Ethics and Litigation Teacher and Consultant. 

Legal Transaction and Litigation Professional Career: Bucklin's legal practice for 40 years has been balanced between commercial and personal work, and between office practice and litigation, and between plaintiff and defense work. Bucklin's primary experience is in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Colorado, and Texas, but the nature of his practice has taken him to many states for litigation or interaction with attorneys of various states. Bucklin's career includes, while serving as a partner in Zuger and Bucklin, also serving as general counsel for an insurance company, evaluating and selecting attorneys, examining attorney fees, and supervising attorney's working for the company in 34 states.

Legal Employment: presently owner of Bucklin Of Counsel legal and corporate ethics consultants ; and of counsel to Bucklin, Klemin & McBride, P.C.  Previously of counsel to Allison & Huerta in South Texas; and president of Bucklin Trial Lawyers p.c., serving four upper prairie states;  senior partner of Zuger & Bucklin; General Counsel for Provident Life Insurance Company (acquired by United Services Life Insurance Company) doing business in 34 states; Zuger & Bucklin; Dakota; Larson, Loevinger, Lindquist & Fraser (predecessor firm of  Lindquist & Venum).

Legal Education and Bar admissions:   Law School, University of Minnesota (two law degrees: B.S. in Law, and J.D.). Thereafter admissions to state courts of Texas, Minnesota, Colorado, and North Dakota and to various federal courts.. (Sundry federal court memberships are maintained, and state court memberships are maintained in North Dakota and Texas.) Also admitted to the bars of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation Tribal Court, United States Court of Federal Claims; Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals; and U. S. Supreme Court.

Ethics Consulting. Bucklin's ethics consulting has been a part of his legal practice for several years, and at the present time is the chosen focus of his work. Bucklin has been involved in legal, medical, and business ethics.  He has served on various workgroups and ethics committees.  Notable is his work on the Ethics Committee of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) (Richmond, VA corporation). Read more on Bucklin's work for UNOS, the corporation that runs the equitable allocation and distribution of human organs to patients for transplantation in medical centers across the country.

Representative Professional Associations and Activities at various times, not all at the same time or now, include: American Bar Association [Standing Committee on Lawyers' Professional Liability ; Business Law Section; Litigation Section ( Ethics and Professionalism Committee; Commercial and Business Litigation Committee, Business Torts Litigation Committee, Pretrial Practice & Discovery Committee, and Expert Witness Committee); Tort Trial and Insurance Section (TIPS)  (Civil Practice and Procedure Committee; Professionals' Officers' and Directors' Liability Committee; Economics of Tort and Insurance Practice Committee)]. American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility. International Academy of Trial Lawyers (Ethics Committee, Civil Rules Committee - Vice Chair, Board of Directors). American Trial Lawyers Association. Defense Research Institute (Professionalism and Ethics Committee). Texas Trial Lawyers Association. Texas Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism. Texas State Bar Association (Professionalism Committee and Litigation Section). North Dakota State Bar Association (Legal Economics Section; Chairman, 14 years of Committee on Procedure and Adjective Law). Corpus Christi (TX) Bar Association. Maricopa County (AZ) Bar Association. Advisory Committee to the South Central Judicial District of North Dakota (1983-1992). Advisory Committee on Trial Procedure to the North Dakota Supreme Court (1977-1992). Adjunct faculty member, Round Table Scholars. (The Round Table Scholars has been profiled twice by the Wall Street Journal, which  calls RTG one of the few firms of true value for high profile companies seeking intellectual expertise; in 2005 the magazine Inc honored RTG for the third year in a row as "The Mercedes-Benz of Expert Services Firms".) Corporate ethics advisor and educator, Corporate-Ethics.US.

Representative Civic Organizations at various times, not all now, include: United Network for Organ Sharing, which is charged by federal statute with determining the equitable allocation of organs for transplants (Ethics, Professional Standards and Membership, and Patient Affairs Committees; and  General Public Representative member of the Board of Directors). Southside Rotary Club of Corpus Christi (Paul Harris Fellow). Rotary Club of Bismarck (President and Director various years). Town Club of Corpus Christi. Ordained Elder of the First Presbyterian Church of Bismarck, 1974. Dayspring United Methodist Church of Tempe, AZ. Sky Harbor Airport Interfaith Chaplaincy (Phoenix, AZ) (Board of Directors; Treasurer 2001-2003).

Honorary Societies and Biographies: The College of the State Bar of Texas (established by the Texas Supreme Court to recognize lawyers who attend an extraordinary amount of continuing legal education). Order of the Coif (legal academic honorary). Phi Delta Phi (legal academic fraternity). Delta Sigma Rho (forensics academic honorary).  Bucklin is listed in Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who in the South and Southwest, and Who's Who in America.

Published Books and Articles: More than 20. The last published are: