Profiles
Luke R. Stenard
Liakos & Matukewicz LLC is pleased to announce that Luke R. Stenard joined the Firm as an Associate.
Luke focuses his practice on litigation, commercial, business, real estate and data privacy...
Alexandra HubbardKoeni
Koenig|Dunne is excited to announce that Alexandra Hubbard has joined our team of divorce attorneys. Ally graduated from the University of Nebraska College of Law with distinction. She exudes the...
According to Velocity Global, “The gig economy is large — and growing every day. The number of global gig workers is expected to rise by more than 30 million people in the next year. More workers are starting to see the benefits and flexibility of contracting and independent work.” Gig work accounts for 36% of the total American Workforce. (Shutterstock)
In the modern era, most people have heard talk about the gig economy. The changing landscape of work has led to many jobs that would have previously been considered ‘nontraditional’. What qualifies...
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Nationwide employment law firm Jackson Lewis P.C. has been recognized for excellence and earned “National Tier 1” rankings in Employment Benefits (ERISA) Law; Employment Law – Management; Immigration Law; Labor Law – Management; Litigation – Labor & Employment; and Sports Law categories in the 2023 U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” list. Law firms included in “Best Law Firms” are recognized for professional excellence with persistently impressive ratings from clients and peers. Achieving tiered ranking signals a unique combination of quality law practice and legal prowess. (Shutterstock)
Jackson Lewis P.C., a nationwide law firm with a strong local presence, has been recognized for its excellence with a Tier 1 Metropolitan designation by U.S. News and Best Lawyers.
The Omaha office...
Today’s News
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Alec Baldwin's first court appearance has been set as he confronts accusations of firearm safety failures and involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer...
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Former President Donald Trump held his first presidential campaign events on Jan. 28, 2023, against the heavy backdrop of four major criminal investigations into his behavior while in and out of...
MEAD — Residents near the closed AltEn ethanol plant were told Monday night that contaminants found in area homes were “significantly higher” than those found in houses in Omaha and another rural...
A rare fragment of a Dodo femur bone is displayed for photographs next to an image of a member of the extinct bird species at Christie’s auction house’s premises in London, March 27, 2013. Colossal Biosciences has raised an additional $150 million from investors to develop genetic technologies that the company claims will help to bring back some extinct species, including the dodo and the woolly mammoth. Other scientists are skeptical that such feats are really possible, or even advisable for conservation. (Matt Dunham / AP Photo)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The dodo bird isn't coming back anytime soon. Nor is the woolly mammoth. But a company working on technologies to bring back extinct species has attracted more investors, while...
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Ideas that start on the progressive fringes have a way of becoming government policy these days, as President Biden’s $400 billion student loan cancellation shows. Lo, Democrats in Congress are now...
This Week's News
02/03/2023 - 2:00am
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Alec Baldwin's first court appearance has been set as he confronts accusations of firearm safety failures and involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on a New Mexico film set.
A New Mexico court on...
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02/03/2023 - 2:00am
Former President Donald Trump held his first presidential campaign events on Jan. 28, 2023, against the heavy backdrop of four major criminal investigations into his behavior while in and out of office.
In the lead-up to his campaign launch, Trump...
02/02/2023 - 5:00am
MEAD — Residents near the closed AltEn ethanol plant were told Monday night that contaminants found in area homes were “significantly higher” than those found in houses in Omaha and another rural community, Kennard.
But investigators with the...
A rare fragment of a Dodo femur bone is displayed for photographs next to an image of a member of the extinct bird species at Christie’s auction house’s premises in London, March 27, 2013. Colossal Biosciences has raised an additional $150 million from investors to develop genetic technologies that the company claims will help to bring back some extinct species, including the dodo and the woolly mammoth. Other scientists are skeptical that such feats are really possible, or even advisable for conservation. (Matt Dunham / AP Photo)
02/02/2023 - 4:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The dodo bird isn't coming back anytime soon. Nor is the woolly mammoth. But a company working on technologies to bring back extinct species has attracted more investors, while other scientists are skeptical such feats are possible...
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02/02/2023 - 2:00am
If you’re feeling lonely, you’re not alone. Loneliness is an increasingly common experience, and it can have severe consequences. People who feel lonely are at higher risk of serious health issues, including heart disease, immune deficiency and...
Amazon is ending a charity donation program it ran for a decade in its latest cost-cutting move. In a blog post on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023, the company said the program, called AmazonSmile, will shut down by February 20. (Mark Lennihan / AP Photo)
02/01/2023 - 5:00am
Amazon’s surprise decision to shut down its AmazonSmile donation program has left thousands of its nonprofit beneficiaries disappointed and concerned about finding ways to replace the funding.
The e-commerce giant had launched AmazonSmile in 2013,...
02/01/2023 - 4:00am
Five mass shootings in California. Forty in the country overall. That’s just in the first weeks of 2023, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, announced this month that she plans to step away from...
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02/01/2023 - 2:00am
Effective altruism is an intellectual and charitable movement that aspires to find the best ways to help others. People dedicated to it rely on evidence and rational arguments to identify what they can do to make the most progress toward solving the...
Tubes direct blood from a donor into a bag in Davenport, Iowa, on Friday, Nov. 11, 2022. The U.S. is moving to ease restrictions on blood donations from gay and bisexual men and other groups that traditionally face higher risks of HIV. The Food and Drug Administration on Friday, Jan. 27, 2023, announced draft guidelines that would do away with the current three-month abstinence requirement for donations from men who have sex with men. (Charlie Neibergall / AP Photo)
02/01/2023 - 1:00am
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced January 27, 2023, that it is proposing a change from time-based deferrals to assessing blood donor eligibility using gender-inclusive, individual risk-based questions to reduce the risk of transfusion-...
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01/31/2023 - 5:00am
When the Federal Reserve convenes at the end of January 2023 to set interest rates, it will be guided by one key bit of data: the U.S. inflation rate. The problem is, that stat ignores a sizable chunk of the country – rural America.
Currently...
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01/31/2023 - 4:00am
Environmental, social and governance business standards and principles, often referred to as ESG, are becoming both more commonplace and controversial.
But what does “ESG” really mean?
It’s shorthand for the way that many corporations operate in...
Debts brought into a relationship can be ruinous for couples, but many decide to work as a team to conquer individual debts. (Charlie Riedel / AP Photo)
01/31/2023 - 3:00am
Between financially helping his parents and losing income as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jeremy Mazza landed into serious credit card debt. Relief came from a source he wasn't expecting: his partner, Ginna Lambert, who had come into a small...
01/30/2023 - 5:00am
LINCOLN — State senators, nonprofits and local organizations expressed glee but caution last Wednesday with Gov. Jim Pillen’s outlined priorities in his State of the State address.
Much of Pillen’s address expanded upon his budget recommendations,...
01/30/2023 - 4:00am
OMAHA — Of Nebraska’s private industries, job growth was greatest in the past year for construction and hospitality fields, according to an update from the State Department of Labor.
Labor Commissioner John Albin said Tuesday that Nebraska, overall...
Kristin Preble, 13, and her mother Carol, get ready to leave the Ingomar Middle School in Franklin Park, Pa., Jan. 21, 1984. Kristin brought a briefcase with classified government documents to school as a show-and-tell project for her class. Her dad had found them in his Cleveland hotel room several years earlier and taken them home as a souvenir. Marked “Classified, Confidential, Executive” and “Property of the United States Government,” the material from the Carter White House ended up in the hands of the Reagan campaign and, eventually, the schoolgirl. (Keith B. Srakocic / AP Photo)
01/30/2023 - 3:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — On a winter's day in 1984, a briefcase stuffed with classified government documents showed up in a building in Pittsburgh, borne by someone who most certainly wasn't supposed to have them.
That someone was 13-year-old Kristin...
01/27/2023 - 5:00am
LINCOLN — Lawyers on behalf of the Omaha and Winnebago Tribes of Nebraska have gone to court to object to redistricting plans adopted by the Thurston County Board for its seven members.
A lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court maintains that...
A musician plays a violin behind a photograph of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a vigil in her honor in Albuquerque, N.M., Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021. Alec Baldwin is set to be charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the shooting. (Andres Leighton / AP Photo)
01/27/2023 - 4:00am
A prosecutor in New Mexico intends to charge Alec Baldwin with two counts of involuntary manslaughter it was announced on Jan. 19, 2023, over the deadly shooting on the set of the film “Rust” in 2021. The shooting occurred while Baldwin was...
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01/27/2023 - 3:00am
LINCOLN — After a four-day trial, 25-year-old Dalonte Foard of Omaha was found guilty Monday by federal jury of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and sex trafficking of a minor.
Foard faces up to life in prison, with a mandatory minimum of 10...
