patrick@gpnalaw.com
Phone: (605) 342-1078
Fax: (605)342-9503
Business Planning
Estate Planning
Trusts
Property Law
Estate Administration
Agricultural Law
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Patrick G. Goetzinger is a partner in the Rapid City law firm Gunderson, Palmer, Nelson & Ashmore, LLP where he leads the firm's Business and Estate Planning Group and serves on the firm's Executive Committee. He practices in the areas of business and estate planning with a focus on family run businesses, affluent individuals, business transactions, and real property law. Pat is President of the South Dakota State Bar Association, a Fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, past Chair of the Business Law Committee Property, Probate and Trust Section of the South Dakota State Bar, serves on several non-profit boards and is listed among the Best Lawyers in America in the categories of Real Estate Law, Corporate Law, Land Use and Zoning Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law and Non-Profit Charities Law, Chambers USA, America's leading Lawyers for Business in the categories of Corporate/Commercial Law and Real Estate Law. Pat is a lifetime member of the Mt. Rushmore Society.
Through his service to the State Bar Association and the Governor's Task Force on Trust Reform and Administration, Pat has been actively involved in trust and business legislation passed in the past several years. As a lecturer, program chair, moderator, or panelist, Pat has participated in continuing legal education programs at the state and national level educating attorneys and other planning professionals on a wide variety of estate planning and business related topics.
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- Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel 2002 to Present; Member, Charitable Planning and Exempt Organizations Committee 2003 to 2007
- Named in Chambers USA America's Leading Lawyers for Business in the categories of Corporate/Mergers and Acquisitions and Real Estate 2003 to Present
- Named in Best Lawyers in America in the categories of Corporate Law, Land Use and Zoning Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Non-Profit/Charities Law, and Real Estate Law 2003 to Present
- Named in Super Lawyers as Great Plains Super Lawyers 2007 to Present
- Executive Appointment to the Governor's Task Force on Trust Administration Review and Reform 1997 (its inception) to Present
- Member, State Bar of South Dakota 1989 to Present; Member, Pennington County Bar Association 1990 to Present
- Chair, State Bar of South Dakota Business Law Section 1999 to 2005 & 2007 to Present
- Other South Dakota State Bar Positions: (a) Past Chair, Real Property Probate & Trust Section 1996-1997, Chair-Elect 1995-1996, Secretary 1994-1995, Member 1989 to Present; (b) Chair, Philanthropy Committee 1997-1999; (c) Chair, Practice Rules Revision Committee 1994-1996, Member 1991-1996; (d) Young Lawyers Section Executive Committee 1991-1993
- President Elect, South Dakota State Bar 2010-2011
- Lifetime member of the Mt. Rushmore Society
- Member, American Bar Association 1990 to Present; Chair of the Probate and Estate Planning Committee of the General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section 1997 to 2000; Special Issue Editor, Best of ABA Sections Publication 2000 to 2004; Division Director 2001 to 2004; Long Range Planning Committee 2001 to 2004; Council Member 2001 to 2004; Member, Real Property Probate and Trust Section 1990 to Present
- Board Member, Children's Care Foundation, 2010 to Present
- Board of Directors, Youth & Family Services, Inc. 2000 to Present
- Charter Organizer & Director, Youth & Family Services Foundation 2004 to Present
- President, South Dakota Planned Giving Council 1997; Vice-President
- 1995 to 1996; Charter Organizer 1995; Member 1995 to Present
- Catholic Education Fund, Inc., Board Member, 1992 to 2000; Vice-President 1992 to1993; Secretary 1997 to 1998; Capital Campaign Committee 2003
- Western South Dakota Catholic Foundation, Director 1996 to Present
- Rapid City Regional Hospital Biomedical Ethics Committee 1991 to 2000
- West River Estate Planning Council Executive Committee 1991 to 1992, 1994 to 1995
- Rapid City Economic Development Board, Entrepreneurial Committee 1993 to 1998
- Officer, director, and shareholder of Goetzinger Enterprises, Ltd., GE Farm Supply, and GE Sales & Salvage, a family corporation
- Member, Family Business Council 1994 to Present
- Trustee, South Dakota 4-H Foundation 1998 to 2007
- Trustee, University of South Dakota Foundation 1998 to 2007
- Director, Arrowhead Country Club 2001 to 2003
- USD Book & Supply, Inc., Board of Directors 1980 to 1982; President, 1981 to 1982
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- State of South Dakota, 1989
- United States District Court, 1989
- United States Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1989
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- University of South Dakota, J.D., 1988
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- University of South Dakota, B.S., 1982
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- South Dakota Contributing Editor to the Council on State Taxation (COST), Washington, D.C. 1995 to Present
- South Dakota Chapter Author of The Property Tax Deskbook, an ABA
- Section of Taxation publication 1994 to Present
- South Dakota Chapter Author of State Limited Liability Company & Partnership Laws, an ABA Section of Business Law Publication from Aspen Publishers 2004 to Present
- South Dakota Contributing Reporter to the Real Property Tax Symposium, a semi-annual report of recent developments in real property tax law distributed nationwide
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