Current Employment Position(s)

Partner, since 1998

Areas of Practice

• Business & Commercial Litigation
• Securities Industry Regulation & Litigation

Representative Clients

• Ag Processing Inc
• ConAgra Foods, Inc.
• Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company
• Roberts Dairy Company
• TD Ameritrade
• Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc.

West Practice Categories

Business & Commercial Law, Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Securities Law, Litigation & Appeals

Bar Admissions

• U.S. Supreme Court, 1992
• U.S. District Court District of Nebraska, 1977
• U.S. District Court Central District of Illinois, 1993
• U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit, 1988
• U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit, 1985
• U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit, 1993

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Litigation Counsel of America (Fellow)
• American Bar Association, Litigation Section
• Federal Practice Committee of the United States District Court, District of Nebraska
• Nebraska Association of Trial Attorneys
• Nebraska State Bar Association, 2001 - 2003 (Chair, Mentoring Committee)
• Nebraska State Bar Foundation (Fellow)
• Brownell-Talbot College Preparatory School, 1998 - 2007 (Board of Trustees)
• Omaha Symphony, 2005 - Present (Governing Member)

Honors and Awards

• The Best Lawyers in America
• 2007 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America
• Super Lawyers for Business Litigation
• Benchmark's Guide to Leading Litigation Attorneys
• "Leading Individual" in Litigation: General Commercial (Nebraska) by Chambers USA, 2008 The Client's Guide
• Lawdragon's 100 Lawyers You Need to Know in Securities Litigation, April 2008

Classes and Seminars

• Speaker, "Taking and Defending Effective Depositions in Nebraska", Lormen Education Services
• Speaker, "Corporate Litigation: A Practical Approach", NCLE Seminar
• Speaker, "Litigation Issues - Tax Sheltered Investments", Creighton Law School

Past Employment Positions

• Lieben, Dahlk, Whitted, Houghton, Slowiaczek & Jahn, P.C., Partner, 1988 - 1998
• Fitzgerald, Brown, Leahy, Strom, Schorr & Barmettler, Partner, 1983 - 1988

Education

• Creighton University School of Law, Omaha, Nebraska, 1977
  J.D.
  Honors: magna cum laude
  
  Law Review: Creighton Law Review, Lead Articles Editor
• University of Wisconsin, 1974
  B.A.
  Honors: With Distinction

Published Works

• "Real Estate Partnerships and the Securities Laws: A Primer", 12 Creighton L.Rev. 781, 1979
• "Class Actions - The Nebraska Procedure", 61 Neb. L. Rev. 30, 1982

Address

1620 Dodge Street
Suite 2100
Omaha, NE 68102

Phones

(402) 964-5031

Faxes

(402) 964-5050

Emails

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Websites

http://www.huschblackwell.com/