Why Hire Peter?

1. ​An award-winning attorney that earns the trust of the best lawyers in Minnesota & Wisconsin

Peter Lindstrom is a Minnesota Rising Star Attorney. An honor reserved for the top 2.5% attorneys in the state who are under the age of 40. He is also an Elite Lawyer, an honor reserved for the top 1% of criminal defense lawyers in the nation.

Many attorneys lists awards on their websites. But you don’t necessarily see how much the best of the best trust and respect them. Nationally renowned trial lawyer, Jack Rice, asked Peter to collaborate in as Of-Counsel capacity at his law firm when he is not representing clients at his own firm. If you watch Court TV you’ve probably seen Jack Rice on TV. He’s one of the most frequent guest attorneys on the program. Jack is a lion of the defense bar and a Minnesota Attorney of the Year Award Winner. He trusts Peter and so should you.

 

Peter has also worked together on two homicide cases with one of Wisconsin’s best criminal defense attorneys, Shirlene Perrin. Shirlene Perrin is a three-time winner of the Kuchler-Nicholson-Stilling Sensitive Crimes Award. Winning the award even once is an extreme honor for any Wisconsin criminal defense attorney, and she has done it three times. She trusts Peter and so should you.

2. A lawyer with a unique focus on redemption

The focus of Peter’s practice is on redemption. It’s what Peter does. Whether it’s a Minnesota expungement or a Wisconsin pardon, or some other sort of hearing, he is most interested in getting people’s lives back after a conviction. The movie Shawshank Redemption is his favorite movie. He had the feeling after watching it for the first time as a teenager that his life would never be the same.

FILM / Finding the Sacred Among the Profane: The Shawshank Redemption / Sean Woodard I Drunk Monkeys | Literature, Film, Television

Great art has the ability to inspire life. Redemption has become the guiding principle of his practice and his life. There is some evidence that redemption may be the most important concept in the world for resiliency and human thriving (see The Redemptive Self by Dan McAdams). If you want redemption, you want an attorney who eats, drinks, and breathes redemption.

​3. Empathy

​”Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.” -Bryan Stevenson (Just Mercy)

I grew up with a dad who was a pastor and a mom who was an inner city schoolteacher. The importance of empathy was imparted on me from an early age. I work in a very different field than my parents. But people are people whether they are in a jail cell or a church pew. I’m not here to judge your past. I’m here to help you redeem your future.

Admissions:

  1. State of Minnesota
  2. State of Wisconsin
  3. United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit
  4. United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit
  5. United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
  6. United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
  7. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin