Anne Marie O’Brien is a partner of Lamson Dugan & Murray and a member of the Firm’s litigation department. Anne’s practice involves a multitude of disciplines in both tort and commercial practice areas. She has extensive experience in toxic tort, personal injury, and discrimination/sex abuse/ harassment law and litigation. She also has experience in transportation, products liability, insurance/subrogation/fire, commercial tort and business litigation, and contract and lease drafting and negotiation.
Anne Marie is an author of the Firm’s Transportation Law Guide and co-author of the Nebraska Chapter in the Products Liability Desk Reference: A Fifty State Compendium published by Wolters Kluwer. She frequently teaches and advises other lawyers and industries on all aspects of litigation, toxic tort law, transportation law, and insurance/subrogation/fire issues at their seminars and meetings. She taught at a national Trial College for the past decade, training young lawyers in the arts of litigation.
Anne Marie is routinely recognized by her peers as a leader in the field of law. She was elected to the Presidency of the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel (NARTC) in 2022 and served as past President of the Omaha Bar Association. She was elected by her peers to serve on the Nebraska State Bar Association House of Delegates and elected a permanent Fellow of the Nebraska State Bar Foundation in 2020. Anne Marie is routinely selected as a Super Lawyer in the field of Transportation and Maritime Law and as a Best Lawyer – Women in Law and is also named as Best Lawyer, Nebraska; and selected by her peers as a Best Lawyer in Omaha and recognized in Omaha Magazine.
Education
- Creighton University School of Law, J.D.
- St. Mary’s University, Bachelors Degree
Admitted to Bar & Courts
- Nebraska State Bar
- Missouri State Bar
- 8th Circuit Court of Appeals
- United States District Court for the Eastern & Western Districts of Arkansas
- United States District Court for the District of Colorado
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa
- United States District Court for the District of Idaho
- United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois
- United States District Court for the Eastern & Western Districts of Missouri
- United States District Court for the District of Nebraska
- United States District Court for the District of Nevada
- United States District Court for the District of Oregon
- United States District Court for the District of South Dakota
- United States District Court for the Northern & Southern Districts of Texas
Ms. O’Brien has also been admitted pro hac vice in various State and/or Federal Courts in California, Delaware, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Nevada, Oregon, and Texas
Memberships, Boards and Committees
- Nebraska State Bar Association
- Missouri State Bar Association
- National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel (NARTC), President
- Omaha Bar Association, Past President
- Creighton University School of Law Werner Institute, Board Member
- Catholic Charities Board of Directors, Past President
Award
- Omaha Corporate Achiever Award
- Archbishop’s Outstanding Volunteer Award
- Archbishop’s Award of Excellence
- Best Lawyers, Women in Law, 2022