Author Description
Don Blankenau served as “consulting legal counsel” to Memphis/MLGW during the course of the litigation between Mississippi and Tennnessee. Don is a founding member of the firm Blankenau Wilmoth Jarecke LLP in Lincoln, Nebraska. He has represented clients in a wide-range of water disputes including interstate cases involving the Platte River, Republican River, Missouri River and Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint Rivers. He has also been involved in a variety of water disputes involving groundwater conflicts, served as administrative law judge in over 100 hearings concerning water use, and presently assists various individuals with conflicts concerning competing users. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Blankenau served as legal counsel, assistant director, and interim director of the Nebraska Department of Water Resources. Before attending law school, Mr. Blankenau received a B.S. degree in Natural Resources Management. He received his J.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In addition to all Nebraska state courts, he is admitted to the United States Supreme Court and multiple federal district and circuit courts.
Authored Reports
War and Peace Over the Niobrara River,War and Peace Over the Niobrara River,Florida v. Georgia: The Long River to Nowhere / US Supreme Court Ruling,Apportioning Interstate Groundwater: Mississippi v. Tennessee, City of Memphis, Memphis LGW, No. 143 Orig.
