PRACTICE AREAS:

• Business Contracts
• Business Formations
• Business Litigation
• Commercial Collections
• Corporate Law
• Estate Planning, Wills & Trusts
• Franchising
• Gaming
• Real Estate – Commercial
• Trusts
• Guardianships
• Health Care Directives
• Power of Attorney
• Living Wills – Wills
• Employment Issues – Employer Focus
• Business Successions
• Probate

Education

• New York University School of Law, New York, New York
• J.D. – 1978
• Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana
• B.A., Bachelor of Arts- 1975

Bar Admissions

• Montana, 1978
• U.S. District Court District of Montana, 1979
• U.S. Court of Appeal 9th Circuit, 1982

Pro Bono Activities

• Billings Family YMCA Board of Directors, 2002 to 2016

Representative Clients

• Rimrock Auto Group
• Bertram Drilling, Inc.
• 2M Company, Inc.
• Pioneer Oil, L.L.C.
• Tractor & Equipment Co.
• CNJ Distributing Corp.

Representative Cases

• Signal Perfection, Ltd. v. Rocky Mountain Bank, 2009 MT 365, 353 Mont 237, 224 P.3d 604
• King Resources, Inc. v. Oliver, 2002 MT 301, 313 Mont. 17, 59 P.3d 1172
• Muri v. Frank, 2001 MT 29, 304 Mont. 171,18 P.3d 1022
• Hunter v. Rosebud County, 240 Mont. 194, 783 P.2d 927, 1989

Professional Associations

• Yellowstone County Bar Association, 1978
• Montana Bar Association, 1978
• American Bar Association, 1988
• ABA Forum on Franchising, 2005

Current Employment Position

• Partner, 1989

Past Positions

• Calton Law Firm, Attorney, 1978 to 1980
• Calton & Hamman, P.C., Partner, 1980 to 1982
• Calton Hamman & Wolff, P.C., Partner, 1982 to 1989

References

• First Interstate Bank of Billings, N.A.

Languages

• English