Mark J. Welter

Mark J. Welter is a South Dakota personal injury and workers’ compensation attorney with 36 years of experience fighting for his clients. Mark spent 14 years defending clients from personal injury and workers’ compensation claims—experience that now gives his injured clients a major advantage. For the past 22 years, Mark has focused solely on helping injured clients recover full and fair compensation by building strong, evidence‑driven claims, drafting powerful settlement demands, and pushing back hard against insurance companies to secure full and fair compensation.

Mark is admitted to practice law in South Dakota, the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and the United States Supreme Court. A Yankton, South Dakota native, Mark earned both his B.S. and J.D. from the University of South Dakota (1981-1988) and was a Judicial Law Clerk for Hon. John B. Jones, U.S. District Court, District of South Dakota (1988-1990).