Haley N. Schaffer
Partner
f612.672.8491
haley.schaffer@maslon.com
3300 Wells Fargo Center
90 South Seventh Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Haley Schaffer is a partner in Maslon's Litigation Group and member of Maslon's Appellate Practice Group. She has represented local and national clients in a wide range of high-stakes business disputes in state and federal courts throughout the country. Haley has particular expertise in ownership and governance disputes in corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies. She also concentrates on various aspects of intellectual property disputes, including licensing, trade secrets, unfair competition, trademark, patent, and royalty-related cases. Additionally, Haley has significant appellate practice experience.
Haley has repeatedly received state-wide recognition for her litigation and appellate skills, being voted a "Rising Star" by Minnesota Law and Politics each year she has practiced. She also frequently presents to the Minnesota Bar on a wide range of civil litigation and appellate topics and publishes regularly on these topics, including co-authoring two chapters in the recent Eighth Circuit Appellate Practice Manual and authoring the "Notes and Trends" column in the Civil Litigation section of Bench & Bar of Minnesota.
Prior to joining Maslon, Haley completed a clerkship for the Honorable David S. Doty of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. Haley received her law degree, cum laude, from Northwestern University Law School, where she was a member of Northwestern's law review. She also is a member of the Order of the Coif and a recipient of the Bell, Boyd & Lloyd Appellate Advocacy Award. She received her Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from Princeton University.
- Litigation
- Appeals
- Business Litigation
- Intellectual Property Litigation
- Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois,
2001
J.D.
Honors: cum laude
Honors: Order of the Coif
Honors: Dean's List
Honors: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd Appellate Advocacy Award
Law Review: Northwestern University Law Review, Member, 1999 - 2000; Associate Editor, 2000 - 2001 - Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey,
1997
B.A.
Honors: cum laude
- Minnesota, 2001
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan, 2011
- U.S. District Court District of Minnesota, 2003
- U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit, 2004
- Federal Bar Association - Member
- Eighth Circuit Bar Association - Member
- Minnesota State Bar Association - Member
- Hennepin County Bar Association - Member
- Cardozo Society - Steering Committee
- “Business Torts In Minnesota”, Minnesota CLE, 2011
- “Corporate Lawyers and Litigators: Working Together to Avoid and Resolve Partnership Disputes”, Minnesota CLE, 2011
- 2011 Civil Litigator’s Annual Short Course, Minnesota CLE, 2011
- “Key Litigation Updates”, Webcast, Minnesota CLE, 2010
- “New Rules Affecting Eighth Circuit Appellate Practice”, Appellate Practice and Procedure Webcast Series, Minnesota CLE, 2010
- “2009 Cases You Should Know About - Minnesota and Federal”, Litigator’s Annual Short Course, Minnesota CLE, 2010
- “2008 Cases You Should Know About - Minnesota and Federal”, Litigator’s Annual Short Course, Minnesota CLE, 2009
- Motions Practice and Summary Disposition of Appeal, (co-author chapters 9, 11 with David Herr), Eighth Circuit Appellate Practice Manual, Minnesota CLE (5th ed. 2010)
- Why Guess? Erie Guesses and the Eighth Circuit, (co-author with David F. Herr), 5th ed36 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 1625 (2010)
- Suggestions from the Practicing Bar: Things Practitioners Wish the Court of Appeals Would Do Differently, (co-author with David Herr), 35 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 1286 (2009)
- Bench & Bar of Minnesota’s “Notes & Trends”, Contributing editor, column on civil litigation
- Preparing for Appeal in the Trial Court, (co-author with David Herr), Bench & Bar of Minnesota, February 2008
- "Unfair Trade Practices," Minnesota Business Torts Deskbook, (chapter author), Minnesota CLE, 2008
- Rule 23 and Its Impact on Your Practice, Defending and Managing Class Actions and Other Complex Litigation, American Conference Institute, March 2004
- Don't Forget Your Gadget Etiquette, (co-author with Martin Chester), The Young Lawyer, February 2005
- Domestic Violence and Asylum in the United States: In Re R-A, 95 Nw. U. L. Rev. 779 (2001)
- Recognized on Minnesota Rising Stars® list, 2005 - 2011 (Minnesota Rising Stars® is a designation given to only 2.5 percent of Minnesota attorneys each year.)
