Adam W. Hansen

Working to protect the civil rights of individual employees, Adam W. Hansen represents clients in a variety of contexts, including discrimination, retaliation, harassment, whistleblower, breach-of-contract, severance, and wage and hour disputes.

Adam first joined Nichols Kaster as a law clerk in 2007. During law school, he served as a student instructor for first year students studying Constitutional Law, a research assistant to human rights scholar Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, as well as a staffer and editor for the Minnesota Law Review.

Immediately after law school, Adam spent two years working in the judicial system as a judicial law clerk to Chief Justice Eric Magnuson of the Minnesota Supreme Court and Judge Kermit Bye of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Adam rejoined Nichols Kaster as an associate attorney in 2011.

Admissions

• California Supreme Court
• Minnesota Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
• U.S. District Court – Eastern District of California
• U.S. District Court – Eastern District of Michigan
• U.S. District Court - District of Minnesota

Education

• J.D. University of Minnesota, 2008
• B.A. University of Wisconsin, 2003

Titles / Awards / Memberships

• American Bar Association Member
• Federal Bar Association Member
• Hennepin County Bar Association Member
• Minnesota State Bar Association Member
• National Employment Lawyers Association Member