Stephen Foley to speak at National Asbestos Litigation Conference

MINNEAPOLIS (January 26, 2007) - Founding partner of national litigation firm Foley & Mansfield, Stephen J. Foley, will be speaking at the upcoming Asbestos Litigation Conference entitled: Peripheral No More, Part II – The Increasing Prominence of Equipment, Joint Compound, Automotive and Consumer Product Claims.  The conference will be held in Beverly Hills, California on March 1-2, 2007.

With more than 20 years of litigation experience, Foley focuses his practice on product liability litigation, including toxic torts, as well as commercial litigation. He has tried cases in California, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, New York, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin, and handled litigation in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota and Tennessee. He is a member of the Defense Research Institute, the Northern California Association of Defense Counsel, the Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association, as well as the California, Minnesota, and Wisconsin Bars. He received his J.D. from William Mitchell College of Law in 1984.

Founded in 1989, Foley & Mansfield is fast becoming one of the nation’s leading litigation law firms. Its attorneys serve clients ranging in size from multi-million dollar corporations to small businesses and their owners in a wide range of civil litigation matters, including commercial litigation, construction law, employment litigation, environmental and pollution claims, insurance coverage matters, intellectual property, probate and trust, and product liability litigation, as well as commercial transactions and bankruptcy. The firm is headquartered in Minneapolis and has additional offices in Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, St. Louis and San Francisco.

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