Miles F. Schumacher

Miles F. Schumacher is a shareholder at Lynn, Jackson, Shultz & Lebrun, P.C. in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. His practice focuses on business organizations and transactions, corporate restructuring, real estate, energy projects, and succession planning. He advises clients on forming businesses, buying and selling companies, financing transactions, and meeting ongoing legal obligations. His work includes renewable energy development, particularly commercial wind projects.

Miles earned a J.D. from the University of South Dakota School of Law in 1979 and a B.A. in Speech and Political Science from South Dakota State University in 1976. After graduating from law school, he served as an assistant attorney general for South Dakota before entering private practice in 1982. He joined Lynn Jackson in 2007 and has continued advising business and energy clients.

His representative work includes serving as local counsel on a large commercial wind project, handling landowner agreements, local permitting, and county ordinance issues. He has assisted with Public Utility Commission permitting, defended challenges to project approvals, and issued local counsel opinions in connection with long-term financing. Miles also works on mergers and acquisitions, business successions, commercial contracts, and real estate matters.

Miles has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America for business organizations, corporate law, energy law, mergers and acquisitions, municipal law, and real estate. The publication named him a 2022 Lawyer of the Year for corporate law. He has also volunteered legal counsel to Crimestoppers of the Sioux Empire. Miles F. Schumacher combines public-sector experience and long-term business practice to guide clients through organizational and transactional decisions.

Law Office Affiliations

• Shareholder, Lynn, Jackson, Shultz & Lebrun, P.C.
• Member, State Bar of South Dakota
• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, Minnehaha County Bar Association
• Former Board Member, Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues Society
• Legal Counsel (Volunteer), Crimestoppers of the Sioux Empire
• Member, Southern Hills Methodist Church
• Member, Sioux Falls Cosmopolitan Club
• Member, Masonic Lodge
• Member, Scottish Rite
• Member, El Riad Shrine

Licensed State

• South Dakota

Education

• University of South Dakota School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• South Dakota State University
  Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Speech & Political Science

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