Kopicky, Whitney A.

Gary Thimsen has been with the Firm since 1976. His practice areas include governmental liability, civil rights defense, employment law, aviation law, civil litigation and general liability defense.

Gary has been a lecturer at the University of South Dakota School of Law and the State Bar of South Dakota Continuing Legal Education programs, as well as a participant at many bar-sponsored law school programs. He is admitted to practice before the South Dakota Supreme Court and all South Dakota State Courts, U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, the U.S. Court of Claims, and the United States Supreme Court.

He is a member of the State Bar of South Dakota, the South Dakota Defense Lawyers Association, the American Board of Trial Advocates (Advocate), and the Lawyer Pilots Bar Association and is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers. Gary currently serves on the SD State Bar Practice Rules Revisions Committee.

The Best Lawyers in America 2011 has named Gary as a leading South Dakota lawyer in Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Labor and Employment Law, and Personal Injury Litigation.  He has also been chosen for inclusion in Chambers U.S.A.: America's Leading Lawyer for Business in its Labor & Employment and Litigation practice areas.  Named in "Great Plains Super Lawyers" (published by Minnesota Law & Politics magazine) 2009 in the area of business litigation and the corporate counsel edition of "Super Lawyers" (published by Law & Politics magazine) 2008 also in the area of business litigation.