Stacey joined the firm as an associate
attorney in November of 1996.
She became a partner in January of 2000
and a full partner in January of 2007. Stacey
practices in the areas of class actions/mass
torts, personal injury, medical negligence, and general
litigation. Her class action/mass tort
work includes: the Minot train derailment, litigation against Pharmacy
Benefit Management companies, and litigation involving pharmaceutical
drugs and devices such as Medtronic, Prempro, Baycol, Rezulin, Propulsid
and Fen Phen. She also
acts as an Assistant City Attorney for the City of Fargo
and litigates cases on behalf of the City and its police officers
in civil actions.
Stacey is licensed to practice in the
States of North Dakota and Minnesota, as well as the United States
District Court for the Districts
of North Dakota and Minnesota and
the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. With
her class action/mass tort work, Stacey has been admitted pro hac vice
in the following United States District Courts: the Eastern District of
Missouri, Eastern Division, the Middle District of Tennessee, the
Nashville Division, the Northern District of Alabama, the Southern
Division, and the Northern District of California.
Stacey is a member of the American Bar
Association, the American Trial Lawyers Association, the North Dakota
Trial Lawyers Association, the North Dakota Municipal Lawyers Association,
the Order of Barristers, and is a past President
of the Cass County Bar Association.
A Fargo native, Stacey graduated cum laude from Moorhead State University
in 1993, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with a
minor in French. She attended the University of North Dakota School of
Law, graduating "with distinction" in 1996. While in law school, Stacey
served on the North Dakota Law Review Board and published a law review
article entitled "Civil Rights-The Constructive Discharge Doctrine and
It's Applicability to Sexual Harassment Cases: Does it Matter What the
Employer Intended Anymore? Hukkanen v. International Union of Operating
Engineers, 3 F.3d 281 (8th Cir. 1993)."
