Miami-based litigation firm Kluger, Kaplan, Silverman, Katzen & Levine is expanding, having decided to open its first out-of-state office in Minneapolis.

The firm's partners say that they decided on Minneapolis because it sees an opportunity to capture some of the legal market there. Minnesota's economy­ was ranked 17th by GDP in the U.S. in 2015, and the state is home to 17 Fortune 500 companies, including General Mills, Target, Land O'Lakes, Hormel Foods, Best Buy and 3M. Yet, Big Law has largely bypassed the market in favor of traditional power centers such as New York, Boston and Washington, D.C.

“It's much less rust belt and old industry than you would think you would see in the Midwest,” said Alan Kluger, a founding partner of Kluger Kaplan. “It's really cutting-edge finance, internet, banking. Target is there. There's a pretty robust litigation practice.”