Rachel Hanisch

Rachel Hanisch, who joined Quaintance Law Office P.C. in 2004, channels a penchant for just getting things done in her primary responsibility of oversight of the office’s substantial business entity practice, focusing not only upon statutory and other compliance but also upon a broad range of internal governance and succession issues and upon contracts and instruments related to the day to day business of the client. Rachel also devotes significant time to the office’s commercial and real estate practices and to the management of the operations of our Sioux Falls office.

Education

• University of South Dakota School of Law J.D
• South Dakota State University B.S.

Rachel Hanisch, who joined Quaintance Law Office P.C. in 2004, channels a penchant for just getting things done in her primary responsibility of oversight of the office’s substantial business entity practice, focusing not only upon statutory and other compliance but also upon a broad range of internal governance and succession issues and upon contracts and instruments related to the day to day business of the client. Rachel also devotes significant time to the office’s commercial and real estate practices and to the management of the operations of our Sioux Falls office.

Rachel was born and raised in South Dakota, graduating from South Dakota State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and a minor in Chemistry. She went on to graduate from the University of South Dakota with a Juris Doctorate in 2000 and was admitted to practice in South Dakota in November of 2000. Rachel’s first few years after Law School were spent as a Planner for the Enemy Swim District of the Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Tribe. Subsequently and until 2004, she served as the Executive Director of the Northern Prairies Land Trust, a non-profit established in 1999 to preserve the unique ecosystems of the Upper Prairie Grasslands.

Rachel and her husband, Chad, who is a founding principal in a civil engineering firm with locations in Sioux Falls, Watertown and Mitchell, South Dakota, have three active school age children whose activities . . . well, you know.