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For more than 15 years, my goal has been to provide quality legal service that creates value for the client. My practice focuses on all aspects of Intellectual Property, including patent preparation and prosecution, trademark registration and contractual matters.

Mr. Swift is a Minnesota Lawyer practicing primarily in Criminal Defense and Juvenile Defense.

Eva Cheney Hatcher is a respected Family Law Attorney and Qualified Rule 114 Neutral with 19 years of experience. She graduated from Sioux Falls University in South Dakota, Summa Cum Laude, with degrees in English and Business. She was a member of the Honors Society, and named as an Outstanding College Student of America. She attended the University of South Dakota School of Law where she earned her Juris Doctorate, was awarded the American Jurisprudence Award for Legal Research and Writing, a Law School Foundation Academic Scholarship, and was recognized by the Who's Who Among American Law Students.

Eva brings to her clients a wealth of professional, as well as personal, experience. She has practiced in several areas of law, including family law, business law, probate, estate planning, bankruptcy, real estate, criminal law, and administrative law. For the past eight years she has practiced family law exclusively. She is an experienced trial attorney, representing clients with complex marital estates, financial issues, and custody disputes. She believes her knowledge in several areas of law and alternative dispute resolution enables her to better represent her family law clients. She has both the ability and expertise to develop solutions that meet the needs of her clients and their families whether the issues are simple or complex. She is dedicated to making the legal process understandable and comfortable for her clients while advocating strongly for their interests.

Ms. Cheney Hatcher is also a Qualified Neutral and provides a variety of services for resolving issues without the financial and emotional cost of trial. As a Neutral, she assists parties as a Mediator, Arbitrator, Early Neutral Evaluator, Parenting Consultant, Parenting Time Expeditor, and Consensual Special Magistrate. She began providing Mediation services in 1996 after she obtained her original 40-hour Family Law Mediation Training. Since that time, she has completed additional, extensive training and continuing education in the areas of Civil and Family Law Mediation, Arbitration, Consensual Special Magistrate, Parenting Consultant, and High Conflict Dispute Resolution. In 1997 and 1998 she was chosen by the American Bar Association to participate in a pilot program to bring mediation into high schools. Ms. Cheney Hatcher was one of three professionals who developed and implemented the first Peer Mediation program in a South Dakota high school setting. In 2007, Ms. Cheney Hatcher was also chosen to participate in the Hennepin County pilot program for Financial Early Neutral Evaluation, and has provided FENE services since that time.

Ms. Cheney Hatcher is currently licensed in Minnesota, South Dakota and Pennsylvania in both state and federal courts. She is a member of the American Bar Association; the Minnesota Bar Association; Hennepin County Bar Association; Dakota County Bar Association; and South Dakota Bar Association. She holds membership in several professional alternative dispute resolution organizations including the Association of Conflict Resolution (ACR), American Bar Association Alternative Dispute Resolution Section; the Minnesota Bar Association-Alternative Dispute Resolution Section; and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), an interdisciplinary and international association of professionals dedicated to the resolution of family conflict. Ms. Cheney Hatcher also lectures on topics pertaining to family law, mediation, and alternative dispute resolution.

Committed to giving back to her community, Ms. Cheney Hatcher has participated in numerous organizations and local projects over the course of her professional career, and continues to do so through the present time.

A full service law firm for all of your family, criminal and business law needs.

Adam J. Blahnik is a Minnesota divorce attorney, Prior Lake lawyer and owner and attorney at Blahnik Law Office, PLLC. He received his Juris Doctor degree from William Mitchell College of Law in 2005, and was admitted to practice law in the State of Minnesota in 2005. Mr. Blahnik is also licensed to practice before the United States District Court, District of Minnesota.

As a Prior Lake divorce attorney, Mr. Blahnik places an emphasis on the area of family law for his law firm. However, the firm also handles Minnesota legal matters.

Mr. Blahnik has given an accredited legal presentation on Minnesota child custody and the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act, "UCCJEA Basics in Minnesota" at a family law seminar on February 12, 2008.

Mr. Blahnik is a member of the Minnesota State Bar Association and a member of the family law section therein. He is a member of the Eighth District Bar Association, which covers Scott County, Carver County, Le Sueur County, Sibley County and McLeod County. In addition, Mr. Blahnik is licensed to practice before the Tribal Court of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux (Dakota) Community in Prior Lake and the Tribal Court of the Prairie Island Mdewakanton Dakota Community.

In addition to having his law office in Prior Lake, Mr. Blahnik also resides in Prior Lake with his wife, Terrie. Mr. Blahnik is very active within his community. He is a member of, and is currently on the Board of Directors of the Prior Lake Area Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Blahnik is also a member of, and is currently on the Board of Directors of the Prior Lake Rotary Club. In addition, Mr. Blahnik has been appointed to, and is currently a member of the Economic Development Advisory Committee (EDAC) in the City of Prior Lake.

Mr. Blahnik teaches Junior Achievement classes to second graders at the public schools in Prior Lake. He has also taught classes on "how to start your own business" as part of the Community Education Program through the Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools.

Mr. Blahnik was born in the city of Rochester, Minnesota. He grew up on a small farm with his six siblings near the town of Caledonia, Minnesota located in the far southeastern corner of Minnesota. He graduated from Caledonia High School in 1995. Mr. Blahnik attended post-secondary education at Mankato State University from 1995 to 1997. In 1997 Mr. Blahnik transferred to Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota and in 1999 he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree with a Paralegal major and a Political Science minor. Mr. Blahnik received his Juris Doctor degree from William Mitchell College of Law in 2005 and has been a practicing attorney since 2005.

Mr. Blahnik enjoys the Minnesota outdoors, particularly during the "warmer" months. Mr. Blahnik makes a point to take an annual fishing trip with his three brothers and his father every spring in northern Minnesota or Canada. As part of his "country roots," Mr. Blahnik also enjoys gardening and landscaping his Prior Lake home, where his perennial gardens seem to grow perpetually every year.

Carol has been practicing in the areas of estate planning, probate, real estate, tax and business law for over 25 years.