David D. Leishman
Associate

Practice Areas

Law School

University of Minnesota Law School, 2006, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif

Admitted to Bar

2006, Minnesota

Courts

Minnesota; U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota
Eastern District of Wisconsin
U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit

David D. Leishman is a 2006 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School, where he was the Lead Note & Comment Editor for the Minnesota Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. He holds a bachelor's degree from Wheaton College. From 2006 to 2007 he was law clerk to the Honorable G. Barry Anderson on the Minnesota Supreme Court. Mr. Leishman won a Burton Award for his article "Adding Insult to Injury: ERISA, Knudson, and the Error of the Possession Theory," 89 Minn. L. Rev. 1214 (2005).

Publications

Adding Insult to Injury: ERISA, Knudson, and the Error of the Possession Theory, 89 Minn. L. Rev. 1214 (2005).

Fletcher Files (Minnesota Law Review Alumni Newsletter) Spring 2010.

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