North Dakota Law

A lawsuit in Washington state and another case before the U.S. Supreme Court are part of a coordinated campaign that experts say is pushing once-fringe legal theories to the nation’s highest court and represents the most serious challenge to tribal sovereignty in over 50 years. OregonLive | Oregonian By Karina Brown | Underscore News Editor’s note: This […]

Garry Allan Pearson, a longtime resident of Grand Forks, ND, passed away peacefully in his home on December 19, 2022. Born in Minot, North Dakota in 1934, the son of Elmer and Kathleen (Johnson) Pearson, he grew up in Minot as an avid golfer and outdoorsman.  At 16 years of age he won his first North […]

Sterling Management, LLC, advisor to two of the largest real estate investment trusts in the Upper Midwest, has promoted Michael Carlson to General Counsel and Secretary. Michael joined Sterling in May of 2020 as Assistant General Counsel.  Carlson is a graduate of The University of North Dakota with both Bachelor of Science, and Bachelor of […]

The North Dakota Supreme Court announced the names of three finalists to fill the impending vacancy on the court. The two judges and one attorney singled out by the selection committee include South Central Judicial District Judge Doug Bahr of Bismarck, Assistant United States Attorney Jake Rodenbiker of Fargo, and North Central Judicial District Judge […]

Advancing Simulation-based Pedagogy Professors Jennifer Cook and Denitsa Mavrova Heinrich presented “A Tale of Two Simulations,” at Fordham University School of Law. The presentation highlighted innovative ways for creating simulations in the upper-level curriculum that introduce new skills and feedback methodologies. Through concrete examples, Professors Cook and Mavrova Heinrich discussed the benefits of incorporating non-lawyers […]

Managing the Turmoil in European Energy Markets Professor Tade Oyewunmi recently participated in a webinar that explored the current energy market crisis in Europe. European energy markets have seen record futures prices of €1,000/ MWh only this August (a price more than ten times higher than contemporaneous forecasts in the US.) The unrivaled EU energy […]

Dean Pappas Looks to build on school’s strong support By Kylie Blanchard, Clearwater Communications Brian Pappas stepped into the role of Dean of the University of North Dakota (UND) School of Law in July with the drive to impact students and faculty and prepare law students to serve others in their future careers. “My main […]

The Wall Street Journal:  Doctors and Lawyers Debate Meaning of Death as Families Challenge Practices Changing the determination of brain death potentially affects organ donation By Amy Dockser Marcus Dec. 11, 2022 9:00 am ET How doctors determine death is up for debate. For more than four decades, death in the U.S. has been determined in two main […]

Shaun D. McNamara and David W. Wischer joined the firm as associate attorneys McNamara received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in English with a writing emphasis from Minnesota State University Moorhead. He earned his Juris Doctor from University of North Dakota (UND) School of Law. McNamara has experience in civil litigation, commercial litigation, family law, […]

Professor Margaret Moore Jackson was an invited speaker at the Minneapolis meeting of Minnesota state court judges Her presentation, “Federal Fair Housing Law in State Courts: Understanding Policy Goals and Local Impacts,” was featured during the December 8, 2022 session. In it, she traced the legal and policy underpinnings for the enactment of the Fair […]