• Luther College Decorah, Iowa, B.A., magna cum laude, 1971
• University of Minnesota J.D., cum laude, 1974

Michael Forde is a shareholder and President of Aafedt, Forde, Gray, Monson & Hager, P.A. He received his J.D. degree cum laude from the University of Minnesota in 1974. He received his Bachelor's degree magna cum laude from Luther College in 1971.

Mr. Forde was admitted to practice before the Minnesota Supreme Court and all lesser state courts in 1974. He joined a predecessor of the Aafedt, Forde, Gray, Monson & Hager, P.A. firm in 1974 as an associate and has practiced with the firm as a shareholder from 1981 to the present. He has over 32 years of experience in insurance defense claims, spanning a wide variety of matters and now focuses his practice on the defense of workers' compensation and mediation. He is listed in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America, published by Woodward and White, and has been designated a Minnesota Superlawyer by the Minnesota Journal of Law and Politics. He is also a frequent speaker at Continuing Legal Education seminars and seminars for insurers and self-insured companies.