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LINCOLN W. HOBBS is the founding member and manager of Hobbs & Olson, L.C. Mr. Hobbs attended the University of Utah, earning his B.A. degree and his J.D. degree from the University of Utah College of Law. While in law school, he was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Contemporary Law and a Leary scholar. Following graduation from law school, Mr. Hobbs was an attorney and thereafter a shareholder, in the firm of Winder & Haslam, P.C. In 1999, he left that firm to start Lincoln W. Hobbs, L.C., which has subsequently become Hobbs & Olson, L.C. Mr. Hobbs was the founder of the Utah Chapter of the Community Associations Institute (CAI) and is currently the president-elect of the Foundation for Community Association Research. In the spring of 2004, he was inducted into the College of Community Association Lawyers, an organization established to acknowledge CAI member attorneys who have distinguished themselves through contributions to the evolution or practice of community association law, and who have committed themselves to high standards of professional and ethical conduct in the practice of community association law. Mr. Hobbs also serves as a member of the CAI national faculty, teaching several courses every year, throughout the United States, on community association board management issues. He is active in many professional and community service projects, having served for years as a member of the Utah State Bar's Ethics and Discipline Panel, and for many years as an officer of the Utah State Bar Labor and Employment Section, of which he was chair in 2002 and 2003. Mr. Hobbs has consistently been recognized annually by Utah Business Magazine, as one of Utah's "Legal Elite" and also has been repeatedly selected as a Mountain States Super Lawyer, an award given to only five percent of attorneys in Nevada, Utah, Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. He is licensed to practice law in the states of Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. He has once again been selected for inclusion in the 2012 edition of Best Lawyers in America® in the practice area of litigation - labor and employment. GARY L. JOHNSON with the law firm Richards, Brandt, Miller & Nelson, P.C.. is a trial lawyer who has been in practice since 1984. He is the former managing attorney of the Salt Lake City law firm, Richards Brandt Miller Nelson. Mr. Johnson is a frequent writer and lecturer on trial and insurance law matters and you can access his article, The Practical Art: History as an Element of Interpretation for the Liability Policy, in the February 2010 IADC Insurance and Reinsurance Committee Newsletter. His main areas of practice are insurance law/ERISA and products liability/toxic torts. Mr. Johnson has been chosen by his peers as one of Utah Business magazine's Utah Legal Elite in Insurance Law for the past several years. He is co-author, along with Erik Christiansen, of the Utah section in the upcoming edition of DRI's Compendium on Iinsurance Bad Faith Law. Mr. Johnson is a member of the Salt Lake County and American Bar Associations, the Utah State Bar, The Defense Research Institute and the International Association of Defense Counsel. JESSE C. TRENTADUE is an attorney with Suitter Axland, PLLC. He is a former law professor with more than 30 years experience as a trial lawyer practicing primarily in the area of insurance defense with cases involving personal injury, property damage, civil rights, breach of contract, construction defects title and land disputes, insurance coverage/bad faith, employment claims/discrimination, toxic torts/environmental cleanup, and Indian law issues. Mr. Trentadue has authored numerous articles and publications. He is a member of the Utah and Idaho state bars. Mr. Trentadue earned his B.A. degree from the University of Southern California and his J.D. degree from the University of Idaho College of Law.
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