Joshua A. Swanson

Joshua’s practice is centered on litigation where he focuses on energy and natural resource law, business law, and property law/land use. Since joining the firm in 2011, Joshua has handled cases at the state district court level in North Dakota and Minnesota, the North Dakota Supreme Court, the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota, United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, and the United States Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Joshua successfully litigated the Wilkinson v. Board of Univ. and School Lands case to the North Dakota Supreme Court, where the Court recognized the rights of private landowners with minerals under Lake Sakakawea. Joshua was made a shareholder in December 2015. Before joining the firm, he served as a law clerk to the seven judges of the old Northwest Judicial District based in Minot and Williston, North Dakota.

A proud native of Maddock, North Dakota, Joshua resides in West Fargo with his wife, a medical physicist at the Roger Maris Cancer Center, their two children and one bulldog. He graduated magna cum laude from the Creighton University School of Law and received undergraduate degrees in political science and history, with honors, from North Dakota State University. Joshua is a regular presenter at conferences focusing on energy law issues and has had three articles published in the University of North Dakota Law Review. He’s taught Constitutional Law at Concordia College in Moorhead, Energy and Regulatory