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About James Hoy
James L. Hoy was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and graduated from Lincoln Senior High School in 1979. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from the University of South Dakota in 1983, where he was inducted into Mortar Board, Omicron Delta Kappa, and Phi Beta Kappa. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of South Dakota School of Law in 1986 and was admitted to the South Dakota State Bar on the same day. During law school, he had two articles published in the South Dakota Law Review and served as Senior Comments Editor.
In 1986, he clerked for the Honorable Peter T. Fay, United States Circuit Court Judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, in Miami, Florida. In 1987, he entered private practice at Hoy and Hoy in Sioux Falls. In 1993, he was appointed Special Assistant Attorney General for South Dakota. He joined Hoy Trial Lawyers in 2004 and has practiced law in Sioux Falls for over 27 years, with a focus on general personal injury and wrongful death litigation in state and federal courts.
Proven verdicts and settlements
Ronald Jensen, 71, was left quadriplegic when an unbraked single-rail cart of plywood tipped in the wind while a Menards employee loaded his truck in Mitchell on August 1, 2012. He died of unrelated bladder cancer on January 31, 2013. A Davison County jury awarded his estate and his wife $2,295,971.97 in November 2016, and the South Dakota Supreme Court affirmed in 2018.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
