Gene Summerlin
Attorney and business advisor in food systems and animal health at Husch Blackwell LLP
- Role
- Partner at Husch Blackwell
- Location
- Omaha, NE, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Gene Summerlin
Bar Admissions * United States Supreme Court * United States District…
Experience
Partner
Jul 2012 — Present · Lincoln, NE, US
With deep experience in agriculture, start ups and civil litigation, Gene has advised clients in Nebraska and nationally for more than two decades. He represents new ventures, existing entities and individuals, bringing creative solutions to the business challenges faced by clients in the animal health, pharma, agriculture and organic food industries. Gene has guided companies from creation through capital raising, entry into market and sale or other exit strategies. His agricultural litigation experience is broad and ranges from representing purchasers of a dairy herd in breach of warranty claims to litigating complex cattle feeding arrangements. Gene has experience in large, multiparty litigation, having served as class counsel for farmers harmed by the cross pollination of genetically modified corn and as special counsel to the Department of Justice’s U.S. Trustee in a complex cattle investment-fraud case involving $3 billion in assets.
Education
University of Nebraska College of Law
JD, Law
1988 — 1991
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Bachelor of Science, Agriculture; Animal Science
1984 — 1988
Skills
- Public Speaking
- Courts
- Business Litigation
- Arbitration
- Legal Writing
- Litigation
- Product Liability
- Class Actions
- Trials
- Legal Advice
- Appeals
- Agricultural Law
- Insurance Law
- Legal Research
- Agribusiness
- Civil Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Trial Practice
- Torts
- Trademark Infringement
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