Attorney Profiles

Practice Areas: Domestic relations, criminal law, trial practice, motorcycle accidents, dog bites, product defects, personal injury, automobile accidents and injuries, slip and fall, family law, divorce, child custody, child support, adoption law, premarital agreements, marital property settlements.
Admitted: 1988, South Dakota, U.S. District Court, District of South Dakota, U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Law School: University of South Dakota, J.D., 1988
College: University of South Dakota, B.A., 1985
Member: State Bar of South Dakota; Minnesota State Bar Association; Second Judicial Circuit Bar Association.
Born: Sioux Falls, South Dakota, March 1, 1962
ISLN: 902760811

Practice Areas: Personal injury, trial practice, torts, workers' compensation, civil litigation.
Admitted: 1989, South Dakota, 1990 U.S. District Court, District of South Dakota, U.S. Court of Appeals (8th Circuit), U.S. Court of Federal Claims, 1994 United States Supreme Court.
Law School: University of South Dakota, J.D., 1988
College: Black Hills State Teachers' College; University of South Dakota, B.S., 1984
Biography: Law Clerk to the Honorable John B. Jones, U.S. District Court, District of South Dakota, 1988-1990. Insurance defense trial attorney (partner) at Woods, Fuller, Shultz & Smith P.C., 1990-2004. Personal injury trial attorney (partner), Wilka & Welter, LLP 2004-present.
Born: Yankton, South Dakota, February 20, 1962
ISLN: 902849059
