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Practice Areas: Plaintiff Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, Civil Litigation

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. In June of 2009, Ed was lead counsel when the firm handled a wrongful death case resulting in a $12 million verdict with a net award of $9 million for the family of the pilot of a technically advanced high performance airplane.

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, The American Trial Lawyers Association, and the International Society of Barristers (President 2005-2006). In 2001, he was asked to join the Founders Society, "for long-standing contributions and services made to the objectives and goals of the Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association."

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 one of 15 attorneys 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.

SEE "In The News" tab for additional articles, including:

Nitke, Marie, Grand Rapids Herald-Review, “Local families awarded $19 million for 2003 airplane crash,” 7 June 2009, Page 1.

Stodghill, Mark, Duluth News Tribune, "Couple implicated in theft awarded $300,000," 21 April 2007, Page 1.

Business News, Hibbing Daily Tribune, “Matonich elected president of legal honor society,” 24 July 2005, Page 8A.

Bergan, Dan, Hibbing Daily Tribune re: Edward J. Matonich, “Hibbing lawyer gets state-wide honor,” 26 February 2005, Page 1.

Pribek, Jane, Minnesota Lawyer re: “Edward J. Matonich: Hibbing lawyer who warms juries up north,” 21 February 2005, Page 19.

Stodghill, Mark, Duluth News Tribune re: Edward J. Matonich, "Lawyer takes the side of the little guy," 15 August 2004, Page 1.

Bily, Beth, Grand Rapids Herald-Review, “Site workers awarded nearly $2 million in BPC injury case,” 18 July 2004, Page 1.

Stodghill, Mark, Duluth News Tribune, "Man to get $3.1 million for injuries,” 22 January 2002, Page 1.