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Thomas E. Simmons is a professor at the University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law in Vermillion, South Dakota, U.S.A., where he teaches trusts, estates, inheritance, and ethics topics. He is an academic fellow and state chair of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.
Prior to joining the legal academy, Simmons was a partner with the Gunderson, Palmer, Nelson & Ashmore law firm in Rapid City, South Dakota, and clerked for the Honorable Andrew Bogue, a senior federal district court judge. He has taught at every educational level from preschool to graduate. In 2018 and again in 2020, he received the John Wesley Jackson Memorial Award for Outstanding Professor of Law.
Although Simmons' scholarship has at times explicated robot law, space law, and even zombie law, he focuses on trusts, tax, and fiduciaries. His legal scholarship has been published in leading journals such as the Missouri Law Review and the Gonzaga Law Review. His poems have been published by reviews such as The Write Launch, El Portal, North Dakota Quarterly, Corvus Review, and the Taj Mahal Review. This is his first book.
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