Career
Worked at Gough, Shanahan, Johnson & Waterman (Helena, Montana) specializing in General Civil and Trial Practice. Litigation, Banking, Corporation, Insurance, Labor, Agriculture, Environmental, Natural Resources, Mining, Probate, Estate and Gift Taxation, Wills and Trust, Administrative, Automobile, Family, Mortgage, Negligence, Real Estate, Utility, Water Rights, Legislative, Education, Product Liability, Workers Compensation, Mineral Taxation Law, Construction, Adoption, International, and Intellectual Property. (1907-1976)
The firm was founded in 1887, as the firm of Toole & Toole and is probably the oldest continuously existing law firm in the state.
The firm conducts a state-wide general civil and trial practice, and specializes in commercial and construction litigation, insurance defense, natural resources, mining, environmental permitting and labor law.
The firm also provides estate planning and probate services and has an active administrative law and governmental relations department which is the Montana Representative of the State Capitol Law Firm Group.