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President of the Nevada Bar to Present Jackson Lecture on March 28
3/21/2007

Heather Singer, Communications Specialist

The National Judicial College (NJC) will be presenting its first 2007 Jackson Lecture on March 28 at 4:30 p.m. at the NJC, located on the University of Nevada, Reno, campus. President of the State Bar of Nevada, Rew R. Goodenow’s lecture is titled “Bench & Bar Partners for Fair & Impartial Justice." The event, which is being held in the NJC’s Tom C. Clark auditorium, is free and open to the public.

The NJC’s Jackson Lectures are held in honor of Justice Robert H. Jackson, a 1940s Supreme Court Justice best remembered for his role as chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg War Trials. The NJC presents these lectures three times a year at the end of each two-week General Jurisdiction course for the course participants as well as community residents.

In addition to serving as president of the Nevada Bar, Goodenow practices law with Parsons Behle & Latimer in Reno, Nev., specializing in all phases of business development and operations, from start-up to market leader. He holds an AV rating from Martindale Hubbell, the highest rating given. In addition to extensive experience successfully negotiating and completing business purchases and sales, and other business transactions, Goodenow has served as lead counsel in state and federal trial courts and courts of appeal in complex and ordinary business and corporate litigation. He represents banking and other financial institutions in bankruptcy court.

As the principal author of Nevada’s Limited Liability Company Act, and of the treatise Nevada Business Entities, Goodenow counsels clients in a broad range of complex business, financial and real estate transactions. He serves on the editorial board for the ABA Journal and as general counsel for the Nevada Republican Party. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Tulane University and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Iowa College of Law. He is admitted to practice in Nevada, Iowa, the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Court for Nevada and the U.S. District Court for Iowa.

The Jackson Lectures are held three times a year in memory of Justice Jackson, who was born in Spring Creek, Penn., on Feb. 13, 1892. He never went to college, but attended Albany Law School for a year. He obtained most of his legal education under the old apprenticeship system as a law clerk and did not get his law degree until after he was named as a justice to the Supreme Court of the United States, when he was awarded an honorary degree by Albany Law School.

Justice Jackson was invited by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to serve in the New Deal government, first as General Counsel to the Bureau of Internal Revenue, and later as solicitor general and attorney general. He took his seat as a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States on Oct. 6, 1941, and served until his death in 1954. Justice Jackson is best remembered for his vigorous decision and wisdom.

The decision to honor Justice Jackson with this lecture series was made by his friend and Supreme Court colleague, Justice Tom C. Clark, chairman of the Joint Committee for the Effective Administration of Justice and one of NJC’s founders, for whom NJC’s auditorium is named.

Rew R. Goodenow, president of the State Bar of Nevada, will be presenting the first 2007 Jackson Lecture titled "Bench & Bar Partners for Fair & Impartial Justice."