Practice Areas: Insurance Defense; Litigation; Employment Law; Environmental Law; Oil and Gas Law; Products Liability.
Admitted: 1976, North Dakota and Iowa
Law School: University of North Dakota, J.D., 1975.
College: Dickinson State College, B.A., 1969; Iowa State University, M.A.,
1971.
Member: State Bar Association of North Dakota (Member, Sections of: Insurance
Negligence and Compensation Law; Natural Resources Law); Iowa State (Member, Environmental
and Natural Resources Section) and American (Member, Sections of: Tort and Insurance
Practice Law; Natural Resources Law) Bar Associations; American Agricultural Law
Association.
Biography: Author: Note, "Long Arm Jurisdiction in North Dakota," 52
North Dakota Law Review 183, 1975. Lecturer: "Tackling Environmental Issues in North
Dakota," The Cambridge Institute, June, 1991, May, 1992, Nov., 1993; "Avoiding
Environmental Liability in North Dakota," National Business Institute, Sept., 1991,
Dec., 1992; "Advanced Real Estate Law," National Business Institute, Sept.,
1992; "North Dakota Water Law," Law Seminars International, May, 1995, Sept.,
1996.
Born: Dickinson, North Dakota, October 23, 1947.
Gary is a shareholder specializing in litigation, particularly in the areas of
insurance defense, environmental law, oil and gas, and agricultural law. He graduated with
a B.A. degree from Dickinson State College in 1969; received a M.A. degree from Iowa State
University in 1971; and earned his J.D. degree from the University of North Dakota in
1975, attending summer sessions at the University of Iowa College of Law. He joined the
firm in 1976 after working for the assistant minority leader of the Iowa House of
Representatives in Des Moines. Gary is the author of "Long Arm Jurisdiction in North
Dakota", 52 North Dakota Law Review 183 (1975), and is a member of the Iowa (Section
on Environmental Law) and North Dakota Bar Associations and the American Bar Association
(Natural Resources Law and Tort Insurance Practice Sections). He has been a faculty member
in a number of seminars on environmental law as well as in seminars concerning real estate
law and water law.
Some seminars in which he has participated include "North Dakota Water Law,"
Law Seminars International, May 1995, September 1996; "Tackling Environmental Issues
in North Dakota," The Cambridge Institute, June 1991, May 1992, November 1993;
"Advanced Real Estate Law," National Business Institute, September 1992; and
"Avoiding Environmental Liability in North Dakota," National Business Institute,
September 1991, December 1992.
He is admitted to practice in the state courts of North Dakota and Iowa (1976), the North
Dakota federal court (1976), and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals (1983). Gary was
named an Outstanding Young Man of America in 1970.
Gary is a member of the Bismarck-Mandan Cable TV Advisory Committee, which was
instrumental in establishing a community access television channel in Bismarck and Mandan.
Prior to becoming an attorney, he was involved in journalism and teaching. He was news
director of KDIX radio and television in Dickinson, North Dakota, while in college; worked
at The Bismarck Tribune as a news reporter; and was a part-time instructor of political
science at the University of Mary.
Gary represented oil and gas clients in several leading cases in North Dakota,
including Olson v. Schwartz, 345 N.W.2d 33 (N.D. 1984), and Sorum v. Schwartz, 344 N.W.2d
73 (N.D. 1984) (implied covenants in oil and gas leases); and Murphy v. Amoco Production
Co., 729 F.2d 552 (8th Cir. 1974), a constitutional challenge to North Dakota's Oil and
Gas Production Damage Compensation Act.
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