Current Employment Position(s)

Partner, since 2000

Areas of Practice

• Finance & Lending
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Real Estate

Representative Clients

• 1st Source Bank
• Anderson Clayton Corp.
• Bank of the West
• Diversified Financial Services
• First National Capital Markets, Inc.
• Gordmans, Inc.
• InfiBank, N.A.
• J.D. Heiskell Holdings, LLC
• United Republic Bank

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Lending & Secured Transactions, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Real Estate Law

Bar Admissions

• Nebraska, 1975
• U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit
• U.S. District Court District of Nebraska

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association, Sections on Local Government and Banking, Business and Bankruptcy, Law Practice Management
• Nebraska State Bar Association, Committees: Budget, Committee on Inquiry for Second Judicial District (Past Chair of Ways and Means)
• Omaha Bar Association
• Child Savings Institute, Centennial Capital Funds Drive
• Executive Women’s Luncheon Group (Charter Member)
• Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce (Long Range Planning Steering Committee)
• Greater Omaha Women’s Fund, 1990 - 1992 (Charter Member of Board of Directors)
• Greater Resources for Omaha Women (G.R.O.W.) (Co-Founder)
• Nebraska Commission on the Status of Women, 1979 - 1985
• Nebraska Commission on the Status of Women (Vice-Chair)
• Nebraska Commission on the Status of Women (Chair of Employment and Education Committee)
• Nebraska Commission on the Status of Women, 1982 - 1984 (Secretary)
• Nebraska Commission on the Status of Women
• The Salvation Army, 1988 - 1996 (Advisory Board)

Honors and Awards

• The Best Lawyers in America in the area of Corporate Law and Banking Law, 2006 - 2009
• "Leading Individual" in Corporate/Commercial (Nebraska) by Chambers USA, 2008 The Client's Guide

Classes and Seminars

• Adjunct Professor, “Economics of Law Practice”, Creighton University School of Law, 1989 - 1998
• English and Math, Omaha Public Schools, 1964 - 1972
• Speaker, “Bankruptcy Implications of Real Estate Transactions”, NCLE
• Speaker, “Bankruptcy and Limited Liability Entities”, ALI-ABA, 1997 - 2005
• Panelist, AVIS Licensee Association
• Panelist, Nebraska Continuing Legal Education Annual Real Estate Seminar
• Chaired Advisory Committee on Federal Judgeship Appointments
• Chaired Lender Liability Seminar, Nebraska Continuing Legal Education
• “Intangible Collateral”, Banking Law Institute
• “Perfecting an Interest in Intangibles”, Creighton University School of Law, CLE Seminar on Commercial Transactions
• Co-Chair and Panelist, Third Party Guarantees, New York Law Journal
• Co-Chair, Direction of Municipal Finance, New York Law Journal
• Bank Securities Practice: “A Seminar for Lenders and Their Counsel”, Instituto de Desarrollo Legal
• “Municipal Leasing,” Presentation on Municipal Finance, Annual Convention of American Bar Association Government Section

Past Employment Positions

• Betterman & Dixon, Partner, 1999 - 2000
• Dixon & Jessup Ltd., L.L.P., Managing Partner, 1982 - 1998
• Kutak Rock & Huie, 1976 - 1982
• Kutak Rock & Huie, Banking Department Chair, 1979 - 1982
• Honorable Edward Allen Tamm, U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, Law Clerk, 1975 - 1976
• Creighton University School of Law, Adjunct Professor, 1989 - 1998

Education

• Creighton University School of Law, Omaha, Nebraska, 1975
  J.D.
  Honors: summa cum laude
  Honors: Winner of Moot Court Competition
  Honors: Recipient of Dean Roscoe Pound Award for oral advocacy, 1974
  Honors: Dean's Honor Roll, 1973-1975
  Honors: Alpha Sigma Nu, Jesuit Scholastic Honorary, 1974
  
  Law Review: Creighton Law Review, Editor-in-Chief
• University of Illinois, 1964
  B.A.
  Honors: With High Honors
  Honors: High Distinction
  Honors: Alpha Lambda Delta Scholastic Honorary
  Honors: Phi Kappa Phi Scholastic Honorary
  Major: English

Address

1620 Dodge Street
Suite 2100
Omaha, NE 68102

Phones

(402) 964-5020

Faxes

(402) 964-5050

Emails

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Websites

http://www.huschblackwell.com/