977). He volunteers as a mock trial coach and serves on the Milaca Scholarship Foundation board.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Meshbesher & Spence
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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.
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