REX A. HAMMARBACK (Owner)

Rex Hammarback was born in Ada, Minnesota and attended public schools in Ada, Minnesota, Anchorage, Alaska, Eugene, Oregon, and graduated from high school in Crookston, Minnesota, in 1972. He is an honors graduate of North Dakota State University and a member of the Phi Kappa Phi national honor society. Mr. Hammarback graduated from the University of North Dakota Law School in 1985 and is licensed to practice law in the state and federal courts in Minnesota and North Dakota; and the Eighth Circuit Court.

Mr. Hammarback has broad experience in the general practice of law. He has been involved in civil litigation, including complex aviation crash cases and federal civil rights claims involving airports. He has extensive experience in multi-party, multi-state litigation involving claims in excess of several million dollars. He has litigated and defended wrongful death cases, and has trial experience with serious personal injury cases, including medical malpractice cases.

Mr. Hammarback also has extensive experience as a member of the board of directors of public corporations, public non-profit corporations, and charitable organizations.

He has held the position of Chief Operational Officer for a multi-million dollar corporation. His responsibilities have included; annual budgeting; private and public lending; personnel recruitment and hiring; officers and directors liability; real estate transactions; research and development contracts and contract dispute resolution.

Mr. Hammarback served as an agency seminar specialist for Lutheran Brotherhood in the 1990’s. Lutheran Brotherhood was a fraternal benefit insurance company. As an agency specialist, Mr. Hammarback reviewed literally hundreds of estates for estate planning purposes. He has probated complex estates in Minnesota and North Dakota. He has presented hundreds of seminars on estate planning.

Mr. Hammarback was formerly a registered securities representative licensed by the National Association of Securities Dealers. He is also a licensed airline transport pilot and holds a type rating in the Cessna Citation Corporate Jet. He has five thousand hours of flight experience in over seventy-five different types of aircraft. He currently lives in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Areas of Practice

Aviation Law
Business Law
Estate Planning
Medical Malpractice
Personal Injury/Wrongful Death
Probate
Real Estate
Wills/Trusts

Bar Admissions

North Dakota
Minnesota
North Dakota Federal Court
Minnesota Federal Court
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals

Education

University of North Dakota School of Law, Grand Forks, ND 1985 - J.D.
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 1982 - B.S. Business (with honors)

Professional Associations and Memberships

State Bar Association of North Dakota
Minnesota State Bar Association
Greater Grand Forks County Bar Association

Publications

Aviation Law for College Students (unpublished textbook) 1991

Board of Directors

Hammarback, Dusek & Associates, PLC
Chief Manager
Feb 2004 to present

Vector Training Systems, Inc. - Grand Forks, North Dakota
Chairman of aircraft flight training device manufacturer and software development company
1998 to April 2001

First Bank - Grand Forks, North Dakota
$200,000,000.00 bank with seven advisory board members
1988-1994

Lions Club International - East Grand Forks, Minnesota
1985-1987

The UND Aerospace Foundation - Grand Forks, North Dakota
1987-1992