Leah Sonstelie Warner

Leah Sonstelie Warner is a shareholder at Vogel Law Firm in Fargo, North Dakota whose practice focuses on family and domestic law, civil litigation, mediation, and early neutral evaluation. Warner works with individuals and families in North Dakota and Minnesota on divorce, paternity, child custody, parenting time, child support, prenuptial agreements, and family-law mediation. 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.

Warner’s education includes an undergraduate degree from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, with honors, and a law degree from William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, with honors. Her education was followed by a practice centered on family and civil disputes in both North Dakota and Minnesota. 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.

Warner’s experience includes litigating complex divorce and paternity actions, post-judgment custody and parenting-time disputes, and child support actions, while also negotiating divorce and custody agreements. Warner also serves as a qualified neutral and mediator and as an Early Neutral Evaluator in Minnesota’s Seventh Judicial District. These matters have involved family courts, civil litigation, mediation, negotiated settlements, and post-judgment proceedings.

Leah Sonstelie Warner has been selected to Great Plains Super Lawyers in 2019 through 2024 and again in 2026. Warner also serves as a qualified neutral, mediator, and Early Neutral Evaluator in Minnesota, giving her experience with both litigation and alternative dispute resolution. Her practice helps families address divorce, custody, support, paternity, and related disputes through negotiated solutions when possible and court proceedings when necessary.

Law Office Affiliations

• Shareholder, Vogel Law Firm
• Member, State Bar Association of North Dakota
• Member, Minnesota State Bar Association
• Early Neutral Evaluator, Minnesota Seventh Judicial District
• Member, Minnesota State Bar Association, Family Law Section
• Member, North Dakota State Bar Association, Family Law Section
• Member, American Bar Association, Family Law Section
• Member, Cass County Bar Association

Licensed State

• North Dakota
• Minnesota

Education

• William Mitchell College of Law
  Law Degree
• Concordia College
  Bachelor’s Degree

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