Hannes D. Zetzsche
Attorney
Phone: 402.636.8210
Fax: 402.344.0588
Email: hzetzsche@bairdholm.com
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- Nebraska Supreme Court: State Traffic Laws Preempt Contrary Municipal Ordinances
- Nebraska Supreme Court: Landowners Can Reduce Tax Burden by Showing Systematic Under-Valuation of Comparable Property
- Nebraska Supreme Court: Litigating May Cause Waiver of Right to Arbitrate Even Absent Prejudice
- Nebraska Supreme Court: Possible Loan Release Makes Summary Judgment Premature for Partition Action
- Nebraska Supreme Court: Lis Pendens Protects Buyer’s Right to Acquire Real Estate by Court Order
- 107th Nebraska Legislature Second Session
- Biden Administration Finalizes New Rule Defining Waters of the U.S. Under the Clean Water Act
- Supreme Court to Determine if States May Regulate Extraterritorial Business Operations
- Supreme Court Again Considers Scope of Clean Water Act
- Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Will Affect Imported Solar Modules
- U.S. Supreme Court Limits EPA’s Authority to Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Nebraska Shapes its Legal Framework for Carbon Capture and Underground Storage
- Biden Halts New Tariffs on Solar Panels
- Sine Die: Nebraska Legislature Concludes a Busy 2022 Session
- Nebraska Craft Brewers and Distilleries Score Victories before the Legislature
- Nebraska Legislature Tries to Jump Start a Local Clean-Hydrogen Industry
- Supreme Court Reinstates Trump Rule for State Certifications Under the Clean Water Act
- 107th Nebraska Legislature, Second Session – Legislative Chart
- Nebraska Legislature to Debate Dozens of Bills Impacting Environmental Permitting, Cannabis, Water Projects and Drainage
- Supreme Court Holds That Interstate Groundwater Can Be Subject To Equitable Apportionment
- Biden Administration Proposes to Redefine “Waters of the United States”
- Whiplash: A key definition under the Clean Water Act is again changing
- Biden administration will more often require permits for indirect discharges via groundwater
- Mississippi v. Tennessee: States fight over rights to groundwater
- Baird Holm Attorney Hannes D. Zetzsche Joins the Habitat for Humanity of Lincoln Board of Directors
- Baird Holm Attorneys Eli Rosenberg, Hannes Zetzsche, and Vanessa Silke Co-Author the Article, “Advising Bank Clients about Cannabis: Due Diligence, Suspicious-Activity Reports, and Master Accounts,” for the American Bar Association’s Cannabis Law and Policy Committee Newsletter
- Baird Holm Attorneys Hannes Zetzsche and Vanessa Silke Author The Nebraska Lawyer Magazine Article “After AltEn Spill, Legal Claims Sink In”
- Baird Holm LLP Welcomes Six New Associates to the Firm
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)