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Nebraska Lawyers Chapter Annual Event at the Nebraska State Bar Association Annual Meeting
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Oct 9 2026
Friday 8:00 a.m. CDT    

Nebraska Lawyers Chapter Annual Event at the Nebraska State Bar Association Annual Meeting

Nebraska Lawyer Chapter

Embassy Suites Hotel & Conference Center
125 Westport Pkwy
La Vista, NE 68128
Speakers:
Edward D. Greim • Abhishek Kambli
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The Declaration of Independence, Religion and the Law
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Jun 11 2026
Thursday 5:30 p.m. CDT    

The Declaration of Independence, Religion and the Law

Nebraska Lawyer Chapter

The Talon Room
230 N 12th Street, Ste 1
Lincoln, NE 68503
Speakers:
Donald B. Stenberg
Sponsors:
Nebraska Lawyer Chapter • The American History & Tradition Project
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The Bench at 250: A Conversation with Judges Grasz and Stras
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May 7 2026
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The Bench at 250: A Conversation with Judges Grasz and Stras

Nebraska Lawyer & Student Chapters

Glacial Till Cider House & Tasting Room
1419 Silver St
Ashland, NE 68003
Speakers:
Steven Grasz • David R. Stras
Sponsors:
Nebraska Lawyer Chapter • Nebraska Student Chapter • The American History & Tradition Project
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What Does Ulpian Have to do with Nebraska?: The Classical Legal Tradition, Originalism, and the American Legal System
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What Does Ulpian Have to do with Nebraska?: The Classical Legal Tradition, Originalism, and the American Legal System

Nebraska Lawyer Chapter

The Talon Room
230 N 12th Street, Ste 1
Lincoln, NE 68503
Speakers:
Jeremy Max Christiansen
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Nebraska Lawyer Chapter • The American History & Tradition Project
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Edward D. Greim

Edward D. Greim

Partner, Graves Garrett Greim LLC

Biography

Edward “Eddie” Greim focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation, free speech and election law, and internal investigations and whistleblower claims. He has been recognized for his successful representation of businesses and individuals in commercial litigation while also being named a “go-to” lawyer on policy and constitutional issues. 

Eddie was named a Constitutional and Election Law Trailblazer by the National Law Journal in 2020. His free speech and election law practice has included numerous constitutional challenges to election and campaign finance laws; representation of clients in state and federal ethics and campaign finance enforcement actions and investigations; initiative petition drafting and litigation; litigation and advice regarding First Amendment protections for petition circulation; representation of not-for-profit clients before state regulators; litigation of state and federal redistricting issues; and advice on campaign and election law compliance. 

Eddie complements his trial work in complex, high-profile commercial and constitutional cases with oral advocacy and briefing in important appeals. Recognized as a Missouri Lawyers Media POWER 30 Appellate Attorney in 2021, he has argued before the Missouri and Kansas supreme courts multiple times, other state appellate courts across the country, and before the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Tenth U.S. Courts of Appeals. 

 

Eddie’s notable work for clients includes: 

Recovering substantial compensation and injunctive relief for plaintiffs, in complex multiyear litigation, as lead counsel in the first and only nationwide class action certified against the Internal Revenue Service for violating taxpayer protection statutes when it targeted hundreds of groups based on their political viewpoints. 

Successful First Amendment challenge to Missouri’s 2016 campaign finance restrictions.

Successful challenge to a vast, multiyear, secret criminal investigation into Wisconsin political groups and nonprofits, and follow-up challenge to expose role of state ethics board which secretly aided the investigation and was later dissolved by the legislature.

U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief for the National Republican Redistricting Trust in the 2019 Rucho litigation, and federal and state redistricting litigation and advice since 2011. 

Challenges under the First Amendment in federal court, and in briefing to the Michigan Supreme Court on state constitutional grounds, to unprecedented emergency powers claimed by Michigan Governor in 2020. 

Representation of numerous public officials and private citizens who are subject to “lawfare” attacks based on their political viewpoints or policy objectives. 

Oversight of multiple internal investigations. 

Eddie received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 2002, where he taught on the Board of Student Advisers, received the Dean’s Award for Leadership, and served as President of the Harvard Catholic Law Students Association. He received two bachelor’s degrees, summa cum laude, in economics and political science from the University of Missouri. 

A native of Excelsior Springs, Missouri, Eddie lives in Kansas City with his family. He enjoys Missouri and military history. On many weekends, he can be found with his wife and daughters exploring sites of local interest. He enjoys reading and debating and has given presentations or organized discussions at numerous gatherings, formal and informal, of professional and personal interest.

 

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Abhishek Kambli

Abhishek Kambli

Partner, Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak PLLC

Biography

Abhishek (Abhi) Kambli is a partner at Holtzman Vogel who represents clients in high-stakes appellate and complex litigation, constitutional challenges, and matters involving state attorneys general and federal agencies. He is one of a handful of lawyers nationally who has both led federal litigation from inside the Department of Justice and multi-state coalition work from a State Attorney General’s office—giving clients a 360-degree perspective on government enforcement, regulatory challenges, and constitutional advocacy.

Prior to joining Holtzman Vogel, Abhi served as Deputy Associate Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice, where he acted as lead counsel in high-priority matters for the Trump Administration, oversaw the Department’s civil components on behalf of the Associate Attorney General, advised the White House Counsel’s Office and federal agencies on litigation risk and strategy, and developed the Department’s national affirmative civil litigation strategy.

Earlier, he served as Deputy Attorney General and Division Chief of the Special Litigation and Constitutional Issues Division at the Kansas Attorney General’s Office, where he launched the division and led multi-state coalitions in trial and appellate courts nationwide, including the United States Supreme Court. He began his career as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of Indiana, prosecuting more than 100 federal cases from investigation through appeal.

Abhi is also a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force Judge Advocate General's Corps, having served on active duty and in the reserves since 2013. His military service includes criminal trials as both prosecutor and defense attorney, appellate representation before the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, and representation of a high-profile detainee before the Military Commissions at Guantánamo Bay.

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Donald B. Stenberg

Donald B. Stenberg

Of Counsel, Erickson & Sederstrom

Biography

Professional Positions
Former Member of National Association of Attorneys General Executive Committee (2002)
Member, Society of Attorneys General Emeritus (SAGE)
Washington Legal Foundation, Policy Advisory Board
Federalist Society, Member of the Federalism Subcommittee for Federalism and Separation of Powers
Former Member, TRANSLink Transmission Co., Board of Directors
Former Member, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Federalism Working Group
Former Chair, Nebraska Crime Commission

Honors and Accomplishments
Argued cases in the United States Supreme Court
Phi Beta Kappa
Republican Nominee for U.S. Senate in Nebraska (2000)
Founding Member of the Republican Attorneys General Association
Nebraska Fertilizer and Ag Chemical Institute's Government Official of the Year (2000)
Nebraska Coalition for Victims of Crime's Public Policy Award (1999)
Lincoln Independent Business Association's Business Champion Award (1997)
Lincoln Jaycees Outstanding Young Individual Award (1981)

Prior to Becoming of Counsel to Erickson & Sederstrom, P.C.
Attorney General of Nebraska (1991-2003)
Legal Counsel to the Governor of Nebraska (1979-1983)



University of Nebraska, Lincoln, B.A. (1970)
Harvard Business School, M.B.A. (1974)
Harvard Law School, J.D. (cum laude) (1974)

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Steven Grasz

Steven Grasz

Judge, United States Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit

Biography

Leonard Steven Grasz is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

A graduate of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the University of Nebraska College of Law, Grasz spent eleven years as the state of Nebraska's Chief Deputy Attorney General. He was a senior partner at the law firm of Husch Blackwell prior to his appointment to the federal judiciary.


 

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David R. Stras

David R. Stras

Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit

Biography

David Stras became a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on January 31, 2018. Before serving on the Eighth Circuit, Judge Stras was an Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, a position he occupied from July 1, 2010 until his appointment to the Eighth Circuit.

Prior to becoming a judge, Stras was a member of the faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School from 2004 through 2010. He taught and wrote in the areas of federal courts and jurisdiction, constitutional law, criminal law, and law and politics.

Judge Stras received his Bachelor of Arts degree, with highest distinction, in 1995 and his Master of Business Administration in 1999, both from the University of Kansas. He also received his law degree from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1999, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Criminal Procedure Edition of the Kansas Law Review.

Following law school, Stras clerked for The Honorable Melvin Brunetti of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then for The Honorable J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

From 2001 to 2002, he practiced white-collar criminal and appellate litigation with the Washington, D.C., office of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood. Following his year in practice, he clerked for The Honorable Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Jeremy Max Christiansen

Jeremy Max Christiansen

Associate Professor, Regent University School of Law

Biography

Professor Jeremy M. Christiansen is an Associate Professor of Law at Regent
University School of Law, where he teaches federal courts, civil procedure, natural law
jurisprudence, and intellectual property. His scholarship has been published or is
forthcoming in the Catholic University Law Review, the Notre Dame Journal of Law,
Ethics & Public Policy, the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, the Hawai’i Law
Review, and the George Washington University Law Review. He is a co-managing
editor of The New Digest, the preeminent legal blog and publication dedicated to the
revival of the classical legal tradition.
Prior to joining the faculty at Regent, he was a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where he practiced in the firm’s appellate and
constitutional law, administrative law, trial litigation, and intellectual property practice
groups. He represented a wide variety of clients in high profile litigation matters in both
trials and appeals at the state and federal levels, including before the United States
Supreme Court.
He is a graduate of the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, having
later clerked for the Hon. Thomas R. Lee of the Utah Supreme Court and the Hon. Jay
S. Bybee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He lives in Virginia Beach,
Virginia with his wife and eight children.

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