Mr. Howard regularly handles litigation matters in all state and federal courts in Nevada and California as well as disputes subject to mandatory and contractual arbitration.

Mr. Howard’s litigation practice is broad-based, including extensive experience in the areas of commercial litigation, lender liability, receiverships, landlord/tenant disputes, insurance, title insurance, construction defects, secured transactions, intellectual property, suretyship law, fidelity and performance bonds, franchise law, collection matters and all types of contested and adversarial bankruptcy matters.
He has represented the construction lenders in some of the largest lien priority trials in Nevada.

He was previously a member of the law firm of Frandzel & Share, the managing partner of its San Francisco office and chair of the San Francisco Bar Association, Commercial Law, and Bankruptcy Section. Mr. Howard has also served as general counsel and CFO for a privately held company.

Mr. Howard received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1971 and his Juris Doctor from Hastings College of the Law in 1974.

Affiliations
Member, State Bar of Nevada
Member, State Bar of California
Admitted to practice, United States District Court for the Districts of Nevada and California
Admitted to practice, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Representative Matters
Carmel Land & Cattle Co. adv. City of Henderson
In Re: Southwest Exchange consolidated case
In Re: Purchasepro.com. Inc., Securities Litigation
Estate of Uchitel
Aladdin Hotel/Bazaar Consolidated Mechanics Lien Foreclosure Case
Resort at Summerlin Consolidated Mechanics Lien Foreclosure Case
First Bank of Beverly Hills vs. [Confidential]
Venetian Hotel Consolidated Mechanics Lien Foreclosure Case
LVGT. Inc. v. Boreta
Imperial Bank v. Talden
Cal Fed v. Carruf
Tokai Bank v. Mt. Winery. et al.
WFB v. Spectravision
FIAB v. Fernandez
WFB v. Ron Greenspan