Gerdes Steve

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Job Injuries, Death, Car Wrecks, Professional Malpractice, Defective Products, and Recreational/Sports Injuries

Steve Gerdes is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Nebraska College of Law. He has 25 years of trial experience. He is a member of the Association of Trial Attorneys of America and serves on the Board of Directors of the Nebraska Association of Trial Attorneys. He is a board member of the Omaha Head Injury Support Group and a former board member of the Brain Injury Assocation of Nebraska. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court.
Mr. Gerdes gives frequent presentations to other lawyers on the trial of personal injury cases and in particular the handling of cases for people with traumatic brain injury. From 1993 through 2001 he has made presentations to the Brain Injury Association's national conference for trial lawyers. He has made presentations on brain injuries before trial attorney associations in Nebraska, Iowa, Utah, Louisiana, and Ohio. Some of the topics include:

° Mild Brain Injury Cases in Iowa Workers' Compensation
° Direct Examination of the Neurologist in the Mild to Moderate Closed Head Injury Case
° Cranial Nerves II - XII Intact; Brain Intact--not

Mr. Gerdes was a co-chairman of "Traumatic Brain Injury: A Plaintiff's and Defendant's Perspective" held in Omaha in 1996. He is the co-author with Samuel Mehr M.D. of "Medicolegal Aspects of PET Scans," which appeared in the medical journal, Neurorehabilitation, in 2001.
Mr. Gerdes is actively involved in the community. He holds local, regional, and national positions with the United States Tennis Association. He has held numerous leadership positions at Countryside Community Church and has served as an officer of the Nebraska Conference of the United Church of Christ. He currently serves as its Alternate Synod Delegate. He is an officer of the Omaha Sister Cities Association and NEBRASKAland Foundation. He serves on the Board of the American Friends of the Asian Rural Institute.

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