Joseph A. Turman

Joseph A. Turman is of counsel at Wold Johnson, P.C. in Fargo, North Dakota whose practice focuses on commercial litigation, real estate, estate planning, and corporate and business law. Turman works with businesses, property owners, families, and other North Dakota and Minnesota clients on commercial disputes, real estate matters, estate planning, business formation, and related transactions. The practice is grounded in the specific legal and business issues reflected in those matters, with attention to the governing law, the client’s objectives, and the practical steps required to move a matter forward.

Turman’s education includes undergraduate studies in General Business Administration at the University of North Dakota completed in 1970 and law studies at the University of North Dakota School of Law completed in 1973. His education was followed by public-sector and private-practice experience in Fargo. This background supports careful legal analysis, research, writing, and problem solving in the matters handled in practice. It also provides context for evaluating legal risk, explaining available options, and connecting technical rules to the real-world decisions clients need to make.

Turman’s experience includes commercial litigation, real estate work, estate planning, business formation, and service in matters requiring practical transactional and dispute-resolution advice. Turman has also served as a Cass County Assistant State’s Attorney from 1975 to 1979, entered private practice in 1978, and later practiced with his daughter before their firm merged with Wold Johnson in 2024. These matters have involved state legal matters, business transactions, real estate work, estate planning, and civil disputes.

Joseph A. Turman has also been recognized for more than five decades of legal practice and service as a past president of the Cass County Bar Association. Through his professional service and long-standing work in the Fargo legal community, Turman remains engaged with the professional and practical issues that affect this area of law. Clients benefit from advice that is tied to the facts of the matter, the applicable legal framework, and the business or personal considerations that influence how a legal issue should be addressed.

Law Office Affiliations

• Of Counsel, Wold Johnson, P.C.
• Member, State Bar Association of North Dakota
• Member, Minnesota State Bar Association
• President, Cass County Bar Association (1988-1989)
• Member, Governor’s Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee (1976)
• Assistant State’s Attorney, Cass County (1975-1979)

Licensed State

• North Dakota
• Minnesota

Education

• University of North Dakota
  General Business Administration

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