Foster County Lawyers

Available to help farmers and small business owners manage and protect their family's mineral, property, and business interests so they can continue to provide for their loved ones and for future generations.

Kelsey (commonly known as "Lou") was born and raised on his family's farm and bison ranch near Pingree, North Dakota. After graduating from Pingree-Buchanan High School, he attended the University of North Dakota for both his undergraduate and law degrees. Following law school, Kelsey worked as an associate attorney with a private litigation firm in Bismarck, primarily defending personal injury and property damage cases. Additionally, he served as a Special Assistant Attorney General for the North Dakota Public Service Commission for various regulatory matters. In 2016, Kelsey moved back to the Jamestown area to start James Valley...

Rick Sand is a criminal defense attorney that focuses his practice on representing individuals that have been charged with misdemeanors, felonies, and DUI. A graduate of the University of St. Thomas School of Law, he is a licensed attorney in North Dakota, Minnesota, and Arizona. Mr. Sand has been recognized by Super Lawyers since 2017. He has also been recognized for his outstanding advocacy by the American Institute of DUI/DWI Attorneys, the American Association of Premier DUI Attorneys, Lawyers of Distinction, AVVO, Martindale-Hubbell, the American Institute of Criminal Law Attorneys, the American Institute of DUI/DWI Attorneys, America's Top 100 Attorneys, and...

Russell Nicolet has always been focused on helping people through difficult situations. He became an attorney and has integrated this personal philosophy into his practice so that he could help people through some of the most stressful situations they will face in life. Russell’s goal in every case is to help his clients get into a better position than where they were prior to contacting him. Russell has focused his legal practice to the area of Personal Injury in Wisconsin and Minnesota. This focused approach allows him to provide clients with knowledgeable and effective representation while maintaining the...

Attorney James Teigland is a Moorhead native who graduated from Park Christian High School of Moorhead in 2006 and attended Minnesota State University Moorhead where he studied Economics until he graduated in 2010. Mr. Teigland attended William Mitchell College of Law from 2010-2013, and is licensed to practice in Minnesota and North Dakota. While attending law school, Mr. Teigland volunteered as a Law Clerk at the Council on Crime and Justice, clerked for Judge John P. Smith, Externed at Merrill Corporation, and was a Legal Assistant at the Sortland Law Office. After law school Mr. Teigland started...

David Bliss is a fourth-generation North Dakotan who was raised on his family farm and ranch near Bismarck. He has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Kansas, a master's degree in community development from the University of Missouri and a juris doctorate degree from the University of North Dakota. Well-established as a trial lawyer, David Bliss dedicates his talents, skills and efforts in areas of the law where he can best serve clients. These areas include personal injury, medical malpractice and other cases that involve serious negligence. He is also experienced in business litigation and is well-equipped...

Steve is a graduate of Baylor Law School in Waco, TX and has practiced in the area of personal injury and medical malpractice litigation for over 15 years. He has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in medical malpractice, personal injury and legal malpractice cases. Steve is also experienced in insurance coverage claims, and formerly acted as coverage counsel for a number of large national insurance companies. Steve was awarded an AV Preeminent rating by Martindale-Hubbell in 2011, and served as an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law, teaching legal writing....

Chad Anderson Law Firm specializes in Bankruptcy, Probate, and Estate Planning

Grant Walker is a licensed attorney in North Dakota and South Dakota. Additionally, Grant is admitted to the Bar of the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota, admitted to the Bar of the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota, and admitted to the Bar of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Grant is also a licensed real estate broker in North Dakota. Grant specializes in the areas of criminal law, personal injuries, and real estate law.

Grant has an impressive legal career as a former State’s Attorney, Special...

I have been an attorney since 2008. I began my practice in Wisconsin where I focused in the areas of criminal defense, DUI, family law, and general civil litigation.

I have lived in North Dakota since 2016 where I was a public defender for two years and a prosecutor for 1 year. Currently, I practice in the areas of criminal defense, DUI, family law, estate planning, real estate and bankruptcy.

It is my mission to provide excellent service to my clients through giving accurate and honest legal advice and representation in any matter, regardless of complexity of case.

Isaac is an attorney and certified public accountant. He represents farmers, ranchers, estates, owners of mineral interests, and owners of closely held businesses in a range of legal and tax matters. Isaac graduated from Cornell University and practiced with a national accounting firm in New York and Nevada before attending law school at the University of St. Thomas. He worked for a real estate development company during and immediately after law school. Isaac’s father grew up on a ranch north of Napoleon, North Dakota and his mother’s family operated a small business in the Fargo-Moorhead area....

At Fremstad Law, building trusted client relationships is central to our practice. Understanding the individual needs of each client is where we excel, and it is what makes our work so rewarding to us. Joel Fremstad founded the firm in 2008 with the vision of creating a practice that is capable of doing more than simply finding legal solutions, but also of having the wisdom and care to develop relationships with clients and to provide a more thoughtful, meaningful experience.

Relationships are fundamental to life, and Joel, in particular, can vouch for that. He has cultivated a thriving practice based on...

Prior to moving to Dickinson in 2013, Peter (“Pete”) Morowski practiced law at a boutique plaintiff’s personal injury firm in Houston, Texas. During this time, he gained vast amounts of experience by handling all aspects of a litigate case from the filing of the lawsuit through settlement or trial.

Since moving to Dickinson, Pete has worked on a variety of matters in a various of areas of the law, including plaintiff’s personal injury, criminal defense, insurance defense, estate planning, probates, contracts, oil and gas, land disputes, adverse possession, and general litigation. Pete founded Heart River Legal Services, PLLC in 2020...

Growing up in a farming family in Williston, North Dakota, Kaitlin understands the unique legal challenges that come with the changing dynamic of the oil industry in the upper Midwest. She has handled a wide range of legal issues in her career, but she currently focuses on oil and gas (specializing in curative issues for mineral owners), probate (often related to mineral rights), real estate, estate planning, and business law. She has expanded her practice in these areas into Montana and Texas, where she currently resides. Kaitlin currently serves as the civil Municipal Attorney for Fairview, Montana, and she has...

Drew Epperly is a personal injury attorney – focusing his practice on cases where people have sustained serious injuries. He is a rising star in the field of personal injury, having amassed a track record of securing substantially above-average settlements and awards for his clients. Drew represents individuals that have been injured in motor vehicle and motorcycle accidents as well as victims of animal attacks and slip and fall accidents. Drew is originally from West Virginia where he pursued his bachelor’s degree in accounting at Marshall University. While at Marshall Drew was a Co-Captain of the Rugby team and...

Thad Swanson joined the Nilles Law Firm in 2016 and is a shareholder in the firm’s transactional group. Thad began his legal career in Williston, North Dakota, serving as judicial law clerk to the six judges of North Dakota’s Northwest Judicial District. Thad provides legal advice to his clients in the areas of Business Law, Estate Planning, Trust Administration and Probate, and Real Estate Law. Some of Thad’s legal services include business formation, drafting and reviewing contracts, corporate governance, shareholder buy-sell agreements, business succession planning, commercial and residential real property sales and leases, drafting wills and trusts, drafting powers of...

Frank ("Snyder") Gokey has practiced more than thirteen years in the area of immigration law. After four years as a trial attorney for the US Department of Justice, Tax Division, Snyder practiced law at the Vogel Law Firm for 25 years. At Vogel, Snyder worked as a business and health law attorney, before founding Vogel's immigration law practice in 1984. Snyder formed the Gokey Immigration Law Office in 2011 to fill the region's need for a law firm focusing exclusively on immigration law for businesses and families. Snyder is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association,...

Since the age of 10, Richard Edinger has lived in Fargo, North Dakota.

In 1991, he graduated from North Dakota State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in political science. In January 1996, he graduated cum laude with a Juris Doctor degree from Western Michigan University Cooley Law School.
For the last twenty-one years, Mr. Edinger has focused on criminal defense and DUI defense. From July 2001 to January 2006, he was a public defender for Cass County, North Dakota. He has zealously defended thousands of criminal cases and hundreds of DUI cases. He has a wide...

My purpose is to protect individual liberty and provide access to United States justice.

Michael is an attorney in the Nilles Law Firm's transactions department. His practice is focused on business and transactional law, and includes business organizations, contract negotiation, mergers and acquisitions, corporate financing and securities, and real estate transactions.

Jeff Nehring was born and raised in Williston, North Dakota. Jeff received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Dakota in 1993. Afterwards, Jeff attended law school at the University of North Dakota where he graduated and received his Juris Doctorate degree (J.D.) in 1996. After graduation, Jeff took a position as an associate attorney with Bjella Neff Rathert Wahl & Eiken, P.C., a law firm in Williston. As an associate attorney, Jeff practiced in a variety of areas, which included oil & gas, civil litigation and criminal law. It was during this...

James Loren is a senior partner at Goldberg & Loren and an aggressive litigator with over 50 case verdicts throughout the country. He has completed thousands of injury claims leading to over half a billion dollars in settlements for his clients. Many of these personal injury verdicts and settlements were well in the excess of one million dollars. When it comes to personal injury cases he represents clients in the following areas of practice, including wrongful death, medical malpractice, car accidents, motorcycle accidents, trucking accidents, slip and fall cases, product liability claims, employment discrimination; overtime law; and civil rights actions. Mr....