Jeffrey A. Scott
Attorney at Law
Email: jscott@heleyduncan.com
Telephone: 952.841.0212
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Jeffrey A. Scott is a partner with the firm and primarily represents banks, lenders, financial institutions, and title insurance companies. Jeff’s practice focuses on representing clients in loan workouts, real estate remedies and litigation, creditors’ rights, commercial litigation, mortgage foreclosures, and bankruptcy and collection matters. Following law school, Jeff was a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Steven D. Wheeler of the Second Judicial District, Ramsey County, Minnesota.
- Real Estate Litigation
- Title Insurance Litigation
- Creditors’ Rights
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency
- State of Minnesota
- U.S District Court, District of Minnesota
- Member, Minnesota State Bar Association
- Member, Hennepin County Bar Association
- Member, American Bar Association
- In re Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, 835 N.W.2d 487 (Minn. App. 2013) (holding as a matter of first impression that the preponderance of evidence standard applies to Torrens proceedings subsequent to initial registration to amend a certificate of title and holding that the doctrine of contemporaneous transaction and the equitable doctrine of instantaneous seisin may apply to Torrens property in determining that purchasers’ actual notice of a purchase-money mortgage permitted the district court to use equity to reverse the order of documents on the certificate of title to have the mortgage cover the entire property)
Undergraduate:
- B.A., Augsburg College, 2001
Law School:
- Juris Doctorate, Hamline University School of Law, 2004