Geiszler Steele, PC

Geiszler Steele, PC Providing experienced, efficient and effective legal representation in Western Montana Dave is a sole practitioner at Geiszler Steele, PC. He received his B.A.

Dave serves as general counsel to a wide variety of individuals and businesses across a broad spectrum of civil legal areas. Dave has earned a Martindale-Hubbell “AV-Preeminent” rating by his peers, indicting the highest level of professional excellence. His practice includes advising clients about business and commercial matters, including matters involving the cannabis sector, real estate and re

al property transactions, contract issues, and other civil matters. Dave also serves as a mediator, arbitrator and settlement master. Dave is admitted to practice in all Montana State Courts and all United States District Courts in Montana. He is a member of the State Bar of Montana, the Western Montana Bar Association, and the American Bar Association. Dave is a Past President of the State Bar of Montana, and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. The American Bar Foundation is among the world's leading research institutes for the empirical and interdisciplinary study of law, and which seeks to advance the understanding and improvement of law through research projects on the most pressing issues facing the legal system in the United States and the world. He is a Past President of the Western Montana Bar Association and also served for many years as Justice of the Peace Pro Tem for Missoula County, Montana. Dave was born and raised in Colorado. in Political Science from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. He earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Montana School of Law. While attending law school in Missoula, Dave worked as a prosecutor for the Missoula City Attorney's office, and clerked for the Honorable Robert H. Whaley, U.S. District Court Judge, Eastern District of Washington, and for the Honorable Jeremiah C. Lynch, U.S. Magis trate Judge, District of Montana, as a clinical intern. Prior to his legal career, Dave was a professional mountain and river guide, worked as a mountaineering and climbing instructor and ski patroller in Colorado, Utah and California, and as program manager for the Colorado Outward Bound School's international sea kayaking program in Baja California and Sur, Mexico. Dave greatly enjoys spending time outdoors with his friends and family. Areas of Practice

General Business Counsel
Business and Commercial Transactions
Property and Real Estate Transactions
Land Use and Development
Contracts
Mediation and Arbitration

01/19/2022

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2022 — The right to vote is the foundation of U.S. democracy. To support and strengthen this fundamental American value, the American Bar Association is committed to ensuring and protecting every eligible individual’s ability to

Montanans - I would ask that you take a closer look at what this current Republican-led legislature is doing. The spate...
06/21/2021

Montanans - I would ask that you take a closer look at what this current Republican-led legislature is doing. The spate of recent laws intentionally designed to weaken the judiciary are contrary to bedrock constitutional principals upon which the Constitution and this Country are founded. If you really consider yourself a "patriot," perhaps take a moment to reflect upon what a loss of separation of powers would actually look like. It might look a lot like a monarchy.

In the first of two articles on how bars are supporting the judiciary, we focus on recent challenges to judicial independence. The second article, in a future issue, will look at courthouse security and personal safety for judges and their families.

"When critics accuse the courts of subverting the majority will, or failing to adhere to public sentiment, that is akin ...
06/18/2021

"When critics accuse the courts of subverting the majority will, or failing to adhere to public sentiment, that is akin to criticizing them for doing their jobs. If we had judges who put their fingers in the air to test public sentiment each time they had to make a tough decision, we would not have the rule of law—we would have a rule of men and women. That kind of decision making would be untethered to the constitution and would be corrosive."
- Rebecca Love Kourlis, Executive Director, IAALS, Univ. of Denver

The United States Constitution will be 229 years old on September 17. The Constitution was the document that charted the course for our country, mirrored in significant part in state constitutions that followed. In one respect, the Constitution is like the rebar embedded in the concrete that support...

Folks - this type of thinking is dangerous. Courts and Judges do not "adhere to public sentiment," nor should they. If...
06/18/2021

Folks - this type of thinking is dangerous. Courts and Judges do not "adhere to public sentiment," nor should they. If the co-equal third branch of government were to become subject to "oversight from the citizens," as this group believes, it would necessarily become untethered from the Constitution. Aside from the substantive problems this Group presents, which are contrary to the Rule of Law, it appears their leader is a convicted felon who misrepresents the truth. Probably a bad idea to base policy decisions on the misguided ponderings of such a person or group.

A citizen group espousing the need for judicial integrity is backtracking claims on its website.

06/07/2021

Managing Partner David Steele has been elected to the position of President-Elect for the State Bar of Montana. Congratulations Dave!

We all know what happens when one leg of a three-legged stool is removed. We are disappointed that many in this Republi...
03/05/2021

We all know what happens when one leg of a three-legged stool is removed. We are disappointed that many in this Republican-controlled legislature do not seem to have been taught, or ever cared to learn, basic civics.

The three of us have known each other dating back a half-century when Dorothy Bradley and Bob Brown were young legislators and Marc Racicot was emerging as a top prosecuting

01/22/2021

Americans often indulge in a kind of “Salem exceptionalism,” treating the events of 1692 as if they were an isolated and idiosyncratic departure from the long arc of human affairs.

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