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Alana K. Bassin
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Alana Bassin practices primarily in products liability. Most recently, her work includes defending high exposure chemical/toxic tort cases, construction products, nursing homes and hospitals. In addition, Alana has experience handling employment law and commercial litigation matters.
No stranger to the courtroom, Alana's trial practice has taken her to at least 20 different states defending high exposure, personal injury and wrongful death cases. Her trial experience has included cross examinations of experts and other major witnesses, jury selection, delivering both opening and closing statements, and several successful Daubert motions.
Her prior experience involved handling a wide variety of claims throughout Minnesota for one of the state's largest insurance defense firms. She has significant experience defending personal injury lawsuits and working with insured and self-insured household name companies and their Third-Party Administrators in handling their litigation. Alana also has been an adjunct law professor in legal writing at William Mitchell College of Law from 2001 through 2006.
She is frequently called upon by local and national publications, and has been featured in the May 2005 New York Times' article, The Pacifier Isn't for the Client, the February 2005 MSP Business Journal article, You've Come a Long Way Baby, the February 2007 Minnesota Lawyer article, Local Mold Cases Often Rotten for Plaintiffs, and was an April 2007 guest on the Minnesota Public Radio Women on the Move radio program.
- Benzene Litigation
- Business, Commercial and Financial Litigation
- Construction Litigation
- Employment Litigation
- Long Term Care and Assisted Living Facility Litigation
- Mold Litigation
- Product Liability
- Toxic Torts
- 100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation
- North Dakota, 1996
- Minnesota, 1996
- University of North Dakota School of Law, Grand Forks, North Dakota,
1996
J.D. Honors: Regional Moot Court Competition Honors: With Distinction Honors: Board of Editors, North Dakota Law Review
- Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada,
1993
Bachelor of Commerce Honors: With Honors
- Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada,
1993
B.A. Major: Political Studies
- Why Packing a Pistol Perpetuates Patriarchy, Hastings Women's Law Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2, Fall, 1997
- Modifying the Time, Place and Manner Analysis for Free Speech Injunctions: The United States Supreme Court creates a heightened scrutiny to review content neutral injunctions imposed against antiabortion protest - Madsen v. Women's Health Center, Inc., 114 S. Ct. 2516 (1994), 71 N.D.L.REV. 4, 1995
- CLE: Minnesota Law of Construction Defects and Failures - Case Studies: Lessons Learned from Recent Litigation, HalfMoon LLC (Eagan, MN), May 16,
2008
- Adjunct Law Professor, Legal Writing, William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, MN,
2001
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2006
- CLE: Monitoring Employees in the Workplace,
2002
- Preventing and Defending a Lawsuit, Lumberman's Association,
2005
- CLE: The Value of Early Evaluation in Litigation,
2005
- CLE: Preventing and Defending a Lawsuit: What Architects, Engineers and Contractors Should Know,
2007
- Rising Star, Minnesota Law & Politics - 2001 - 2008
- Minnesota State Bar Association
- American Bar Association, Section of Litigation
- Women Advocate Subcommittee - Work Life Balance, ABA Litigation Section,
2007
- Co-Chair
- Defense Research Institute
- North Dakota Supreme Court, Law Clerk to Honorable William A. Neumann,
1996
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1997
- 1970, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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