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A Law Practice Built on Integrity, Insight, and Advocacy

Meet the attorney behind Slade Law—and discover how experience, strategy, and personal commitment shape everything we do.

Meet the Attorney Behind Slade Law

Dustin Slade

Before becoming an attorney, Dustin Slade was herding cows on his family’s ranch in southwest Colorado and teaching fifth-graders in a low-income community. Today, he brings that same work ethic and heart for service into every client relationship.


A Harvard Law graduate with a wide range of legal experience—from complex commercial litigation and high-value deals involving publicly traded companies, to estate planning and business formation—Dustin founded Slade Law to offer astute legal guidance grounded in real-world perspective. He’s advised billion-dollar companies, guided startups through major milestones, and helped families plan for generations to come.


Now based in Cody, Wyoming, Dustin splits his time between legal strategy and mountain adventures with his wife and young children—who know him as both a storyteller and a dinosaur impersonator. He remains driven by his deepest priorities: faith, family, and freedom.

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Why Clients Trust Slade Law

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Education

  • Harvard Law School, Juris Doctor, 2010​

    • Senior Editor, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy

    • Study Abroad: La Católica Pontificia Universidad de Chile (Fall 2009)

  • Brigham Young University, B.A., Political Science, summa cum laude, 2005

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Awards & Recognition

  • Schulze Award Winner, 2023/24

    • Awarded alongside Steve Blank and Stephen Wunker

  • ​Seevak Fellow (2008)

    • ​Studied new methods for proving Voting Rights Act violations

  • ​Interned in the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

  • Co-founded AI startup that was accepted into prestigious NVDIA Inception, AWS Activate, and National Science Foundation Nation I-Corps programs

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Publications

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Opinions

  • Leach v. James, 455 S.W.3d 171 (Tex. App. 2014)

  • Teague v. Norcold, Inc., No. 5:10-CV-114-C, 2010 WL 11561729 (N.D. Tex. Sept. 22, 2010)

  • Wright v. Field, No. 5:10-CV-189-C, 2012 WL 13026881 (N.D. Tex. Apr. 10, 2012)

  • Bain Cotton Co. v. Chesnutt Cotton Co., 531 F. App'x 500 (5th Cir. 2013)

  • Moore v. City of Seagraves, No. 5:12-CV-164-C, 2013 WL 12101085 (N.D. Tex. Mar. 8, 2013)

  • Cardiel v. Apache Corp., 559 F. App'x 284 (5th Cir. 2014)

  • Venture Cotton Co-op. v. Freeman, 435 S.W.3d 222 (Tex. 2014)

  • Hunn v. Dan Wilson Homes, Inc., 789 F.3d 573 (5th Cir. 2015)

  • Rowten v. Wall St. Brokerage, LLC, No. 5:13-CV-111-C, 2015 WL 11120863 (N.D. Tex. Apr. 23, 2015)

  • Vander-Plas v. May, No. 07-15-00454-CV, 2016 WL 5851913 (Tex. App. Oct. 4, 2016)

  • Rowten v. Wall St. Brokerage, L.L.C., 646 F. App'x 379 (5th Cir. 2016)

  • Foster v. Nova Hardbanding, LLC, No. CV 15-1047 CG/LAM, 2016 WL 4492829 (D.N.M. Apr. 20, 2016)

  • ZibalStar, L.C. v. Conte, No. 2:17-CV-563, 2018 WL 1578019 (D. Utah Mar. 27, 2018)

  • Horizon Tower Ltd., LLC v. Park Cnty., No. 2:23-CV-37-ABJ, 2024 WL 4525229 (D. Wyo. Oct. 4, 2024)

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Selected Representative Experience

Dustin's experience spans business transactions, corporate counseling, complex litigation, and estate and succession planning. Representative matters include:

Business & Transactions

Conducted a comprehensive legal vulnerability assessment for significant resort development project involving complex cross-border and regulatory considerations.

Advised a client regarding antitrust exposure in connection with a nine-figure acquisition.

Served as lead counsel on mergers and acquisitions involving complex corporate, contractual, and regulatory issues.

Advised on technology-company financings involving debt, equity, and alternative financing structures.

Negotiated and drafted the transfer of leases for a statewide operating company as part of a broader estate and business-succession plan.

Advised veteran founders on the formation and organization of a technology startup, including ownership, governance, and business-structure considerations.

Helped form Wyoming DAO LLCs and drafted operating agreements, including for complex entities with multiple classes of membership interests.

Complex Litigation

Served as lead briefing counsel in a liability-exposure assessment for a Fortune Global 500 company that contributed to a favorable resolution.

Served as lead merits-briefing counsel in arbitrations resulting in multiple seven-figure awards against a major technology company.

Represented a technology unicorn as second-chair counsel in federal litigation arising from a complex founders' dispute, which resulted in a negotiated resolution.

Served as lead counsel and appellate counsel in complex multistate RICO litigation, including presenting oral argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Obtained a seven-figure judgment for an investor in litigation arising from fraudulent investments in Texas mineral interests.

Obtained dismissal of a claim exceeding $500,000 against an agricultural producer in an arbitration involving a commodities contract dispute.

Estate & Succession Planning

Designed and implemented estate plans involving multigenerational assets, closely held businesses, and complex family and succession-planning considerations.

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