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Injury lawyers in Sioux Falls, Sioux City and Brookings

Six people will carry your claim. Here they are.

Three lawyers, a case manager, an intake coordinator and an investigator, working one stretch of river country on both sides of the state line. You'll meet whoever is on your case before you sign anything.

  • Haldor Sandvik, a white-haired man with a short white beard and clear glasses, in a grey jacket
  • Mireya Barreto, a woman with long dark curly hair in a black blazer, looking to one side
  • Nikhil Kapadia, a young man with a short beard in a black button-down shirt
  • Shun Arakawa, a young man with glasses in a black shirt, smiling
  • Leyla Darvish, a woman with dark hair pulled back, in a black turtleneck
  • Emir Hodzic, a man with a short beard in a blue and red plaid shirt

No fee unless we recover money for you: our fee is a share of the recovery, set out in a written agreement before you sign. We advance case costs such as records, filing fees and experts; they're repaid from a recovery, and if there's no recovery you don't owe them.

Cases we take

Four kinds of harm, and the roads they happen on

We keep to injury work only, so the insurers on the other side are ones we see every month.

Where we work

Ninety miles of river country between our doors

Most of our cases don't happen downtown. They happen on the section-line roads, the long interstate stretches and the river crossings between our offices.

A river winding through green bottomland below low bluffs at sunrise
River bottoms at first light
A steel arch bridge crossing a wide, muddy river, seen from above
A crossing into the next state
A gravel road past a lone tree and tall grass under a copper sunset
Gravel roads at harvest dusk
A tree-lined small town with a water tower and grain silos, from above
Grain towns along the highway

Three offices

Pick the door nearest you

Each office keeps its own phone, and every one of them reaches the whole team.

Sioux Falls

Address: 101 South Phillips Avenue, Suite 400 Sioux Falls, SD 57104Phone: (605) 555-0142
Hours: Monday – Friday: 8am – 5:30pm Saturday: 9am – noon, by appointment

Enter from the Phillips Avenue side; the elevator is past the lobby desk.

Directions to the Sioux Falls office

Who does what

Every name on your case, and what they handle

You won't be handed off to a call center. These six are the whole firm.

  • Haldor Sandvik

    Founding partner, Sioux Falls

    Started the firm in Sioux Falls and still takes the hardest truck and wrongful-death cases himself.

  • Mireya Barreto

    Partner, Sioux City

    Runs the Sioux City office and the firm's Iowa and Nebraska cases, in English or Spanish.

  • Nikhil Kapadia

    Associate, Sioux Falls and Brookings

    Works car and nursing home cases out of Sioux Falls, and keeps the Brookings hours.

  • Shun Arakawa

    Case manager, Sioux Falls

    Your day-to-day contact: medical records, bills, and every update on where things stand.

  • Leyla Darvish

    Intake coordinator, all three offices

    Answers when you first call, asks what happened, and books the first meeting.

  • Emir Hodzic

    Investigator, Sioux City

    Goes to the scene, photographs it, and finds the witnesses before memories fade.

From clients

In their words, after the case closed

“A semi pushed me off I-29 near Elk Point. Emir was at the spot before the rain washed it out, and Haldor called me every other Friday for a year and a half, even when there was nothing new.”

Arlis L.Truck crash, Union County

“My mother's care home kept saying her falls were nobody's fault. Mireya read every chart note in Spanish and English and showed us the nights nobody had checked on her.”

Marisela M.Nursing home neglect, Sioux City

“I hit a deer and then got hit from behind on Highway 14. Nikhil drove to Brookings so I didn't have to, and Shun kept my bills straight while I couldn't work.”

Kjersti V.Car crash, Brookings County

Each client's case is different. What these clients describe doesn't promise any result in yours.

Call the office nearest the crash

Leyla answers in all three offices. Tell her what happened, and she'll set a time with the person who'll handle it.