Dougherty Molenda Solfest Hills & Bauer PA
14985 Glazier Ave Ste 525
Apple Valley, MN 55124-7440
Litigation, Employment & Labor Issues, Estate/Probate, Real Estate, Appellate, Computer/Internet, Construction Law, Consumer Law, Discrimination, Intellectual Property, Landlord/Tenant, Business/Corporate, Collections, Disability, Guardianship, Sexual Harassment, Small Business
I am currently accepting new clients in this area:
Litigation, Employment & Labor Issues, Estate/Probate, Real Estate
Matthew Schaap is a shareholder in his firm of 17 lawyers. He is a trial attorney who assists clients with a variety of personal and business disputes.
Matthew joined Dougherty Molenda in 2004 after completing his judicial clerkship. At Dougherty Molenda, Matthew focuses on litigation and trial practice.
At times, litigation involves an appeal to a higher court. Matthew has briefed and argued cases in appeals before the Minnesota Court of Appeals and the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals (Washington, D.C.), receiving favorable decisions of affirmance from both courts. He also won an appeal before the Minnesota Court of Appeals in early 2012
In addition to his civil jury trial and appellate experience, Matthew has successfully represented the firm's clients at numerous mediations, arbitrations, court trials and motion hearings. He has been recognized in Minnesota Law and Politics as a top young attorney and was named to the Minnesota Rising Stars® List each year from 2007 to 2013.
Hamline University School of Law, J.D.
Calvin College, B.A., English
Minnesota State Bar Association Dakota County Bar Association
PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION: Matthew's peers in the Minnesota bar recognized him in the 2007 through 2015 Minnesota Rising Stars® lists, a designation given to only 2.5 percent of Minnesota attorneys each year.
PUBLICATIONS: Assisting Author, Minnesota Litigation Checklists §§ 1-1 et seq. (Matthew Bender & Company, Inc.) (2007). (Available in print and through Lexis.com)
SEMINARS: Tablet Computing and Your Practice, Richard T. Oakes American Inn of Court (2012).
CASES: Sharp v. Hayloft Prop. Mgmt. Co., 2012 Minn. App. Unpub. LEXIS 13 (Minn. App. Jan. 3, 2012) (briefed and argued unemployment benefits appeal on behalf of employee, obtaining reversal of administrative law judge's decision against employee); George O. Ensminger et al. v. Timberland Mortgage Services, Inc. et al., A09-1213 (Minn. App. Apr. 20, 2010) (affirming summary judgment of dismissal in favor of client, a residential mortgage lender); Old Reliable Wholesale, Inc. v. Cornell Corp., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 25181 (N.D. Ohio Mar. 24, 2009) (granting summary judgment of dismissal in favor of client based on determination of patent invalidity), aff'd, 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 26985 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 11, 2009). Old Reliable Wholesale, Inc. v. Cornell Corp., 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 8756 (N.D. Ohio Feb. 2, 2010) (granting judgment to client for $196,628.64 in attorneys' fees and expenses based on exceptional patent case finding), rev'd, 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 5139 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 16, 2011).
State of Minnesota; State of Wisconsin; United States District Court, District of Minnesota; United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit; United States District Court; Western District of Wisconsin