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Practice Summary Joe Dixon represents a broad cross section of individuals and businesses involved in commercial and business disputes. He has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in business, employment, and construction matters and regularly provides ADR services to attorneys and their clients.
Areas of Focus
- Antitrust, Distribution & Franchising
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Business Litigation
- Employment Law
- Products Liability and Toxic Tort Litigation
- Real Estate Law
- Shareholder and Securities Litigation
Representative Experience
- Co-liaison Counsel in national antitrust case
- Multi-state representation of corporation named in thousands of product liability claims
- Defense of national computer manufacturer in numerous product liability claims
- Counsel to special committee of board of directors for a public company, successfully resolving large, sensitive employment claim
- Lead counsel for major state university in investigations
- Successful prosecutions of shareholder claims against issuer, underwriter and related parties
- Lead attorney in numerous other significant legal disputes, on both plaintiff and defense sides, involving employment, contract, securities, real estate, antitrust and other commercial matters
- Named mediator, arbitrator and special master in state and federal courts in a wide variety of commercial and business disputes
Bar Admissions
- Minnesota
- United States District Courts for the Districts of Minnesota, Eastern and Western Wisconsin, North Dakota
- United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Professional Memberships
- Hennepin County Bar Association
- Minnesota State Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Federal Bar Association
- Past President, Central Minnesota Legal Services
Professional / Academic Honors
- Selected as one of The Best Lawyers in America®
- Named one of Minnesota's Top 25 ADR Super Lawyers®
- Selected as a Super Lawyer® since 1998
- Selected as one of the Top 100 Super Lawyers®, 2001, 2008
- Selected as one of Minnesota’s Top 40 Business Litigation Super Lawyers® since 2002
- Awarded Pro Bono Public Attorney Award by the Minnesota Legal Services Coalition
- Order of the Coif
- Law Review
- Martindale-Hubbell AV Peer Review Rated
Other Professional Experience
- Appointed by the U.S. District Court to serve on the Federal Practice Committee, 2007-2010
- Writing Instructor, University of Minnesota
- Adjunct Professor, Trial practice, William Mitchell School of Law
- Instructor, Minnesota Advocacy Institute
- Law Clerk, Honorable Gerald W. Heaney, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- Special Master Federal Minnesota Reapportionment Litigation, 1972, 1992.
Publications / Speaking Engagements
- Appeared as a speaker and lecturer on CLE and informational programs dealing with appellate practice, sports law, trial advocacy, and the federal rules of civil procedure,
Education
- Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, University of Minnesota, 1969
- Bachelor of Arts, Economics and History, University of Minnesota
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