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John joined Lindquist & Vennum in 2007 after serving as a trial attorney for nearly four years in the National Courts Section of the Commercial Litigation Branch, which is in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division in Washington, D.C. John is known for organizing and managing large-scale, complex contract litigation, and has significant experience in a variety of technical subjects, including accounting and auditing, economics, engineering and critical-path analysis. His experience in coordinating large-scale trials has enabled him to devise and implement strategies for trials involving dozens of witnesses and thousands of documents, in which hundreds of millions of dollars have been at stake.While at the Department of Justice, John defended the government in contract litigation brought by nuclear utilities over the disposal of spent nuclear fuel. As part of the spent-fuel trial team, he presented closing arguments in the first two trials ever conducted in this arena, and cross-examined the plaintiffs’ damages, accounting, and economics experts in six of the first eight cases tried against the government. Before working for the Department of Justice, John served as an associate attorney at a Washington, D.C., law firm, where he focused on defending consumer class actions involving the financial services industry, both in trial court and on appeal, in federal and state courts nationwide. He began his career as an associate at a Twin Cities law firm. | 