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Practice Areas: Personal Injury Litigation; Construction Law; Public Utilities; Transportation Law
Admitted: 1991, South Dakota and U.S. District Court, District of South Dakota; 1992, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
Law School: University of Minnesota, J.D., cum laude, 1990
College: University of South Dakota, B.S., magna cum laude, 1986
Member: Pennington County Bar Association; State Bar of South Dakota (Civil Pattern Jury Instruction Committee, 2001-present); American Bar Association; The American Association for Justice; South Dakota Trial Lawyers Association; Electric Coop Bar Association. Biography: Phi Beta Kappa. Recognized in Best Lawyers for Personal Injury Litigation, Product Liability Litigation and Commercial Litigation. Frequent speaker at S.D. Rural Electric Association legal seminars on liability issues related to the transmission of electricity.
Representative Reported Cases: Wallahan v. Black Hills Electric, 523 N.W.2d 417 (SD 1994); Baker Livestock Exchange, Inc. v. Thompson, 520 N.W.2d 263 (SD 1994); Jacobson v. Gulbransen, 623 N.W.2d 84 (SD 2001); Duffield Construction, Inc. v Baldwin, 679 N.W.2d 477 (SD 2004); Hohm v. City of Rapid City, 2008 SD 65, 753 N.W.2d 895.
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