Rembolt Ludtke partner Jane Langan Mach, and her husband, Jeff, were the co-chairs for the 14th Annual Barristers’ Ball for the Nebraska State Bar Association. Under their leadership, the event had record ticket sales and was successful in supporting the Nebraska Lawyers Foundation and its charitable works. The Barristers’ Ball’s proceeds support programs such as…
Tim Clare and his wife, Amy, received the 2018 Carmen and Tony Messineo Community Involvement Award from TeamMates Mentoring of Lincoln. The award celebrates the individuals, businesses, faith-based groups, and community organizations that have partnered with TeamMates, demonstrating a continuum of support for the TeamMates program and its goals. Tim and Amy Clare’s advocacy, fundraising…
Today, Rembolt Ludtke attorneys Max Rodenburg and Anthony Aerts published a guest editorial in the Scottsbluff Star-Herald discussing the impact the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will have on agricultural and small business operations. Wrapping your head around the changes made by the recently enacted Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) can be intimidating. In addition to changing the way…
Rembolt Ludtke partner Jane Langan Mach has been recognized by the American Institute of Family Law Attorneys for her exceptional performance as Four Years 10 Best Family Law Attorney for Client Satisfaction. Attorneys who are selected to the “10 Best” list must pass the American Institute of Family Law Attorneys’s rigorous selection process, which is…
The University of Nebraska has announced the election of Rembolt Ludtke partner Tim Clare as vice chair of the Board of Regents. Clare, a Regent representing District 1, was elected to the Board in 2008 and re-elected in 2014. He served as vice chair in 2012 and chair in 2013. “Every January the Board of…
Rembolt Ludtke attorney Bob Nefsky was announced as a winner in the 2018 Governor’s Arts Awards. Nefsky will receive the Leonard Thiessen Award from the board of the Nebraska Arts Council for extraordinary contributions to the arts for the state of Nebraska. “I am honored to receive the Leonard Thiessen Award,” said Nefsky. “Support for…
Tim Clare, parter at Rembolt Ludtke and member of the University of Nebraska’s Board of Regents, wrote an op-ed published in the Lincoln Journal Star challenging the severity of the state’s proposed budget cuts to the University of Nebraska. … I’m struggling with the fact that the recent budget proposal assigns one-third of the cuts…
Our colleague Tim Engler, currently serving as President of the Nebraska State Bar Association, was featured on the cover of the January/February 2018 edition of The Nebraska Lawyer. Within the magazine, his article “Be the Difference” discusses the numerous ways in which a lawyer can be the difference in a client’s world. Our firm is…
A judicial commission has named two finalists to fill a vacancy on the Nebraska Court of Appeals. David Bargen with Rembolt Ludtke in Lincoln and Larry E. Welch Jr. with the Welch Law Firm in Omaha were announced Tuesday as finalists for appointment to the 24-county Fifth Judicial District. Gov. Pete Ricketts will select one…
At the Nebraska State Bar Association’s annual meeting this October, Rembolt Ludtke’s Timothy Engler assumed the position of President on the Executive Council. The Nebraska State Bar Association works for Nebraska lawyers to help them achieve the highest standards of competence, ethics and professionalism and to protect and promote the administration of and access to justice. A House of…
The North Platte Telegraph: Officials say the reservoirs along the Missouri River are ready to handle the floodwaters that are expected to flow into the system this year. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it has the full flood storage space available in the reservoirs, so it is in good shape headed into the…
Sioux City Journal: Ida Grove city leaders and residents disagree on whether fluoride should continue to be placed in the city water supply, so residents in the Ida County town seat may be surveyed on the subject. Ida Grove Councilman Doug Clough on Friday said the fluoride issue at hand may be placed as a…
Kearney Hub: The North Platte Natural Resources District (NRD) is opening enrollment in the Encouraging Producer Innovation through Conservation (EPIC) allocation buy-back program, which will help the District meet obligations under its Integrated Management Plan. The EPIC Program provides financial incentives for producers to help the District reduce consumptive use and reach its resource management…
Scottsbluff Star-Herald: Once the costs were revised, Terrytown is about ready to start work on the next phase of its project to completely update the city’s water system. The city has already completed its connection with Gering, which is providing water for Terrytown. The next two phases are to upgrade the city’s water mains and…
Norfolk Daily News: Water quality in the Lewis & Clark Natural Resources District is becoming an issue. “In recent years, we have been seeing an increase of nitrates in the ground water in the Bazile Creek watershed and also in central Cedar and Knox counties. We started wondering what’s going on with our surface water,”…
Kearney Hub: Meeting reports included an overview by CNPPID Government and Public Relations Manager Jeff Buettner of some water-related bills in the Nebraska Legislature. One, LB134, would reinstate a 3-cent levy authority for natural resources districts within basins that have designated fully appropriated or overappropriated areas. Those NRDs are required by the Nebraska Department of…
Sioux City Journal: A company facing opposition from environmentalists and landowners as it works to build an $800 million oil refinery near Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota has cleared another hurdle by obtaining a state water permit, though the matter could still end up in state court.State Engineer Garland Erbele on Thursday…
Scottsbluff Star-Herald: A bill introduced by State Sen. John Stinner, of Gering, which would reinstate the 3 cent levy authority for fully or over-appropriated natural resources districts, was heard before the Legislature’s Revenue Committee on Wednesday afternoon. Fully and over-appropriated natural resources districts, such as the North Platte NRD, are districts directed by the state’s…
Sioux City Journal: A regional water system providing water to communities in southeast South Dakota and northwest Iowa awarded an $8.2 million contract Thursday for construction of 10 miles of a new pipeline near Sioux Center, Iowa. The low bid, under the $11 million initially budgeted for the project, was submitted by Carstensen Contracting of…
Kearney Hub: A JEO Consulting Group study has determined that Buffalo County’s Ravenna Lake is not feasible as water-holding site for a possible groundwater recharge project. Results of that study were part of General Manager Russell Callan’s report at Thursday’s Lower Loup Natural Resources District Board meeting in Ord. Callan told the Hub that water…
The Grand Island Independent: The City of York will be contracting with Olsson Associates for the formulation of a water system master plan. The project will cost the city $44,725 – the city already budgeted $45,000 for this to take place in this fiscal year. York Public Works Director Mitch Doht explained to the council,…
KRVN 880 Rural Radio: The Nebraska Supreme Court recently confirmed the authority of a natural resources district to impose groundwater management requirements and levy penalties on a landowner. The Supreme Court said the Lower Loup Natural Resources District had authority to impose sanctions on Robert J. Prokop of Wilber, who owns land in Nance County….
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