Hannes D. Zetzsche | Baird Holm | Omaha Renewable Energy Attorney

Hannes D. Zetzsche counsels clients on agricultural, energy, environmental, and natural-resources legal matters. He represents clients in large-scale transactions to develop, finance, acquire, lease, and sell land and natural resources. He has experience dealing with general real-estate matters, environmental liability, and an array of natural resources, including carbon sequestration, mineral rights, renewable energy, water rights, and wetlands. He also assists clients with hemp and liquor regulatory issues.

After attending college at the University of Portland, Hannes managed a 1,500-acre hay farm in central Oregon. He then moved to Nebraska to attend law school. At the University of Nebraska College of Law, Hannes earned the CALI Excellence for the Future Award in five subjects (administrative law, civil clinic, environmental law, Native American law, and water law) and was named the Civil Clinic Student of the Year. He helped to lead the law school’s environmental and equal-justice societies, served as a junior staff editor on the University of Denver Water Law Review, and was recognized by the Nebraska State Bar Association as an outstanding advocate.

Before joining the firm, Hannes worked as a judicial clerk to the Chief Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, Hon. Michael G. Heavican.

Areas of Practice

Education

University of Nebraska College of Law, J.D., with high distinction, concentrations in real estate and water law, 2020
University of Denver Sturm College of Law, visiting student with emphasis in natural resources law, 2019
University of Portland, B.A., cum laude, rhetoric and German, 2016

Professional & Civic Affiliations

American Bar Association
Cannabis Law and Policy Committee of the ABA
Elks Lodge Number 80
The Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law
Lincoln Bar Association
Lincoln Young Professionals Group
Nebraska State Bar Association
Young Lawyers Division of the ABA

Bar & Court Admissions

Oregon, 2022
Colorado, 2022
Iowa, 2022
Nebraska, 2020
US District Court, District of Nebraska, 2020

Selected Recent Publications

Severance: Ownership of Land and the Right to Withdraw Groundwater in Nebraska, 23 U. Denv. Water L. Rev. (2020)
50-State Survey: Landowner Liability for Pesticide Drift, National Agricultural Law Center (2019) (coauthored with Tiffany Dowell Lashmet)
Engineering a Water Case and Ethical Considerations, 22 U. Denv. Water L. Rev. 847 (2019)
Not All Agua is Caliente: Proposing the Winters Groundwater Test, 98 Neb. L. Rev. 220 (2019)