nostapenko@duluthlaw.com

Mr. Ostapenko focus his work on health care law and civil trial practice in the areas of medical malpractice, other professional negligence, product liability law, commercial and construction disputes, personal injury and cases involving insurance law and insurance coverage issues. Mr. Ostapenko has represented and continues to represent primarily defendants in civil litigation.

He is a member of the Eleventh District Bar Association (chair, Ethics Committee 1990-1993), the Minnesota State Bar Association, the State Bar of Wisconsin, the American Bar Association, the Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association (president 1998-1999), the Defense Research Institute, the International Association of Defense Research Institute, the International Association of Defense Counsel, and the panel of arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association. Mr. Ostapenko also served on the Minnesota Lawyers Board of Professional Responsibility (member 1993-1999; vice-chair 1998-1999).

He is admitted to practice before all state and federal courts in Minnesota and Wisconsin, the United States Supreme Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, the U.S. Tax Court and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Mr. Ostapenko received his undergraduate education at the University of Minnesota and his Juris Doctor degree from William Mitchell College of Law in 1979, the same year he joined the firm.