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Since joining Leonard, Street and Deinard in 1980, Bob Thavis founded the firm’s insurance coverage practice group and has extensive experience representing corporate and individual insureds in all types of coverage disputes. Bob has experience in litigating insurance coverage under a broad array of policy types, including for underlying classes of securities fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, unfair competition and other business torts, intellectual property, construction, product liability, Internet and eCommerce liability, as well as fidelity, property and casualty claims, and in appellate work in both federal and state courts. He has successfully prosecuted claims of entitlement to over $100 million in insurance coverage. He is a frequent author and lecturer, both regionally and nationally, on insurance coverage issues.
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC ACTIVITIES
Charter Chair, Leonard, Street and Deinard’s Insurance Coverage Group
Member, Federal Bar Association
Member, American Bar Association, Litigation, Torts and Insurance Practice Sections and Insurance Coverage and Business Torts Subsections
Charter member, Insurance Coverage Committee’s Emerging Issues Subcommittee and past policyholder co-chair of various other subcommittees
Policyholder co-chair, ABA, Insurance Coverage Committee 2006 mid-year meeting and past policyholder co-chair of the committee and of the 2005 mid-year meeting
Member, Minnesota State Bar Association
Member, Hennepin County Bar Association
Past member and chair, Board of Directors, Capital Community Services Inc.
EDUCATION
J.D., with honors, Yale Law School, 1980
B.A., magna cum laude, Minnesota State University Mankato, 1977
ADMISSIONS
State Court of Minnesota
State Court of Wisconsin
State Court of North Dakota
U.S. District Court for the Districts of Minnesota and Wisconsin
Fourth and Eighth Circuit Courts of Appeals
U.S. Supreme Court | 