Robert E. Hayes

Background

Hayes, Robert E. was born on November 12, 1950 in Denver, Colorado, United States.

Education

University of South Dakota (Bachelor of Arts, 1973. Juris Doctor, Sterling Honor Graduate, 1976).

Career

Worked at Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz & Smith, L.L.P. (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) specializing in Administrative Law, Appellate Practice, Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Business Law, Civil Trial Practice, Commercial Law, Commercial Litigation, Employee Benefits Law, Health Care Law, Insurance Defense, Medical Malpractice Defense, Personal Injury, Probate, Trusts and Estate Planning, Real Estate Law, Tax Law, Workers Compensation Defense. Admitted to the bar, 1976, South Dakota. Phi Beta Kappa. Editor-in-Chief, University of South Dakota Law Review, 1975-1976.

Law Clerk to Honorable Fred J. Nichol, Chief Judge, United States. District Court, South Dakota, 1976-1977. Author: "South Dakota's Abortion Experience," 20 South Dakota Law Review 205, 1975.

"South Dakota's Response to the Water Crisis," 22:2 South Dakota Law Review, 1977. Co-Author with Deming Smith: "A Christmas Carol Revisited: Humbug in the Sioux Falls Schools," 24 St. Louis University Law Journal 359, 1980. Member: Minnehaha County and American Bar Associations.

State Bar of South Dakota. South Dakota's largest law firm was founded in 1939. From its inception, Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz & Smith, L.L.P., has been prominent in the South Dakota trial bar.

Today approximately half of the firm's members are in the litigation section, with the other half attending to the business and commercial interests of individuals, small businesses and regional and national concerns.

Achievements

• Bar: South Dakot 1976.

Membership

Member American Bar Association, State Bar South Dakot (chairman debtor-creditor committee 1983-1984), Minnehaha County Bar Association Beta Kappa.