Mike Simpson graduated with honors from the University of South Dakota in 1989 and from the University of Michigan Law School in 1992.  Since beginning private practice in 1995, he has limited his practice to representing injured people in workers’ compensation, personal injury, long term disability, insurance bad faith, and Social Security Disability cases.  Mike loves what he does and considers it an honor to represent hard working South Dakotans in these often complicated and stressful cases.

Mike is a member of the State Bar of South Dakota, the Workers Injury Law and Advocacy Group, and the South Dakota Trial Lawyers Association.  In 2008, he was selected by his peers as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” in workers’ compensation law.  Mike has been listed in this publication every year since.

Mike and his wife Marinell have six grown children between them - Scott, Jake, Danny, Shila, Halley and Jessa.  In his free time, Mike enjoys spending time with family and friends, sports, traveling and reading.

Renea Koupal is the senior paralegal and office administrator for Simpson Law Firm. 

She received her legal assistant degree from Sterling School for Legal Professionals in Phoenix, Arizona and studied business administration at Black Hills State University. She has extensive experience in trial preparation for workers’ compensation and personal injury claims.

Renea is a western South Dakota native and has lived with her husband in the Black Hills for more than 20 years. She enjoys exploring all that the Black Hills has to offer as well as traveling as much as possible.