Cassie Wolfgram

Senior Associate

Overview

Cassie Wolfgram is a senior associate attorney with the firm. She regularly assists clients with a variety of personal and business litigation matters.

Cassie graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology before attending law school at the University of Iowa College of Law. During law school, Cassie was an Iowa Law School Foundation Merit Scholar and served as an Articles Editor for the Journal of Gender, Race and Justice. She was also a quarterfinalist in the Van Oosterhout-Baskerville Moot Court Competition during law school.

After law school, Cassie began her career in private practice in Iowa before moving to Minnesota in 2018. Cassie’s diverse litigation background includes extensive experience in all aspects of both civil and criminal litigation. She has extensive experience with discovery and motion practice. She has also tried numerous cases to jury verdict and argued multiple cases to the Court of Appeals.

At Dougherty Molenda, Cassie assists clients in a wide variety of litigation matters, including the following:

Appeals

Business Torts and Unfair Competition

Commercial Litigation

Conciliation Court

Construction Defects

Contract Disputes

Debt Collection

Defamation

Employment Litigation

Intellectual Property Litigation

Manufacturing Disputes

Real Estate

Shareholder Litigation

Trade Secret Misappropriation

Outside of work, Cassie enjoys hiking to waterfalls with her family and dogs. She loves puzzles and has completed multiple escape rooms throughout the area. Cassie spends most of her free time supporting her children and their various activities, including Lego League, coding, band, piano, and singing.

Practices

  • Our litigation attorneys routinely handle appeals to higher courts. Our attorneys represent appellants and respondents. Many of our attorneys are former law clerks who began their careers working for appellate judges and providing the research used by those judges to make appellate decisions. Our attorneys have handled numerous appeals before the Minnesota Court of Appeals and the Minnesota Supreme Court. Our attorneys have also handled appeals in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, to name a few.

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  • The litigation attorneys at DMSHB handle large and small disputes for individuals and for commercial clients of varying sizes. Our litigation attorneys have been successful in obtaining favorable results for clients at both the trial and appellate levels.

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  • Commercial litigation is a broad term that generally encompasses all business conflicts. We routinely litigate commercial matters for our clients in state and federal courts.

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Credentials

  • University of Iowa College of Law, J.D.

    Iowa Law School Foundation Merit Scholar

    Journal of Gender, Race and Justice, Articles Editor (2010-2011)

    Van Oosterhout-Baskerville Moot Court Quarterfinalist (2011)

    Iowa State University, B.S., Psychology, cum laude

  • Minnesota Rising Stars List , 2021 – 2024

  • Minnesota

    Iowa

    Wisconsin

    U.S. District Court, Minnesota

    U.S. District Court, N.D. Iowa

    U.S. District Court, S.D. Iowa

    U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit

  • Minnesota State Bar Association

    Dakota County Bar Association

    Minnesota Women Lawyers, Community Action & Advocacy Committee

    MENSA International

    First District Bar Association, Board of Directors

  • Autism Society of Minnesota (AuSM), Vice President of Board of Directors

    Minnesota Women Lawyers, Member and Chair of New Lawyers (RISE: Emerging Lawyers)

    Feed My Starving Children (Regular Volunteer)

    Boeckman Middle School Parent Ambassador

    Apple Valley Chamber of Commerce

    Dakota Regional Chamber of Commerce

Representative Cases and Appeals

  • McNitt v. Minnesota IT Services, 14 N.W.3d 284 (Minn. App. 2024), rev. granted (Minn. Feb. 18, 2025).

  • In the Matter of Surveillance & Integrity Review (SIRS) Appeals by Trinity Home Health Care Services and Etyane Ayana, 996 N.W.2d 178 (Minn. 2023).

  • In the Matter of the Trust of Robert W. Moreland a/k/a Robert William Moreland, 993 N.W.2d 80 (Minn. 2023).

  • Hudson Financial LLC v. City of Eagan, A22-1499, 2023 WL 3939485 (Minn. Ct. App. 2023).

  • State v. Abara, A22-0018, 2022 WL 4126240 (Minn. Ct. App. 2022).

  • State v. McReynolds, A20-1435, 2021 WL 3611376 (Minn. Ct. App. 2021), rev’d 973 N.W.2d 314 (Minn. 2022).

  • State v. Troyer, A20-0832, 2021 WL 1846820 (Minn. Ct. App. 2021), rev. denied.

  • State v. Abrahamson, A19-0079, 2019 WL 5885083 (Minn. Ct. App. 2019), rev. denied.

  • Swearingen v. Carle, 286 F. Supp. 3d 1014 (S.D. Iowa 2017), aff’d sub nom. Swearingen v. Judd, 930 F.3d 983 (8th Cir. 2019).

  • Nibeck v. Cirkl, 16-CV-114-LRR, 2018 WL 522779 (N.D. Iowa Jan. 23, 2018), aff’d sub nom. Nibeck v. Marion Police Dep’t, 770 Fed. Appx. 304 (8th Cir. 2019).

  • Neuman v. Iowa, 701 Fed. Appx. 530, 531 (8th Cir. 2017).

  • Budny v. MemberSelect Ins. Co., 895 N.W.2d 923 (Iowa Ct. App. 2017).