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Jeffery S. Haff

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Practice Areas:

  • Franchise Law

Biography

Education

  • Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina
    • J.D. - 1989
    • Honors: With Honors
  • State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
    • B.A. - 1986
    • Honors: summa cum laude
    • Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Presidential Honors Scholar
    • Major: Communication

Bar Admission

  • Minnesota, 1989
  • U.S. District Court District of Minnesota, 1989

Published Works

  • Co-Presenter: Focusing On the Bottom Line: Managing Costs and Driving Value When Resolving Franchise Disputes (2020)
  • Co-Presenter: “FRANCHISING–LITIGATING THE DEFINITIONAL ELEMENTS,” Annual ABA Forum on Franchising (2018).
  • Co-Author: Annual Franchise and Distribution Law Developments 2013 (ABA Publishing 2013) and was a plenary session speaker on this topic at the 2013 Forum on Franchising in Orlando, Florida.
  • Co-Author: “Differential Treatment of Franchisees in Tough Economic Times” ABA Forum on Franchising, October 2011.
  • Thinking Outside the Franchise Law Box: Is Our Area of Law Special? Should It Be? 20 Franchise L.J. 101, 132 (Winter 2001). (Co-author with Nancy L. Lochner).
  • Co-Author: Depositions In Franchise Cases, ABA Forum on Franchising 2008.
  • Co-Author: Zealous Advocacy or Sharp Practice? ABA Forum on Franchising, October 2006.
  • Co-Author: Franchise Litigation—A Changing Landscape. ABA Forum on Franchising 2004.
  • Co-Author: Franchisee Non-Payment of Fees: Underreporting, “Royalty Strikes” and Related Issues. ABA Forum on Franchising 2000.
  • Co-Author: Lost at Sea: Avoiding and Addressing Wrongful Termination of Your Franchise, AFA Legal Symposium, 2000.
  • Co-Author: Nine Holes Was More Than Enough—How Franchisees Can Get Away From Systems That Give Them No Value, AFA Legal Symposium, 1999.
  • Author: How the SBFA Would Affect Franchising: The Franchisee’s View, 5 Leader’s Franchising Business and Law Alerts No. 11 (August 1999).

Representative Cases

  • Sioux Falls Kenworth, Inc. v. Isuzu Commercial Trucks of America, Inc., 2017 WL 3600404 (D.S.D. August 18, 2017)
  • FECO, Ltd. v. Highway Equipment Co., Inc., 2010 WL 5394727 (Iowa App. Dec. 22, 2010)
  • Town & Country Equipment, Inc. v. Deere & Company, Inc., 133 F. Supp.2d 665 (W.D. Tenn. 2000)
  • Zitco, Inc., v. BASF, Inc., Business Franchise Guide, 1999, D. Minn.
  • Heck Implement, Inc. v. Deere & Co., 926 F. Supp. 138, 1996, W.D. Mo., 1996117699
  • Metro All Snax, Inc, vs. All Snax Inc., 1996, D. Minn.
  • Prudential Real Estate Affiliates, Inc. v. Prudential Long Island Realty, Inc., Business Franchise Guide, 1995, C.D. Cal.
  • Expedition League, Inc. v. Badlands Big Sticks Baseball Club, LLC et al., South Dakota Circuit Court Case No.: 51Civ22-150,

Honors

  • Best Lawyers in America named him “Lawyer of the Year” for Minneapolis franchise lawyers, 2017
  • Minnesota “Super Lawyer”, every year since 2002
  • “Legal Eagle” by Franchise Times for 20 years
  • “AV Preeminent” lawyer for over 20 years and recently receiving the prestigious “AV Preeminent Judicial Edition” award from Martindale-Hubbell

Past Positions

  • Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly, Attorney, 1989 to 1995
2023 Franchise Times Legal Eagles
Chambers Ranked In USA 2024 Jeffery S. Haff
Best Lawyers Lawyer Of The Year 2017 Franchise Law Jeffery S. Haff Minneapolis, MN
Best Lawyers | Best Law Firms | U.S. News & World Report | Franchise Law - Tier 1 | Minneapolis | 2023
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