
Stan is a formidable advocate and adversary. He’s known for being forceful yet disarming —a potent combination when handling and favorably resolving complicated and contentious business matters for his clients.
Stan connects deeply with his clients and works hard to understand their business to provide honest, thorough, and creative advice to help them make the right decisions for their company. Stan has a unique ability to simplify complicated concepts for judges and juries and excels at finding solutions that balance multiple considerations, oftentimes involving communications, business strategies, reputation management, and other practical considerations.
When he’s not representing clients, Stan loves spending time with his children, traveling to visit family in the Netherlands, and running several marathons a year.
Key Practice Experience
- Business torts litigation
- Breach of contract claims
- Breach of fiduciary duty claims
- Non-compete and trade secret litigation
- Tortious interference with business relations
- Construction law and litigation
- Defamation and libel
- Unfair competition
- Gaming law and litigation
- Fraud and trade disparagement
- Patent, copyright and trademark infringement
- Attorney malpractice defense litigation
- Transportation and trucking litigation
- Products liability litigation
- Complex disaster litigation; fire and explosion
Key Industry Experience
- Manufacturing
- Hospitality
- Gaming
- Industrial
- Insurers
- Governmental entities
- Agricultural
Representative Matters
- Over 30 years of litigation experience having represented businesses, individuals, governmental entities, and insurers in a wide variety of business and commercial disputes and large casualty losses, arbitrations, and trials in state and federal courts in more than twenty-five states
Recognitions and Honors
- Named two years in a row (2008 and 2009) as one of Minnesota’s Top 40 Attorneys in business litigation in Minnesota Law and Politics
- Selected to be listed in Minnesota Super Lawyers® every year since 1997
- Who’s Who in Business Litigation and Who’s Who in Intellectual Property by Minnesota Law & Politics, Twin Cities Business and Mpls.St.Paul Magazine – a distinction received by less than 5 percent of Minnesota lawyers
- Federal law clerk for the Honorable Donald P. Lay, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America, Trial Lawyer Honorary Society
Publications and Presentations
- Frequent author and lecturer on matters relating to civil litigation, and has participated in a number of continuing legal education programs with an emphasis on complex litigation issues
Professional Associations
- Civil Litigation Section of the Minnesota State and American Bar Associations
- Intellectual Property Law and Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Sections of the American Bar Association
- Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association
- Defense Research Institute and Trial Lawyers Association
- Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America, Trial Lawyer Honorary Society
- Sixteen NJL Lawyers on 2021 Super Lawyers Lists
- Seventeen NJL Lawyers Listed in Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
- Stan Siegel Named to ALFA International Board of Directors
- Twenty Nilan Johnson Lewis Attorneys Named to 2018 Minnesota Super Lawyers & Rising Stars Lists
- Eighteen Nilan Johnson Lewis Attorneys Named to 2016 Minnesota Super Lawyers & Rising Stars Lists
- Seventeen Nilan Johnson Lewis Attorneys Recognized As 2015 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
- Nilan Johnson Lewis Attorneys Named 2014 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars