Stacy A. Woods
Shareholder
Overview
Stacy A. Woods is a shareholder with Dougherty, Molenda, Solfest, Hills & Bauer P.A. She brings nearly three decades of legal experience advising municipalities, businesses, lenders, developers, property owners, and individuals in matters involving municipal law, real estate, redevelopment, estate planning, probate, business law, and civil litigation.
Stacy has extensive experience serving as city attorney and trusted legal advisor to municipal clients. Her work includes advising city managers, department heads, city councils, planning commissions, and economic development authorities on day-to-day governance, land use, redevelopment, code enforcement, ordinance drafting, administrative enforcement, and litigation-avoidance strategies. She has led legal work on significant redevelopment and public-infrastructure projects, including commercial redevelopment, easement acquisition, demolition, and construction-related matters.
In addition to her municipal practice, Stacy has a deep background in real estate law. She has handled all phases of real estate transactions, including conveyancing, development, leasing, title matters, Torrens proceedings, easements, condemnation, commercial loan documentation, and related litigation. She has represented lenders, title insurers, businesses, and property owners in disputes involving mortgages, fraud, foreclosures, receiverships, personal guaranties, commercial leases, and other real estate and business matters.
Stacy also assists clients with estate planning, probate, business formation, governance, succession planning, and asset and stock sales. Her broad transactional and litigation background allows her to provide practical, responsive counsel focused on helping clients solve problems efficiently and avoid unnecessary disputes.
Stacy is certified by the Minnesota State Bar Association as a Real Property Law Specialist and has been active in real estate law leadership for many years. She has served on the MSBA Real Property Council, including as Treasurer, and has been a long-time member of the MSBA Real Property Section Legislative Committee. She previously chaired the Hennepin County Bar Association Real Property Section and has presented on real estate-related topics for Minnesota CLE, the Real Estate Institute, and other continuing legal education programs.
Practices
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Our real estate attorneys regularly represent real estate developers and draft documents ranging in complexity from simple residential purchase agreements to complex commercial real estate transactions involving numerous parties and various methods of financing. In addition to these areas of transactional real estate practice, a number of our attorneys are also experienced in representing common interest communities.
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Several of our attorneys practice extensively representing municipalities in the Twin Cities. For more information, please visit our municipal law page.
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A number of our attorneys practice in the area of business representations, and they are frequently involved in the formation, capitalization, operation, reorganization and dissolution of all types of business entities.
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Several of our attorneys provide representation to municipalities throughout the South Metro area of the Twin Cities. For more information, please visit our municipal law page.
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Our estate planning lawyers offer a full range of estate planning, probate and elder law services to clients and can assist with the following: wills, trusts, probate administration, guardianships, conservatorships and elder law.
Our estate planning attorneys are committed to providing guidance and advice to clients during every step of the estate planning process. Through the years, our attorneys have developed a number of methods and tools to simplify the estate planning process for clients. From the initial client meeting, our estate planning attorneys understand that one of their most important roles is to collect information through careful listening and thorough document examination. As such, our representation normally begins with an initial client meeting and a client questionnaire, which we have revised based on our interaction with thousands of past estate planning clients.
Credentials
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University of Minnesota Law School, J.D.
Honors: Dean’s List
University of Iowa, B.A., Business Administration
Honors: Dean’s List
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Member to Member Business Award, MNCREW (2009)
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Minnesota
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Hon. Peder B. Hong, First Judicial District
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MSBA Real Property Council: Member (2018 – Present) & Treasurer (2022 – Present)
MSBA Real Property Section Legislative Committee: Member (2011 – Present)
MSBA Certified Real Property Specialist (2006 – Present)
HCBA Real Property Section: Chairperson (2008 – 2009)
MNCREW Board Member (2007 to 2009) & Member (2003 to 2025)
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Apple Valley Chamber of Commerce
Representative Cases and Appeals
State v. Brooks, Minn. App. Unpub. LEXIS 615, 2010, Minn. Ct. App.
State v. Ford, Minn. App. Unpub. LEXIS 325, 2010, Minn. Ct. App.
Kerr v. Kerr, 770 N.W. 2d 567, 2009, Minn. Ct. App.
Wisness v. Wisness, 2009 Minn. App. Unpub. LEXIS 234, 2009, Minn. App.
Tweeton v. State, 2007 Minn. App. Unpub. LEXIS 593, review denied 2007 Minn. LEXIS 490, 2007, Minn. App.
State v. Demars, 2005 Minn. App. LEXIS 23, 2005, Minn. App.