Steve Lindemann is the chair of Leonard, Street and Deinard’s Construction practice group. He has served as the lead lawyer for Fortune 100 companies who have selected Leonard, Street and Deinard as their national construction counsel. He has represented owner, contractor and design professional clients in trials, arbitrations and mediations involving design and construction defects, delays, disruption, energy efficiency guarantees, mechanic’s liens, payment bonds, claims for extra work and catastrophic fire loss. He counsels construction and energy clients on a broad range of issues, from contract negotiation to dispute avoidance. Steve also has extensive experience handling multi-family residential construction defect claims. In addition to handling numerous construction cases throughout the United States, Steve has taught courses for the Associated General Contractors of Minnesota and has given seminars for other construction trade associations.

Steve is the founding co-director of the Leonard, Street and Deinard Legal Clinic, which is housed within the Community-University Health Care Center in the Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis. He has served as one of the firm’s three representatives to TerraLex®, an international network of independent law firms in 140 jurisdictions around the world.

Steve has been selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers® and is recognized among The Best Lawyers in America and Chambers USA as one of the top practitioners in the construction area.

Prior to joining the firm, Steve clerked for two years for the Honorable Paul Magnuson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota.

Professional and Civic Activities

• Member, American Bar Association, Forum on the Construction Industry
• Member, Minnesota State Bar Association, Construction Law Section
• Member, Hennepin County Bar Association

Education

• J.D., Yale Law School, 1988
• B.A., with distinction, Political Science and Economics, Stanford University, 1985
       Phi Beta Kappa

Admissions

• State of Minnesota
• U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona
• U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois
• U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit