
Margo S. Brownell
Partner
f612.642.8393
margo.brownell@maslon.com
3300 Wells Fargo Center
90 South Seventh Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Margo is a member of Maslon's Litigation Group, specializing in insurance coverage counseling and litigation. She represents commercial policyholders with complex insurance claims under all types of property and liability policies, including commercial general liability, directors and officers liability, professional liability, cyber-liability,and intellectual property liability coverage. In addition, she handles complex property claims, such as those arising from major catastrophic events such as the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, as well as claims under financial institution bonds and commercial crime policies. Margo's coverage counseling experience includes preparing, reviewing and settling claims, policy analysis, risk review, negotiating and drafting policy language, and reviewing and drafting commercial contracts. In addition to her insurance practice, Margo represents clients in a broad range of commercial disputes. On a pro bono basis, Margo practices Indian law, particularly representing tribes seeking to attain federal recognition. Prior to becoming a lawyer, she was a free-lance journalist for Newsweek International, The Nation, and The New York Observer, among other publications, and was a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Marrakech, Morocco.
- General Commercial Litigation
- Insurance Coverage Litigation
- Insurance Counseling
- Self-Insured Services
- Life Insurance
- Insurance Regulatory Matters
- Products Liability
- Explosions and Fires
- Drugs and Medical Devices
- Mold and Sick Buildings
- Punitive Damages
- Contract Formation and Administration
- Construction Claims
- ERISA Litigation
- The University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan,
2000
J.D.
Honors: Cum Laude
Honors: Louis Honigman Memorial Award
Honors: E. Blythe Stason Award
Law Journal: University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, Managing Articles Editor, 1999 - 2000 - Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY,
1984
B.A.
Honors: Cum Laude
Major: Religion
- Minnesota, 2001
- U.S. District Court District of Minnesota, 2001
- U.S. District Court Western District of Michigan, 2002
- U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia, 2003
- American Bar Association, Torts Trial & Insurance Practice Group, 2005 - 2006 - Chair, Business Litigation Committee
- Trial Lawyers for Public Justice - Member
- Minnesota Women Lawyers, 2005 - 2007 - Member, Board of Directors
- Minnesota Women Lawyers, 2004 - 2003 - Co-Chair, Leadership Committee
- Minnesota Women Lawyers, 2002 - 2003 - Co-Chair, Professional Development Committee
- Board of Directors, Linden Hills Co-Op, 2010 - 2012
- Improve Your Insurance IQ: An Overview of Common Commercial Policy Forms and Basic Insurance Principles, Minnesota CLE, August 2010
- Shifting Fiduciary Duties in Troubled Economic Times, A Maslon Speakers Series Seminar, May 2009
- Getting Something Back: Subrogating After the Catastrophe (Co-Author), The Brief, Summer, 2003
- Recent Developments in Business Torts Law (Co-Author), Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal, Winter, 2003
- Recent Developments in Business Torts Law (Co-Author), Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal, Winter, 2002
- Getting Something Back: Subrogating After the Catastrophe (Co-Authored), American Bar Association, Torts and Insurance Practice Section Seminar, April, 2001
- Who is an Indian? Searching for an Answer to the Question at the Core of Federal Indian Law, The University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, Fall, 2000
- Minnesota Rising Stars