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Woods Fuller Attorneys Named to 2020 Great Plains Super Lawyers® and Rising Star List
The Great Plains Super Lawyers® list is compiled from the top 5 percent of the attorneys in South Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska.

Woods Fuller attorneys named to The Best Lawyers in America© 2021
Several Woods Fuller attorneys were recently selected for inclusion in the 2020 Great Plains Super Lawyers® list, as well as its Rising Stars list.

COVID-19 and commercial leases: What you need to know
The spread of COVID-19 and the scramble to combat it have introduced significant uncertainty into all of our lives. This uncertainty extends to tenants and landlords under commercial leases who now face challenges they could not have predicted six months ago.

South Dakota Parenting Guidelines
When parents separate or divorce, they or the Courts must determine what physical custody and parenting time schedule are in the best interest of their child(ren).

Woods Fuller Announces 2020 Scholarship Recipients
Woods, Fuller, Shultz & Smith has named the 2020 recipients of its scholarship program. The firm awards five $1,000 scholarships to graduating high school seniors in Lincoln or Minnehaha County in South Dakota and O'Brien or Sioux County in Iowa.

Estate Planning Basics
Many people feel uncomfortable talking about estate planning. It’s not necessarily pleasant for any of us to consider our own mortality.

Communicable Disease and Employer Responsibility
The outbreak of the coronavirus has caused fear throughout the world. Like everyone else, employers are concerned that coronavirus may significantly impact the economy.

South Dakota Supreme Court Refuses to Enforce Covenants Not To Compete
In Granite Buick GMC, Inc. v Adam Ray, issued December 9, 2015, the South Dakota Supreme Court affirmed a judge's refusal to enforce separate covenants not to compete signed by two employees who left car dealerships in Rapid City.

CISG VS. UCC: Three Noteworthy Differences
Understand the three key differences between the CISG and the UCC, especially for parties considering entering a contract subject with the CISG.

Opting out of the CISG: A standard of law clause is not enough
Consider the following scenario: A South Dakota business finds a new seller of goods located in Manitoba, Canada.