Darla Rogers

Darla Rogers joined the firm in June of 2003. She has an extensive practice in insurance law, health law, cooperative and corporate law, telecommunications, electric and utility law, and has also actively lobbied in all of the above areas since 1984. In addition, Ms. Rogers' practice includes real estate transactions, estate planning, agricultural law and family law.

Ms. Rogers has practiced extensively in front of administrative agencies, and has done appellate work before the South Dakota Courts, and before the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Ms. Rogers has been actively engaged in the deregulation of the telecommunications industry over the past several years at both the state and national levels, and has assisted clients in forming subsidiary corporations, joint ventures, and purchasing substantial utility properties. This included arranging financing, corporate restructuring, and securing R.U.S. and regulatory approval at both the state and federal levels.

Ms. Rogers has been a member of the South Dakota State Bar since 1979. She has served as a director of the Young Lawyers Section of the State Bar of South Dakota, as a Bar Commissioner representing the Sixth Judicial Circuit for the State Bar of South Dakota Bar, and has been a member and director of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section of the State Bar since 1987. In 1993, she was elected a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and has served as State Chairperson for that organization. Ms. Rogers served as president of the State Bar of South Dakota in 1998-1999. She is a member of the American Bar Association, and a section member of the General Practice, Solo, and Small Firm Lawyer Section, and the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section of the American Bar Association. She served a two-year term on the Advisory Council to the Standing Committee on Judicial Independence of the ABA, and also served several years as a trustee on the Board of Directors of the South Dakota Retirement System.