Brendan J. Flaherty

Brendan J. Flaherty is an attorney at OFT Food Safety & Injury Lawyers in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. Flaherty focuses his practice on personal injury and food safety matters, representing clients in Minneapolis and throughout Minnesota.Mr. Flaherty also handles food poisoning and food safety cases nationwide.  He has successfully represented food poisoning victims sickened by botulism, Cyclospora, E. coli, food allergies, foreign object contamination, Hepatitis A, Norovirus, Salmonella, Shigellosis and Vibrio. In addition to his work on food poisoning cases,  Mr. Flaherty also handles bicycle accidents, car accidents, child injury, day care abuse, defective products, motorcycle accidents, pedestrian accidents, premises liability, product liability, truck accidents and wrongful death cases.Over the course of his years in practice, Mr. Flaherty has recovered millions of dollars on behalf of individuals who have been injured or lost a family member due to unsafe food or catastrophic accidents. He has secured considerable verdicts and settlements in many noteworthy cases.In addition to his law practice, Mr. Flaherty serves as an adjunct professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law and in the University of Minnesota Law School practice and professionalism program. In recognition of his accomplishments within the legal profession, in 2014, Minnesota Lawyer magazine named him “Attorney of the Year.” He is also listed in the 2020 edition of “The Best Lawyers in America.”Mr. Flaherty earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Grinnell College and received his law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School. He is admitted to practice in all Minnesota courts.