Gene Summerlin Lincoln, Nebraska
| phone | (402) 434-8040 |
| fax | (402) 434-8044 |
| Email Me | |
- Areas of Practice:
- Agricultural Litigation
- Antitrust & Trade Regulation Litigation
- Biotechnology Litigation
- Business and Commercial Litigation
- Class Action Litigation
- Constitutional Litigation
- Insurance Litigation
- Litigation & Appeals
- Bar Admissions:
- Nebraska, 1991
- U.S. District Court District of Nebraska, 1991
- U.S. District Court Central District of Illinois, 2004
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Illinois, 2005
- U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit, 1992
- Education:
- University of Nebraska College of Law, Lincoln, Nebraska,
May, 1991
Juris Doctorate
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Honors: Order of the Coif
Honors: American Jurisprudence Award for Trial Advocacy
Honors: American Jurisprudence Award for Advanced Trial Advocacy
Honors: Thomas Stinson Allen Award for Oral Advocacy
Law Review: Nebraska Law Review, Executive Editor
- Published Works:
- Partner v Partner II: Fraud and the In Pari Delicto Defense, ATLA Business Torts Section Newsletter, Vol. 9, No. 2., 2005
- 50 Things I Wish I Would Have Learned in Lawschool, The Docket, Vol. 25, Issue 5, 2003
- Legal Implications of Animal Cloning, National Pedigreed Livestock Counsel, May, 2003
- Practice Pointers: Law Firm Management, The Prairie Barrister, Vol. 7 No. 1, 2001
- Blue Sky Laws and the Beef Industry, Beef Today, July, 1997
- Strategic Alliance Agreements, Farm Journal Publications, April, 1996
- Promises, Promises: A Contract Primer, Feedlot Today, May, 1992
- Representative Cases:
- American Simmental Assoc. v. St. Paul Ins. Co., 75 F.Supp. 2d 1023 (D. Neb. 1999)
- Blue Dane Simmental Corp. v. American Simmental Assoc., 178 F.3d 1035 (8th Cir. 1999)
- Olmer v. City of Lincoln, 192 F.3d 1176 (8th Cir. 1999)
- Blue Dane Simmental Corp. v. American Simmental Assoc., 1998 MT 260N (Montana Supreme Court 1998)
- Amoco Pipeline v. State Bd. of Equalization and Assessment, 242 Neb. 273 (Nebraska Supreme Court 1993)
- Classes/Seminars Taught:
- Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Law in Nebraska, National Business Institute, May 21, 2004
- Legal Implications of Animal Cloning: The Future is Now, National Pedigreed Livestock Counsel, May 13, 2003
- Nebraska Rules of Civil Procedure - Notice Pleading Comes to Nebraska, Nebraska Association of Trial Attorneys, October 18, 2002
- A Commonsense Approach to Risk Management, Nebraska Parks and Recreation Association, September 20, 2000
- Preparing Clients for Trial: From Discovery to Direct, Nebraska Association of Trial Attorneys, October 8, 1999
