Kip M. Kaler

Kip M. Kaler is an attorney at KD Law, PLLP in Fargo, North Dakota whose practice focuses on agricultural law, business law, construction law, bankruptcy, creditors’ rights, and litigation. Kaler works with farmers, businesses, construction companies, owners, contractors, lenders, debtors, creditors, and trustees on bankruptcy, business disputes, construction disputes, collections, reorganizations, and agricultural conflicts. 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.

Kaler’s education includes a J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence, from the University of North Dakota School of Law in 1981 and a B.A., Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in 1978, as listed on the firm profile. His education preceded a practice focused on financially and operationally complex disputes. 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.

Kaler’s experience includes representing farmers in Chapter 11 reorganizations and disputes involving irrigation, drainage, boundaries, chemical drift, lenders, and financial issues, as well as business owners in formation, dissolution, and governance conflicts. Kaler has also served as a bankruptcy trustee since 1994 and has represented debtors, general creditors, trustees, construction companies, owners, contractors, and lenders. These matters have involved bankruptcy proceedings, negotiations, mediation, arbitration, trials, and appeals.

Kip M. Kaler has also been recognized for more than four decades of practice in agricultural, business, construction, and bankruptcy law. Through his long-running bankruptcy trustee work and broad dispute-resolution experience, Kaler 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

• Attorney, Kaler Doeling, PLLP
• Member, State Bar Association of North Dakota
• Member, Minnesota State Bar Association
• Member, Cass County Bar Association

Licensed State

• North Dakota
• Minnesota

Education

• University of North Dakota School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD) in Doctor of Jurisprudence
• University of North Dakota School of Law
  Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Bachelor of Arts Cum Laude

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