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Practice Summary Alan Eidsness’ experience includes trial work focusing on family law, specifically cases involving business valuations and other cases involving significant assets and/or incomes. His business work includes representing entrepreneurs and companies in commercial matters and also includes work with tax-free non-profit corporations. Alan has additional experience in estate and tax planning for individuals. As part of his practice, he also provides services in Alternative Dispute Resolution – both as a Mediator and as a Special Master. 
Areas of Focus
- Family Law
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Estate Planning, Probate, and Trust Administration
- Commercial Transactions
- Tax Law
- General Litigation
Bar Admissions
- Minnesota
- United States Supreme Court
- United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
Professional Memberships
- Minnesota State Bar Association; Family Law and Litigation Sections
- Hennepin County Bar Association; Family Law and Litigation Sections
- American Bar Association; Family Law and Litigation Sections
Professional / Academic Honors
- Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
- Selected as a Minnesota Super Lawyers® (peer selected)
- Minnesota Top 10 Family Law Super Lawyers®, named by Minnesota Law & Politics 2009
- Minnesota Top 100 Super Lawyers® named by Minnesota Law & Politics
- Selected as Minnesota Family Law lawyer of the year 2009 by Best Lawyers in America
- Listed in Best Lawyers in America since 1995, Family Law and Family Law Mediation
- Martindale-Hubbell AV Peer Review Rated
- Order of the Coif, University of Minnesota Law School
- Minnesota Law Review
- Director of Legal Aid Clinic
Other Professional Experience
- Expert Witness - has testified as an expert witness in legal malpractice cases in Minnesota state courts and has been retained to provide expert testimony in other cases which were resolved without trial.
- Adjunct Professor of Law, Family Law Negotiation Seminar, University of Minnesota (2000-2003)
- Adjunct Professor of Law, Writing Instructor, University of Minnesota (mid-1970s)
- Adjunct Professor of Law, Trial Practice Instructor, William Mitchell College of Law (mid-1970s)
Publications / Speaking Engagements
- Numerous Continuing Legal Education seminars on family law topics including: valuation of businesses, income taxes and marital dissolution, and determination and division of retirement programs in marital dissolutions
Community Activities
- Member of Board of Visitors, University of Minnesota Law School (1989 - 1995)
- Active Member of Edina Morningside Community Church, past Moderator of Church and past member of the Boards of Trustees and Stewardship
- Member, Board of Directors of The Jade Foundation
Education
- Juris Doctor, summa cum laude, University of Minnesota Law School, 1973
- Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, Social Sciences, Minot (N.D.) State College, 1970
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