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Rod Confer is a native of McCook, Nebraska. He attended the University of Nebraska, earning a business administration degree in 1968, and received his J.D. degree with distinction in 1971 from the University of Nebraska College of Law. During law school, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Nebraska Law Review, received the Adolph Wenke Scholarship, and was named to the Order of the Coif national legal honorary.
From 1971-1975, Rod was in the Navy Judge Advocate Corps, and after discharge he worked as law clerk to Honorable Donald R. Ross of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Rod joined the firm in 1976 and is engaged in general civil trial practice. He has tried many jury trials during his career, including wrongful death and commercial matters. He was recently selected as a Super Lawyer of the Great Plains (www.superlawyers.com/nebraska). The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and the American Fisheries Society have honored Rod with conservation awards for his work in obtaining the first instream appropriation in Nebraska.
Rod has served as president of the state Order of the Coif Chapter, the Nebraska Literary Heritage Association and Friends of UNL Libraries, and as director of the Capital Humane Society and the Lincoln Metropolitan YMCA. He has spoken at several legal seminars and is the author of articles that have appeared in the Nebraska Law Review and Creighton Law Review. He has also written chapters in the "How to Practice" Manual published by the state bar and the Nebraska College of Law, and the Appellate Practice Manual for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, published by the Minnesota State Bar Association. Rod and his wife Laurie have two grown children.
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