The Nebraska Court of Appeals recently upheld summary judgment obtained by attorneys Sean Minahan and Pat Vipond in the Nebraska District Court of Keith County.  Appellees argued that their insurance agent negligently advised them as to workers’ compensation insurance requirements under state law.  The Court, however, determined Appellees failed to request workers’ compensation insurance and the agent had no duty to advise Appellees as to Nebraska’s workers’ compensation insurance requirements.  [...]

Congratulations to Katie French and Shannon McCoy on their new leadership roles in the Omaha Bar Association Young Lawyers Division!  Both Ms. French and Mr. McCoy are associates at Lamson Dugan and Murray. Chair: Katie French, Lamson Dugan & Murray Board Member At-Large: Shannon McCoy, Lamson Dugan & Murray

Mark Novotny and Sarah Dempsey were recently successful in obtaining summary judgment for a firm hospital client and having the medical malpractice case dismissed. The plaintiff alleged that nurses at the hospital were negligent in leaving a foreign object inside the plaintiff after a procedure.  The court agreed with Mr. Novotny and Ms. Dempsey that the case should be dismissed because the statute of limitations for filing the medical malpractice action [...]

It's our pleasure to announce that Cathy Trent-Vilim is the 2018 recipient of the Omaha Legal Professionals Association’s Boss of the Year Award! She will be recognized at the OLPA Annual Boss Appreciation and Officer Installment banquet on April 18, 2018. Please join us in congratulating her.

A judicial nominating commission selected four lawyers Monday as finalists to fill the vacancy on the Nebraska Supreme Court created by the sudden resignation of Judge Max Kelch. Cathy Trent-Vilim is a partner at Lamson, Dugan and Murray and one of the four candidates chosen.  Trent-Vilim is a 2002 graduate of the University of Nebraska College of Law and works in the areas of appellate litigation, commercial and insurance law and legal malpractice defense. [...]

LDM would like to congratulate our very own E. Benjamin Nelson on receiving the Distinguished Nebraskalander Award on Saturday night in Lincoln. The dinner was held in the Capitol Rotunda.  The setting was beautiful and majestic, with art deco mosaics of Nebraska scenes over our heads and under our feet.  Governor Ricketts presented the award to Ben after the Legislative Resolution was read.  The Resolution, adopted by the Unicameral, cited [...]

Dan Hassing, an associate in the firm, recently received a defense verdict after a one and one-half day jury trial in the Douglas County District Court.  The case involved a side-swipe car accident that occurred in Omaha.  Our client was travelling in the left lane of a two-lane street.  When our client sought to merge from the left lane into the right lane, our client hit a car that was [...]

Attorney Sarah Dempsey recently received a favorable verdict in an auto accident defense trial.  Ms. Dempsey’s client admitted liable for causing the accident.  The only remaining issue for trial was the amount of the plaintiff’s damages.  The plaintiff claimed she was injured in the accident and required medical treatment.  She wanted to hold Ms. Dempsey’s client liability for a spine surgery that occurred over three years after the accident in [...]

LDM business and commercial trial lawyer Brian Brislen has been admitted to practice in the United States Tax Court.  Mr. Brislen joins Robert Murray, Dan Waters, Mark Novotny, Katie French and Joseph Borghoff as LDM lawyers admitted in the United States Tax Court.  Mr. Brislen is also admitted in Nebraska as well the United States District Court for the Districts of Nebraska, Colorado and the Southern District of Iowa, the [...]

LDM business and commercial trial lawyers Brian Brislen and Adam Feeney helped an LDM client obtain a judgment of nearly $2,200,000.  They represented the client at trial over three days in July of 2017, in a claim seeking payment of money owed after a nearly decade long farming operation ended.  The action sought to recover the full amount of the profits owed to LDM’s client, plus interest.  After the close [...]

Kyle Wallor, a Partner in our Litigation Department, successfully secured a summary judgment in excess of $5,800,000 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.  The client initiated suit asserting breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, conversion, money had and received, an action for an accounting and piercing the corporate veil against a vendor.  The vendor contested all claims, largely on the basis this was [...]