Education
JD - University of Nebraska College of Law (1991) Lincoln, Nebraska
Bar Admissions
Nebraska State Bar Association - 1992
Admitted to practice in the following courts:
Courts of the State of Nebraska - 1992
United States District Court for the District of Nebraska - 1992
United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit - 1994
United States Supreme Court - 2006
United States Immigration Court in Omaha - 2010
Legal Honors And Activities
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights - Nebraska Advisory Committee Member
ABA Advisory Panel (2008-present)
Nebraska State Bar Association - Minority Corporate Counsel Steering Committee (2008-present)
Nebraska State Bar Association - Professional Enhancement Committee (2007-present)
Nebraska State Bar Association - Leader Academy Steering Committee (2006-present)
Nebraska Hispanic Bar Association - Co-founder and President (2004-2007) (2008-present)
Nebraska Hispanic Bar Association - Outreach to the Community Committee (2004-present)
Nebraska State Bar Association - Committee on Access to the Profession, Chair (1999-2001)
Nebraska State Bar Association - Judiciary Committee (2000-2003)
Nebraska State Bar Association - Committee on Access to the Profession (1997-2004)
Nebraska State Bar Association - Committee on Human Rights and Legal Services (1994-1997)
The Bureau of National Affairs Law Student Award (1992)
William McKinley Holt Law Scholarship
Multi-Cultural Legal Society, Chairperson (1989-1991)
University of Nebraska College of Law Awards & Scholarship Committee
Publications
The Nebraska Lawyer Magazine, Court-Appointed Counsel Systems, The ABA's Best Practice Standards, September 2007, Co-author
American Bar Association, ABA Fifty-State Survey of Class Action Rules, Section of Litigation, the State of Nebraska Section, 2001-Author
The Nebraska Lawyer Magazine, Your Law Office as a Place of Public Accommodation: Compliance with The Americans with Disabilities Act-Title III, February 2001-Author
American Bar Association, ABA Fifty-State Survey of Class Action Rules, Section of Litigation, the State of Nebraska Section, 1999-Author
Significant Legal Accomplishments
United States and Bill M., et al., v. NDHHS, et al., U.S. Docket No. 05-777, (Lead Counsel for the named-Plaintiffs, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on April 17, 2006, that the ADA eleventh amendment immunity issue must be revisited by United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. The ADA immunity issue was originally appealed to the 8th Circuit by the State of Nebraska. The State's appeal was based on the denial of their motion to dismiss by the U.S. District Court. The 8th Circuit's decision was vacated and remanded back to the 8th Circuit by the United States Supreme Court and ordered the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals to review the issue again in light of U.S. v. Georgia).