With over 200 years of combined legal experience, our firm is able to provide quality legal advice and services in a wide range of practice areas. We have licensed attorneys to represent you in Montana District Courts, Montana Justice Courts, Montana City Courts, Montana Supreme Court, Ninth Circuit Federal Courts, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Blackfeet Tribal Courts, Salish Kootenai Tribal Court, and Federal Tax Court. Pursuant to the rules in Montana, we can provide you with guidance to Small Claims Court, but an attorney may not represent someone in small claim court.
Our attorneys represent people in jury trials, bench trials, civil trials, and criminal trials. If you were wronged, we will diligently represent your best interests. We begin with settlement offers, demands and negotiations. If negotiations fail, we work towards obtaining favorable verdicts and judgments. We will collect what you are owed by filing liens and writs and executing on property.
We act as local counsel for attorneys not licensed in Montana and attorneys needing advice or expertise of a local attorney.
If our attorney cannot handle your legal matter, we will quickly identify what you need and usually recommend you to someone who can assist you. Many of our new inquirers find out they do not even need representation after a free consultation.
CONFLICT RESOLUTION
We have conference rooms to accommodate multiparty disputes.
- Settlement conference masters (divorce, injury cases, and general disputes)
- Mediation
- Arbitration
GENERAL LITIGATION
- Wrongful death
- Car crashes
- Brain and spinal injuries
- Other bodily injuries
- Insurance disputes
- Negligence (acting against you without care)
- Misrepresentation
- Fraudulent transfers (cheating creditors)
- Bad house cases (faulty construction)
- Injunctions (stop something unwanted)
- Emergency orders
- Emotional distress
- Property partition
- All liens and lien foreclosures
- Litigation concerning trustees, beneficiaries, amendments, distributions and wrongdoing
- Trespass
- Unfair or deceptive trade practices
- Medical malpractice
- Product defects
- Class action lawsuits
- IRS disputes
- Montana Department of Revenue
- Social Security Administration (Supplemental Security Insuranceand Social Security Disability)
ESTATE / TRUST/ PROBATE
- Probate (local and foreign)
- Wills
- Living wills
- Health care powers of attorney
- Durable general and springing powers of attorney
- Contracts concerning succession
- Personal property lists
- Waiver of spousal rights
- Trusts of all kinds
- Amendments
- Litigation concerning trustees, beneficiaries, amendments, distributions and wrongdoing
- Life insurance
FAMILY LAW
- Divorce
- Child custody
- Modification of parenting plans
- Alimony, maintenance and spousal support
- Premarital and post marital agreements for residents and nonresidents
- Child support and child support modification
- Out of state custody proceedings
- Child visitation and parenting time
- Military parents
- Move away cases, custodial child relocation
- Paternity law
- Adoptions
- Guardianships and Guardian Ad Litem
- Post-judgment modification of orders and decrees
- Enforcement of decrees and orders
- Appeals
- Termination of parental rights
DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS
- Office of Disciplinary Counsel and Commission on Practice (attorneys)
- Board of Realty Regulation
- Board of Nursing
- Massage Therapy
- Other Montana Department of Labor & Industry Professions
- Attorney fee disputes (reasonableness of fees)
REAL ESTATE
- Easements
- Deeds
- Contracts for deed
- Security agreements
- Trust indentures
- Mortgages
- Commercial and residential lease drafting
- Buy/sell agreements
- Landlord/Tenant issues
- Evictions
- Damage disputes
- Well agreements
- Septic agreements
- Covenant, condition and restriction drafting and litigation
- Homeowners association creation and disputes
CONTRACTS
- Business sales
- Buy-sell agreements
- Business sales
- Deeds
- Contracts for deed
- Easements
- Promissory notes
- Security agreements
- UCC Filings
- Trust indentures
- Mortgages
- Commercial and residential lease drafting
- Employment agreements
- Premarital agreements
- Construction contracts
- Manufacturing contracts
- Oil, Gas and Royalty contracts
- Cell phone tower contracts
BUSINESS LAW
- Corporations
- S-corporations
- Partnerships
- Limited partnerships
- Family limited partnerships
- Professional limited liability partnerships
- Limited liability partnerships
- LLCs (limited liability companies)
- Professional LLCs
- Charitable organizations
- Non-profits
- Joint ventures
- Sole proprietorships
- Business trusts, and professional LLCs
- All related documents
CRIMINAL DEFENSE
- Felonies and misdemeanors
- Drug cases
- White-collar offenses
- Partner family member assaults
- Juvenile matters
- Assaults
- Sexual offenses
- Homicides
- Fraud
- Theft
- Embezzlement
- Arson
- All types of driving offenses including DUI and many others in state and city courts throughout Montana.