Nebraska MCLE #265382. 1.0 CLE Hours. (OnDemand credit)

A panel of corporate counsel attorneys and their outside counsel counterparts will join together to discuss recent hot topics pertaining to corporate counsel.

Kramer Lyons, Duncan Aviation, Inc.

As Associate General Counsel, Kramer Lyons negotiates contracts with OEMs and vendors, assists with personnel matters, provides assistance with Aircraft Sales transactions, and handles real estate leases for Duncan Aviation’s facilities. He’s also an officer who provides legal advice and assistance to the Duncan Aviation Board of Directions, Board of Advisors, Duncan family shareholders, Senior Management Team, department managers, and other company employees regarding the company’s business and legal matters.

Lindsay K. Lundholm, Baird Holm LLP

Lindsay K. Lundholm provides strategic advocacy for the resolution of high stakes business disputes, focusing strategy on her clients’ business interests and objectives. She is an experienced courtroom advocate, arbitrator, and mediator, and has over 20 years of litigation experience. Lindsay has litigated hundreds of disputes from investigation through trial and tried more than 20 cases to verdict before juries, judges, and arbitrators in state court, federal court, and arbitration.

Steven D. Davidson, Baird Holm LLP

Steven D. Davidson is a commercial litigator with 35 years of experience across a wide range of federal, state and administrative proceedings, including insurance, health care, real estate, energy, transportation, and personal injury matters. He has tried more than 30 cases to verdict before juries, judges and arbitrators, and has obtained successful, efficient pretrial resolution of hundreds of disputes for clients across the country. Steve is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and served as Chair of the Firm’s Litigation section from 2013-2022. Currently, he serves as General Counsel for the Firm.

Mark Pence, Nelnet

Mark Pence is Associate General Counsel of Nelnet, Inc. Mark started at Nelnet as a law clerk and has been with Nelnet for approximately 10 years. Mark provides general counsel to the company’s school software, payments, and telecommunications affiliates. Mark is also responsible for advising the company on a wide variety of investment and financing transactions, including, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, private equity, and real estate investments, joint ventures, leveraged lending, structured finance transactions, and securitizations. In addition to his legal responsibilities, Mark supervises the company’s contracts management team and its law clerk program.

Michelle Sitorius, Cline Williams Wright Johnson & Oldfather, LLP

Michelle concentrates her practice on employee benefits counseling. She counsels a variety of clients, including for-profit, nonprofit, governmental, and church organizations on qualified and non-qualified plans and welfare benefits arrangements. Michelle advises clients in relation to defined benefit and defined contribution pension and profit sharing plans, employee stock ownership plans, section 401(k), 403(b) and 457 plans, section 125 cafeteria plans, and deferred compensation plans subject to Internal Revenue Code Section 409A. She also advises clients on self-insured, fully-insured, and funded and unfunded welfare benefit arrangements. She assists clients with plan design and administration, fiduciary duties, disclosure requirements, and correction procedures. Michelle has experience amending and restating plans, terminating plans, applying for determination letters, and preparing submissions to voluntary correction programs. She works with clients in dealing with the U.S. Department of Labor and Internal Revenue Service. She also consults with clients concerning compliance with the Affordable Care Act, COBRA continuation coverage requirements, and HIPAA portability requirements as well as other health insurance issues.

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