Education
- Creighton University School of Law (J.D., Magna Cum Laude, 1981)
- Creighton University College of Business (B.S.B.A., Summa Cum Laude, 1978)
Admissions
- Nebraska (1981: Sustaining Member)
- Nebraska State Lobbyist (1987)
- U.S. District Court, District of Nebraska (1981)
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit (1981)
- U.S. Tax Court (1981)
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims (1985)
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The Good Life Transformational Projects Act: Nebraska's New Incentive Driving Economic Development in the State
Companies have a limited life. They are created, they prevail for some period of time and then they decline and fail. Sometimes this is over a very short timeframe. Sometimes it is over an extended timeframe. Some merge with another. Some find new life in a new or revised Business Model. Many factors drive this.
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03/28/2024
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What Happens When . . . ? Why Are Family Business Leaders Deploying Buy-Sell and Business Continuity Agreements
How do today’s Family Business Leaders achieve lasting success? Whether instinctively or methodically, we see them asking and answering some version of essentially the following 3 Key Questions time and time again:
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- Nebraska & American Bar Associations
- Nebraska Society & American Institute of CPAs
- Council On State Taxation (COST)
- Vistage International Trusted Advisor Board
- Vistage International National Resource Speaker
- Business Enterprise Institute (Exit Planning)
- Exit Planning Institute
- Financial Planning Association of Nebraska
- Omaha Chamber of Commerce Headquarters Target Advisory Board
- Nebraska Chamber of Commerce Tax Council
- National Speakers Association
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA-Inactive Registrant)
- Adjunct Professor, State Tax, Creighton University School of Law
- Adjunct Professor, Estate Planning, Creighton University School of Law
- Lifetime Fellow, Nebraska State Bar Foundation
- Great Plains Tax Institute – Speaker, State Taxation and Economic Development (2002 – 2013)
- Council On State Taxation – Speaker, State Taxation (2012)
- Tax Executives Institute – Speaker, State Taxation (2012 – 2013)
- Nebraska Society of CPAs – Speaker, Various State Tax and Succession Planning Programs
- Listed: “Best Lawyers in America”, Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law, Litigation and Controversy – Tax, Tax Law, and Trusts and Estates
- “Best Lawyers in America”, Omaha Lawyer of the Year, Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law, 2020
- “Best Lawyers in America”, Omaha Lawyer of the Year, Tax Law, 2019, 2021
- “Best Lawyers in American”, Omaha Lawyer of the Year, Litigation and Controversy – Tax, 2015
- Ten Outstanding Young Omahans Award
- Book Author: “The Next Move For Business Owners” (Succession and Exit Planning)
- Book Author: “The Next Move For Families” (Estate Planning)
- Book Author: “Exit On Your Terms” (Exit Planning)
- Book Co-Author: “Business Model Generation” (Business Strategic Planning)
- Book Author: “The Business Model Myth Solution” (Business Strategic Planning)
- Listed: Martindale-Hubbell, AV/Preeminent Rating
- Listed: Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (Nebraska, Tax – Band 1)