Anthony M. Hohn

Anthony M. Hohn

South Dakota Litigation Attorney

My Story

Anthony Hohn is a South Dakota litigation attorney at Davenport Evans. A Sioux Falls native, Anthony joined the firm in 2008 as a member of the firm’s litigation section. His practice includes of a wide variety of litigation, including commercial litigation, creditors’ rights, condemnation litigation, and public finance.

Anthony interned with the firm in the summer of 2006 and is a 2007 graduate of the University of South Dakota School of Law, where he served as lead articles editor for the South Dakota Law Review. Following graduation, Anthony served as the law clerk for the South Dakota Second Judicial Circuit, which encompasses Minnehaha and Lincoln counties.

Anthony was named the 2016 Young Lawyer of the Year by the State Bar of South Dakota and served as the President of the Second Judicial Circuit Bar Association. He is ranked in the top 5% of practicing lawyers in South Dakota by Great Plains Super Lawyers in the area of Civil Litigation: Defense, and has been selected to the Great Plains Super Lawyers Rising Stars list for Business Litigation every year since 2014.

Anthony has served on boards for the Teddy Bear Den, the Family Visitation Center. and the Sioux Empire American Red Cross. He currently serves on the board of directors for the Levitt at the Falls and the Helpline Center.

Position: Partner
Direct: (605) 357-1258
Email: [email protected]

Anthony Hohn Super Lawyers 2021

 

Highlights

Supreme Court Clarifies Fraud Exception to Debt Discharge

Federal appellate courts have long been split on the scope of the fraud exception to the dischargeability of debts in bankruptcy proceedings. The U.S. Supreme Court recently provided clarity on that issue, holding that debt based on fraud committed by a debtor’s...

2023 Davenport Evans Banking Seminar Features Dr. Ashley Podhradsky

Thank you to all who joined us for the 16th Annual Davenport Evans Banking Seminar, Friday, April 21, at The Country Club of Sioux Falls. Click on the images below, or click through the image viewer, for photos from the day. The seminar began with a hot breakfast and...

Cramming Down Interest Rates in an Era of High Inflation

In 2004, the United States Supreme Court was faced with the question of whether a debtor could “cram down” the interest rate applicable to a secured creditor’s claim by using a “prime-plus” formula approach. In Till v. SCS Credit Corp., a Chapter 13 case, the debtors...

Davenport Evans Welcomes Alayna A. Holmstrom

Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz & Smith, LLP is pleased to announce the addition of a new attorney, Alayna A. Holmstrom, to the firm. A native of Rapid City, South Dakota, Alayna Homstrom joined the firm as an associate attorney in September 2020. She is a graduate of the...

Professional Experience

Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz & Smith, LLP 
Partner: 2014 – present 
Associate: 2008 – 2013 

Judicial Law Clerk, Second Judicial Circuit, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 2007 – 2008

Education

University of Nebraska-Lincoln 
(B.S., high distinction, 2004) 

University of South Dakota School of Law
(J.D., 2007)

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association
Defense Research Institute
South Dakota Defense Lawyers Association
State Bar of South Dakota
Sioux Empire Society for Human Resource Management
Society for Human Resource Management

Licensure

Admitted to Practice (State): 
South Dakota, 2007 

Admitted to Practice (Federal): 
United States District Court, District of South Dakota, 2008

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 2008

Accomplishments

Young Lawyer of the Year, State Bar of South Dakota, 2016

Lead Articles Editor, South Dakota Law Review (2006 – 2007)

Author: Lien v. Lien: South Dakota Stakes Its Claim on the Corporate Map as the Supreme Court Provides No Relief to One Who Intentionally Creates Corporate Deadlock, 51 S.D. L. Rev. 479 (2006)

Protecting what you’ve built.

Phone Numbers

Driving Directions

Davenport Evans, Hurwitz & Smith, LLP

206 West 14th Street
P.O. Box 1030
Sioux Falls, SD 57101-1030