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With our extensive expertise, collaboration among our attorneys enables us to provide the requisite knowledge and skill to effectively serve our clients.
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Cline Williams represents a diverse range of individuals and institutions with widely varying legal needs, which is reflected by our practice areas.
Since 1857
Our professional excellence runs deep.
For over 160 years, we have represented leading citizens, businesses, and institutions in communities, large and small, throughout the Midwest. We take pride in providing clients the highest level of expertise, advocacy, and guidance in helping them achieve their goals, and in building the places we call home.
Company Culture
Community focused.
We live, work and thrive best when we do it together. Cline Williams has made our home in the Great Plains, and we believe in building strong communities through service. We support our communities through board service, volunteering, and contributing financial and other resources. Your community is our community and we are proud to support many charitable organizations throughout the Great Plains.
Mark A. Christensen, a Senior Partner at the law firm of Cline Williams Wright Johnson & Oldfather, and NDCA 2023 Defense Counsel of the Year, is shifting the focus of his practice to mediation and arbitration. Mark began conducting mediations in 1995 and has successfully served as a mediator in personal injury, commercial litigation, estate and employment cases in Nebraska and throughout the region. Mark has served as an arbitrator in construction and employment disputes.
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has released an update of the J-1 Exchange Visitor Skills List (“Skills List”) effective December 9, 2024. The J-1 visa is the most consistently used visa for postdoctoral fellows at U.S. universities, medical centers, and research organizations. Many U.S. institutions fill over half of their postdoctoral research positions with J-1 exchange visitors. The revised list removes a large number of countries and broadens opportunities for current or former J-1 nonimmigrants to remain in or return to the United States.
On November 15, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas set aside and vacated the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) final rule that increased the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) salary level-threshold for the “white-collar” exemptions to overtime requirements. The court’s ruling applies nationwide to all employers who are subject to the FLSA.
