Academy Member Inducted 2022
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Terry O. Waite
116 North Dewey Street
North Platte, NE 69101
Website: www.northplattelaw.com
Video ConferencingAvailable
- Practice Commenced
- # of MEDS (as of 21/11/24)500
- # of ARBS (as of 21/11/24)
Current Practice
Online / In-Person
- GRAND ISLAND
- LINCOLN-BEATRICE
- OMAHA
Biographical
TERRY O. WAITE, born Longmont, Colorado; admitted to Bar, 1977, Nebraska. Admitted to practice: All Nebraska state courts; United States District Court for the District of Nebraska; and Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Education: University of Nebraska (B.A., 1974), University of Nebraska College of Law (J.D., 1977), National Mock Trial Team. County Attorney, Sheridan County, 1982-1986. Member, U.S. District Court Federal Practice Committee, 1988-1992. Committee on Judicial Procedure, 1991-1993; Appointed, Civil Justice Task Force; Committee on Judiciary (1997-2000); Appointed Supreme Court Minority and Justice Implementation Committee (2003- ); Lifetime Fellow Nebraska State Bar Foundation (1995- ); Approved Federal Court Mediator (initially approved 1995 and renewed every 5 years thereafter); Appointed Supreme Court Committee on Equity and Fairness (2017); Member, Nebraska Association of Trial Attorneys; Member, Defense Research Institute and Trial Lawyers Association; Sections on Professional Negligence; Trucking Law, and Alternative Dispute Resolution and Nebraska Defense Counsel Association. Member: Lincoln County Bar, Western Nebraska Bar, Nebraska State Bar and Eighth Circuit Bar Associations.
Case Experience
- ADA Disability
- Agricultural
- Appellate
- Automotive
- Aviation
- Banking & Finance
- Bankruptcy/Creditors
- Business Dissolution
- Civil Rights
- Class Actions
- Commercial/Business
- Community Associations
- Construction
- Consumer Fraud
- Contract Disputes
- Cross Cultural
- Debt Collections
- Discrimination
- Divorce (High Asset)
- Education
- EEOC
- Elder Abuse
- Eminent Domain
- Employment
- Energy Sector (Oil/Gas)
- Engineering
- Environmental
- ERISA
- Family Businesses
- Franchise
- Health Care
- Industrial
- Insurance
- Intellectual Property
- Labor/Unions
- Land Use/Planning
- Landlord/Tenant
- Legal Malpractice
- Lemon Law
- Libel & Slander
- Local Govt./Municipalities
- Media & Communications
- Medical Devices
- Medical Malpractice
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Mining
- Mortgage Foreclosure
- Native American
- Natural Disasters
- Non-profit Organizations
- Nursing Homes
- Partnerships
- Pensions
- Personal Injury
- Pharmaceuticals
- Police
- Premises Liability
- Probate
- Product Liability
- Professional Fees
- Professional Liability
- Professional Malpractice
- Professional Negligence
- Property Damage
- Public Policy
- Railroad & Trucking
- Real Estate
- Religious Institutions
- Securities
- Sexual Harassment
- Shareholder Disputes
- Sports
- Taxation
- Telecommunications
- Title Disputes
- Torts
- Trademarks/Patents
- Transportation
- Trusts / Estates
- Unfair Competition
- Utilities
- Venture Capital
- Wage & Hour/FMLA
- Workers' Compensation
- Wrongful Death
Education
- University of Nebraska (B.A., 1974)
- University of Nebraska College of Law (J.D., 1977)
- Mediation Training: Basic through Nebraska Supreme Court, 1995; Federal through U.S. District Court, 1995; Family, 2008
Memberships & Affiliations
- National Association of Trial Attorneys ("NATA", 4 decades)
- DRI and Trial Lawyers Association:
- Sections on Alaternative Dispute Resolution; Professional Negligence; Trucking Law
- Nebraska Defense Counsel Association
- Lincoln County Bar
- Western Nebraska Bar
- Nebraska State Bar Association
- Eighth Circuit Bar Association
Rates Information
Please call for details.