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Peel v. Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission of Illinois, 110 S.Ct. 2281 (1990), disallows any state from prohibiting disclosure of NBTA certification.

Nebraska State Coordinator
I think NBTA certification confirms in people's minds that they have made the right choice.
--John Ballew
Why I Got Board Certified
The medical professional has long recognized that board certification is a uniform way of assuring a high level of competence in medical specialties. The general public has also come to recognize the term "board certification" as designating a certain level of expertise. Unfortunately, the legal profession in many areas of the country has been slow to embrace designated specialties and many states such as Nebraska do not have a board certification program. Therefore the public in such states is left out on its own to try and determine whether a lawyer is really competent in the area that he or she says they are.

I have been a Fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers since 1991. While I believe this is significant to fellow lawyers, the general public is not aware of what the American Academy does or stands for nor do they understand the rigorous admission standards that it requires. When I discovered the NBTA Board Certification Program, I decided to seek admission because of what I perceive to be the significance of such certification to the general public. Currently I am the only Board Certified family law lawyer In Nebraska and I know for a fact that such a designation not only means something to lawyers, the general public can identify with it in the context of the legal profession because they have been doing so for years within the medical profession. It is hard to gauge what this has meant in terms of business because our office has more business than we can handle on a regular basis. However, I think such a designation confirms in people's minds that they have made the right choice by coming to this office for representation and it gives them some assurance that they are being represented by one of the best in the state.

NBTA allows those lawyers deserving of board certification a way to differentiate themselves from their colleagues in terms of recognized expertise while at the same time giving the general public an objective way of measuring a lawyer's competence and ability in a certain specialty.

John W. Ballew, Jr.
Nebraska Attorney
Certified since 1996
(402) 436-3030

Choose a Board Certified Trial Lawyer

All lawyers are not created equal, but all lawyers are free to take any case they want, regardless of whether they've proven themselves.

NBTA board certification provides both consumers and other lawyers looking to refer cases with an objective credential.

It just makes great sense to choose a board certified trial lawyer over a non-certified lawyer.

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