Current Employment Position(s)

Partner, since 2005

Lawyer Overview

Areas of Practice

• Business & Commercial Litigation
• Governmental Affairs
• Government Compliance, Investigations & Litigation

Representative Clients

• Del Peterson and Associates
• Deuel County Interstate Banc Corp.
• FourThought Group
• Hawkins Construction Company
• National Rural Electrification Association
• Nebraska Chiropractic Physicians Association
• Papio-Missouri Rivers Natural Resource District
• Renewable Fuel Technology, LLC
• The Buckle, Inc.

West Practice Categories

Litigation & Appeals, Business & Commercial Law, Business Organizations, Government Agencies & Programs, Administrative Law, Environmental Law

Bar Admissions

• Nebraska, 1989
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1994
• U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit, 1992
• U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit, 1991
• U.S. District Court District of Nebraska, 1989
• U.S. Court of Federal Claims, 2004

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Association of the Bar of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit
• Nebraska State Bar Association, Government Practice Section Executive Board, 1997 - 2001
• Nebraska State Bar Association
• Omaha Bar Association
• Robert Spire Inns of Court, 2008 - Present
• Community Health Charities of Nebraska, 2004 - Present (CHC-NE Board of Directors)
• Grace University Foundation, 2003 - Present (Board of Directors)
• Grace Reformed Church (PCA)
• Nebraska Republican Party, 2007 - Present (Legal Counsel)
• K-Life Omaha, 2008 - Present (Board of Directors)

Classes and Seminars

• Speaker, “Ethanol - America’s Leading Alternative Fuel”, National Association of Attorneys General President’s Initiative on Energy
• Speaker, "Livestock Confinement Facilities: A Rose by Any Other Name?", NCLE Seminar

Past Employment Positions

• Office of the Attorney General, Chief Deputy Attorney General, 1991 - 2002
• Kutak Rock Law Firm, 1989 - 1991
• United States Representative Virginia Smith, Congressional Legislative Assistant, 1984 - 1985

Education

• University of Nebraska College of Law, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1989
  J.D.
  Honors: cum laude
  Honors: Order of the Coif
  Honors: Moot Court Awards for Top Oralist and best Brief
  
  Law Review: Nebraska Law Review, Executive Editor
• University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1984
  B.S.
  Honors: cum laude
  Honors: Agriculture Honors Program
  Honors: Innocents Society
  Honors: Farm House Fraternity President

Published Works

• “Busting 4 Myths of the Food vs. Fuel Debate”, The Gusher, Vol. 75, No. 3, 2008
• "Opinions of the Attorney General", Westlaw @NE-AG, 1991-2002
• "Tobacco Litigation and Legislation", October 2000 Head & Neck 643, October, 2000
• "If Standing Bear Could Talk . . . Why There is No Constitutional Right to Kill a Partially-Born Human Being", 33 Creighton Law Review 23, 1999
• "Critical Facts and Free Speech: The Eighth Circuit Clarifies Its Appellate Standard Of Review For First Amendment Free Speech Cases", 31 Creighton Law Review 387, 1998
• "Child Pornography and Child Nudity: Why and How States May Constitutionally Regulate the Production, Possession, and Distribution of Nude Visual Depictions of Children", 71 Temple Law Review 609, 1998
• "The Conservation Reserve Program: 1990 and Beyond. Legislative and Administrative Proposals to Enhance Long-Term Environmental and Economic Benefits From the Conservation Reserve Program", 69 Nebraska Law Review 697, 1990

Address

1620 Dodge Street
Suite 2100
Omaha, NE 68102

Phones

(402) 964-5015

Faxes

(402) 964-5050

Emails

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Websites

http://www.huschblackwell.com/