Ringstrom Law
All we do is criminal defense. Practicing in Minnesota, North Dakota, and U.S. District Court of North Dakota.
Ringstrom Law
All we do is criminal defense. Practicing in Minnesota, North Dakota, and U.S. District Court of North Dakota.
Main Office
730 Center Avenue, Suite 202
Moorhead, MN 56560
(218) 284-0484
As the son of a criminal defense lawyer, I grew up hearing stories about courtroom battles and complicated cases. I graduated from Moorhead High School and served in the United States Navy. I clerked for a criminal defense lawyer in St. Paul after my first year of law school. In my second year, I worked in a large office of public defenders, representing people in court every day. My additional work on criminal appeals helped confirm my belief that I needed to be in a courtroom actually defending people charged with crimes.
I have represented people charged with crimes ranging from disorderly conduct and domestic assault to obscure financial crimes like defeating security on personalty, to murder and first-degree criminal sexual conduct. The criminal justice system does a bad job at understanding those charged with crimes. When I represent someone, I try to understand who they are, which helps me serve their interests better.
-U.S District Court: District of North Dakota - Admitted September 2017
Bar Number: 0389630
Minnesota,
Bar Number: 08549
North Dakota,
Hamline University School of Law
J.D.,
As the son of a criminal defense lawyer, I grew up hearing stories about courtroom battles and complicated cases. I graduated from Moorhead High School and served in the United States Navy. I clerked for a criminal defense lawyer in St. Paul after my first year of law school. In my second year, I worked in a large office of public defenders, representing people in court every day. My additional work on criminal appeals helped confirm my belief that I needed to be in a courtroom actually defending people charged with crimes.
I have represented people charged with crimes ranging from disorderly conduct and domestic assault to obscure financial crimes like defeating security on personalty, to murder and first-degree criminal sexual conduct. The criminal justice system does a bad job at understanding those charged with crimes. When I represent someone, I try to understand who they are, which helps me serve their interests better.
-U.S District Court: District of North Dakota - Admitted September 2017
Bar Number: 0389630
Minnesota,
Bar Number: 08549
North Dakota,
Hamline University School of Law J.D.,
For 40 years I have practiced in virtually every Minnesota county north and west of St. Cloud, representing people charged with offenses ranging from murders to misdemeanors.
My focus on the law developed in two steps. First, I had a TV vision of what a lawyer did. However, what made the law seem so worthy struck me while I was watching an interview of Justice Hugo Black by Eric Sevareid around 1970. Justice Black's discussion of the law was fascinating and compelling. It gave me a sense that when all else is in flux, as it was at that time (the Vietnam War, young Americans marching in the street, bombings by the "Weathermen"), one can find in the law a sturdy place to stand. It was the only thing that made sense at that time.
So once the opportunity came to attend college after six years in the Navy, I had one focus: law school. I graduated from Eastern Montana College in 1976 and moved with my family to Minneapolis that fall to start law school at the University of Minnesota. After I was admitted to practice in October 1979, we moved to Mora, MN, where we did real estate and some divorce work. Then in 1981 we moved to Moorhead, where I took a public defender position in order to spend more time in the courtroom.
After a year of solo practice as an attorney and part-time public defender, I had an experience that reminded me of why I chose the law. It came when a police officer told me after a hearing that he didn't like me very much, but that when he was out on the street thinking of making an arrest, he thought about what I might do with the case. That was when I realized that what I was doing actually affected how the law was applied to people I would never meet. I can't describe how satisfying it was to realize that I was actually making a difference. Shortly after that I decided to not do any civil work and instead focus only on criminal law.
I have taken many positions that at the time were not viewed as supported by the law. Recently, for example, I have worked a case that went to the Minnesota Court of Appeals in order to clarify the law against perjury. I like to think that Hugo Black would be proud.
Bar Number: 0091856
Minnesota,
University of Minnesota School of Law
J.D.,
For 40 years I have practiced in virtually every Minnesota county north and west of St. Cloud, representing people charged with offenses ranging from murders to misdemeanors.
My focus on the law developed in two steps. First, I had a TV vision of what a lawyer did. However, what made the law seem so worthy struck me while I was watching an interview of Justice Hugo Black by Eric Sevareid around 1970. Justice Black's discussion of the law was fascinating and compelling. It gave me a sense that when all else is in flux, as it was at that time (the Vietnam War, young Americans marching in the street, bombings by the "Weathermen"), one can find in the law a sturdy place to stand. It was the only thing that made sense at that time.
So once the opportunity came to attend college after six years in the Navy, I had one focus: law school. I graduated from Eastern Montana College in 1976 and moved with my family to Minneapolis that fall to start law school at the University of Minnesota. After I was admitted to practice in October 1979, we moved to Mora, MN, where we did real estate and some divorce work. Then in 1981 we moved to Moorhead, where I took a public defender position in order to spend more time in the courtroom.
After a year of solo practice as an attorney and part-time public defender, I had an experience that reminded me of why I chose the law. It came when a police officer told me after a hearing that he didn't like me very much, but that when he was out on the street thinking of making an arrest, he thought about what I might do with the case. That was when I realized that what I was doing actually affected how the law was applied to people I would never meet. I can't describe how satisfying it was to realize that I was actually making a difference. Shortly after that I decided to not do any civil work and instead focus only on criminal law.
I have taken many positions that at the time were not viewed as supported by the law. Recently, for example, I have worked a case that went to the Minnesota Court of Appeals in order to clarify the law against perjury. I like to think that Hugo Black would be proud.
Bar Number: 0091856
Minnesota,
University of Minnesota School of Law J.D.,
Main Office
730 Center Avenue, Suite 202
Moorhead, MN 56560
(218) 284-0484
As the son of a criminal defense lawyer, I grew up hearing stories about courtroom battles and complicated cases. I graduated from Moorhead High School and served in the United States Navy. I clerked for a criminal defense lawyer in St. Paul after my first year of law school. In my second year, I worked in a large office of public defenders, representing people in court every day. My additional work on criminal appeals helped confirm my belief that I needed to be in a courtroom actually defending people charged with crimes.
I have represented people charged with crimes ranging from disorderly conduct and domestic assault to obscure financial crimes like defeating security on personalty, to murder and first-degree criminal sexual conduct. The criminal justice system does a bad job at understanding those charged with crimes. When I represent someone, I try to understand who they are, which helps me serve their interests better.
-U.S District Court: District of North Dakota - Admitted September 2017
Bar Number: 0389630
Minnesota,
Bar Number: 08549
North Dakota,
Hamline University School of Law
J.D.,
As the son of a criminal defense lawyer, I grew up hearing stories about courtroom battles and complicated cases. I graduated from Moorhead High School and served in the United States Navy. I clerked for a criminal defense lawyer in St. Paul after my first year of law school. In my second year, I worked in a large office of public defenders, representing people in court every day. My additional work on criminal appeals helped confirm my belief that I needed to be in a courtroom actually defending people charged with crimes.
I have represented people charged with crimes ranging from disorderly conduct and domestic assault to obscure financial crimes like defeating security on personalty, to murder and first-degree criminal sexual conduct. The criminal justice system does a bad job at understanding those charged with crimes. When I represent someone, I try to understand who they are, which helps me serve their interests better.
-U.S District Court: District of North Dakota - Admitted September 2017
Bar Number: 0389630
Minnesota,
Bar Number: 08549
North Dakota,
Hamline University School of Law J.D.,
For 40 years I have practiced in virtually every Minnesota county north and west of St. Cloud, representing people charged with offenses ranging from murders to misdemeanors.
My focus on the law developed in two steps. First, I had a TV vision of what a lawyer did. However, what made the law seem so worthy struck me while I was watching an interview of Justice Hugo Black by Eric Sevareid around 1970. Justice Black's discussion of the law was fascinating and compelling. It gave me a sense that when all else is in flux, as it was at that time (the Vietnam War, young Americans marching in the street, bombings by the "Weathermen"), one can find in the law a sturdy place to stand. It was the only thing that made sense at that time.
So once the opportunity came to attend college after six years in the Navy, I had one focus: law school. I graduated from Eastern Montana College in 1976 and moved with my family to Minneapolis that fall to start law school at the University of Minnesota. After I was admitted to practice in October 1979, we moved to Mora, MN, where we did real estate and some divorce work. Then in 1981 we moved to Moorhead, where I took a public defender position in order to spend more time in the courtroom.
After a year of solo practice as an attorney and part-time public defender, I had an experience that reminded me of why I chose the law. It came when a police officer told me after a hearing that he didn't like me very much, but that when he was out on the street thinking of making an arrest, he thought about what I might do with the case. That was when I realized that what I was doing actually affected how the law was applied to people I would never meet. I can't describe how satisfying it was to realize that I was actually making a difference. Shortly after that I decided to not do any civil work and instead focus only on criminal law.
I have taken many positions that at the time were not viewed as supported by the law. Recently, for example, I have worked a case that went to the Minnesota Court of Appeals in order to clarify the law against perjury. I like to think that Hugo Black would be proud.
Bar Number: 0091856
Minnesota,
University of Minnesota School of Law
J.D.,
For 40 years I have practiced in virtually every Minnesota county north and west of St. Cloud, representing people charged with offenses ranging from murders to misdemeanors.
My focus on the law developed in two steps. First, I had a TV vision of what a lawyer did. However, what made the law seem so worthy struck me while I was watching an interview of Justice Hugo Black by Eric Sevareid around 1970. Justice Black's discussion of the law was fascinating and compelling. It gave me a sense that when all else is in flux, as it was at that time (the Vietnam War, young Americans marching in the street, bombings by the "Weathermen"), one can find in the law a sturdy place to stand. It was the only thing that made sense at that time.
So once the opportunity came to attend college after six years in the Navy, I had one focus: law school. I graduated from Eastern Montana College in 1976 and moved with my family to Minneapolis that fall to start law school at the University of Minnesota. After I was admitted to practice in October 1979, we moved to Mora, MN, where we did real estate and some divorce work. Then in 1981 we moved to Moorhead, where I took a public defender position in order to spend more time in the courtroom.
After a year of solo practice as an attorney and part-time public defender, I had an experience that reminded me of why I chose the law. It came when a police officer told me after a hearing that he didn't like me very much, but that when he was out on the street thinking of making an arrest, he thought about what I might do with the case. That was when I realized that what I was doing actually affected how the law was applied to people I would never meet. I can't describe how satisfying it was to realize that I was actually making a difference. Shortly after that I decided to not do any civil work and instead focus only on criminal law.
I have taken many positions that at the time were not viewed as supported by the law. Recently, for example, I have worked a case that went to the Minnesota Court of Appeals in order to clarify the law against perjury. I like to think that Hugo Black would be proud.
Bar Number: 0091856
Minnesota,
University of Minnesota School of Law J.D.,