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Practice Areas
- Antitrust/Competition
- Appellate Advocacy
- Banking and Financial Institutions
- Class Actions
- Complex Litigation
- Construction
- Environmental
- Insurance Coverage
- Intellectual Property
- Reinsurance
Education
- William Mitchell College of Law, JD, cum laude, 1989
- University of Minnesota, BA, 1983
Bar and Court Admissions
- State Court: Minnesota
- U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Sixth, Eighth, and Federal Circuits
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
- U.S. District Court: Districts of Minnesota, Northern and Southern Ohio
Past Professional Experience
- United States Court of Federal Claims, Law Clerk, 1989-1991
Michael R. Cashman
Michael is a trial lawyer who specializes in high-stakes complex commercial litigation, arbitrations and trials. He practices in both state and federal court in jurisdictions across the country. Michael also handles international disputes, and has assisted clients with problems in England, Africa, and Mexico. The cases Michael handles typically involve multiparty disputes and tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. Michael has handled complex matters in a number of practice areas including:
- antitrust
- financial institutions and banking
- securities lending
- business litigation
- property and business interruption insurance coverage
- general liability insurance coverage
- professional liability insurance coverage
- errors & omissions insurance coverage
- insurance bad faith
- reinsurance
- directors and officers
- intellectual property
- legal and accounting malpractice
- investment management liability
- internet and technology liability
- fiduciary liability
- class action, MDL and opt outs
- surety
- fidelity
- subrogation
- construction and construction defect
- products liability
In the antitrust area, Michael has represented consumers in statewide indirect purchaser class action lawsuits against Microsoft in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. After weeks of trial, the Minnesota and Iowa matters were successfully settled for $162 and $180 million, respectively.
In the insurance and reinsurance areas, Michael has handled matters in many of the most difficult jurisdictions around the country. He has tried liability, property, business interruption and reinsurance cases to verdict. Michael has obtained several no liability defense verdicts, and as a plaintiff, has obtained millions of dollars, on behalf of his insurance and reinsurance clients. Michael has been bad faith counsel for a major property and casualty insurer, and has successfully defended dozens of bad faith and punitive damage claims.
Professional Affiliations
- Hennepin County Bar Association
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims Bar Association; Vice Chairman of Section on Government Contracts 1993
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims Bar Association
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Bar Association
- Federal Bar Association
- Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS)
- Property Loss Research Bureau (PLRB)
- AIDA Reinsurance and Insurance Arbitration Society (ARIAS-US)
