After a distinguished career concentrating his practice in the defense of personal injury matters with emphasis on professional liability and malpractice, products liability, motor vehicle claims, premises liability, construction claims and insurance issues, Mr. Vanasek currently restricts his practice to Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). He has extensive ADR experience in claims involving these areas and has been selected as an Arbitrator/Mediator/Neutral Evaluator on hundreds of occasions in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota and Oklahoma. He has a successful settlement rate in excess of 90% as a Mediator. He has been consistently selected by his peers as one of the top ADR Professionals based on a poll conducted by Minnesota Law & Politics and has been consistently selected as one of Minnesota's "Super Lawyers."

He is former Minnesota State Chair of the American College of Trial Lawyers and former President of the Minnesota Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates.

He has been a CLE lecturer on successful ADR techniques.

Attorney Profile

Education:

J.D., William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1969

Bar Admissions:

Minnesota, 1969

U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota, 1969

U.S. Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit, 1969

Professional Associations and Memberships:

American Arbitration Association Arbitration Panel

American Bar Association (Products Liability Committee and General Liability Committee)

American Board of Trial Advocates (President of Minnesota Chapter, 1997)

American College of Trial Lawyers - Fellow (Minnesota State Chair, 1994-95)

American Society of Law and Medicine

Association of Trial Lawyers of America

Creative Dispute Resolution Panel of Neutrals

Defense Research Institute

International Association of Defense Counsel (Products Liability Committee and Medical Malpractice Committee)

Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association, (Board of Directors, 1985-1986)

Minnesota State Bar Association, (Board of Governors, 1992-1996)

Minnesota Statewide ADR Roster of Neutrals

Ramsey County Bar Association, (Chairman of Medical-Legal Committee, 1984-1987)

Honors and Distinctions:

American Board of Trial Advocates (President of Minnesota Chapter, 1997)

Elected as one of the Top ADR Professionals in a poll of ADR Professionals Conducted by Minnesota Law & Politics

Fellow, Amercian College of Trial Lawyers (State Chairman, 1994-1995)

Named one of Minnesota's Super Lawyers, Minnesota Law & Politics

National Moot Court Team, William Mitchell College of Law, 1969

Selected by his peers for inclusion in the Business Guidebook to Law & Leading Attorneys in the area of Personal Injury Defense Law. This distinction was received by fewer than 5 % of MN's attorneys in a statewide survey as one of the Top Forty ADR Professionals by a poll of Minnesota Super Lawyers conducted by Minnesota Journal of Law & Politics

Harvey T. Reid Scholar, 1966-1969