Winter 2019 VOLUME 66, NUMBER 1
CONTENTS
GAVEL
THE
FEATURES
Lawyers in the North Dakota Legislature ...................................................................... 4
North Dakota Embraces Collaborative Negotiating....................................................... 6
Can a Computer Be a Lawyer?....................................................................................... 8
Women Lawyers Section Leadership Retreat............................................................... 10
ALPS: Guidelines to Closing Your Law Practice......................................................... 12
North Dakota’s New Trust Decanting Statute.............................................................. 14
Casemaker4: New and Improved.................................................................................. 16
LSND Attorneys Helping to Make North Dakotans Healthy..................................... 18
DEPARTMENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
February 21
Upper Missouri Bar Association Meeting
Williston
February 28
Big Muddy Bar Association Meeting
Bismarck
SBAND President.......................................................................................................... 2
North Dakota Supreme Court Highlights by Michael J. Morley.................................... 20
Facing the Challenges & Meeting the Needs of the School of Law by Brad Myers ..... 22
Legal Education: Deal or No Deal by Dan Traynor...................................................... 24
Court Amends Rules of Appellate Procedure by Mike Hagburg.................................... 25
Young Lawyer Showcase............................................................................................... 26
Get to Know Your Board Member............................................................................... 30
Bar Foundation Update................................................................................................. 32
Lawyer Discipline......................................................................................................... 34
State Bar Association of North Dakota Officers
Board of Governors
Zack Pelham, Bismarck
President
Aubrey Fiebelkorn Zuger, Fargo
President-Elect
Darcie Einarson, Grafton
Immediate Past-President
Patrick J. Ward, Bismarck
Secretary-Treasurer
Daniel M. Traynor, Devils Lake
ABA Delegate
Jennifer Albaugh, Fargo
EC Judicial District
Hon. Doug Bahr, Bismarck
SC Judicial District
Peter Welte, Grand Forks
NEC Judicial District
Carrie Francis, Minot
NC Judicial District
Taylor Olson, Williston
NW Judicial District
Christina Wenko, Dickinson
SW Judicial District
Tonya Duffy, LaMoure
SE Judicial District
Hon. Michael Hurly, Rugby
NE Judicial District
Bradley Myers, Grand Forks
Interim Dean, UND Law School
Andrew Askew, Bismarck
Young Lawyers Section
Tony J. Weiler, Bismarck
Executive Director
SBAND Editorial Board
Sheldon Smith, Bismarck
Chair
Lynn Block, Fargo
Mike Morley, Grand Forks
Taylor Olson, Williston
Ian McLean, Fargo
Joshua Swanson, Fargo
Justin Balzer, Bismarck
Hope Hogan, Bismarck
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