Doody, Spencer Ryan

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 transaction, and real property law. Pat is on the Board of Directors of the South Dakota Bar Foundation, 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, Coporate Law, Land Use and Zoning Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, and Non-Profit Charities Law and Chambers USA, America's leading Lawyers for Business in the catergories of Corporate/Commercial Law and Real Estate Law. Pat is a lifetime member of the Mt. Rushmore Society.

Pat addresses long-term planning and day-to-day issues presented to clients through a combination of practical solutions and advanced planning techniques. He works with clients seeking creative and simple solutions to both ordinary and complex legal problems. Whether advising the entrepreneurial startup or the fourth generation family business in its succession planning, Pat's relationship with clients emphasizes a straightforward, shirt-sleeve explanation of the issues and options involved.

As a business and estate planning attorney, Pat assists clients to identify, articulate, and achieve the objectives of their succession planning. He has an active trust, philanthropic, and probate practice which focuses on bringing an understandable manner to otherwise complex and difficult topics. Pat grew up in his family's agricultural service business- a great resource for pratical solutions to unique problems.

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 panellist, 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.