Legal

Douglas County Veterans Treatment Court Fights For Those Who Fought For Us

Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 09/16/2022 - 5:00am

Graduates receive a personalized Veterans Treatment Court graduation certificate, a personalized flag in a triangle box, and their own, personalized graduation dog tag, engraved with “Honor Restored,” the program’s motto. (Carla Chance / The Daily Record)

They live by the credo, “leave no Veteran behind.” These are not mere words. These are actions not on the battlefields, but in everyday life, where their fellow veterans – who vowed to fight for our nation – often struggle to survive.

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Fighting Crime Like Batman With A Bad Back

Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 08/26/2022 - 5:00am

Chris McMahon isn’t your typical Deputy County Attorney. He recently graduated from law school and became a Deputy County Attorney. But he didn’t begin pursuing his law degree at Creighton University until he was 45 years old – a couple of decades after graduating with his bachelors’ degree from Midlands University. He jokes that he’s a long-term planner.

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Industrial Real Estate Is Sciscoe’s Expertise

Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 08/22/2022 - 5:00am

Denny Sciscoe is an Omaha native who graduated from Burke. He pursued a degree in construction engineering at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. During college Sciscoe worked part time as a pipe insulator around the metro. His decision to pursue construction engineering came from seeing project manager’s pull up to job sites in nicer cars and less dirt under their nails. Before graduating, Sciscoe got a position as a project manager at a local construction company and continued this job post-graduation.

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Diligence Is Crucial In Criminal Defense And Personal Injury Law

Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 08/19/2022 - 5:00am

(Courtesy of the Law Office of Eric R. Chandler)

Eric Chandler is an Omaha native who graduated from Burke. He spent one year at Texas State University on a football scholarship. After deciding he didn’t want to play football, Chandler transferred to the University of Kansas where he graduated with a major in business and a minor in psychology. He always knew he wanted to go to law school and was accepted to University of Nebraska Lincoln School of Law. Chandler went to law school for the educational background, he didn’t know that he’d be practicing law.

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Collaboration And Core Values Are Key At McGill Law

Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 08/12/2022 - 5:00am

Jodie McGill of McGill Law. (Carla Chance / The Daily Record)

An accomplished attorney in her own right, Jodie McGill is an advocate in the truest sense of the word. McGill is a staunch defender of family welfare.

The Omaha native established McGill Law in 2011 to create the best of both worlds – “make my passions for the law and my family work together.”

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Attorney Roxanne Alhejaj Is Right Where She Belongs

Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 08/05/2022 - 5:00am

The view from her west Omaha office is much different from the one she knew growing up in York, Nebraska.

But for Roxanne Alhejaj, her vision is only slightly changed from what she at first set out to be. Graduating Magna Cum Laude with her B.A. from Creighton and earning her law degree with honors from the Creighton University School of Law, she always worked with numbers.

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Richard Berkshire: "One Of The Last Lawyers Who Makes House Calls"

Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 4:00am

Richard Berkshire is an Omaha native who graduated from Westside High School in 1972. He attended Hastings College where he triple majored in Political science, Pre-Law and Economics. Berkshire’s father was a lawyer whose office was on the fourteenth floor of the Kiewit Plaza. Berkshire spent a lot of time around his father’s practice. He started working at the office mowing the lawns and running errands for the firm.

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Hannah Sommers: From Journalist To Lawyer

Published by jason@omahadail... on Thu, 06/16/2022 - 4:01am

Hannah Sommers grew up in Kansas City, then went to University of Missouri for Broadcast Journalism. She learned it was not the field for her, but the job helped hone her questioning and writing skills. Law School presented a different way to write, law writing being more repetitive than journalistic writing. “It’s been kind of fun to evolve as that kind of writer,” Hannah Sommers said. The schedule she found in journalism drove her to change careers.

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She Owns the Largest Woman-Owned Law Firm in the Midwest

Published by jason@omahadail... on Fri, 04/15/2022 - 5:00am

Jeana Goosmann went to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to major in business. Goosmann found her passion after being assigned to create a company for an entrepreneurship class. She found herself wondering: what does it mean to run a business? and the process it takes to open a company. Goosmann’s curiosity led her to law school. She was accepted into Creighton’s law school with the Muchmore scholarship which paid her tuition in full.