Leonard Bucklin is the principal author or an editor
 of forms sold by LawyerTrialForms. ™

Recognition by Peers and Clients: Leonard Bucklin has been elected a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. (The Academy attempts to identify the top 500 trial lawyers in the United States, and selected trial attorneys in other countries.) He has served at various times on the International Relations, Ethics, Civil Rules, and Professional Standards committees and the Board of Directors.

Bucklin is rated "AV" in regard to legal ability and ethical standards.  AV is the highest rating by the Martindale-Hubble Rating System.

Bucklin also is a member of the Million Dollar Advocate's Forum, which is a trial lawyer organization limited to plaintiff's attorneys who have won million-dollar and multi-million dollar verdicts, awards and settlements.

However, on the other side of the litigation table, Bucklin has been placed in  Best's Directory of Recommended Insurance Attorneys as a result of superior defense work, for reasonable fees,  for over 35 insurers.

Publications, and Publisher of legal forms: Bucklin has written over 18 published legal journal articles and books.  For five years he has been the editor of Neoethics, the ethics section of eDICTA, published as an Internet Zine by the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association.

LawyerTrialForms™ packs more than 30 years of litigation experience! In 1972, Bucklin published his first trial notebook system and a volume of legal forms for lawyers doing litigation.  Since then he has been involved in various seminars and publications to help trial lawyers be more efficient in depositions and trials.  He has developed a refined trial notebook system which recognizes that, for most cases, discovery and settlement are now more important than the actual trial. (Most cases are settled, not tried).  He is the author and editor of the various new trial lawyer forms published by Lawyer Trial Forms.

Each year Bucklin edits the Lawyer Trial Forms of LawyerTrialForms™ to be sure that they are fresh, current, and relevant to today's litigation.

Legal Employment: Of Counsel to Bucklin, Klemin & McBride, P.C.,  in North Dakota (1992- to present), a regional law firm serving five states. Of Counsel to firm of Allison & Huerta in South Texas (1992--1997). Before those: President of Bucklin Trial Lawyers p.c., in North Dakota,  a regional law firm serving six states; General Counsel for Provident Life Insurance Company, supervising litigation in 34 states; Partner, and senior partner, of Zuger & Bucklin in North Dakota; Attorney and partner, Larson, Loevinger, Lindquist & Fraser in Minnesota.

Legal Education and Bar admissions: University of Minnesota Law School two degrees (B.S. in Law, and J.D.) State and Federal Courts of Texas, Minnesota, Colorado, and North Dakota. Also admitted to the bars of the Ft. Yates Sioux Indian Tribe, United States Court of Claims, Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, and U. S. Supreme Court.

Legal Professional Career: Bucklin's legal practice for 40 years has been balanced between commercial and personal work, and between office practice and litigation, and between plaintiff and defense work. Bucklin's primary experience is in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana,  Minnesota, Colorado, and Texas, but the nature of his practice (see above) has taken him to many states for litigation or interaction with attorneys of dozens of states. 

Bucklin is an adjunct faculty member, Round Table Scholars. (The Round Table Scholars has been profiled twice by the Wall Street Journal, which  calls RTG one of the few firms of true value for high profile companies seeking intellectual expertise.)

Representative Professional Associations and Activities at various times, not all now,  include: American Bar Association [Business Law Section; Litigation Section ( Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committees); Tort Trial and Insurance Section (Corporate Counsel and Professional Liability Division)]. American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility. American Trial Lawyers Association. Defense Research Institute (Professionalism and Ethics Committee). Texas Trial Lawyers Association. Texas Center for Legal Ethics. Texas State Bar Association (Litigation Section). North Dakota State Bar Association (Chairman 14 years, of Committee on Procedure and Adjective Law). Burleigh County (ND), Corpus Christi (TX) and Maricopa County (AZ) Bar Associations.  Advisory Committee on Trial Procedure to the North Dakota Supreme Court (15 years).

Honorary Societies and Biographies: Order of the Coif (legal academic honorary). Phi Delta Phi (legal academic fraternity). Delta Sigma Rho (speech and forensics academic honorary). 

Bucklin is listed in Who's Who  in American Law and Who's Who in the South and Southwest.

Sample Items of scholarship.

• Building Trial Notebooks, a two volume loose- leaf trial notebook system of over 600 pages.

• various articles on ethics at Neoethics.

• an article in the North Dakota Law Review titled Woe Unto Those Who Request Consent: Ethical and Legal Considerations in Rejecting a Deceased’s Anatomical Gift Because There is no Consent by the Survivors.

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