Amy R. Sisk

Amy Sisk helps clients navigate high-stakes litigation in North Dakota and beyond. She came to Robins Kaplan after a career in journalism reporting on issues that affect landowners, businesses, and tribes. Now an attorney, she is driven to fix the types of problems she used to cover.

Amy brings a commitment to thoroughness to solve matters for clients—an approach she honed working the energy beat for newspapers and public radio stations in North Dakota and Pennsylvania. She often covered legal disputes by poring over court dockets and regulatory filings, interviewing diverse stakeholders, walking inside the towers of wind turbines, and driving the routes of pipelines. Her same curiosity and commitment to detail now guide her legal work. Amy looks at a problem from all angles, seeking to understand small details and the big picture to best advocate for clients.

Amy graduated summa cum laude from Lewis & Clark Law School in Oregon. She served as a lead article editor of the Lewis & Clark Law Review and as co-president of her school’s chapter of the Native American Law Students Association. Amy received a B.A. in journalism from the University of Montana, where she ran the daily student newspaper.

In her free time, Amy often leaves Bismarck with a pair of binoculars to search North Dakota’s prairies and wetlands for birds. She camps in the badlands when the weather is warm and spends the winter testing new recipes.

Education

• Lewis & Clark Law School, summa cum laude (2025); Lewis & Clark Law Review, Lead Article Editor (2025), Member (2024)
• University of Montana, B.A. in Journalism (2014)

Professional

• State Bar Association of North Dakota

Speeches

• Oil Economy Panel
  The North Dakota Energy Law Symposium, Virtual (April 15, 2021)