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Matt Seltzer practices energy, environmental, land use, water and real estate law. Prior to joining Leonard, Street and Deinard, he served as Assistant Attorney General in the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office, where he gained extensive experience in administrative and public law, including wetlands, natural resources, public waters, environmental review, zoning, land use, historic preservation and local government law. While working for the state, he represented the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, the Board of Water and Soil Resources and a variety of other agencies in administrative hearings, district court trials and appellate proceedings.
Matt’s professional background also includes work in commercial real estate transactions. He is a frequent speaker on topics in land use and water management law, including wetlands regulation and wetlands banking. Matt’s teaching credits include previous service as an adjunct professor of land use law at William Mitchell College of Law.
RECENT SPEAKING AND WRITING
"Overview of Twins Ballpark Condemnation Case," presented to International Right of Way Association North Star Chapter (October 2008) (co-presenter)
"Wetland Banking," presented at seminar on New Developments in Wetland Regulation in Minnesota (July 2008)
"Wetlands Basics"presented to Minnesota State Bar Association Environmental Institute (April 2008)
"Wetlands Regulation and Banking Update"presented to Minnesota State Bar Association Real Estate Institute (November 2005)
"Wetland Banking Allows Profit from Marginal Lands" published in Leonard, Street and Deinard Real Estate Practice Newsletter (Spring 2005)
EDUCATION
J.D., cum laude, University of Minnesota Law School, 1981
Note & Article Editor, Minnesota Law Review
B.A., cum laude, Economics and Political Science, Yale College
ADMISSIONS
State of Minnesota, 1981
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, 1982
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 1983 | 