MINNEAPOLIS, MN (August 16, 2010) – Meagher & Geer is proud to announce that 11 of its attorneys are named in the 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.  Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 39,000 leading attorneys cast almost 3.1 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

The Best listing also awards Meagher & Geer with #1 Rankings for Minnesota firms in Insurance Law and Medical Malpractice Law, two of the firm’s most prominent and successful practice areas.

The recognized Meagher & Geer lawyers are:

J. Richard Bland*, Personal Injury Litigation
Stacy A. Broman, Insurance Law
Rodger A. Hagen, Medical Malpractice Law, and Personal Injury Litigation
Laura J. Hanson, Insurance Law
John C. Hughes, Personal Injury Litigation
Michael D. Hutchens, Personal Injury Litigation, and Products Liability Litigation
Bradley M. Jones, Insurance Law
Cecilie M. Loidolt, Medical Malpractice Law
James F. Roegge, Commercial Litigation
Charles E. Spevacek, Insurance Law, and Mass Tort Litigation
Barbara A. Zurek, Medical Malpractice Law

Listed in Best Lawyers every year since 1993.

The law firm of Meagher & Geer, P.L.L.P. represents leading businesses, public entities, non-profit organizations, and individuals nationwide. The firm, founded in 1929, includes more than 80 lawyers whose litigation practice focuses on professional liability, insurance coverage, products liability, mass tort/toxic tort, employment practices, construction, real estate, wills, estates and trusts, and business services/corporate law. We serve our clients from offices in Minnesota and Arizona.