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| | Address | | 24 North 4th Street, P.O. Box 5758 | | Grand Forks, North Dakota 58201 | | (Grand Forks Co.) | |  | Free Initial Consultation |
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| Pearson Christensen & Clapp, PLLP practices in the following areas of law:
Insurance Defense, Civil Litigation, Construction Litigation, Personal Injury, Products Liability, Tax Planning and Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Criminal Defense, Family Law, Contracts, Real Property, Appeals, Business Organization, Creditor's Rights, Collections, Employment Law, Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Administration, Water Law, Asbestos Litigation, Firearms Litigation, Oil Field Accident Litigation, Oil Field Products Liability Litigation, Military Law, Defense Contracts. | | Year Established: 1958 | Firm Profile:
The law firm of Pearson Christensen & Clapp, PLLP provides professional legal services to people and businesses throughout North Dakota and Minnesota. This broadly based firm is engaged in civil trial practice in all courts with a primary emphasis on insurance defense and insurance related matters, tax litigation and complex commercial litigation. The firm also has a criminal law section and a domestic relations section. All attorneys are actual trial lawyers actively involved in all aspects of litigation. | | Firm Size: 11 | Languages:
Languages: Russian and Spanish. | Clients:
INSURANCE CLIENTS: American Universal Ins. Co.; Austin Mutual Ins. Co.; Catholic Mutual Relief Society of America; Certified Claims Corp.; Cincinnati Ins. Co.; CNA Ins. Co.; Continental Western Ins. Co.; Crum & Forster Ins. Co.; Dakota Fire & EMC Ins. Co.; Economy Companies; Elevators Mutual Ins. Co.; Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States; Farmers Alliance Mutual Ins. Co.; GEICO; Government Employees Ins. Co.; Great Central Ins. Co.; Great West Casualty Co.; Home Ins. Co.; Iowa Mutual Ins. Co.; John Deere Ins. Co.; Manitoba Public Ins. Corp.; MN Fire & Casualty Co.; Mutual Service Ins. Corp.; National American Ins. Co. of New York; New Hampshire Ins. Co.; North Dakota Ins. Reserve Fund (NDIRF); Safeco Ins. Companies; Seibels, Bruce & Co.; The Atlantic Companies; The Hartford Companies; The Mill Mutuals; U.S. Ins. Group; United Fire & Casualty Co.; United Services Auto Association; United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co.; Westfield Companies; Rydells; Cloverdale Foods; Acme Electric Tool Crib of the North; University of North Dakota. | Reference:
Alerus Financial Services. | Office Hours:
Monday: 08:00 AM - 06:00 PM
Tuesday: 08:00 AM - 06:00 PM
Wednesday: 08:00 AM - 06:00 PM
Thursday: 08:00 AM - 06:00 PM
Friday: 08:00 AM - 06:00 PM
| Rate Information:
Fixed Hourly Rates
Fixed Fees Available
Free Initial Consultation
| | PARTNERS | | Garry A. Pearson (Member) born Minot, North Dakota, August 27, 1934; admitted to bar, 1958, North Dakota, U.S. District Court, District of North Dakota, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth and Ninth Circuits, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Federal Claims and U.S. Tax Court; 1988, Minnesota. Education: University of North Dakota (B.S.B.A., 1956); University of Wisconsin and University of North Dakota (J.D., 1958). Order of the Coif. Practice Areas: Income Tax; Federal Income Tax; Estate and Gift Taxation. Email: Garry A. Pearson | | Douglas A. Christensen (Member) born Rugby, North Dakota, September 9, 1947; admitted to bar, 1971, North Dakota, U.S. District Court, District of North Dakota and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth and Eleventh Circuits; 1978, Minnesota. Education: Concordia College (B.A., 1968); University of North Dakota (J.D., 1971). Member: State Bar Association of North Dakota. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Business Organization; Estate Planning; Tax Planning. Email: Douglas A. Christensen | | Richard A. Clapp (Member) born Cincinnati, Ohio, March 20, 1948; admitted to bar, 1976, North Dakota, U.S. District Court, District of North Dakota and U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota; 1982, Minnesota and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. Education: University of North Dakota (B.A., 1972; J.D., with distinction, 1976). Listed in Best Lawyers in America. Author: "Clapp's North Dakota Law For Claims Professionals," 2007. Member: Minnesota State Bar Association (Member, Civil Litigation Section); American Board of Trial Advocates; National Board of Trial Advocates; State Bar Association of North Dakota; Defense Research Institute; Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association; American Inns of Court (Master, Randy Lee Chapter). (Certified as a Civil Trial Advocacy Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy). Practice Areas: Insurance Defense; Construction Litigation; Products Liability; Civil Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Asbestos. Email: Richard A. Clapp | | Ronald F. Fischer (Member) born Bismarck, North Dakota, September 10, 1955; admitted to bar, 1980, North Dakota, U.S. District Court, District of North Dakota and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; 1982, U.S. Claims Court; 1984, U.S. Tax Court; 1988, Minnesota and U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota; 2005, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Mary College (B.S., 1977); University of North Dakota (J.D., with distinction, 1980). Order of the Coif. Certified Public Accountant (inactive). Member: Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; North Dakota Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Board of Governors, 1989—); American Inns of Court (Master, Randy Lee Chapter); American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; North Dakota Federal Court Advisory Panel. Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Business Litigation; Insurance; Employment Law; Employment Litigation; Construction Law; Construction Litigation. Email: Ronald F. Fischer | | Jon J. Jensen (Member) admitted to bar, 1990, North Dakota, Minnesota; U.S. District Court, Districts of North Dakota and Minnesota, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit and U.S. Tax Court. Education: Mankato State University (B.S., Accounting, 1987); University of North Dakota (J.D., with distinction, 1990). Certified Public Accountant, North Dakota. Member: Grand Forks (President, 1999), Minnesota State and American Bar Associations; State Bar Association of North Dakota. Practice Areas: Tax Litigation; Civil Litigation; Commercial Transactions. Email: Jon J. Jensen | | James D. Hovey (Member) born Grand Forks, North Dakota, April 26, 1964; admitted to bar, 1996, North Dakota and U.S. District Court, District of North Dakota; 1997, Minnesota and U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota. Education: University of North Dakota (B.A., 1987; J.D., with distinction, 1996). Member: American Inns of Court. Languages: Russian. Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Personal Injury; Insurance Defense; Contracts; Real Property; Domestic Relations; Criminal Defense. Email: James D. Hovey | | Ward K. Johnson, III (Partner) born Grand Forks, North Dakota, March 24, 1960; admitted to bar, 1988, North Dakota, U.S. Court of Military Appeals and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; 1993, U.S. District Court, District of North Dakota and U.S. Supreme Court. Education: University of North Dakota (B.A., 1982; M.A., 1986; J.D., 1988); U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (Graduate, 1999); U.S. Army War College (M.S., Strategic Studies, 2005). Member: North Dakota Bar Association. [Col., U.S. Army National Guard]. Practice Areas: Personal Injury(25%); Criminal Law(75%); Military Law. Email: Ward K. Johnson, III | | ASSOCIATES | | Sarah S. Barron (Associate) born Billings, Montana, March 31, 1953; admitted to bar, 1995, North Dakota; 1996, Minnesota; 2001, U.S. District Court, District of North Dakota; 2007, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. Education: Antioch College (B.A., 1975); Cleveland Marshall College of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1995). Member: Greater Grand Forks County and American Bar Associations; State Bar Association of North Dakota; Minnesota State Bar Association; American Inns of Court, Randy Lee Chapter. Practice Areas: Insurance Defense; Domestic Relations. Email: Sarah S. Barron | | Lee Rankin Powers (Associate) born Greenville, Mississippi, August 3, 1979; admitted to bar, 2004, Louisiana; 2006, North Dakota; 2007, U.S. District Court, District of North Dakota; 2008, Minnesota. Education: Centenary College (B.A., Political Science, 2001); Loyola University New Orleans School of Law (J.D., 2004). Member: American Bar Association; Greater Grand Forks County Bar Association; American Inns of Court (Member, Randy Lee Chapter). Practice Areas: Insurance Defense; Personal Injury; Civil Litigation. Email: Lee Rankin Powers | | Marianne Knudson (Associate) born Bodo, Norway, August 4, 1975; admitted to bar, 2007, North Dakota. Education: University of Oslo, Norway (Candidata Juris, 2004); University of North Dakota (J.D., 2007). Member, American Inns of Court, Randy H. Lee Chapter. Recipient, Best Appellate Brief, Moot Court. Law Clerk to Pearson Christensen & Clapp, 2007. Author: "Piercing the Corporative Veil," Norwegian and American Law. Exchange Student, University of North Dakota Law School, Norwegian Law Degree. Member: Greater Grand Forks County Bar Association; American Bar Association; State Bar Association of North Dakota. Languages: Norwegian. | | OF COUNSEL | | Linda E. Bata (Of Counsel) admitted to bar, 1990, Minnesota and North Dakota. Education: Concordia College (B.A., summa cum laude, 1987); University of North Dakota Law School (J.D., with distinction, 1990). Order of the Coif; Law Review Editor; Federal Judicial Clerkship. Member: Minnesota State and American Bar Associations; State Bar Association of North Dakota. Practice Areas: Litigation; Collections; Employment Law; Estate Planning; Probate and Trust Administration. Email: Linda E. Bata | Other Office Addresses:
Grafton, North Dakota Office: 735 Hill Avenue, 58237. Telephone: 701-352-3262.
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