Client-Recommended Attorneys, Adjusters and Experts
Client-Recommended Attorneys, Adjusters and Experts



Best's Recommended Insurance Attorneys - General Defense


500 Transwestern Plaza II, 490 North 31st Street, Billings, Montana 59101-1288

Established: 1895

Practice Areas

  • Civil Litigation
  • Trial and Appellate Practice
  • Product Liability
  • Personal Injury
  • Construction Law
  • Design Professionals
  • Malpractice
  • Wrongful Termination
  • Employer Liability
  • Medical Negligence
  • Legal
  • Professional Negligence
  • Insurance Coverage
  • Bad Faith
  • Agent/Broker Liability
  • Workers' Compensation
  • Oil and Gas
  • Environmental Law


About Us

Crowley Fleck PLLP is one of the oldest and largest firms in our region. The firm counts over 150 lawyers practicing in the areas of commercial litigation, insurance defense litigation, natural resources, mining, and energy law, healthcare, commercial transactions, banking and finance, creditors rights, real estate transactions and development, tax and estate planning and administration, intellectual property matters, employment law, governmental affairs and lobbying. The firm has offices throughout Montana, North Dakota and Wyoming, including offices in Billings, Bozeman, Butte, Helena, Kalispell, and Missoula, Montana; Bismarck and Williston, North Dakota; Casper, Cheyenne, and Sheridan, Wyoming.

The firm traces its beginning to 1895, when W. M. Johnston established his law practice in an office across from the Northern Pacific Depot in Billings, Montana. As its reputation grew over the ensuing decades, so did the firm. The firm began by serving the legal needs of a wide variety of clients, from local families to small business owners, from family farmers and ranchers to local lending institutions, from local hospitals and physician groups to energy pioneers, power generators, and mining interests. We continue to serve the same clients today, joined by national and international businesses representing virtually every industry with interests in our region. To better serve the increasingly diverse and complex needs of our clients, the firm established offices in Helena, Montana (1991), Kalispell, Montana (1997), Bozeman, Montana (2000), Missoula, Montana (2003), Butte, Montana (2011), and in Williston, North Dakota (1996).

On January 1, 2009, Crowley Fleck PLLP became the name of the firm formed by the combination of Crowley, Haughey, Hanson, Toole & Dietrich PLLP and Fleck, Mather & Strutz, Ltd. of Bismarck, North Dakota. The Fleck firm had been founded in 1945 by Alvin C. Strutz, later Chief Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court, and Clifford Jansonius, who later served as a North Dakota District Judge. Ernest R. Fleck joined them in 1948. With this combination, Crowley Fleck PLLP established itself as a true regional law firm serving clients throughout the Northern Rockies region of Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming. To perfect this vision, the firm has since established offices in Casper, Cheyenne, and Sheridan, Wyoming. The firm, therefore, now meets the governmental and regulatory needs of its clients through offices in the capital cities of Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming.

The firm counts among its partners and former partners lawyers of formidable ability and integrity, dedicated to the profession and to public service. Crowley Fleck lawyers contribute thousands of hours of pro bono legal services to those in need, serve on state bar association boards, committees, and commissions, ABA committees, in the Wyoming State Legislature, and on countless local charitable and nonprofit boards. In 1953, then partner William J. Jameson was elected President of the American Bar Association and in 1973 received the ABA's highest honor, the ABA Medal. Our commitment to a tradition of public service in our profession and in our communities forms the foundation of our firm.


Additional Locations

  • Bozeman, Montana
  • 1915 South 19th Avenue
  • Bozeman, Montana 59718
    • Telephone: 406-556-1430
    • Fax: 406-556-1433
  • Butte, Montana
  • Thornton Building
  • 65 East Broadway, Suite 400
  • Butte, Montana 59701
    • Telephone: 406-221-2428
    • Fax: 406-782-2702
  • Helena, Montana
  • 900 North Last Chance Gulch, Suite 200
  • Helena, Montana 59601
    • Telephone: 406-449-4165
    • Fax: 406-449-5149
  • Kalispell, Montana
  • 219 E. Center Street
  • Kalispell, Montana 59901
    • Telephone: 406-752-6644
    • Fax: 406-752-5108
  • Missoula, Montana
  • 305 South 4th Street East, Suite 100
  • Missoula, Montana 59801-2701
    • Telephone: 406-523-3600
    • Fax: 406-523-3636
  • Bismarck, North Dakota
  • 100 West Broadway, Suite 250
  • P.O. Box 2798 (58502-2798)
  • Bismarck, North Dakota 58501
    • Telephone: 701-223-6585
    • Fax: 701-222-4853
  • Williston, North Dakota
  • 1331 9th Avenue NW, 2nd Floor
  • P.O. Box 1206 (58802-1206)
  • Williston, North Dakota 58801
    • Telephone: 701-572-2200
    • Fax: 701-572-7072
  • Casper, Wyoming
  • 111 West 2nd Street, Suite 220
  • Casper, Wyoming 82601
    • Telephone: 307-265-2279
    • Fax: 307-265-2307
  • Cheyenne, Wyoming
  • 511 W 19th Street, Suite 100
  • P.O. Box 394 (82003-0394)
  • Cheyenne, Wyoming 82001
    • Telephone: 307-426-4100
    • Fax: 307-426-4099
  • Sheridan, Wyoming
  • 101 West Brundage Street
  • Sheridan, Wyoming 82801
    • Telephone: 307-673-3000
    • Fax: 307-672-1732

Client Information

Insurance Clients


Personnel Information

Litigation Partners


Alan C. Bryan

Billings, MT

Admitted
  • Wyoming, 1996
  • Montana, 1997
Education:
  • University of Wyoming College of Law, J.D., 1996

Renee L. Coppock

Billings, MT

Admitted
  • Montana, 1987
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • Northern Cheyenne Tribal Court
  • Crow Tribal Court
  • Fort Belknap Tribal Court
  • Rocky Boy Tribal Court
  • Salish Kootenai Tribal Court
Education:
  • University of Illinois, J.D. (with high honors), 1987

Jon T. Dyre

Billings, MT

Admitted
  • Montana, 1985
  • Wyoming, 1986
Education:
  • University of Wyoming, J.D. (with honors), 1985

Born: 1959


Robert C. Griffin

Billings, MT

Admitted
  • Florida, 1993
  • Montana, 1995
Education:
  • University of Miami, J.D. (magna cum laude), 1993

Born: 1955


Steven W. Jennings

Billings, MT

Admitted
  • Montana, 2003
  • U.S. District Court, District of Montana
Education:
  • The University of Montana School of Law, J.D., 2003
Military:
Major, U.S. Marine Corps Reserves (1983-)

Jared M. Le Fevre

Billings, MT

Admitted
  • Montana, 2001
  • Idaho, 2002
  • Crow Tribal Court, 2003
  • Northern Cheyenne Tribal Court
Education:
  • University of Idaho College of Law, J.D., 2001

William J. Mattix

Billings, MT

Admitted
  • Montana, 1983
Memberships:
  • Association of Trial Lawyers of America
Education:
  • The University of Montana, J.D. (with honors), 1983

Born: 1956


Joe C. Maynard, Jr.

Billings, MT

Admitted
  • Montana, 1987
Education:
  • The University of Montana, J.D. (with highest honors), 1987

Born: 1959


Steven R. Milch

Billings, MT

Admitted
  • Idaho, 1987
  • Montana, 1990
Education:
  • University of Idaho, J.D. (cum laude), 1987

Born: 1957


Jeffery J. Oven

Billings, MT

Admitted
  • Wyoming, 1999
  • Montana, 2000
Education:
  • University of Wyoming, J.D., 1999

Born: 1972


Leonard H. Smith

Billings, MT

Admitted
  • Montana, 1990
  • U.S. District Court, District of Montana
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Education:
  • Washington University, J.D., 1990

Born: 1964


Christopher C. Voigt

Billings, MT

Admitted
  • Wyoming, 1999
  • Montana, 2001
Education:
  • University of Wyoming College of Law, J.D. (with honors), 1999

Born: 1973

Partners


  • Colby L. Branch
  • Josh Cook
  • Bruce F. Fain
  • Pamela C. Garman
  • Kevin P. Heaney
  • Justin D. Hoskins
  • Lance Hoskins
  • Vincent Kalafat
  • Stewart T. Kirkpatrick
  • William D. Lamdin, III
  • John R. Lee
  • Aaron W. Nicholson
  • Michael Tennant

Senior Counsel


  • Lara D. Guercio

Special Counsel


  • Christine Prill

Of Counsel


  • Richard Brekke
  • Michael S. Dockery
  • Steven J. Lehman
  • Robert G. Michelotti, Jr.

Associates


  • Morgan E. Dake
  • Jacob M. Dillon
  • Lucas H. Forcella
  • Clayton H. Gregersen
  • Michael J. Klepperich
  • David F. Knobel
  • Brett L. Kvasnicka
  • Eli Patten
  • Holly Suek
  • Kaitlin N. Taylor
  • Marina Tucker

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(Firm Members Belong to American and Yellowstone County Bar Associations and State Bar of Montana; Montana Defense Trial Lawyers Association and Montana Trial Lawyers Association)

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