Profile
Lindsay K. Lundholm focuses her practice on complex business litigation and alternative dispute resolution. Her clients view her as a practical advisor and advocate, who finds creative solutions to difficult business disputes.
Lindsay has extensive experience trying business disputes in state court, federal court, and arbitration, across multiple industries. She also serves as an arbitrator and mediator.
Lindsay routinely handles a wide variety of banking and financial industry litigation. Her financial industry litigation experience includes contractual disputes, non-competition, non-solicitation, business tort, trade secret, unfair competition, professional liability, securities, shareholder, and insurance disputes.
Lindsay has significant experience representing businesses, individuals, political subdivisions, and municipalities in energy, tax valuation, zoning, property rights, and other litigation related to real property, contractual rights, and land use. She also has significant experience representing clients in the aviation industry with complex disputes.
Lindsay’s extensive alternative dispute resolution experience includes both advocacy and her work as a neutral. She also routinely advises clients in pre-arbitration proceedings including the enforcement of agreements to arbitrate. Lindsay has worked as an AAA Arbitrator since 2021 and a court-approved federal mediator in the District of Nebraska since 2023.
Since 2023, Lindsay has been selected by her peers for inclusion in the Best Lawyers in America® for Commercial Litigation and Real Estate Litigation. Lindsay is also recognized in Benchmark, America’s Leading Litigation Firms and Attorneys and Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.
Before joining the Firm, Lindsay served as a law clerk to the Honorable William Jay Riley of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in 2001.
Areas of Practice
Education
- University of Iowa College of Law, J.D., 2001
- University of Kansas, B.A., History and Psychology, 1998
Bar & Court Admissions
- Nebraska, 2001
- United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, 2001
- United States District Court, District of Nebraska, 2001
- Iowa, 2007
Professional & Civic Affiliations
- Urban League of Nebraska, Board of Directors (2025-present)
- Nebraska State Bar Foundation, Fellow (2023-present)
- International Association of Defense Counsel (2022-present); Vice Chair Business Litigation Committee (2024)
- American Arbitration Association, Commercial and Consumer Panels (2021-present)
- Omaha Community Playhouse Board of Directors (2014-2023); Board Chairperson (2020)
- Nebraska Federal Practice Committee, Advanced Mediation Training (2022)
- University of Missouri School of Law Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution 23.7 hour Civil Mediation Training (2022)
- Nebraska State Bar Association, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Corporate Counsel Section, Corporate Counsel Chair (2019-2020)
- Iowa Bar Association
- American Bar Association, Section on ADR
- Nebraska Office of Dispute Resolution 30 Hour Mediation training (2015)
- Big Brothers/Big Sisters Board of Directors (2010-2014)
- The Rose Theater, Board of Trustees (2005-2011)
- Ten Outstanding Young Omahans Award (2007)
- International Association of Defense Counsel Trial Academy (2004)
- Leadership Omaha Class 32
Selected Practice Highlights
- Obtained $1.5 million judgment in favor of bank and bank holding company in 2024
- Secured a district court judgment overruling a county board of adjustment decision which would have shut down a 300 megawatt wind power operation in 2024
- Defeating multiple lawsuits challenging the municipal or county annexation of adjoining lands
- Successfully resolving multiple complex contractual and business tort disputes for financial advisory firms and FinTech companies in arbitration and mediation
- Secured a directed verdict in 2016 jury trial in high profile breach of duty action
- Obtained a $499,000 verdict for architect and project manager in 2013 jury trial
- Obtaining multiple judgments at trial in favor of business clients in disputes with former employees and agents which involved allegations ranging from employment discrimination to misappropriation of business property, confidential information, and trade secrets
- Achieving repeated enforcement of agreements to arbitrate and secured several defense verdicts in cases tried in arbitration
- Achieving successful decisions on appeal in a variety of disputes for businesses and individual clients
- Successfully representing shareholders in closely held corporations in disputes with other shareholders in litigation to protect shareholders’ assets
Representative Reported Cases
- Henderson State Co. v. Garrelts, 319 Neb. 485 (2025)
- Heineman v. Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, 300 Neb. 187 (2018)
- TFF v. St. Ellen, 100 LLC, 2014 Neb. App. Lexis 123 (Neb. Ct. App. July 15, 2014)
- Penner v. Penner, 2010 Neb. App. Lexis 51 (Neb. Ct. App. Apr. 6, 2010)
- Lagemann v. Nebraska Methodist Hospital, 277 Neb. 335 (2009)
- EEOC v. Woodmen of the World Life Ins. Soc’y, 479 F.3d 561 (8th Cir. Neb. 2007)
Selected Recent Publications
- “Congress Passes Groundbreaking #Metoo Arbitration Legislation,” Baird Holm Labor & Employment Law Update, February 2022
Recent Speaking Engagements
- “Corporate Counsel Section Seminar Panel,” Nebraska State Bar Association Annual Meeting, La Vista, NE, October 2024
- “Going Through ‘The Five Stages of Grief’ to Get to Settlement: Negotiation Strategies for Moving From Denial to Deal,” International Association of Defense Counsel Mid-Year Meeting, February 2024
- “The Business Case For – and Against – Agreements to Arbitrate,” Nebraska State Bar Association Business Law Seminar, August 2021
- “Arbitration: Why or Why Not?” Baird Holm Banter Podcast, July 2021
