Who We Are
At Grotefeld Hoffmann we define ourselves by our intuitive thinking, well-executed approach, and the results we achieve in complex litigation throughout the United States. Our accomplished attorneys work as a team, providing superior legal services, while mindful of our clients’ needs.
We address our cases methodically, and pride ourselves on efficient file management, timely reporting, and sound resolution strategies. Our attorneys are proactive and aggressive in their advocacy, responsive to clients, and innovative in their project management skills and use of technological resources.
Our client partnerships represent our greatest success story. Our relationships are supportive and built upon trust and open lines of communication.
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Attorneys with 10+ years of experience
Our Attorneys
Mark S. Grotefeld
Founding Partner
Mark Grotefeld is a founding member of the firm. Mr. Grotefeld’s trial practice is focused on complex civil cases involving matters both national and international in scope.
William J. Hoffmann
Founding Partner
William Hoffmann is a founding member of Grotefeld Hoffmann. He has been engaged in the subrogation industry for over thirty years with a concentration in products liability and consolidation of claim matters for the insurance industry.
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Adam M. Romney
Partner, Los Angeles
Adam Romney is a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles office. His practice focuses primarily on civil litigation related to wildland fires and other catastrophic losses.
Amy L. Dvorak
Partner, Chicago
Amy Dvorak is a partner in the firm’s Chicago office. She concentrates her nationally based practice on subrogation and recovery involving extensive property damage claims.
Anna T. Ratterman
Associate, Geneva
Anna Ratterman focuses her practice in the areas of insurance subrogation and general liability defense for insurers, including premises liability, products liability, and general negligence actions.
Anooj M. Thakrar
Managing Partner, Austin
Anooj Thakrar is the managing partner of the firm’s Austin office. His practice focuses on general and commercial litigation with an emphasis on large loss property subrogation, construction defect, and product liability matters.
Brad M. Gordon
Managing Partner, Chicago
Brad Gordon is the managing partner of the firm’s Chicago office. He focuses his practice on litigation, representing the interests of corporations and insurance companies throughout the United States
Carson O. Smith
Associate, Portland
Carson Smith is an associate in the firm’s Portland office. His multi-state practice focuses on large property subrogation and recovery, wildland interface fires, and products liability.
Catherine E. Carter
Associate, Geneva
Catherine Carter focuses her practice in the areas of insurance subrogation and general liability defense for insurers, specifically products liability, premises liability, construction defect litigation, and general negligence actions.
Cristina E. Gonzalez
Partner, Austin
Cristina Gonzalez focuses primarily in the areas of subrogation recovery and products liability matters.
Daniel W. Berglund
Managing Partner, Minneapolis and Portland
Daniel Berglund’s practice focuses on civil litigation related to catastrophic property loss, including fires, explosions, hurricanes, floods and other weather-related losses, equipment failures, production facility losses, and losses caused by negligent design and construction.
David H. Fisk
Partner, Dallas
David Fisk is a partner in the firm’s Dallas office. Mr. Fisk concentrates his practice on large-loss property subrogation and construction matters, primarily representing businesses, homeowners, and builder’s risk, property, and liability insurers pursuing property damage claims against tortfeasors and other wrongdoers.
David J. Kestenbaum
Partner, San Francisco
David Kestenbaum is a partner in the firm’s San Francisco office. His practice focuses on subrogation recovery, specifically in the areas of tort, products liability, contractual disputes, and wildfires.
Emma L. Gaddipati
Partner, Chicago
Emma Gaddipati is a partner in the firm’s Chicago office. Ms. Gaddipati practices primarily in the areas of subrogation recovery and product liability. She represents clients before various state and federal courts throughout the country.
Hunter W. Seibert
Associate, Austin
Hunter Seibert focuses his practice in the areas of subrogation recovery and products liability matters.
Jena M. Shillingburg
Associate, Austin
Jena M. Shillingburg focuses her practice primarily on subrogation recovery and products liability matters.
Jessica N. Odum
Associate, Chicago
Jessica Odum is an associate in the firm’s Chicago office. Her practice focuses primarily in the areas of property subrogation, products liability, and premises liability.
Jonathan J. Tofilon
Partner, Geneva
Jonathan Tofilon is a partner in the firm’s Geneva office. He focuses his practice on civil litigation, specifically within the areas of products liability, wrongful death, food contamination and recalls, construction defect litigation, and catastrophic losses
Jordan B. Everakes
Partner, San Francisco
Jordan Everakes joined the firm in 2017 and his practice focuses primarily on civil litigation matters involving insurance subrogation and recovery, torts, products liability, contracts, and wild land fire cases.
Joseph F. Suareo III
Associate, Geneva
Joseph Suareo is an associate in the firm’s Geneva office. Mr. Suareo’s practice focuses on insurance subrogation and general liability defense for insurers, specifically products liability, premises liability, construction defect litigation, and general negligence actions.
Julia R. Sullivan
Associate, San Francisco
Julia R. Sullivan is an associate in the firm’s San Francisco office. Her practice focuses primarily in the areas of property subrogation, products liability, and premises liability.
Kaitlyn M. Dent
Associate, Portland
Kaitlyn Dent is an associate in the firm’s Portland office. Her practice focuses on large property subrogation and recovery, including fire losses and products liability.
Kathleen A. Reid
Managing Partner, Geneva
Kathleen Reid is the managing partner of the firm’s Geneva office. Ms. Reid’s main area of concentration includes the defense of products liability, premises liability, and discrimination claims for a variety of self-insured retail and other businesses, product manufacturers and suppliers, and national insurance carriers.
Kelli A. Herzog
Associate, San Francisco
Kelli Herzog is an associate in the firm’s San Francisco office. Ms. Herzog’s primary focus is on product liability litigation, including breach of warranty matters, in state and federal courts.
Kevin A. Schummer
Partner, Portland
Kevin Schummer is a partner in the firm’s Portland office. His practice focuses on large property subrogation, including fire losses, water losses, and products liability. Mr. Schummer has extensive experience in complex litigation matters in addition to his work for various transportation and shipping companies.
Kevin S. Mosley
Partner, Austin Office
Kevin Mosley is a partner with the firm’s Austin office. Mr. Mosley currently focuses his practice in the areas of product liability, general civil litigation, intellectual property, and subrogation matters.
Laura M. Johnson
Partner, Minneapolis
Laura Johnson is a partner in the firm’s Minneapolis Office. Her practice focuses primarily in the areas of insurance litigation, representing insurers in both coverage and subrogation matters.
Lawrence T. Bowman
Managing Partner, Dallas
Lawrence “Larry” Bowman is the managing partner of the firm’s Dallas office. For more than three decades, Mr. Bowman has represented clients in complex commercial litigation, including construction, energy, contractual, tort, product liability, intellectual property, antitrust, and securities matters.
Lilla Shkolnikov
Partner, San Francisco
Lilla Shkolnikov is a partner in the firm’s San Francisco office. Ms. Shkolnikov focuses her practice on subrogation recovery and insurance defense matters involving products liability, property damage and premises liability matters.
Lillian “Liv” Kyle
Associate, Dallas
Liv Kyle is an associate in the firm’s Dallas office. Ms. Kyle focuses her practice in the areas of large loss property subrogation, products liability, and construction litigation.
Margaret L. Sell
Partner, San Francisco
Margaret Sell is a partner in the firm’s San Francisco office. She focuses her practice on subrogation, product liability, warranty, construction and commercial litigation.
Mark G. Meyers
Partner, Geneva
Mark Meyers is a partner in the firm’s Geneva office. He focuses his practice on insurance subrogation and general liability defense for insurers, specifically within the areas of products liability, premises liability, construction defect litigation, and general negligence actions.
Mark L. McGuire
Partner, Chicago
Mark McGuire is a partner in the firm’s Chicago office. Mr. McGuire focuses his practice on litigation matters involving insurance subrogation, products liability, premises liability and insurance defense.
Mark S. Grotefeld
Founding Partner
Mark Grotefeld is a founding member of the firm. Mr. Grotefeld’s trial practice is focused on complex civil cases involving matters both national and international in scope.
Maura Walsh Ochoa
Of Counsel, San Francisco
Maura Walsh Ochoa’s practice focuses on subrogation recovery, specifically in the areas of tort, product liability and contractual disputes.
Maxine E. Okwah
Associate, Dallas
Maxine Okwah is an associate in the firm’s Dallas office. Ms. Okwah focuses her practice in the areas of large loss property subrogation, products liability, and construction matters.
Meghan M. Rodda
Partner, Minneapolis
Meghan Rodda is a partner in the firm’s Minneapolis office. Ms. Rodda has a multi-jurisdictional practice focused primarily on insurance litigation, representing several major national insurers in subrogation matters, specifically in the areas of tort, products liability, construction defects, fire and water losses, explosions, and workers compensation.
Michael J. Scola
Partner, Geneva
Michael Scola is a partner in the firm’s Geneva office. Mr. Scola’s practice focuses primarily on insurance subrogation and defense matters, specifically products liability, premises liability, and construction defect litigation.
P. Joel Radakovich
Partner, Austin
Joel Radakovich is a partner in Grotefeld Hoffmann’s Austin office. Mr. Radakovich focuses primarily on matters involving large loss property subrogation, including losses stemming from catastrophic events.
Patrick P. Jarosch
Partner, Minneapolis
Patrick Jarosch is a partner in the firm’s Minneapolis office. His practice focuses on insurance litigation, representing insurers in both coverage and subrogation litigation matters.
Susan M. Benson
Of Counsel, Los Angeles
Susan Benson is of counsel in the firm’s Los Angeles office. She has more than 25 years of experience in subrogation litigation.
Timothy S. Poeschl
Partner, Minneapolis
Timothy Poeschl is a partner in the firm’s Minneapolis office. His practice is concentrated in civil litigation and subrogation matters. Mr. Poeschl handles subrogation cases of all sizes, primarily involving fire and water losses, collapses, commercial property loss, commercial lost profit claims, business interruption claims, and agricultural losses.
Vincent Raboteau
Partner, Honolulu
Vince Raboteau focuses his practice on general and commercial litigation with an emphasis on large loss property subrogation, construction defect, product liability matters, and complex claims stemming from catastrophic losses.
William J. Hoffmann
Founding Partner
William Hoffmann is a founding member of Grotefeld Hoffmann. He has been engaged in the subrogation industry for over thirty years with a concentration in products liability and consolidation of claim matters for the insurance industry.
News & Insights
Patrick P. Jarosch Selected to the 2025 Minnesota Rising Stars List
Grotefeld Hoffmann proudly shares that Patrick P. Jarosch has been selected to the 2024 Minnesota Rising Stars list. Each year, no more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor. Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, is a rating service of […]
David Fisk and Joel Radakovich to Present at the Houston Claims Association’s May 2025 CE Luncheon
David Fisk and Joel Radakovich of our Dallas and Austin offices will be presenting “Construction Defect Subrogation Challenges” at the Houston Claims Association’s May 2025 CE Luncheon on May 14, 2025. The one-hour session will address unique challenges and pitfalls that claims professionals need to be aware of when considering and supporting subrogation claims arising […]
Tim Poeschl to Present at the Minnesota Chapter of the IAAI 2025 Annual Spring Conference
Tim Poeschl from our Minneapolis office will be presenting “Fires and Fortunes” with Ben Sorenson from Yost & Baill, Domonic Novak from Novak Investigations, and Scott Hovaldt from North Star Mutual at the Minnesota Chapter of the International Association of Arson Investigators (MNIAAI) 2025 Annual Spring Conference on May 14, 2025. Their session will explore […]