A Nebraska county attorney who prepared legal documents for his girlfriend relating to her firing from a job at the county sheriff’s office without initially indicating his involvement in the case was publicly reprimanded by the state’s highest court.
The case was the first in which Nebraska’s Supreme Court had to rule on a violation of a local rule requiring a “Prepared By” notation on court filings worked on by an attorney, so it had “no comparative cases” to help determine a sanction, it said in its April 17 opinion.
Brandon B. Hanson was working as county attorney for Valley ...
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