Joseph M. Dylla

Joseph M. Dylla is an attorney at Boyce Law Firm in Sioux Falls and a member of the firm’s commercial litigation team. His practice includes business and commercial litigation, appeals, business transactions, creditor rights, real estate matters, and trust and estate disputes. His experience in private practice and as in-house counsel gives him perspective from both the lawyer and client sides of a legal problem. He focuses on identifying core issues and developing practical, efficient solutions for business clients.

Joseph earned an undergraduate degree in Business from the University of Minnesota and a Juris Doctor from the University of South Dakota School of Law. After law school, he clerked for the Fourth Judicial Circuit of South Dakota, supporting judges with legal research and writing. His business education, legal training, and clerkship provide a strong foundation for commercial litigation, regulatory work, transactions, and appellate matters. This background helps him evaluate legal questions in the context of business operations and financial consequences.

Joseph worked in private practice at Bangs McCullen and later Cutler Law Firm, gaining broad litigation experience before moving in-house. He then served as in-house counsel at The First National Bank in Sioux Falls, advising on business and regulatory matters. He joined Boyce Law Firm in 2025. His current practice includes commercial disputes, business organizations and transactions, creditor rights, appeals, real estate matters, and contested trust or estate issues, allowing him to draw on litigation and client-side experience across several business concerns.

Joseph M. Dylla is active in Sioux Falls community organizations and has written on business and products-liability legal issues. His career reflects a practical approach shaped by judicial clerkship work, private litigation, and in-house financial institution experience. He helps businesses evaluate disputes, regulatory concerns, transactions, and creditor issues with attention to operational realities. By combining litigation skills with prior in-house counsel experience, he can frame legal advice around the business decisions clients need to make while a matter develops.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Boyce Law Firm LLP
• Member, State Bar of South Dakota
• Member, Sioux Falls Rotary South (13 years)
• Volunteer, Junior Achievement of South Dakota (10 years)

Licensed State

• South Dakota

Education

• University of South Dakota School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• University of Minnesota
  Bachelor’s degree in Business

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