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Jun 2009	Judge: Wal-Mart violated MN labor laws, must pay $6.5M A Dakota County judge has found Wal-Mart Stores Inc. guilty of violating Minnesota's labor laws. District Judge Robert King Jr. ruled after a nonjury trial that Bentonville, Ark.-based...
June 2009	Five SGS Attorneys Designated Top 40 Personal Injury Attorneys MINNEAPOLIS (June 1, 2009) – Five attorneys from the law firm of Schwebel, Goetz & Sieben, P.A. have been named “Minnesota’s Top 40 Personal Injury Attorneys” by Minnesota Law...
Jan 2009	Minnesota Lawyer names its 2008 Attorneys of the Year It was a big year for big cases in Minnesota, and some of the attorneys behind those big cases are among those being honored by Minnesota Lawyer with its 10th annual “Attorneys of the...
Jan 2009	Minnesota Lawyer: Major verdicts and settlements in 2008 Minneapolis (January 2009) – In addition to the happenings at the Minnesota Supreme Court, 2008 also proved an interesting year for verdicts and settlements. By most reports, the...
Dec 2008	Wal-Mart to Pay $54 Million to Settle Suit Over Wages Wal-Mart Stores announced a $54.25 million settlement on Tuesday of a lawsuit accusing it of wage violations in Minnesota — far less than the $2 billion in fines that it was threatened with when a judge...
November 2008	Jim Schwebel files suit on behalf of four of the victims of the 35w bridge collapse Minneapolis (November 13, 2008) Attorney Jim Schwebel filed suit today on behalf of four of the victims of the 35w bridge collapse. He discusses human error, as well as the the structural...
Nov 2008	Collapse victims accuse 2 private firms of failing to do their jobs With federal investigators poised to render their final verdict on what caused the Interstate 35W bridge to collapse, two private firms hired to work on the bridge were served with lawsuits...
Aug 2008	Ten SG&S Attorneys Named Super Lawyers Minneapolis, August 1, 2008 – Ten attorneys with Minnesota’s leading personal injury law firm Schwebel, Goetz & Sieben have been named to the annual list of “Minnesota Super...
Jul 2008	'Trial' Lawyers Become A Thing of the Past In the last decade, the percentage of civil cases actually tried has dipped by more than a third. Lawyers are taking fewer cases to trial than ever before. In fact, in the last decade alone the number of...
Jul 2008	Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand, LLP, and Schwebel, Goetz & Sieben, P.A., Announce Wal-Mart Found to Have Violated Minnesota's Fair Labor Standards Act over 2 Million Times Tuesday July 1, 2:17 pm ET Wal-Mart Ordered to Pay $6.5 Million in Back Pay in Dakota County Class Action MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Law firms Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand, LLP...
Jul 2008	Wal-Mart Loses $6.5 Million Wage-and-Hour Class Action Wal-Mart and its lead trial counsel, Houston's Susman Godfrey, are now 0-for-3 in wage-and-hour class action trials. On Tuesday, after a three-month bench trial, a state court judge in Minnesota ruled that...
Jun 2008	Minnesota Monthly Best Lawyers When innocent people become wrongfully injured victims, experienced attorneys at Schwebel, Goetz & Sieben work to make things right. A car accident, a nasty fall, a dog attack, improper medical...
Jun 2008	Jury finds in favor of train accident victims Union Editor The families of four young people killed in 2003 when their car collided with a freight train got the verdict they were hoping for Friday when an Anoka County District Court jury...
Jun 2008	Four SGS Attorneys Designated Top 40 Personal Injury Lawyers MINNEAPOLIS (JUNE 1,2008)—Four attorneys from the law firm of Schwebel, Goetz & Sieben, P.A. have been named “Minnesota’s Top 40 Personal Injury Lawyers” by Minnesota Law...
Jun 2008	Families of train crash victims win wrongful death lawsuit A jury returned a multi-million dollar judgment in a wrongful death lawsuit Friday. The lawsuit was filed by the families of four people that died in a train crash in Anoka in 2003. Each family that...
Jun 2008	Update on 35WBridge Investigation Comes Today WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board will offer an update on its investigation into the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis last summer, which killed 13...
May 2008	Lawyers get around Minnesota's seatbelt 'gag rule' Minneapolis attorneys James Schwebel and Bob Schmitz recently settled a personal injury lawsuit involving the misuse of a seatbelt for $3 million. The case involved a family that lives in...
May 2008	Lawyers find bike-accident cases can be a bumpy road By the Numbers: 5,000 Minnesotans per year are hurt in bike accidents 500 of those injuries are from collisions with motor vehicles Source: Minnesota Department of Health Most everyone...
Mar 2008	Old Photographs Show Bent Plates on Bridge MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Old photographs of the Interstate 35W bridge show that two steel connecting plates were visibly bent as early as 2003 — four years before the span collapsed into the...
Mar 2008	Pic Show Bending Plates Years Before Collapse MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ― Old photos of the Interstate 35W bridge show that two steel connecting plates were slightly bent as early as 2003 -- four years before the span collapsed into the...
Jan 2008	Update on 35W Bridge Investigation Comes Today WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board will offer an update on its investigation into the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis last summer, which killed 13...
September 2004		Protecting Against Negligence Suits All homeowners dread being sued by someone injured on their property due to negligence. Here are protective measures recommended by James Schwebel , a leading Minneapolis...
August 2004		SG&S Attorneys named Super Lawyer MINNEAPOLIS (JUNE 1,2004)—Seven attorneys from the law firm of Schwebel, Goetz & Sieben, P.A. have been named “Minnesota’s Top 40 Personal Injury Lawyers” by...
June/July 2004		Seven SGS Attorneys Designated Top 40 Personal Injury Lawyers MINNEAPOLIS (JUNE 1,2004)—Seven attorneys from the law firm of Schwebel, Goetz & Sieben, P.A. have been named “Minnesota’s Top 40 Personal Injury Lawyers” by...
December/January 2003		Heavenly Justice Heard the one about the priest, the rabbi and the Baptist preacher? Wait - it gets even better: they’re all lawyers! This sounds like the start of a bad joke, and it easily could be,...
April/May 2002		Legal Journal Highlights Accomplishments of Schwebel, Goetz & Sieben MINNEAPOLIS, MN – A recent edition of Minnesota Law & Politics which was dedicated to personal injury law, highlighted the accomplishments...
April/May 2001		Masters of Disaster - When tragedy strikes, this superb personal-injury lawyer can help ease the pain. Stubborn, Emotional and Excellent When asked how he happened into a career as a trial lawyer, Peter Riley says, “The how and the why are both easy for me. Both my parents were...
August 2000		Super Duper Lawyer Bill Sieben Receives Most Votes Among "Super Lawyers" (Minneapolis, MN) Minnesota Law & Politics Magazine has released their annual list of Super Lawyers in the state of Minnesota....
November 1999		Top Ten Litigators - Winnin'-sotans Top litigators include prominent nemesis of Big Tobacco plus defenders of automakers. BY MARGARET CRONIN FISK NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL CONTRIBUTING EDITOR The top litigators in...