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BRAD M. JOHNSTON

Brad’s diverse legal experience ranges from commercial litigation in state and federal courts to managing regulatory affairs for one of the country’s largest specialty agriculture companies to acquittals in serious criminal cases (including work as court-appointed counsel for indigent defendants).

Mr. Johnston joined Simons Hall Johnston PC as a member of the firm after heading his own general law practice in Yerington for five years beginning in 2014.

Before that, Brad was the Chief Strategy Officer & General Counsel for Peri & Sons Farms, Inc. in Yerington, a leading vegetable grower in the United States. Prior to that, Mr. Johnston was a partner at Holland & Hart LLP in Reno, practicing commercial litigation, and a litigation associate in New York offices of two prominent international law firms.

Immediately following law school, Brad clerked for the Hon. Melvin Brunetti of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Mr. Johnston graduated first in his class from The Ohio State University College of Law in 1998 and earned his bachelor of arts summa cum laude Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Alabama in 1994.

Brad has as an AV Preeminent^® rating from Martindale-Hubbell^® based on a confidential review by his peers in legal profession and the judiciary, reflecting the highest possible rating in both legal ability and ethical standards.

BAR ADMISSIONS

State of Nevada, 2003 to present

State of New York, 1999 to present

Admitted to practice in the following federal courts:

United States Supreme Court

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

United States District Court for the District of Nevada

United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

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