Pete Heidepriem
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Pete Heidepriem
Heidepriem, Purtell, Siegel & Hinrichs, LLPTotal Records: 1Biography
After joining HPS Law Firm, Pete began practicing in South Dakota's state and federal courts, as well as the tribal court of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. His personal injury work ranges from farm and ranch injuries to car crashes. Pete also represents people vindicating their civil rights in claims based on racial discrimination or other constitutional violations.
His trial work includes serving as a tribal prosecutor for the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, where he was lead counsel in a court trial and managed complex prosecutions involving violent crimes and drug offenses. He also has served as counsel to a tribal judge of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate.
Pete's appellate experience covers state and federal courts. He has appealed fraud and probate claims to the Supreme Court of South Dakota, achieving a unanimous decision in his client's favor. Before the U.S. Supreme Court, he filed an amicus brief regarding tribal sovereignty on behalf of American Indian tribes, and the Court ruled unanimously in favor of the party supported in the brief.
In addition to private practice, Pete maintains a focus on academic work. He serves as an adjunct professor of law at the University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law, teaching a seminar on appellate advocacy and federal Indian law. During fall 2021, he was a Joachim Herz Fellow and visiting scholar at Bucerius Law School in Germany, where he conducted research on the intersection of international investment law and the rights of Indigenous peoples. Bucerius featured Pete in an article about his fellowship, and you can access it here.
Bar Admission
South Dakota, 2016
U.S. District Court District of South Dakota, 2016
Lower Brule Sioux Tribal Court, 2020
U.S. Supreme Court, 2020
U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit, 2022
Education
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Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 2013 B.A.
Honors: magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Major: Philosophy and Political Science
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Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, District of Columbia, 2016 J.D.
Honors: Dean's List, Moot court, Graduation commencement speaker, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal
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Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany, 2015 International and comparative business law
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London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom, 2011 Economics and political theory