Cummings Lawyers

My focus is on providing affordable Immigration and Estate Planning Services to everyone throughout Minnesota. Criminal Defense cases are accepted on a limited basis depending on location. Nation-wide immigration services include visa applications (Fiancé-Marriage, Student, Work, etc.) to the United States and throughout Asia, naturalization, USCIS applications/requests for additional information (Forms I-129F, I-130, etc.). Other immigration areas may be accepted on a case-by-case basis. I offer a full range of Minnesota Estate Planning Services for single individuals as well as couples. The most popular services I offer include Wills, Revocable Trusts ("Living" Trusts, NFA "Gun" Trusts, Pet Trusts) and Irrevocable Trusts (Medicaid...

Attorney James Teigland is a Moorhead native who graduated from Park Christian High School of Moorhead in 2006 and attended Minnesota State University Moorhead where he studied Economics until he graduated in 2010. Mr. Teigland attended William Mitchell College of Law from 2010-2013, and is licensed to practice in Minnesota and North Dakota. While attending law school, Mr. Teigland volunteered as a Law Clerk at the Council on Crime and Justice, clerked for Judge John P. Smith, Externed at Merrill Corporation, and was a Legal Assistant at the Sortland Law Office. After law school Mr. Teigland started...

Lesley is committed and dedicated to helping her clients through what can be one of the more challenging times in their lives. Lesley focuses her legal practice almost exclusively in family law, and represents clients through all stages, aspects, and phases of family law proceedings, including divorce, custody, post-judgment modification or enforcement proceedings, parenting time disputes, prenuptial agreements, child support, guardianships, and name changes. Lesley is also a trained guardian ad litem, is a parenting investigator in North Dakota, and is a qualified neutral mediator in family law proceedings. Before joining Fremstad Law, Lesley represented the State...

At Fremstad Law, building trusted client relationships is central to our practice. Understanding the individual needs of each client is where we excel, and it is what makes our work so rewarding to us. Joel Fremstad founded the firm in 2008 with the vision of creating a practice that is capable of doing more than simply finding legal solutions, but also of having the wisdom and care to develop relationships with clients and to provide a more thoughtful, meaningful experience.

Relationships are fundamental to life, and Joel, in particular, can vouch for that. He has cultivated a thriving practice based on...

Drew Epperly is a personal injury attorney – focusing his practice on cases where people have sustained serious injuries. He is a rising star in the field of personal injury, having amassed a track record of securing substantially above-average settlements and awards for his clients. Drew represents individuals that have been injured in motor vehicle and motorcycle accidents as well as victims of animal attacks and slip and fall accidents. Drew is originally from West Virginia where he pursued his bachelor’s degree in accounting at Marshall University. While at Marshall Drew was a Co-Captain of the Rugby team and...

Jennifer Albaugh is an associate attorney with Anderson, Bottrell, Sanden & Thompson, in Fargo, North Dakota. She currently practices family law focusing on divorces, custody disputes, adoptions, guardianships, conservatorships, and any other related matter. Prior to joining Anderson, Bottrell, Sanden & Thompson, she worked for another firm in Fargo practicing family law.

In 2009, Jennifer received a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of North Dakota. Jennifer earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of North Dakota School of Law in 2012. While in...

Mr. Wynne has developed a reputation for aggressively representing clients in state and federal courts. Mr. Wynne’s cases have been featured by national, international, and local news outlets including the Associated Press, Star Tribune, National Post, Globe and Mail, and Fargo Forum. Call Mr. Wynne today at (855) GO-WYNNE for your free, no obligation consultation.

I have practiced in the field of criminal defense for over 15 years and I am dedicated to protecting my clients throughout North Dakota and Minnesota.

Thad Swanson joined the Nilles Law Firm in 2016 and is a shareholder in the firm’s transactional group. Thad began his legal career in Williston, North Dakota, serving as judicial law clerk to the six judges of North Dakota’s Northwest Judicial District. Thad provides legal advice to his clients in the areas of Business Law, Estate Planning, Trust Administration and Probate, and Real Estate Law. Some of Thad’s legal services include business formation, drafting and reviewing contracts, corporate governance, shareholder buy-sell agreements, business succession planning, commercial and residential real property sales and leases, drafting wills and trusts, drafting powers of...

Frank ("Snyder") Gokey has practiced more than thirteen years in the area of immigration law. After four years as a trial attorney for the US Department of Justice, Tax Division, Snyder practiced law at the Vogel Law Firm for 25 years. At Vogel, Snyder worked as a business and health law attorney, before founding Vogel's immigration law practice in 1984. Snyder formed the Gokey Immigration Law Office in 2011 to fill the region's need for a law firm focusing exclusively on immigration law for businesses and families. Snyder is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association,...

Since the age of 10, Richard Edinger has lived in Fargo, North Dakota.

In 1991, he graduated from North Dakota State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in political science. In January 1996, he graduated cum laude with a Juris Doctor degree from Western Michigan University Cooley Law School.
For the last twenty-one years, Mr. Edinger has focused on criminal defense and DUI defense. From July 2001 to January 2006, he was a public defender for Cass County, North Dakota. He has zealously defended thousands of criminal cases and hundreds of DUI cases. He has a wide...

James Nostdahl has been practicing personal injury and wrongful death law for over 30 years. He has handled cases involving injuries and death resulting from car accidents, oil field accidents, farm accidents, fireworks accidents, H2S exposure, Anhydrous Ammonia exposure, and many other types of accidents.

Experienced attorney operating a law firm in downtown Grand Forks, North Dakota. Primarily focusing on criminal defense and DUI cases, I also handle a variety of other areas of law, including restraining orders, evictions and foreclosures, and juvenile court cases. I will take on other cases on a case-by-case basis, so if you have legal questions that don't fall into one of those categories feel free to contact me as I may still be able to help, and if not I will help point you in the direction of someone who can. I understand that legal issues are confusing,...

Michael is an attorney in the Nilles Law Firm's transactions department. His practice is focused on business and transactional law, and includes business organizations, contract negotiation, mergers and acquisitions, corporate financing and securities, and real estate transactions.

David L. Marquard, founder of Marquard & Associates, established his firm in dedication to representing wrongfully injured persons and their families. Attorney Marquard believes that even people with “small claims” should speak with an attorney, since many serious injuries are not always apparent the day of an accident. He believes that every person, no matter the claim, should have the right to speak to an attorney free of cost so that they can have their rights explained to them. His passion for people began in 1973 when he graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison with B.A. in psychology, and became his...

James Loren is a senior partner at Goldberg & Loren and an aggressive litigator with over 50 case verdicts throughout the country. He has completed thousands of injury claims leading to over half a billion dollars in settlements for his clients. Many of these personal injury verdicts and settlements were well in the excess of one million dollars. When it comes to personal injury cases he represents clients in the following areas of practice, including wrongful death, medical malpractice, car accidents, motorcycle accidents, trucking accidents, slip and fall cases, product liability claims, employment discrimination; overtime law; and civil rights actions. Mr....

Prior to starting his own criminal defense firm, Mr. DeKrey worked as a Federal Public Defender in Fargo, North Dakota, handling over 450 cases. His caseload primarily included alleged drug possession and distribution, illegal gun possession, noncitizen illegal reentry, child sexual abuse imagery, and supervised release violations. He also handled cases originating on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation and the Spirit Lake Dakota Reservation, including alleged murder, manslaughter, sexual assault, assault, arson, and others. Before becoming a public defender, Mr. DeKrey spent three years representing average people taking on large companies at an elite class action law firm in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He...