John Conard

John C. Conard is a Minneapolis trial lawyer whose work includes criminal defense and civil litigation. His firm biography identifies him as the founding partner of Conard Law, PLLC, while the firm’s homepage uses the name The Conard Firm. Sand Law also lists him as an of counsel attorney.

Conard’s criminal practice focuses on federal and white-collar matters. His biography describes cases involving expert testimony, forensic evidence and complex federal charges, including tax fraud, money laundering, wire fraud and mail fraud. His criminal trial experience also includes murder cases. On the civil side, his reported case history encompasses traumatic brain injury, nursing-home injury, workplace and construction-site injury, surgical malpractice, insurance bad faith and automobile collisions. The firm’s account of his career describes a transition from criminal trials to civil trial work after other litigators began asking him to try their cases.

Conard’s professional background also includes teaching and writing about trial practice. He graduated from the Trial Lawyers College, and his firm biography dates his appointment to its national faculty to 2015. He has spoken and trained lawyers on the use of forensic science at trial, and his biography identifies Thomson Reuters as a publisher of his work on that subject. His listed education includes a 1995 bachelor’s degree from Central College in political science, philosophy and economics. The same biography records his initial Minnesota admission in 2006.