page_title: Michael V. Ciresi
hierarchical_section_title: Michael V. Ciresi
caption_attribution_description: United States Senate candidate Mike Ciresi (foreground) with Al Franken at a Democratic Party event in Rochester, Minnesota in 2007.
context_page_description: Michael "Mike" V. Ciresi is a prominent trial attorney and was a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party candidate for the United States Senate from Minnesota. He dropped out on March 10, 2008. Ciresi gained his public reputation by litigating several high-profile mass tort cases. Ciresi is the former Chairman of the Executive Board of the Minneapolis firm Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP, a 250-lawyer firm he joined in 1971. He left in 2015 to form his own firm.
context_section_description: Michael "Mike" V. Ciresi is a prominent trial attorney and was a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party candidate for the United States Senate from Minnesota.  He dropped out on March 10, 2008. Ciresi gained his public reputation by litigating several high-profile mass tort cases.  Ciresi is the former Chairman of the Executive Board of the Minneapolis firm Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP, a 250-lawyer firm he joined in 1971.  He left in 2015 to form his own firm.
caption: Mike Ciresi in 2007
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