Attorney Profiles

Michael D. Tewksbury was born and grew up in Chicago.  After completing two years of college at Knox College, he transferred to the University of Northern Colorado and graduated with honors in 1975.  Mike then attended law school at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington.  He graduated with honors in 1978 and was then hired to teach at the law school.  He taught legal writing and advanced legal writing classes for two years.

In 1980, Mike joined the law firm of Rider, Bennett, Egan & Arundel, an insurance defense firm in Minneapolis.  He was made a partner of that firm and focused his work on insurance coverage issues, defense of personal injury cases, and also was instrumental in handling the firm's plaintiffs' work.  In 1988, Mr. Tewksbury joined Schwebel, Goetz & Sieben to work exclusively on claims for injured people. 

In 1994, Mr. Tewksbury joined with his friend Keith Kerfeld to create Tewksbury & Kerfeld, P.A.  The goal this firm set out to achieve was to provide individual service for its clients in an aggressive, efficient, and fair manner.  The firm adopted the practices and procedures that were beneficial to the clients from their previous firms and focused on individual attention for each client.

In addition to representing injured people, Mike Tewksbury is often hired to be an arbitrator or mediator to help resolve other lawyers' cases.  He has been appointed by the Supreme Court to the Minnesota No-Fault Standing Committee and has been appointed to the Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association Board of Governors.  He is often asked to teach, lecture, or write on various areas of the law and trial practice techniques. 

Mr. Tewksbury has been repeatedly named as a Super Lawyer by Minnesota Law & Politics and recognized for that achievement in Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Minnesota Law & Politics, and Business Monthly.  He has been named as one of the top arbitrators and mediators, one of the top appellate lawyers, and one of the top personal injury trial lawyers.  In 2001, he was named as one of the top 100 lawyers in the state of Minnesota. 

Mike's approach to handling injury claims is to provide an efficient problem-solving technique in an effort to maximize his clients' recoveries in a prompt and fair manner.  He utilizes a highly-trained and well-qualified staff to assist his clients in obtaining the benefits to which they are entitled so they can focus their energies on recovering from their injuries and losses.