Gary D. Jensen
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Gary D. Jensen
Beardsley Jensen & LeeTotal Records: 1Biography
Gary Jensen has a broad range of civil litigation experience. A significant portion of his practice involves complex, higher risk matters in the business, insurance, construction, product liability, health care and professional negligence fields.
In 1993, Gary was named Trial Lawyer of the Year by the South Dakota Trial Lawyers Association. He was President of that Association, and has served his profession in many other capacities during his twenty-eight years of practice. Mr. Jensen's work has earned him an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the highest ranking a lawyer may obtain.
LITIGATION EXPERIENCECONSTRUCTION
- Landslide of hillside neighborhood
- Water system design, housing subdivision
- Retaining wall failure
- HVAC Design
MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE
- Failure to diagnose cancer, and death
- Childbirth, and cerebral palsy
- Glaucoma mis-diagnosis, and blindness
- Wrong Site surgery
- Unnecessary surgery
PRODUCTS LIABILITY
- Quadriplegia, machinery run-over
- Severe burns, high voltage explosion
- Multiple injuries, fall from work station
PREMISES LIABILITY
- Quadriplegia, construction site accident
- Electrocution deaths (child and adult)
- Patient fall/jump from hospital window
MOTOR VEHICLE
- Traumatic induced Alzheimers
- Permanent vertigo
- Brain injury
- Fractures
- Soft tissue damage
BUSINESS/COMMERCIAL
- Minority shareholder oppression
- Wrongful termination
- Non-compete agreement enforcement
INSURANCE
- Primary carrier failure to settle
- Underinsured bad faith
- Insurance Coverage for business torts
REAL ESTATE
- Right of First Refusal
- Prescriptive easement
- Access to landlocked parcel
CLASS ACTION/ANTI-TRUST
- Tobacco products, health care expense
- Tobacco products, indirect purchaser
- Rubber chemicals, indirect purchaser
- Carbon Black, indirect purchaser
ENVIRONMENTAL
- Forest fires (multiple) and resulting multi
million dollar claims for suppression costs,
rehabilitation, timber loss, business losses,
and the like
CORPORATE REPRESENTATION
- Software company
- Electrical contracting
- School District
- Multi-state janitorial service
- Gold Mining Company
Bar Admission
South Dakota, 1978
U.S. Federal Courts, 1978
U.S. Supreme Court, 1983
Rosebud Sioux Tribal Court
Cheyenne Sioux Tribal Court
Other Affiliations
South Dakota Trial Lawyers Association, 1979 - Present
South Dakota Trial Lawyers Association, 1988 - 1999 (Board Member)
South Dakota Trial Lawyers Association, 1990 - 1991 (President)
State Bar of South Dakota, Civil Pattern Jury Instructions Committee Chairman
State Bar of South Dakota, Negligence and Tort Law Committee
American Bar Association
Professional Fellowship American Board of Trial Advocates
Education
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University of South Dakota School of Law, Vermillion, South Dakota J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence
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South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota B.S., Bachelor of Science
Honors: High Honors
Honers
- Trial Lawyer of the Year, South Dakota Trial Lawyer Association, 1993