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About James Lindell
James Lindell is of counsel at Meshbesher and Spence, specializing in civil litigation on behalf of injured individuals. Before his legal career he served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army (1966-1969), worked in federal and state government management, served as a staff aide to Minnesota's governor, worked in construction, and was a smoke jumper for the U.S. Forest Service. He earned a B.A. from the University of Minnesota (1966), an M.A. from The American University in Washington, D.C. (1970), and his J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School (1977). He has been licensed in Minnesota since 1977 and admitted before the U.S. Supreme Court since 1984. Outside practice he is a private pilot (since 1985) and studies Russian and piano.
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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