On Wednesday, March 18, 2020, President Donald Trump signed the “Families First Coronavirus Response Act” (the “Act”) into law.  As will be detailed in this summary, the Act provides two types of emergency leave to deal w...Read More

The Jacobsen Orr Law Firm of Kearney, which has provided comprehensive professional legal services to Greater Nebraska for over 40 years, is pleased to announce that Nicholas R. Norton has become a Shareholder of the firm. Nic Norton and his family...Read More

If you are a financial planner or work in asset management, especially registered broker-dealers, then you are likely aware of big (and potentially scary) changes that occurred to your practice during the early summer of 2017.  In particular, th...Read More

On February 28, 2018, Jacobsen Orr sponsored a Junior Achievement Job Shadow Day for high school students interested in the practice of law, law enforcement, and other related fields.  Two attorneys from Jacobsen Orr, Ryan Carson and Liz Chrisp,...Read More

At midnight on December 31, 2016, the Business Corporation Act (the “Old Act”) will be repealed and replaced with the Nebraska Model Business Corporation Act (the “New Act”).  As a current Nebraska corporation or foreign ...Read More

In May, we issued a blog discussing sweeping changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) overtime requirements.  Click here to read our previous post. As a recap, soon to be former President Obama instructed the Department of ...Read More

In Part one of this article, I set forth the basic provisions related to the intersection of individual concealed carry rights and the ability of employers to regulate their workplace. To recap, holders of a concealed carry permit are entitled to car...Read More

Among the usual cacophony of news noise -- slipped in between Hillary’s deleted emails, mass panic over a potential Trump presidency, and the Zika virus—is the breaking news of sweeping changes to the “white collar exemption” ...Read More

Guns. The mere mention of the word conjures a visceral response in most minds immediately—fear, comfort, violence, safety. Whatever the association, there is no question that guns are a hot-button issue today. The issue of how to approach gun o...Read More

Based on the number of workers’ compensation cases that we have recently defended involving claims by farm workers, it is clear that many farm and agribusiness owners still seem to believe that they do not need to obtain workers’ compensa...Read More