Recent Results

  • November 10, 2022

    SETTLEMENT: Adam Almen settled a case involving claims of various claims of financial misdeeds against multiple defendants for a confidential mid-six figure sum. The defendants initially made a lowball offer, but after Adam completed discovery, they initiated settlement discussions and settled for a value that fairly approximated our client’s damages without having to go to trial.

  • September 12, 2022

    TRIAL WIN: Adam Almen obtains a $200,001 verdict for emotional distress in a defamation case. To see the verdict click here

  • June 10, 2022

    TRIAL WIN: Adam Almen and Charlie Alden obtain a six-figure verdict in an employment discrimination lawsuit, getting the client all that she was entitled to under Minnesota’s anti-discrimination laws. The jury saw fit to also award punitive damages against the defendant, for good measure. See the general verdict and punitive damages here and here respectively.

  • April 22, 2022

    Charlie Alden secures a settlement for a teenager assaulted by police officers. Read about the case in the New York Times and the Star Tribune

     

  • November 12, 2021

    TRIAL WIN: Charlie Alden wins a bench trial, obtaining full dismissal of all claims against our client, a small family-run business sued by an independent contractor. To see the verdict click here

  • April 1, 2021

    TRIAL WIN: Charlie Alden secures a $171,000 judgment against his client’s former business partner. They started it – we counter-sued and won, proving that our client gave the other side $70,000 at a bank in Egypt, and that he would have made another $80,000 from a business he had invested in if his ownership rights had been recognized. The person who started the lawsuit ended up owing money to our client, ending up with nothing themselves. To see the verdict click here

  • January 21, 2021

    Attorneys Charlie Alden and Adam Almen have again been selected as Minnesota Super Lawyer Rising Stars, awarded to less than 3% of Minnesota attorneys. This is Adam’s second year in a row, and Charlie’s ninth year (seventh in a row), receiving the designation.

  • August 28, 2020

    APPELLATE WIN: Beth Barbosa obtains custody for her client and a $275,000 attorney fee award in a marital dissolution proceeding. While the other side needlessly drug out the proceedings, Beth kept her nose to the grindstone. The court ultimately not only sided with Beth and her client, but ordered the spouse on the other side to pay for her client’s attorneys fees.

     

  • July 1, 2020

    Attorneys Adam Almen, Charlie Alden, and Matthew Gilbert have been recognized as 2020 Minnesota Super Lawyers Rising Stars, a designation awarded to only 2.5% of attorneys.

  • March 30, 2020

    APPELLATE WIN: On appeal with the Minnesota Court of Appeals, Matthew Gilbert secured remand and reversal of a district court decision denying his client’s motion to modify spousal maintenance and child support. To read the decision, click here

  • February 28, 2020

    Adam Almen acquired six figure settlement in employment non-payment of wages action. After vigorously litigating the case for eighteen months, the employer conceded and didn’t want to face trial. Nice work Adam.

  • February 5, 2020

    Charlie Alden represented a military veteran who for medical reasons related to her service, needed to bring River, her black labrador and service animal, to work. Her employer refused. The case settled for a confidential sum and a number of other terms. You can read about it here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  • June 3, 2019

    Alan Gilbert helped secure over forty-two million dollars for Globe University and Minnesota School Business students. Read about the case here

  • April 1, 2019

    The former Solicitor General of the State of Minnesota, Alan Gilbert, has joined Gilbert Alden in an Of Counsel position. Alan litigated numerous significant cases during his time at the Attorney General’s office, including the I-35W bridge collapse, Minnesota’s campaign finance and election laws, and enforcement of Minnesota’s consumer protection laws.

  • March 24, 2019

    Adam Almen acquires $175,000 settlement in employment ADA claim prior to initiation of lawsuit. Pre-suit prep and a reputation for taking cases to trial worked to our client’s advantage as we vindicated our client’s rights without a scrap of paper having been filed.

  • March 19, 2019

    TRIAL WIN: Charlie Alden obtains a $405,000 bench trial verdict.