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J. Austin Hurt

J. Austin Hurt
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J. Austin Hurt is counsel in Robins Kaplan’s Minneapolis office. Mr. Hurt has more than a decade of experience working with the firm’s litigation teams on strategies and techniques to protect assets and recover losses in a wide range of business disputes venued in state and federal courts and arbitration forums. Mr. Hurt specializes in class action lawsuits, as well as arbitration, antitrust, securities litigation and complex FINRA arbitrations. He has worked with clients through all stages of litigation, from pre-suit evaluations, to aggressively pursuing discovery, to helping secure the best outcome in high-profile matters.
Mr. Hurt was part of the plaintiff’s steering committee team in the Fiat Eco Diesel Emissions multidistrict litigation. He also worked on the LIBOR Interest Rate Benchmark Litigation case, and the Equifax data breach case.

- Named a “North Star Lawyer” by the Minnesota State Bar Association for providing at least 50 hours of pro bono legal services (2022)
- Minnesota
- U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
- Hamline University School of Law, J.D. (2010)
- Hawai’i Pacific University, B.A. (2007)
- Minnesota State Bar Association
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