Dakota Dunes Attorney Reminisces About 40+ Years in Law and New Dunes Location

At the start of his career, carbon paper and 7 cent air mail were normal office supplies. Now, nearly 45 years later, Stewart Huff of Crary Huff Attorneys at Law sits in a tidy Dakota Dunes office on Stevens Port Drive, with the majority of his documents neatly filed away in his computer.

"I can remember when the computer first came into the business environment for law firms," Huff explained. " I looked at our office manager and I said, "Don't bother to put one on my desk. I'll be dead before this thing ever catches on.""

That was about 15 years ago. And now, the computer is his silent partner.

"It has become a very integral part. It's grown to the point where we no longer do as much paper sharing. It's all electronic," Huff explains of the industry today.

"I have done selling and or purchasing of businesses and have never met the accountant or the lawyer, or the buyer, or the seller, as the case may be."

Huff feels that over the last seven years the computer has truly come a secure way to conduct business and all commerce really is dependant on the internet as a vehicle to achieve results.

"We use virtual document rooms where we set up a secure website. We'll put our seller documents up there and they can go in and look at them. We no longer ship paper back and forth, nor do they have to print email," Huff explains of the technological changes in the industry.

Huff had aspirations of being a lawyer since junior high school. At the time, his father Wallace practiced law and little did he know, father and son would eventually work together.

After two years at Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Missouri, Huff pursued his BA and JD at The University of Iowa. The 1965 University of Iowa graduate went on to complete two years of active military service before serving two years at the Army Reserves in Sioux City and joining his father at the law firm.

Today, the firm, Crary, Huff, Inkster, Sheehan, Riggenberg, Hartnett & Storm , P.C. Attorneys at Law, is a corporation with ten equal co-owners that boasts a 109 year legacy.