18 Oct 2018
Mike McCarthy, ’75, took over as Nebraska State Bar Association House of Delegates Chair and Jane Langan Mach, ‘95, began her term on the NSBA Executive Council this week at the NSBA’s Annual Meeting in La Vista.
Mike is a partner in the North Platte law firm of McCarthy & Moore, LLP. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1972, and his law degree in 1975, both from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Immediately following his graduation he joined his father in the private practice of law in North Platte. Mike practices primarily in the areas of estate planning and probate, real estate, and corporate & business planning.
Mike is married to Janie McCarthy who is a retired speech and language teacher with North Platte Public Schools. Mike has four children and eight grandchildren. Mike has served on the North Platte Board of Education, and served as the Board’s President, the Great Plains Health Board of Directors, where he also served as the Board’s Chair, the Board of Directors of the North Platte Area Chamber of Commerce and Development Corporation, where he served as Chair, the Nebraska Commission on the Unauthorized Practice of Law, where he served as Chair from 2008 to 2012, the Nebraska State Bar Association House of Delegates, and he served as the Sixth District Representative on the Executive Council of the Nebraska State Bar Association, from 2013 to 2016.
Jane Langan Mach also began her term on the NSBA Executive Council representing the First Judicial District.
Langan Mach is a partner at Rembolt Ludtke LLP where she has been practicing since 1995. She focuses primarily on family law issues, particularly complex divorce, paternity, custody, child support, and adoption matters including both trial and appellate work. Jane is a Certified Parenting Act Mediator. She also works with the rehabilitation or liquidation of insurance companies. Langan Mach teaches Pretrial Litigation Skills and Family Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law and has been a regular speaker at the Family Law Section’s annual seminar.
Langan Mach is listed in Great Plains Super Lawyers and in Nebraska’s 10 Best in client satisfaction with the American Institute of Family Law Attorneys. She is active in the Nebraska State Bar Association. She has served: as Chair of the House of Delegate (2018); on the Ad Hoc Committee on Parenting Time (2013); Legislation Committee (2011-present); Budget and Planning (2011-2012); Annual Meeting Committee Chair (2002-2003); and was on the Executive Committee and Chair (2000-2001) of the Young Lawyers Section.
A lifelong Nebraskan, Jane lives in Lincoln with her husband Jeff and their five children.
Also becoming NSBA officers are the Hon. Tricia Freeman and Susan Sapp, ‘89. Judge Freeman of the Sarpy County Court took office as Chair-Elect. Susan Sapp with Cline Williams Wright Johnson and Oldfather, LLP in Lincoln took office as Chair-Elect Designate.