Name: Elizabeth Fors
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Elizabeth Fors is an associate at Robins Kaplan, LLP, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is passionate about helping those who have been injured from medical malpractice or personal injury and holding the wrongdoers accountable. Ms. Fors graduated summa cum laude from Hamline University School of Law, which she attended part-time while working full-time as a paralegal. In her first eighteen months as trial lawyer, she served as co-counsel on three medical malpractice trials.

In August 2017, along with her co-counsel, Chris Messerly, Ms. Fors obtained the largest wrongful death case verdict in Minnesota state history and what is believed to be the third largest verdict in United States history for a wrongful death case with these types of damages. The verdict was listed among the Top 100 Verdicts of 2017 by The National Law Journal. In addition, Minnesota Lawyer named Ms. Fors one of 2017’s Attorneys of the Year.

Ms. Fors is an active member of the Minnesota Association for Justice, the Minnesota State Bar Association, and the Mitchell Hamline School of Law Alumni Board. She is a founding planning committee member of the Women Trial Lawyers Conference in Minnesota, which fosters expertise, relationships, and referrals.

Before attending law school, Ms. Fors was an Emmy-nominated producer for live sporting events and live pre-game shows. During her ten years in the sports industry, she was involved in televising Twins, Timberwolves, Lynx, Brewers, and Bucks games as well as football, hockey, and basketball games at the University of Wisconsin and University of Minnesota.

Ms. Fors enjoys exploring the outdoors with her golden retriever, spending time with her family, and being the cool aunt to her niece and three nephews. She is also the two-time champion of her fantasy baseball league, a longtime knitter, and a lifelong reader of mystery novels.

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