Position: Member

TEL: (218) 263-8881

FAX: (218) 263-8161

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Admitted: Minnesota, 1964

Law School: University of North Dakota, J.D.

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Practice Areas: Personal injury, medical malpractice, automobile accidents, liquor liability, and product liability.

Additional Information: After receiving a Juris Doctorate from the University of North Dakota School of Law in 1964, Ed Matonich accepted a position with Standard Oil of Indiana. He returned to his hometown of Hibbing in 1968 to fulfill his dream of practicing law in northern Minnesota. Ed has dedicated his career solely to plaintiffs' civil litigation involving personal injury, medical malpractice, automobile accidents, liquor liability, and product liability. Ed has won verdicts in excess of one million dollars in each of the aforementioned categories, including a record breaking $13.5 million personal injury verdict against an industrial giant. Recognized nationwide for his litigation skills, Ed has been honored every year since 1991 as one of the Best Lawyers in America. He is a fellow, by invitation, of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the American Board of Trial Advocates, and the International Society of Barristers (President 2005-2006). By Minnesota Supreme Court appointment, Ed served on the Minnesota Board on Judicial Standards, the State of Minnesota Judicial Selection Committee, and the Minnesota Supreme Court’s Rules of Evidence Advisory Committee. Ed has been nominated by his peers every year since 1994 as a Minnesota “Super Lawyer” and has been ranked as one of “Minnesota’s Top 40 Personal Injury Super Lawyers.” He was honored in 2004 by Minnesota Lawyers magazine as one of “Minnesota’s Attorneys of the Year." [M]any say that no personal injury lawyer in Northern Minnesota, or maybe anywhere in the state, does it better than Matonich. Even fellow members of the briefcase brigade who argue against Matonich in court call him a compassionate man who likes to help people and one who has never forgotten the working-class roots he sprouted from. "Eddie is truly a legendary trial lawyer," said Minneapolis lawyer James Schwebel, founder of Schwebel, Goetz & Sieben, Minnesota's largest law practice specializing in personal injury litigation. "He is a ferocious advocate for working-class people and has always championed the rights of the poor and injured against whatever large corporate interests might have injured them. I don't know that there is another lawyer that I can recall in the last 40 years in Minnesota who has done the kind of job he has done for his clients," Schwebel said. Stodghill, Mark, Duluth News Tribune, "Lawyer takes the side of the little guy," 15 August 2004, Page 1.