Michelle K. Kuhl
Areas of Practice: Appeals, Litigation, Insurance Defense Litigation, Insurance Coverage, Professional Liability
Office Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota / Hudson, Wisconsin
Direct: 612.336.9328 / Email: mkuhl@lommen.com
Michelle K. Kuhl / Biography
Michelle is a litigation attorney with a practice focusing on appeals. She has experience handling all aspects of appeals including briefing, oral arguments, appellate motions, and petitions for review. Before joining Lommen Abdo, Michelle clerked at the Minnesota Supreme Court where she gained valuable insight into the process by which appellate courts decide cases. Michelle also handles complex motions in a variety of other litigation areas, including professional liability, commercial litigation, insurance defense, insurance coverage and subrogation.
She is recognized in The Best Lawyers in America© Ones to Watch for her work in the practice areas of Appellate Practice and Legal Malpractice Law and is listed as a Rising Star by Minnesota Super Lawyers since 2021.
Leadership + Activities
- Minnesota State Bar Association
- Minnesota State Bar Association, Appellate Practice Section Council
Presentations
- Adjunct Professor at University of St. Thomas School of Law – Lawyering Skills III, 2020 to present
- “Introduction to Commercial Insurance for the Business Lawyer – Primary Coverage, Subordination, Claims-Made, Prior Acts, Tail Coverage and More,” Business Law Institute, Minnesota CLE, June 2023
- “Extraordinary Writs, Interlocutory Appeals, Emergency Proceedings: What Every Appellate Practitioner Should Know,” Eighth Circuit Bar Association, May 2022
- “Demystifying Extraordinary Writs,” Appellate Practice Institute, Minnesota CLE, 2022
- “Making Post-Trial Motions and Initiating Appeals,” Civil Litigation A to Z, Minnesota CLE, September 2021
- “When CAN You Speak to a Represented Party?” HCBA, June 2020
Published Articles
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“Chapter 14: Select Commercial General Liability Policy Exclusions,” Update to Fifth Edition of the Minnesota Insurance Law Deskbook, Minnesota CLE, April 2023
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“Chapter 14: Select Commercial General Liability Policy Exclusions,” Update to Fifth Edition of the Minnesota Insurance Law Deskbook, Minnesota CLE, July 2021
- “Appellate Arguments by Zoom,” The View, Minnesota Lawyers Mutual, November 2020
- “Review by Extraordinary Writ in Civil Cases,” Chapter 20, 2020 Eighth Circuit Appellate Practice Deskbook
- “Minnesota Amends its Rule of Professional Conduct Authorizing a Lawyer Admitted in Another Jurisdiction to Provide Legal Services in Minnesota,” Minnesota Lawyer, June 2019
Education
- University of Minnesota, B.A., with high distinction, 2013
- University of Michigan Law School, J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, 2015
Bar Admissions
- Minnesota, 2016
- Wisconsin, 2023
- U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota, 2017
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims, 2022
Awards
News + Articles
Lommen Abdo Attorneys Co-Edit and Author the 2023 Update to the 5th Edition of Minnesota CLE’s Minnesota Insurance Law Deskbook
We are pleased to announce that Lommen Abdo lawyers John Crawford and Lauren Nuffort have been diligently co-editing and contributing to the 2023 update of the 5th edition of the Minnesota Insurance Law Deskbook, which was published on April 19, 2023. The Deskbook,...
Dress Codes and Discrimination
Michelle Kuhl and Heidi Torvik authored an article in the winter edition of With Equal Right, the Official Journal of Minnesota Women Lawyers published on January 20, 2023. Read the full article here. In this article, they discuss the recent decision by the Fourth...
Supreme Court Clarifies the Confusing Question of When Probate Court Orders Are Appealable
Determining whether a probate order in a supervised administration is appealable can be challenging. Minn. Stat. § 525.71(a) lists a dizzying array of 17 types of probate orders that are immediately appealable. But probate courts make many decisions that do not fall...
Minnesota’s Collateral Order Doctrine Turns 20
Twenty years ago, the Minnesota Supreme Court formally adopted the collateral order doctrine in Kastner v. Star Trails Ass’n, 646 N.W.2d 235 (Minn. 2002). In the years since then, the appellate courts have applied the doctrine several times, but it remains a...
The Rare Remedy of Writs
The appellate rules specifically list the types of trial court decisions that can be appealed. Usually this requires a final judgment, which occurs at the very end of the litigation in the trial court. But on rare occasions, a trial court may make a decision that is...
How to Proceed When Dying Doesn’t Kill Your Case
One of the important but often overlooked Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is Rule 25, which allows for substitution when a party has died. This Rule was recently addressed by the Eighth Circuit in Benacquisto v. Am. Express Fin. Corp., 2022 WL 3133437 (8th Cir. Aug....