Mark Richardson is a partner at Rembolt Ludtke in Nebraska with a strong primary focus on plaintiffs’ personal injury and wrongful death litigation. Richardson has pursued litigation in state and federal court, ranging from Omaha to Valentine to North Platte to Red Cloud and almost everywhere in between. Richardson handles personal injury and wrongful death claims involving product liability, motor vehicle negligence, premise liability, and workplace injuries resulting from third-party negligence.
How long have you been practicing law?
Nine years. I started working with Rembolt Ludtke after law school in 2011.
What kind of practice do you currently have?
I work as a partner at a law firm with 25 other attorneys. I am one of three attorneys who primarily do personal injury work at the firm. Almost 100 percent of my practice involves plaintiffs’ personal injury work with a few other insurance-coverage matters.
Did you always want to go into personal injury?
Since my second year in law school, I always wanted to work in personal injury. Right out of law school, I took on a variety of cases, including divorce work, for the first three years, but I knew my practice would evolve into primarily personal injury work.
How did you develop your personal injury practice?
When I started devoting my time to personal injury work, I was only the second attorney [in my firm] working in that practice area and the only one working full-time in the area. We went from having 10 to 15 active cases to well over 50 cases now. It was a slow build in terms of the size of the practice, but some of it was natural with the firm having more capacity with me working there. We developed our practice by networking with greater Nebraska attorneys with smaller practices that didn’t do personal injury work. This purposeful networking and heavy involvement within the professional community, including the Nebraska Association of Trial Attorneys (NATA), helped us build the practice we have today.