Winter 2016 SBAND Gavel | Page 31

COMMUNITY CORNER News About SBAND Members Vogel Law Firm, with offices in Fargo, Bismarck, and Grand Forks, North Dakota, and Moorhead and Minneapolis, Minnesota, is pleased to announce three new shareholders in the firm. Joshua Swanson’s practice is centered primarily on litigation, where he focuses on energy and natural resource law, commercial litigation, and plaintiff ’s law. He previously was a law clerk to the seven judges of the Northwest Judicial District in Minot and Williston, and clerked at one of Omaha’s largest corporate and estate planning law firms. A proud native of Maddock, North Dakota, he lives in Fargo. He graduated from North Dakota State University and the Creighton University School of Law. Kevin Mason is an Iowa native who was educated at the University of Iowa, Case Western Reserve University School of Law and at the Georgetown University Law Center. He previously worked in Washington, D.C., Poland and Ukraine, with venture capital and technology investors, securities and commodities brokers, local governments, non-profits, and agribusiness concerns. Kevin’s practice focuses on banking, securities and corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, oil and gas, agribusiness, and also secured lending and leasing transactions. Peter Welte has a depth of legal experience and a b