Laurence Stinson

Laurence Stinson is a partner at Stinson Law Group, P.C., a trial firm with its main office in Bozeman, Montana, and a second office in Cody, Wyoming. His practice centers on personal injury and insurance law, with an emphasis on tractor-trailer crash cases, and he also handles brain injury, corporate negligence and insurance bad faith claims.

Stinson graduated from the University of Montana School of Law in 1995. Early in his career he tried a wide range of civil matters, including contract, product liability, land use and construction disputes, and he was a partner at two larger firms before he and his brother, Scott, formed Stinson Law Group. He makes heavy use of jury focus groups, taking part in more than 40 each year to test how jurors may respond to a case.

He has served on the board and executive board of the state trial lawyers association, spent more than 15 years on the state supreme court’s Permanent Rules Committee for civil matters by appointment, and served five years on the State Bar Fee Dispute Committee. He was recognized as a Top 100 National Trial Lawyer in 2024.