Hustead Law Office, P.C.

South Dakota Young Lawyer William Hustead was the high bidder at the 2024 PIN Auction for golf at the beautiful Devils Tower Golf Club 🏌♂️ ⛳ . This event was graciously donated by Bob Morris and Susan Morris. We also want to thank the firm's previous summer associates, Nathan Mantei (Tiffany Mantei) and Kaleb Peterson, for making the long journey out to Wyoming from Vermillion. We also want to thank those individual(s) who provided comedic relief (they shall remain anonymous, forever).

"It was a delight to swing by my alma mater today at Wall High School and entreat impressionable young minds to the practice of law." - William Hustead (Class of 2011)

We are happy to share that Nathan Mantei has joined our firm as our summer associate in Hot Springs! Nathan is an upcoming 3L at the USD School of Law, and he is an officer in the South Dakota Army National Guard. In addition to providing quality legal assistance to the law firm, Nathan was recently married to Tiffany Mantei in the Black Hills. We are fortunate to have Nathan with us this summer, and we are excited for his future!

The Law Office of the Pennington County Public Defender wants to express its appreciation for all private attorneys who accept court appointments. They play a critical role in the criminal justice system, which would literally collapse without their willingness to accept cases at the court appointed reduced rate set by the SD Supreme Court. Further, there are many valid reasons for status hearings as a mechanism for delaying cases for all the participants. They include waiting for complete discovery from the State, awaiting a plea offer from the State, waiting for the lab results from the State lab in Pierre, clients completing their treatment or classes prior to sentencing as required by the law, clients participating in diversion until they complete diversion requirements, clients waiting for a treatment needs assessment and working towards an inpatient treatment bed date, awaiting a specialty court application and decision by the specialty court team, competency assessment psychological reports, forensic psychological reports, awaiting the state contacting an alleged victim as to their opinion about a plea offer, and many, many other valid reasons. All participants in the criminal justice system want to see cases move as quickly as possible and work every day to make that happen. We want to thank all the public defenders, conflict attorneys at Dakota Plains Legal Services, and the private bar who are willing to accept court appointments. #TeamPDO #CriminalJusticeReform   https://lnkd.in/dV9Fj4dg

Congratulations to Austin Schaefer, JD, LLM on his admission to U.S. District Court!

🎄 Merry Christmas from the Hustead Law Office!🎄

Congratulations to Cole Romey for being recognized by the State Bar of South Dakota and Access to Justice, Inc. for providing quality pro bono services!

Yesterday was our office manager Lacey Rapp's 5th work anniversary at Hustead Law Office, P.C.! Thank you for all that you've done for us, Lacey!

Darla Crown of South Dakota's Employer Support of the Guard & Reserve (ESGR) presented this award to recognize William Hustead of Hustead Law Office, P.C., as a Patriotic Employer, for his support of attorney Austin Schaefer, JD, LLM while he was deployed overseas. Thank you, Darla!

The Hustead Law Office is excited to announce the launch of our new branch in Wall, SD! Located in First Interstate Bank, the Hustead Law Office can now easily serve the local residents of eastern Pennington County. See the full article from the Pennington County Courant here: https://lnkd.in/g2NGJ3mH