Richard P. Clem

Attorney at Law

P.O. Box 14957
Minneapolis, MN 55414

Phone (612) 378-7751
FAX (612) 378-8830
e-mail: clem.law@usa.net
http://freenet.msp.mn.us/people/clem/

Education:

Hamline University School of Law: August 1985 - May 1988
1536 Hewitt Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55104

Juris Doctor, May 1988
Cum Laude, Honor Society
Class Rank on Graduation: 4 of 138
Awards and Honors:
- Dean’s Honor Roll, Spring 1986, Fall 1986, Spring 1987, Fall 1987, Spring 1988.
- Dean’s Scholarship for Returning Students, 1986-87 and 1987-88.
- American Jurisprudence Award for highest grade in the following classes:
  - Criminal Law, Fall 1985;
  - Property, Spring 1986;
  - Torts, Spring 1986;
  - Criminal Procedure I, Fall 1986;
  - Evidence, Spring 1987;
  - Conflict of Laws, Fall 1987;
  - Criminal Procedure II, Spring 1988.
- Associate and Primary Editor, Hamline Law Review, 1986-88.
- Legal Research Teaching Assistant, Senior Year.

University of Minnesota: September 1979 - December 1984
College of Liberal Arts
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Degree: B.A., December 1984 (History).

Employment:

October 1988 - Present

Attorney in general law practice, concentrating on the legal needs of individuals, including personal injury and employment law. My practice has included considerable legal research and writing, including appellate advocacy, for other attorneys in Minnesota and Alaska.

Bar Admissions:

Minnesota Supreme Court and lower courts, October, 1988.
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, May, 1991.
U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, February, 1989.
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, August, 1995.
U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota, February, 1989.
U.S. District Court, District of Arizona, March, 1994.

Representative Cases:

Asociacion Nacional de Pescadores a Pequena Escala o Artesanales de Colombia v. Dow Quimica de Colombia,

988 F.2d 559 (5th Cir. 1993).

In this case, I represent approximately 500 Colombian fishermen who were injured and suffered economic loss in the June, 1989, pesticide spill in Cartagena, Colombia. In this appeal, the U.S. Court of Appeals reinstated the case, which had been dismissed by a Federal Judge in Texas. View a portion of my brief in this case.

LaMott v. Apple Valley Health Care Center,

465 N.W.2d 585 (Minn. Ct. App. 1991).

In this case, the Minnesota Court of Appeals affirmed a judgment in favor of my client, a woman who had been discriminated against on account of her disability.

Abo el Ela v. State,

468 N.W.2d 580 (Minn. Ct. App. 1991).

In this case, the Minnesota Court of Appeals reinstated a case brought by my client against the Minnesota State Patrol for negligence in making a traffic stop.

Race v. Pung,

907 F.2d 83 (8th Cir. 1990), cert. denied, 111 S.Ct. 762 (1991).

In this case, I represented Larry Race, who was wrongly convicted in 1983 in Duluth, Minnesota, of murdering his wife. The case was featured on NBC-TV’s Unsolved Mysteries.

References:

Available on Request