RICK B. HOGGARD

r. Hoggard maintains an “AV” rating with Martindale-Hubbell, which is the highest rating awarded to attorneys for professional competence and ethics. He has also been voted by his peers as one of Utah’s “Legal Elite” in the category of Intellectual Property Law (as published in Utah Business Magazine).

EDUCATION

University of Utah, J.D., 1987

• Order of the Coif
• Staff member, UTAH LAW REVIEW, 1985-1987
• Richard J. Dewsnup Fellow (1985)
• Marriner Eccles Fellow (1986-1987)

University of Utah, B.S., Metallurgical Engineering, 1984

• magna cum laude

PRACTICE AREAS

Appellate Practice
Banking and Financial Institutions
Intellectual Property Law and Litigation
Litigation

PRIOR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Union Pacific Railroad Corp., Law Clerk, Summer 1986
  
• Utah Attorney General's Office, Department of Natural Resources, Law Clerk, Summer 1985
  

ADMITTED TO PRACTICE

• United States Patent and Trademark Office
  
• United States Court of Appeals for the Second, Tenth and Federal Circuits
  
• U.S. District Court for the District of Utah
  
• Utah Supreme Court
  
• United States Supreme Court
  

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

Utah State Bar

JAMES S. JARDINE

Mr. Jardine is the Managing Director of Ray Quinney & Nebeker. His practice focuses on prosecuting and defending commercial litigation matters, and emphasizes complex business, antitrust, securities and intellectual property litigation. He has represented a wide variety of local, regional, and national businesses in major litigation in Utah and other states. Mr. Jardine is a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers, a member of the Committee on the Local Rules of Practice for the District of Utah and former Chairman of the Litigation Section of the Utah State Bar. He is involved in a wide variety of community activities, including serving as Outside Counsel to the Salt Lake Olympic Organizing Committee, as a member of the Board of Regents of the Utah System of Higher Education and as a Governor of the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Jardine was named Outstanding Lawyer of the Year by the Utah Chapter of the Federal Bar Association for 2006. He was selected by the Utah Bar Commission as the recipient of the Bar's Distinguished Lawyer of the Year award for 2005. He maintains an “AV” rating with Martindale-Hubbell, which is the highest rating awarded to attorneys for professional competence and ethics. For the past ten years Mr. Jardine has been included on the list of The Best Lawyers in America in Antitrust Law, Commercial Litigation, and Bet-the-Company Litigation. He has also been voted by his peers throughout the state as one of Utah's "Legal Elite" in the categories of Business Litigation, Corporate Law and Government Law (as published in Utah Business Magazine).

EDUCATION

Harvard University, J.D., 1974

• cum laude

University of Utah, B.A., Political Science, 1971

• magna cum laude

PRACTICE AREAS

Antitrust and Trade Regulation Law and Litigation
Intellectual Property Law and Litigation
Litigation
Securities Litigation

PRIOR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Special Assistant to Honorable Griffin B. Bell, Attorney General of the United States, 1977-78
  
• Law Clerk to Honorable Aldon J. Anderson, United States District Judge, 1974-75
  

ADMITTED TO PRACTICE

• Utah State Bar, 1974
  
• United States Supreme Court, 1978
  
• Tenth Circuit, 1977 and Federal Circuit, 1995
  
• United States District Court for the District of Utah, 1974
  

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

• Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers, 1996 to present
  
• Member, Committee on Rules of Practice, Unites States District Court for the District of Utah, 1997 to present
  

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

• The 1979 Utah Antitrust Act, UTAH LAW REVIEW 73 (1980)
  
• Ballot Access Rights, UTAH LAW REVIEW 290 (1974)
  

PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC ACTIVITIES

• Outstanding Lawyer of the Year, Federal Bar Association, Utah Chapter, 2006
  
• Distinguished Lawyer of the Year, Utah State Bar, 2005
  
• Member, Utah State Board of Regents (1999 to present)
  
• General Outside Counsel, Salt Lake Olympic Organizing Committee for the Winter Games of 2002 (1989 to 2003)
  
• Member, Board of Governors, Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce (2000 to present)
  
• Member, Board of Trustees, Economic Development Corporation of Utah (1999 to 2004)
  
• Chairman, Olympics for Utah, Inc. (1989)
  
• Chairman, Board of Trustees, University of Utah (1989 to 1999)
  
• Member, Board of Trustees (1985 to 1988) and Chairman (1986 to 1988), Utah Technology Financial Corporation
  
• Vice-Chairman, Executive Committee, Taxpayers for Utah, Inc. (1988)
  
• Chairman, Litigation Section, Utah State Bar, 1983-84
  
• Member, Board of Directors, Maverick Country Stores, Inc. (1997 to present)
  
• Member, Executive Committee and Board of Directors, ZCMI (1985 to 1999)
  
• Adjunct Professor, Federal Courts, J. Rueben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, 1979-82
  
• Adjunct Professor, Advanced Civil Procedure, University of Utah Law School, 1977