John Getsinger

About John Getsinger

I started my legal career as a commercial trial lawyer at Leonard, Street and Deinard (now Stinson Leonard Street) for almost 20 years, focusing primarily on products liability and construction litigation. I then joined Medtronic\'s legal department in 2003. I wore several hats there: managing MDT\'s litigation and providing legal advice to its legacy Neuromodulation business on issues ranging from HIPPA, anti-kickback, off-label promotion, internal compliance investigations, general commercial transactional advice and general healthcare law. I am now providing legal consulting services through The General Counsel, Ltd. We\'re a small group of attorneys who formerly worked within large companies who are offering legal services to companies which may have need of additional legal staffing for discrete projects or to quickly fill a gap in legal staffing for a few hours a week on a continuing basis. Look us up at Throughout career, my pro bono practice has been as important to me as my \"day job.\" For example, from 19••••98, I represented a Louisiana death row inmate, Alvin Scott Loyd, and helped him get his death sentence reversed by the Fifth Circuit and retried in 1998. The jury voted unanimously for a life sentence. He is now serving his sentence at Angola. In my previous careers I taught elementary school (5th & 6th grades) and was a professional freelance photographer, writing and illustrating with photographs,\"Luis\"(Prism Press, Detroit, 1976), a bilingual Spanish/English storybook for use in English as a second language classrooms.

Experience

1. Principal Attorney

   The General Counsel, Ltd

   May 2016 — Present · Minneapolis, MN, US

   We are a firm of attorneys who have extensive in-house counsel experience with major local companies. We offer general counsel services to companies that do not have an in-house legal staff or that need to supplement their staff. Our specialty is longer-term assignments where we get to know you and your business in depth and work as part of your team. We also assist companies that seek specific expertise, need support for special projects, or that are looking to cover a specific staffing need. In addition, I will provide legal advice to, and representation of, individuals on a variety of non-criminal matters; i.e, a variety of civil, commercial and transactional matters.

Education

• University of Minnesota Law School

  J.D.

• Harvard University

  B.A.

• University of Massachusetts Amherst

  M.Ed.

Skills

• Licensing
• Patents
• Legal Issues
• Patent Prosecution
• Mediation
• Joint Ventures
• Courts
• Trademark Infringement
• Copyright Law
• Employment Contracts
• Prosecution
• Product Liability
• Trade Secrets
• Civil Litigation
• Litigation
• Medical Devices
• Employment Law
• Trials
• Fcpa
• Contract Negotiation
• Patent Litigation
• Intellectual Property
• Corporate Governance
• Legal Research
• Dispute Resolution
• Contract Law
• Arbitration
• Legal Advice
• Appeals
• Litigation Management
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Commercial Litigation
• Legal Writing
• Legal Compliance
• Trademarks
• Privacy Law
• Corporate Law