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Joseph Anthony founded Anthony Ostlund as a boutique specializing in business litigation with an emphasis on financial fraud, securities, employment, anti-trust and commercial real estate litigation. Consistent with his founding vision, Joe works hard to attract and retain top-flight business trial lawyers to provide consistently high-quality representation for the firm's clients. Joe has tried a significant number of cases and arbitrations to verdict in Minnesota and throughout the country. In 2007, Joe's client, a professional dental association, was awarded $130 million by a jury in a case involving unfair competition. It is the largest jury verdict in a Minnesota business litigation case. He has defended and prosecuted shareholder rights cases, securities, anti-trust, employment and unfair competition cases as well as represented plaintiffs and defendants in class actions and a variety of corporate disputes. Joe also has won a number of multi-million dollar jury verdicts and FINRA arbitration awards for individuals and for investment banks, and broker dealers in raiding cases. Recently, Joe's client prevailed as the plaintiff on a million dollar breach of contract claim related to the purchase of a business. Joe also recently obtained summary judgment on behalf of a Fortune 100 client in a significant whistleblower case. Throughout his career, Joe has advised hundreds of employees, shareholders, directors, officers, and companies in closely-held company disputes. He has represented clients in a number of seminal shareholder rights cases in Minnesota, including U.S. Bank N.A. v. Cold Spring Granite Co., 802 N.W.2d 363 (Minn. 2011); Haley v. Forcelle, 669 N.W.2d 48 (Minn. Ct. App. 2003) and Miller Waste Mills Inc. v. Mackay, 520 N.W.2d 490 (Minn. Ct. App. 1994). In the last few years alone, Joe has advised a number of clients in connection with closely-held company disputes, including the successful defense of two director clients against claims that they violated their fiduciary duties to a minority shareholder and the favorable resolution of a dispute between two family-owners of a Minnesota-based flooring business. Appellate Court Experience Joe’s advocacy for clients does not end in the trial court. He has successfully defended and pursued his clients’ rights in appellate courts across the country. Most recently, in 2013, the Minnesota Appellate Court upheld a summary judgment for a Fortune 100 client in a significant employment law matter and also upheld a defense verdict for Joe’s clients in a shareholder rights claim. Professional Accolades For the past 15 years Joe has been selected to the "Minnesota Super Lawyer" list and has been ranked by Super Lawyer Magazine in the top 2 or 3 trial lawyers in the state since 2008. In 2002, he was elected as a Fellow to The American College of Trial Lawyers. Shortly thereafter he was elected alongside 12 fellow Minnesota attorneys to the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, an invitation-only group limited to 500 trial lawyers from the United States. In 2007, Joe was selected as "Attorney of the Year” in Minnesota. He currently serves as the State Committee chair of the Minnesota Chapter of the American College of Trial Lawyers and is President of the Minneapolis chapter of the International Network of Boutique Law Firms (“INBLF”). He also is the chair of the Board of the Fund for the Legal Aid Society, and he serves on the Board of the Council of Crime and Justice and the Temple University Law School Board of Visitors.

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