Mark J. Connot
Partner
Email: mconnot@hutchlegal.com

Practice Areas: Personal Injury; Commercial Litigation; Business Litigation; Appellate Practice; Bankruptcy; Creditors Rights; Plaintiffs Personal Injury; Catastrophic Injury; Professional Liability Defense.

Admitted: 1993, South Dakota; 1994, Nebraska and North Dakota; 1995, Rosebud Sioux and Oglala Sioux Tribal Courts; 1996, Wyoming and Lower Brule Sioux Tribal Court; 1997, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Court and Nevada

Law School: University of South Dakota, J.D. with honors, 1992

College: South Dakota State University, B.S., Economics, 1989; University of South Dakota, M.B.A., 1992

Member: Nebraska State and American Bar Associations; State Bar of South Dakota (Chair, Negligent and Tort Law Committee, 2001-); State Bar Association of North Dakota; Wyoming State Bar; Sicangu Oyate Bar; South Dakota Trial Lawyers Association (President Elect, 2003-); The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA Political Action Committee; President Elect, 2003-2004).

Biography: Law Clerk, Honorable John B. Jones, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, District of South Dakota. Presented, CLE Seminars on Insurance Bad Faith, Punitive Damages and Daubert Issues. Frequent Guest Lecturer, Law School Classes and Undergraduate Business Law Classes. Appointed Justice, Supreme Court of the Oglala Sioux Nation, Oglala Sioux Tribal Council. Elected President, South Dakota Trial Lawyers Association, 2004. Served, Board of Governors, South Dakota Trial Lawyers Association. Chairperson, South Dakota State Bar Negligence and Tort Law Committee.

Born: Winner, South Dakota

ISLN: 900376632