Brendan J. Flaherty
Attorney Profile
Top Rated Products Liability Attorney in Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Selected To Rising Stars: 2010 - 2012, 2015 - 2017
- Personal Injury - Products: Plaintiff (70%),
- Personal Injury - General: Plaintiff (30%)
Brendan J. Flaherty is an attorney at OFT Food Safety & Injury Lawyers in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. Flaherty focuses his practice on personal injury and food safety matters, representing clients in Minneapolis and throughout Minnesota.
Mr. Flaherty handles food poisoning and food safety cases nationwide. He has successfully represented food poisoning victims sickened by botulism, Cyclospora, E. coli, food allergies, foreign object contamination, Hepatitis A, Norovirus, Salmonella, Shigellosis and Vibrio. In addition to his work on food poisoning cases, Mr. Flaherty also handles bicycle accidents, car accidents, child injury, day care abuse, defective products, motorcycle accidents, pedestrian accidents, premises liability, product liability, truck accidents and wrongful death cases.
Over the course of his years in practice, Mr. Flaherty has recovered millions of dollars on behalf of individuals who have been injured or lost a family member due to unsafe food or catastrophic accidents. He has secured considerable verdicts and settlements in many noteworthy cases.
In addition to his law practice, Mr. Flaherty serves as an adjunct professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law and in the University of Minnesota Law School practice and professionalism program. In recognition of his accomplishments within the legal profession, in 2014, Minnesota Lawyer magazine named him “Attorney of the Year.” He is also listed in the 2020 edition of “The Best Lawyers in America.”
Mr. Flaherty earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Grinnell College and received his law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School. He is admitted to practice in all Minnesota courts.
- 70%Personal Injury - Products: Plaintiff
- 30%Personal Injury - General: Plaintiff
Products Liability, Animal Bites, Motor Vehicle Accidents, Personal Injury - Plaintiff, Trucking Accidents
Selections
Super Lawyers: 2020 Rising Stars: 2010 - 2012, 2015 - 2017
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About Brendan Flaherty
Admitted: 2003, Minnesota
Professional Webpage: https://www.oftlaw.com/about/brendan-flaherty/
Honors/Awards:
- Country’s top lawyers in the 2020 edition of “The Best Lawyers in America”
- Minnesota Lawyer Rising Star
- Brendan along with Fred Pritzker and Kelly McNabb were named among the 2014 Minnesota Lawyer Attorneys of the Year., Attorneys of the Year, Minnesota Lawyer, 2014
Bar/Professional Activity:
- Minnesota
- OFT Law partners Brendan Flaherty and Ryan Osterholm taught a seminar on foodborne illness litigation through the Health Law Institute at Mitchell Hamline School of Law., 2019
- Adjunct Clinical Professor, University of Minnesota Law School, 2011 to present
Scholarly Lectures/Writings:
- American Bar Association Annual Meeting, Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, "Foodborne Illness Litigation from the Plaintiff's and Defense Perspective", Presenter, 2014
- Mitchell-Hamline School of Law, Adjunct Professor, “The Art and Science of Foodborne Illness Litigation”
- University of Minnesota School of Law Practice and Professionalism Program, Adjunct Instructor
- American Bar Association Annual Meeting, Criminal Justice Section Food Fraud Panel, Panelist, 2014
- "Food Safety from Farm to Fork: Litigation Perspectives," ABA Section of Litigation Food and Supplements Subcommittee Roundtable, 2014
- "Successful Negotiating Techniques," National Legal Aid & Defender, Student Legal Service Annual Conference, 2015
- 2014 Minnesota Health Association Winter Convention, "Introduction to Foodborne Illness Litigation", Presenter, 2014
- "Negligent Entrustment Claims in Trucking and Vehicle Claims," CLE Speaker, 2015
Verdicts/Settlements:
- Pritzker Hageman partners Eric Hageman and Brendan Flaherty won a $6.5 million verdict in a landmark Salmonella case against a chicken processing company, Foster Poultry Farms (Foster Farms). Our client was a 5-year-old child who contracted Salmonella Heidelberg and, as a result, suffered brain damage. The case was tried in Arizona federal court (Craten v. Foster Farms, 2:15-cv-02587-DLR)., 2018
- $7.55 million verdict in Hennepin County on behalf of a child who contracted an E. coli infection at a pumpkin patch/petting zoo. E.H. v. Dehn's Pumpkins, LLC, Hennepin County File # 27-CIV-14-17068., 2016
- Confidential eight-figure settlement on behalf of seven families whose infants were injured or killed by a food product, 2014
Educational Background:
- Grinnell College, B.A., History, 1999
Industry Groups
- Food Safety
- @patstoneking *alleged billionaire
- CDC announces yet another, THIRD, distinct E. coli outbreak with no definitively known source (though the outbreak… https://t.co/zguYT34VJG
- The lawyers at @OFTLaw have successfully represented thousands of people affected by the physical and financial con… https://t.co/NAccwatlMG
- Recent commentary by @FrankYiannasFDA suggests that this strain of E. coli O157:H7 is "NOT related to either outbre… https://t.co/HqqVPmMzw6
- Tanimura & Antle has recalled single-head bagged romaine after a sample in Michigan tested positive for a strain of… https://t.co/UwtlfN5fw4
- OFT Law files first lawsuit from peach Salmonella outbreak. https://t.co/HjTLj4ryz1 https://t.co/INX4Hal79z
- CDC announces yet another, THIRD, distinct E. coli outbreak with no definitively known source (though the outbreak… https://t.co/zguYT34VJG
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Last Updated: 9/16/2020