- Brian N. Toder
- Partner
- 17 Washington Avenue North
- Suite 300
- Minneapolis, MN 55401-2048
- (t) 612.336.2918
- (f) 612.336.2940
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Practice Areas
Admissions
- Minnesota
- United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
- United States Supreme Court
- United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- United States Court of Federal Claims
- United States District Court for the District of Arizona
- United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
- United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois
- Colorado
Education
- Hamline University Law School, J.D.
- Hamline University, B.A.
Brian Toder’s twenty-five year trial practice has focused on business litigation, numerous national class actions where he has served as co-lead counsel, federal criminal defense cases highlighted by three consecutive jury trials resulting in acquittals, and maritime law cases where he brings to his practice his experience as a former ship’s master.
Several of his high profile cases have caused significant changes in Minnesota law, including Jensen v. Walsh which established the right to punitive damages in cases involving only damage to property; and Capital Records v. Jammie Thomas, the first of more than 25,000 downloading, copyright infringement cases that went to trial and established that simply making copyrighted works available does not constitute an act of infringement.
For his efforts, Brian has been perennially recognized as a "Super Lawyer" by Minnesota Law & Politics magazine. For his role on the plaintiffs' federal trial team in the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Litigation, Brian was a co-recipient of the Trial Lawyer’s for Public Justice’s "1995 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award." For 15 consecutive years he has been rated AV by Martindale-Hubble, its highest rating.
Brian is a member of the Operations Committee of the Minnesota State Bar Association and served as co-chairman of its 2007 state convention. He is in his third term as a member of the District II Ethics Committee. A private pilot and skydiver, he is a member of Lawyer-Pilot’s Bar Association and the United States Parachute Association.