Hal Shillingstad’s practice is exclusively litigation.  He has tried numerous cases to verdict and has obtained dismissals through motion practice.  His employment law experience includes the successful representation of clients by defense trial verdicts, dismissals (voluntary or by summary judgment) and/or favorable settlements in the following types of claims:  discrimination (age, national origin, race, gender, marital), reprisal, whistleblower, harassment, retaliation, breach of employment contract, wrongful termination, negligent hiring and retention, tortious interference with contract, promissory estoppel, shareholder oppression claims, ERISA violations and defamation.

Hal also successfully defended a case (defense verdicts in bifurcated trials on discrimination claims and breach of contract) that received national and local media exposure (Dunham v. Wayzata Country Club  –  A Current Affair broadcast 2004;  one of the “Lawsuits of the Year” in Minnesota Law and Politics, 2005, and local coverage of trial in the Minneapolis Star Tribune).

Hal’s extensive commercial litigation experience includes trying to verdict cases involving, products liability, premises liability, construction, insurance coverage, fraud, and breach of contract.  He was one of the trial counsel in the Minnesota Tobacco litigation in the four month trial in St. Paul.  He has managed and litigated cases in multiple states, and has participated in numerous arbitrations.  He has participated in class actions and has successfully defended as lead counsel claims seeking class certification.  He has thirty reported decisions.

Hal is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell, and has been recognized as a Super Lawyer.  He has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law for the William Mitchell College of Law Business Practicum Course (2008-2009) and serves on the Board of Regents for St. Croix Lutheran High School in West St. Paul, Minnesota.