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2008
ANNUAL MEETING
October 22-24, 2008
The Hilton Hotel
Omaha, Nebraska
GENERAL SESSION
featuring Ed Hochuli
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Ballroom C • 4:00 p.m.
Ed Hochuli is an attorney with Jones, Skelton & Hochuli but is perhaps better known as a football official in the National Football League since the 1990 NFL season. Prior to his officiating career he played college football for the University of Texas at El Paso. He wears uniform number 85 and is regarded as one of the most respected officials in the NFL for working numerous playoff games and two superbowls. In addition to his legal and sports careers, Ed Hochuli is in demand as an entertaining and insightful speaker. Mr. Hochuli has been a partner with Jones, Skelton & Hochuli since it was founded in 1983. During that time, he has tried well over 150 civil jury trials to verdict. Mr. Hochuli concentrates his practice on Legal Malpractice and Professional Liability, Extra-contractual defense, Transportation defense, Products Liability, Premise Liability, and Personal Injury defense, including Toxic Torts. He is a member of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel and an advocate member of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He is also a Director of the Trucking Industry Defense Association and the USLAW Network. Mr. Hochuli is a 1976 graduate of the University of Arizona College of Law and is admitted to practice in Arizona state and federal courts and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Pre-General Session Special Program
Thursday, October 23, 2008 • Castle • 3:00 p.m.
“The Next Next Generation of Lawyers”
Prior to Ed Hochuli, Tracy Leigh McGaugh, Associate Professor of Legal Process at Touro Law Center, will present a special program on Millenials. You have heard about "Generation X" - but what about the generation who has come after them - who are the "Millenials" and what are they bringing to the practice of law? These children of the Baby Boom generation are now contributing members
of the professions - but they are different. What to expect - and what we can learn about - and from them. Tracy Leigh McGaugh is one of the best-known legal writing teachers in the nation. She has taught legal Research and Writing at South Texas College of Law and at Texas Tech University School of Law, where she also served as Associate Director of the Legal Practice Program. She is the coauthor of two of the standard resources in legal writing programs, Interactive Citation Workbook: Bluebook Edition and Interactive Citation Workbook: ALWD Edition, and has written and lectured widely at regional, national and international conferences on legal writing and law teaching.
