About Scott
Scott Swier earned his undergraduate degree at Mount Marty College before returning to the University of South Dakota School of Law, where he acquired his J.D. in 1997. While in law school he served as Lead Articles Editor for the South Dakota Law Review in 1996–1997. Those years formed an early interest in public regulation and issues that arise at the intersection of presidency, faculties and local entities.
He started his legal career as a regulation clerk for the South Dakota Unified Judicial System in 1997. The subsequent yr he entered personal practice, where he handled a range of civil matters. In 2008 he joined state service as an Assistant Attorney General for South Dakota. His time in authorities included work on an Open Government Task Force in 2007–2008 and different assignments that involved public history and administrative law.
In 2010 he based Swier Law Office, Prof. LLC and continues in a managing position there. He is admitted to practice in South Dakota and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Over the years he has balanced private work with public-sector representation, advising faculty districts, municipalities and state entities on legal matters that have an effect on day-to-day operations.
Swier’s expert things to do prolong into numerous civic and academic arenas. Since 2011 he has served as an adjunct professor at the University of South Dakota School of Law, teaching a direction referred to as "Education and the Law." He has been a member of the Mount Marty College Board of Trustees since 2011 and formerly taught criminal regulation there as an accessory in 2003–2004. He has been legal counsel to the School Administrators of South Dakota since 2013 and holds a seat on the Council of School Lawyers for the Associated School Boards of South Dakota beginning in 2015. His municipal work is mirrored in club on the South Dakota Municipal League’s Council of Municipal Lawyers, a position he has held since 2010. Earlier civic involvement covered chairing South Dakota Voices for Children from 2005 to 2007.
His background includes trial training—the South Dakota Trial Academy lists him as a 2005 graduate—and ongoing participation in state bar committees, which includes the Law School Committee for the State Bar of South Dakota. He brings this institutional information to the clients he represents. His recent practice focuses on education law, local government law and different public-sector things.
