About Moss & Barnett

HISTORY OF MOSS & BARNETT

Moss & Barnett traces its history to 1896, when Jessie Van Valkenburg opened his law office in downtown Minneapolis. The firm has been an integral part of the growth of Minneapolis, Minnesota, which is the business, financial, technological and cultural hub of the entire Upper Midwest.

In the early 1980s, the firm assumed its present name with the merger of the law firms of Moss, Flaherty, Clarkson & Fletcher and Barnett, Ratelle, Hennessy, Vander Vort, Stasel & Herzog. They were joined a short while later by the law firm of Wiese & Cox. Each of these three firms focused on serving the legal needs of the business community – a legacy that remains the firm’s core practice.

Since then, Moss & Barnett has added many established and successful attorneys and has grown steadily to meet the ever increasing size and sophistication of its clients, and is now a 70-lawyer law firm. It ranks within the top ten business law firms in the region, serving clients throughout the surrounding states from our offices in the heart of the Minneapolis financial and business district.