David S. Maring was raised on a family farm near Georgetown, Minnesota. He received his undergraduate degree from North Dakota State University. Dave attended the University of North Dakota School of Law and graduated, with distinction, in 1974. While in Law School, Dave served as the Note Editor for the North Dakota Law Review. After law school, he clerked for United States District Judge Donald D. Alsop in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Dave has been certified as a Civil Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and by the Minnesota State Bar Association since 1988. He has also been selected as a Leading Litigation Attorney by Chambers USA, Best Lawyers, Benchmark, Super Lawyers, and other organizations that rank litigation attorneys.

Dave is licensed to practice in all state and federal courts in North Dakota and Minnesota. His litigation practice areas include personal injury, wrongful death, brain and burn injuries, construction accidents, and business/commercial disputes.

Dave served six years as the Eighth Circuit Representative to the United States Supreme Court Federal Rules of Evidence Advisory Committee. He is the Chair of the North Dakota Federal Practice Committee and spent six years as a member of the North Dakota Supreme Court Disciplinary Committee. By invitation, Dave is a member of the International Society of Barristers and the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Dave has been active in the State Bar Association of North Dakota serving four terms on the Board of Governors and as President of the Association.  In 2012, he received the Bar Association’s Distinguished Service Award for lifetime service to the Bench, Bar, and State. Dave has also been active in the Minnesota Bar Association having served as co-chair of the Professionalism Committee and as a Governor on the Civil Litigation Governing Council. More recently, Dave served as the President of the Western States Bar Conference, a bar association comprised of 16 states in the western United States.