Position: Member

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Admitted: 1985, South Dakota; 1996, Wyoming

Law School: University of South Dakota School of Law, J.D., 1985

College: South Dakota State University, B.S., 1982

Birth Date and Place: Chadron, Nebraska

Practice Areas: Personal Injury; Wrongful Death; Medical Malpractice; Automobile Accidents and Injuries; Business Litigation; Insurance Litigation; Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA); Products Liability; Premises Liability; Professional Liability; Spinal Injury; Birt

Additional Information: See: Matthew Helde, et al. v. A & K Logistics, Inc.., et al.

State Bar of South Dakota (Member, Committees on: Lawyer Referral and Negligence and Tort Law; President, 1995); Wyoming State Bar; American Bar Association; South Dakota Trial Lawyers; Association of Trial Lawyers of America; American Board of Trial Advocates.

Named in "The Best Lawyers in America" 2001-2012. Topics Editor, South Dakota Law Review, 1984-1985. Author: "The New Federalism: Time for States to Pull the Plow in Soil Conservation," Vol. 30, No. 3, South Dakota Law Review; "Jury Selection in the Next Century," NDTLA, October 1999; "Making an Impact: The Trial of an Automobile Collision Case," ATLA, January 2000. President: Belle Fourche Chamber of Commerce, 1988; Belle Fourche Community Center Board. South Dakota Game Fish and Parks Commissioner, 1997-2005, and Chair 1998-2005. Student Regent, South Dakota Board of Regents, 1982-1985. President, Butte County Bar, 1990. Great Plains Super Lawyers, 2007, 2009. (Board Certified in Civil Trial Advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy)