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| | Address | | River Centre, 200 East 10th Street, Suite 200, P.O. Box 2498 | | Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57101-2498 | | (Lincoln & Minnehaha Cos.) | | | |
| | Contact Information | | Phone: 605-336-0828 | | Fax: 605-336-6036 | | |
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| Cadwell Sanford Deibert & Garry LLP practices in the following areas of law:
Insurance, Surety, Banking, Real Estate, Commercial, Corporate, Healthcare, Bankruptcy, Probate and Estate Planning, Products Liability and Personal Injury Law. Civil Trials and Appeals in all Courts. | | Year Established: 1890 | | Firm Size: 10 | Representative Clients:
U.S. Bank, N.A.; First Premier Bank; Premier Bankcard, Inc.; First Midwest Bank; Great Western Bank; Minnwest Bank; Household Credit Services; Wachovia Small Business Capital; Toyota Motor Credit Corp.; Beneficial Finance; South Dakota Public Assurance Alliance; American Family Mutual Insurance Cos.; EMC Insurance Cos.; Wellmark, Inc. (Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Iowa, South Dakota); DPIC Companies, Inc.; General Casualty Cos.; National Interstate Ins. Co.; Cincinnati Insurance Co.; Auto Owners Insurance Co.; Western National Insurance Group; The Bobcat Co.; Williams Insurance Agency; Allied Insurance; Sentry Insurance Co.; Creative Risk Solutions; Clark Material Handling Co.; Alltel Wireless; The Ronning Companies; Capital Card Services, Inc.; Educational Credit Management Corp.; Sioux Falls Skyforce (NBADL Basketball); The Costello Companies; CNA Surety; The Van Buskirk Companies; VeraSun Energy Corp. References: U.S. Bank, N.A.; First Premier Bank; Great Western Bank. | | MEMBERS OF FIRM | | Gale B. Braithwaite (1895-1974). | | Joe W. Cadwell (Member) born Broken Bow, Nebraska, October 21, 1918; admitted to bar, 1941, South Dakota. Education: University of South Dakota (LL.B., 1941). Special Hearing Officer, U.S. Department of Justice, 1952-1960. Member: Second Judicial Circuit (President, 1962-1963) and American Bar Associations; The State Bar of South Dakota. [Major, Army of the United States, 1941-1945]. Practice Areas: Bankruptcy Law; Creditors Rights Law. | | Steven W. Sanford (Member) born Sioux Falls, South Dakota, June 19, 1948; admitted to bar, 1974, South Dakota and U.S. District Court, District of South Dakota; 1975, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; 1992, U.S. Supreme Court; 1995, U.S. District Court, District of Nebraska. Education: University of the South (B.A., 1970); University of South Dakota (J.D., 1974). Member, Board of Editors, South Dakota Law Review, 1973-1974. Author: "Constitutionality of the Tax Exempt Status of Municipal Bonds," South Dakota Law Review, Winter 1973; "Involuntary Civil Commitment in South Dakota: A Step Closer to Constitutional Legitimacy," South Dakota Law Review, Spring 1974; "Debtor's Rights in Collateral as a Requirement of Attachment of a Security Interest under the Uniform Commercial Code," South Dakota Law Review, Spring, 1981, reprinted as Chapter 4B, Coogan, et al, Secured Transactions under The Uniform Commercial Code (Matthew Bender, 1982); "The Reborn Farm Products Exception Under the Food Security Act of 1985," 20 Uniform Commercial Code Law Journal 3, Summer, 1987; "Survey, Uniform Commercial Code (Litigation)," 54 Bus. Law. 1985, August 1999. Adjunct Professor of Law, University of South Dakota School of Law, 1983. Chancellor, Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota, 2002. Member: Second Judicial Circuit (President, 1988-1989) and American (Member, Uniform Commercial Code and Commercial Finance Committees, 1981; Vice Chair, UCC Litigation Subcommittee, 1999, Corporation, Banking and Business Section; Chair, UCC Litigation Subcommittee, 1990, Litigation Section) Bar Associations; The State Bar of South Dakota (Chairman, Uniform Commercial Code Committee, 1986-1990); American Inns of Court (Chair, Roy F. Burns Inn, 1996-1997); American Board of Trial Advocates (South Dakota Chapter; President, 1998-1999); American College of Trial Lawyers. Fellow, American Bar Foundation. Reported Cases: Mid-Western Elec., Inc. v. DeWild Grant Reckert & Associates Co., 500 N.W.2d 250 (S.D. 1993); Taggart v. Ford Motor Credit Co., 462 N.W.2d 493 (S.D. 1990); Olson v. Tri-County State Bank, 456 N.W.2d 132 (S.D. 1990); Crocker Nat. Bank, Credit Alliance Corp. v. Clark Equipment Credit Corp. 724 F.2d 696 (8th Cir. 1984); 37 UCC Rep. Serv. 673; Gulch Gaming, Inc. v. State of S.D., 781 F.Supp. 621 (D.S.D. 1991); In re Dakota Country Store Foods, Inc., 107 B.R. 977 (Bkrptcy. D.S.D. 1989); 10 UCC Rep. Serv. 2d 361; Krueger v. Austad, 545 NW2d 205 (S.D. 1996); First National Bank v. Drier, 574 N.W.2d 597 (S.D. 1998); Read v. McKennan Hospital, 610 NW2d 782, (SD, 2000); Sawyer v. Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co., 619 NW2d 644 (SD, 2000); Alvine v. Mercedes-Benz, 620 N.W.2d 608 (S.D. 2001); FMB BankShares, Inc. v. Hajek, 668 N.W.2d 715 (S.D. 2003); Western Wireless Corp. v. Dept. of Revenue, 665 N.W.2d 73 (S.D. 2003); Kent v. United of Omaha Life Ins. Co., 484 F.3d 988 C.A.8 (S.D. 2007). Practice Areas: Commercial; Insurance; Products Liability Litigation. Email: Steven W. Sanford | | Douglas M. Deibert (Member) born Eureka, South Dakota, May 13, 1948; admitted to bar, 1973, South Dakota; 1978, U.S. District Court, District of South Dakota; 1982, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; 1992, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: South Dakota State University (B.S., 1970); University of South Dakota (J.D., 1973). Phi Delta Phi. Managing Editor, South Dakota Law Review, 1972-1973. Author: "Lex Loci Delicti-The Conflict Continues," South Dakota Law Review, Vol. 17:2, Spring 1972. Member: Second Judicial Circuit and American Bar Associations; The State Bar of South Dakota; South Dakota Defense Lawyers Association; American Board of Trial Advocates. [Capt., JAG, USAF, 1973-1978]. Reported Cases: Krier v. Dell Rapids Township, 709 N.W.2d 841 (S.D. 2006); American Family Mut. Group. v. Kostaneski, 688 NW2d 410 (SD 2004); Auto-Owners Ins. Co. v. Enterprise Rent-A-Car Co.-Midwest, 2003 SD 52, 663 NW2d 208; Meier v. McCord, 2001, SD 103, 632 NW2d 477; American Family Mut. Ins. Co. v. Jepson, 148 F.3d 954 (8th Cir. 1998); Tipton v. Town of Tabor, 567 N.W.2d 351 (S.D. 1997); Bland v. Davison County, 566 N.W.2d 452 (S.D. 1997); Wood v. City of Crooks, 559 N.W.2d 558 (S.D. 1997); City of Colton v. Schwebach, 557 N.W.2d 769 (S.D. 1997); American Family Mut. Ins. Co. v. Elliot, 523 N.W.2d 100 (S.D. 1994); American Family Mut. Ins. Co. v. Purdy, 483 N.W.2d 197 (S.D. 1992); 61 USLW 3112; Union Ins. Co. v. Stanage, 454 N.W.2d 736 (S.D. 1990); Du-Al Mfg. Co. v. Sioux Falls Const. Co., 444 N.W.2d 55 (S.D. 1989); All Nation Ins. Co. v. Brown, 363 N.W.2d 216 (S.D. 1985); Fredericks v. Elliot, 716 F.2d 522 (8th Cir. 1983); American Family Ins. Group v. Howe, 584 F.Supp. 369 (D.S.D. 1984). Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Insurance Defense Law; Appeals. Email: Douglas M. Deibert | | William C. Garry (Member) born Brookings, South Dakota, November 6, 1955; admitted to bar, 1981, South Dakota, U.S. District Court, District of South Dakota and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. Education: South Dakota State University (B.S., 1978); University of South Dakota (J.D., with honors, 1981). Phi Alpha Delta. Symposium Editor, South Dakota Law Review, 1980-1981. Author: "United States v. Homestake Mining Company: That Ain't Gold in Gold Run Creek," 25 South Dakota Law Review 80, 1980; "Jurisdictional Confusion on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation: United States v. Dupris," 25 South Dakota Law Review 355, 1980. Law Clerk to Hon. Donald J. Porter, U.S. District Court, South Dakota, 1981-1982. Member: Second Judicial Circuit (President, 1995-1996) and American Bar Associations; The State Bar of South Dakota; American Board of Trial Advocates; South Dakota Defense Lawyers Association; Defense Research Institute. Reported Cases: Fryer v. Kranz, 616 N.W.2nd 102 (S.D., 2000); Alverson v. Northwestern Nat'l. Cas. Co., 559 N.W.2d 234 (S.D., 1997). Practice Areas: Insurance Defense; Workers' Compensation; Civil Litigation. Email: William C. Garry | | Scott Perrenoud (Member) born Huron, South Dakota, February 12, 1961; admitted to bar, 1986, South Dakota; 1989, Iowa. Education: South Dakota State University; University of South Dakota (B.S., 1983; J.D., 1986). Author: "Current Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 68 and Official Proposed Changes: Important Impacts on Attorney's Fee Awards," 31 S.D. L. Rev. 209 (1985). Law Clerk to: Chief Justice Jon Fosheim and Justice Robert A. Miller, South Dakota Supreme Court, 1986-1987; Chief Judge Irvin N. Hoyt, Bankruptcy Court, District of South Dakota, 1987-1989. Member, 1987-1988, 1996, and Chair, 1988-1989, Local Bankruptcy Rules Committee, District of South Dakota. Selected, The Best Lawyers in America, 2006. Member: Iowa State and American Bar Associations; The State Bar of South Dakota. Practice Areas: Banking; Real Estate; Commercial; Business; Bankruptcy; Estate Planning; Probate. Email: Scott Perrenoud | | Stephen C. Landon (Member) born Anamosa, Iowa, November 29, 1965; admitted to bar, 1992, Michigan; 1993, South Dakota. Education: Sioux Falls College (B.A., 1987); University of Nebraska (J.D., with high distinction, 1992). Order of the Coif. Executive Editor, Nebraska Law Review. Co-chair, Second Circuit Bench-Bar Liaison Committee, 1998-2003. Member: American Bar Association; State Bar of South Dakota; South Dakota Trial Lawyers Association; Second Judicial Circuit Bar Association (Vice-President, 1998-1999); Defense Research Institute. Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Personal Injury; Commercial Law; Banking Law; Labor and Employment Law; Trial Practice. Email: Stephen C. Landon | | Brett A. Lovrien (Member) born Iowa City, Iowa, April 14, 1969; admitted to bar, 1994, Iowa, South Dakota and U.S. District Court, District of South Dakota; 1995, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; 2004, Minnesota. Education: University of Iowa (B.A., 1991); University of Iowa School of Law (J.D., with distinction, 1994). Phi Beta Kappa; Omicron Delta Kappa; Order of Omega. Member: Trial Advocacy Board; Mortar Board. Associate Editor, University of Iowa Law Review. Formerly with Parliman and Parliman. Member: Second Judicial Circuit, Iowa State, Minnesota State and American (Member, Health Law Section) Bar Associations; State Bar of South Dakota. Practice Areas: Commercial Law; Civil Litigation; Health Care; Banking Law. Email: Brett A. Lovrien | | Michael A. Henderson (Member) born Rapid City, South Dakota, December 20, 1971; admitted to bar, 1998, South Dakota, U.S. District Court, District of South Dakota and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. Education: University of South Dakota (B.A., 1994; J.D., 1997). Phi Alpha Delta. Member, Thomas Sterling Honor Society. Lead Articles Editor, South Dakota Law Review, 1996-1997. Law Clerk, Hon. Roger L. Wollman, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, 1997-1998. Author: "Today's Symbolic Speech Dilemma: Flag Desecration and the Proposed Constitutional Amendment," 41 South Dakota Law Review 533, 1996. Member: Second Judicial Circuit and American Bar Associations; State Bar of South Dakota. Reported Cases: American Family Mut. Ins. Group v. Kostaneski, 688 NW2d 410 (SD 2004); First Dakota National Bank v. Performance Eng. & Mfg., Inc., 675 N.W.2d 395 (SD 2004). Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Insurance Defense; Products Liability; Appellate Practice. Email: Michael A. Henderson | | James S. Simko (Member) born Sioux Falls, South Dakota, December 30, 1970; admitted to bar, 1998, Minnesota; 1999, Colorado; 2005, South Dakota. Education: Colorado State University (B.S., 1993); Hamline University School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1998). Practice Areas: Business Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Construction Litigation; Corporate Litigation; Bankruptcy; Banking. | | Shawn M. Nichols (Member) born Sioux Falls, South Dakota, November 4, 1976; admitted to bar, 2003, South Dakota and U.S. District Court, District of South Dakota. Education: University of Nebraska at Lincoln (B.J., with distinction, 1999); University of South Dakota (J.D., 2002). Editor, Moot Court, 2001. Editor in Chief, South Dakota Law Review, 2001-2002. Law Clerk, Second Judicial Circuit of South Dakota, 2002-2003. Author: "Jorgenson v. Vener: The South Dakota Supreme Court Declares Loss-Of-Chance Doctrine As Part of Our Common Law in Medical Malpractice Torts," 46 S.D. L.Rev. 618 (2001). Member: American Bar Association (Member, Young Lawyers, Second Circuit Rep.). Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Insurance Defense; Commercial Litigation; Construction Law. Email: Shawn M. Nichols | | ASSOCIATE | | Kristi M. Laber (Associate) born Sioux Falls, South Dakota, March 24, 1982; admitted to bar, 2007, South Dakota. Education: North Dakota State University (B.S., summa cum laude, 2004); Hamline University (J.D., 2007). Author: "No More Government Theft of Property: A Call to Return to a Heightened Standard of Review After the United States Supreme Court Decision in Kelo v. City of New London," 27 HAMLINE J. PUB. L. & POL'Y 115 (Fall 2005). Member, Board of Editors, Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy, 2006-2007. Member: South Dakota State Bar. Practice Areas: Real Estate; Probate; Business Law; Commercial Law; Estate Planning. Email: Kristi M. Laber |
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