The day before ceremonies on Thursday to swear in new lawyers in Nebraska, three would-be lawyers got some bad news. They didn’t pass the bar exam after all.
Nebraska College of Law student Alissa Doerr clerked with a small-town lawyer this summer, seeking the experience she needs to set up a similar practice and take advantage of the…
Notified by the feds that it had violated wage-and-hour laws, a well-known company opted to settle the case rather than fight allegations that nonexempt hourly employees in four states weren’t…
The Department of Justice has announced charges against a Russian man who is alleged to be the leader of a computer hacking group responsible for “Cryptolocker” and “Project Zeus” virus…
Membership in the Nebraska State Bar Association will remain mandatory. But the state’s top court on Friday limited the manner in which the group can spend members’ dues.
A Nebraska attorney has been indefinitely suspended from practice because she spoke with a prosecutor about her former client in a rape case, allegedly motivated by hatred for the lawyer…
A former client of a Nebraska lawyer was charged Friday with first-degree murder in Hall County in the fatal shooting of attorney Todd V. Elsbernd, 52,…
A Nebraska trial lawyer was fatally shot Wednesday as he stood beside a red Chevrolet Avalanche parked outside his Grand Island law office at around 6:30 p.m.
Instructed to prepare for the possibility of an ongoing government shutdown if Congress doesn’t resolve a budget impasse and restore funding this week, a growing number of federal courts have…
A well-known lawyer congratulating two attorneys about their recent oral argument before the Nebraska Supreme Court in a state bar association case apparently was not as impressed by some of…
The Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled a foster child must get the consent of a parent or guardian for an abortion, but it did not reach the issue of who…
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