Bio

Fred Soucie is a humble servant of justice. He practices exclusively in personal injury and wrongful death matters. He has handled catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases. He loves cases against utility companies.

Back in the early 1980’s, when he was still wet behind the ears and very wet under the arms as he struggled to learn how to be a trial lawyer, he represented a 14-year-old boy, Ronnie Holmstrom, who was brain injured by a power line. He sued Northern States Power and in the second week of trial, the case settled for a structured settlement that will pay Ronnie Holmstrom $72 million dollars over his lifetime.

Since that case, Mr. Soucie has handled other cases against power companies including a couple claims in the 1980’s for a boy, Kit Palmer, who lost a leg below the knee on a power line, and the death of a 40-year-old man, Brian Borne, who was electrocuted when he raised a sailboat mast into an overhead power line he knew was there.

Mr. Soucie’s work against power companies in the 1990’s included a confidential settlement for the death of a 24-year-old man, Matt Burenheide, who was electrocuted while working on the rooftop of a house in south Minneapolis, Minnesota. He also handled the Paul Nordstrom case. This was a case involving the death of a 39-year-old TV cable worker, Paul Nordstrom, due to a defective power pole. Just a few days before trial in 1998, Mr. Soucie settled this wrongful death claim against Interstate Power Company for $5.9 million dollars.

In 2004, Mr. Soucie settled a gas explosion case for the victim of a natural gas explosion, Joy Alsides, who suffered serious burns and severe post-traumatic stress syndrome caused by a defectively installed gas main in Eagan, Minnesota. The settlement amount is confidential.

Mr. Soucie settled, without litigation, three cases against Center Point Energy related to the Ramsey, Minnesota gas explosion in December, 2004. Three women were killed and the sole survivor was severely injured in the explosion. Mr. Soucie represented the families of two of the women killed as well as the sole survivor. The settlement amounts are confidential.

Mr. Soucie attended college at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota graduating in 1973 and then went on to the University of Minnesota Law School in Minneapolis, Minnesota graduating in 1976.

Mr. Soucie is a past President of the Academy of Certified Trial Lawyers of Minnesota as well as the Douglas K. Amdahl Inn of Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a former member of the Executive Committee and an Emeritus Board of Governor member of the Minnesota Association for Justice.

Mr. Soucie was the eighth attorney ever to be inducted into the Founder’s Society of the Minnesota Association for Justice for his contribution to the rights of the injured and their families.

Mr. Soucie has been named a Super Lawyer by Minnesota Law & Politics and Twin Cities Business monthly magazines. He has also been selected by Minnesota Law & Politics and Twin Cities Business monthly magazines as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in the State of Minnesota.

Mr. Soucie was selected as an Attorney for the Year in Minnesota by the Minnesota Lawyer in 2008 in recognition of having obtained an $8 million dollar verdict and several other recoveries of more than $1 million dollars for his clients.

Mr. Soucie attended Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyer College in 1996 and has attended numerous graduate courses at the Trial Lawyer College since that time.

Mr. Soucie lives in Coon Rapids, Minnesota with his wife, Dr. Linda Soucie. Together they have seven beautiful daughters. Mr. Soucie and his wife enjoy traveling to the mountains and visiting their cabin on Steamboat Lake near Walker, Minnesota, which has been a family gathering place for many years.

Mr. Soucie attributes any success that he has had to all trial lawyers everywhere and loves how we always help each other in the pursuit of justice for our clients.

The thing Mr. Soucie is most proud of is what clients say about his firm’s service to them during troubled times.

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