Background
Hansen, Michael J. was born on December 30, 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
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Michael J. Hansen
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South Dakota State University (Bachelor of Arts, 1991). Nebraska College of Law (Juris Doctor, 1994).
Career
Worked at Berry, Kelley & Hansen (Lincoln, North-East) specializing in Criminal and Civil Trial Practice. State and Federal Felonies and Misdemeanors. Trials and Appeals. Veterans Rights and Social Security Law.
Admitted to the bar, 1994, South Carolina, United States.
District Court, District of Nebraska and United States. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
1995, Nebraska and South Dakota. 1996, United States. District Court, District of South Dakota and United States.
Court of Veterans Appeals.
Member: South Carolina Bar. State Bar of South Dakota. Nebraska State Bar Association.
Nebraska Association of Trial Attorneys.
Nebraska Criminal Defense Attorneys Association. John Stevens Berry has appeared in court in twenty-four states, and two foreign countries.
Following his military service, he was, in 1970 and 1971, briefly associated with the Henry B. Rothblatt Offices in New York, where he tried a number of high-profile cases. He returned to Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1971, and has continued to have a regional criminal trial practice.
In 1986, he was Civilian Defense Counsel in the biggest drug bust in the history of Japan.
He has conducted seminars for practicing lawyers in Kansas City, Missouri, and Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska, and each year is invited to the Judge Advocate Generals School at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, to lecture on Constitutional issues regarding criminal defense in the military. In Nebraska, he has tried cases that have, on appeal, changed the law of search and seizure in the Eighth Circuit as well as Nebraska.
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Membership
Member: South Carolina Bar. State Bar of South Dakota. Nebraska State Bar Association.
Nebraska Association of Trial Attorneys.
Nebraska Criminal Defense Attorneys Association.
