Clifford Knippel is a partner and litigation attorney in the firm of Rischmiller & Knippel, LLP. He graduated from the University of St. Thomas in 1968 and from William Mitchell College of Law in 1972. Knippel has won large settlements for clients in medical malpractice, product liability and automobile negligence cases in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. Litigation he successfully concluded helped make anesthesia machines safer. Knippel won the first ever medical malpractice case against the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Knippel is a member of national, state and local bar associations, the American Trial Lawyers Association, the Minnesota Trial Lawyer's Association, regularly serves as a no-fault arbitrator, and has lectured at CLE seminars.
