109 ABA Journal Nebraska articles.
An Omaha, Nebraska, lawyer has received a one-year suspension for claiming in guardianship reports that he was checking on an incapacitated adult who, it turned out, had moved out of…
Nov 9, 2017 7:00 AM CST
Lawyers may accept payment in digital currencies such as bitcoin but must immediately convert the money into U.S. dollars, according to a Nebraska ethics advisory opinion.
The opinion, issued…
Sep 18, 2017 3:58 PM CDT
A Nebraska lawyer who responded to his client’s Facebook inquiries with statements such as “relax” and “this is complicated” has been suspended from practice for 90 days.
The Nebraska Supreme…
May 8, 2017 7:00 AM CDT
Every fall, plenty of lawyers have an opinion about football. The difference is that Clete Blakeman’s opinion matters.
Jan 1, 2017 3:00 AM CST
Julie Hansen and Kelly Mahoney Steenbock both excelled in academics and were determined to attend college and law school, despite growing up poor in households that could not pay for…
Nov 28, 2016 2:23 PM CST
Voters in three states on Tuesday passed ballot initiatives supporting capital punishment.
In California, voters rejected a measure to repeal the death penalty and passed a measure that seeks to…
Nov 9, 2016 9:52 AM CST
Faced with a shortage of attorneys outside major cities, the Nebraska legal community has launched a program aimed at creating more of them.
According to a press release from…
Oct 27, 2016 9:00 AM CDT
Arguments by Pastafarians that they are entitled by their religion to wear an upside-down spaghetti strainer on their heads for driver’s license photos have succeeded in several states and a…
Apr 14, 2016 12:35 PM CDT
A longtime Nebraska lawyer who later served as the CEO of TierOne Bank when it became insolvent was sentenced Wednesday to an 11-year federal prison term. He was also ordered…
Mar 23, 2016 5:00 PM CDT
There was only a tripod, a camera and other accessories in the rifle case that Floyd Wallace was carrying outside a Nebraska courthouse earlier this month.
However, the 20-year-old was…
Mar 21, 2016 3:05 PM CDT
An action-packed four days of trial in an Omaha, Nebraska, double-murder case came to an abrupt conclusion Friday morning when the judge declared a mistrial at the request of the…
Mar 4, 2016 12:10 PM CST
A Nebraska judge says he barred police officers from bringing their guns into his courtroom this week partly because of safety concerns.
Judge James Gleason of Douglas County tells the…
Dec 18, 2015 9:00 AM CST
Nebraska lawmakers abolished the death penalty on Wednesday, as the state’s unicameral legislature overrode a veto by the Republican governor in a 30-19 bipartisan vote.
The 30 votes to override…
May 27, 2015 5:05 PM CDT
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts on Tuesday vetoed a bill abolishing the death penalty in the state, saying capital punishment “is a matter of public safety.”
In the final vote on…
May 27, 2015 7:45 AM CDT
The parents of a girl struck by a truck in an Omaha, Nebraska, street on Halloween 2011 have sued a home insurance company, among other defendants, seeking compensation for her…
May 22, 2015 3:45 PM CDT
