Source: https://supremecourt.nebraska.gov/supreme-court-rules/chapter-3-attorneys-practice-law/article-8-state-bar-association-creation-control-regulation/%C2%A7-3-803-membership
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(B) Classes. Members of this Association shall be divided into five classes, namely: Active members, Inactive members, Disability Inactive members, Law Student members, and Emeritus members.
(2) Any member who is not actively engaged in the practice of law in the State of Nebraska, or who is a nonresident of the State of Nebraska and not actively engaged in the practice of law in Nebraska, and who is not an Emeritus member, may, if he or she so elects, be placed in Inactive membership status; in the event the member has an impairment which prevents an active law practice, the member may apply for Disability Inactive membership which alleviates the need to pay annual inactive dues during the period of disability. The application and supporting information shall be confidential pursuant to Neb. Ct. R. § 3-318(D)(2). An order granting the application shall be public pursuant to § 3-318(D)(2).
A member desiring to be placed in any Inactive membership status shall file a written application therefor with the Administrator of Attorney Services Division and, if otherwise qualified, shall be placed in such inactive status classification. No Inactive members shall practice law in Nebraska, or vote or hold office in this Association. Any Inactive member may, on filing application with the Administrator of Attorney Services Division and upon payment of the required fees and dues, and compliance with such requirements as may be imposed by the Supreme Court to show fitness to engage in the active practice of law in this State as provided by § 3-803(F), become an Active member. The State Bar Commission shall conduct a review of the member's character and fitness and make a recommendation to the Court evincing the member's fitness to become an Active member. (Appendix A).
(E) Delinquency and Reinstatement. All mandatory membership assessments not paid by April 1 of the current calendar year shall be considered delinquent; and the Administrator of Attorney Services Division shall send written notice, by certified mail, to each member then delinquent in the payment of his or her assessments, which notice shall be addressed to such member at his or her last reported address, and shall notify such member of such delinquency. All members who shall fail to pay delinquent assessments within 30 days thereafter shall be reported to the Supreme Court by the Administrator of Attorney Services Division, and the Supreme Court shall enter an order to show cause why such member shall not be suspended from membership in this Association. The Supreme Court shall, after hearing thereon, enter such an order as it may deem appropriate. If an order of suspension shall be entered, such party shall not practice law until restored to good standing. Whenever a member suspended for nonpayment of mandatory membership assessments submits an application with Attorney Services seeking reinstatement, the member shall make payment of all arrears, and shall satisfy the Supreme Court of his or her qualification to then return to the active practice of law. The Administrator of Attorney Services shall submit the completed application with the Court after gathering the necessary reinstatement information. The Administrator of Attorney Services Division shall keep a complete record of all suspensions and reinstatements. No person, while his or her membership is suspended, shall be entitled to exercise or receive any of the privileges of membership in this Association.
(F) Suspension or Disbarment. Any member who shall be suspended or disbarred from the practice of law by the Supreme Court shall, during the period of such suspension or disbarment, be likewise suspended or barred from membership in this Association. Disciplinary reinstatement shall be allowed as provided in § 3-310.
(1) Upon application for admission after any disciplinary or administrative suspension lasting longer than 8 months, or for reinstatement after disbarment, the member shall submit to a character and fitness review before the State Bar Commission consisting of updating information the State Bar Commission uses to determine character and fitness to practice during the time of suspension or disbarment (Appendix A). The State Bar Commission shall collect a $150 fee for its character and fitness investigation of each application for reinstatement.
(2) The State Bar Commission director shall make a character and fitness recommendation to the Court upon completion of the application process for each member applying for reinstatement from a gap in licensure of more than 8 months or reinstatement from a disbarment. In the event further inquiry as provided for in § 3-116(F) or a hearing before the State Bar Commission is required to determine a character and fitness recommendation, costs shall be taxed to the applying party.
(3) On reinstatement to practice by the Supreme Court, such party shall pay mandatory membership assessments for the year in which he or she is readmitted and all past due mandatory assessments and late fees owed at the time of the suspension or disbarment and complete any CLE requirements pursuant to Neb. Ct. R. § 3-401.12 prior to being restored to membership in this Association. Voluntary membership dues shall not be collected or assessed during suspension or disbarment periods or while an attorney is in retired/resigned status.
(G) Fees. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to limit the power of the State Bar Association, or of any of its sections or committees, to assess voluntary registration fees or attendance fees for meetings, institutes, or continuing legal education sessions as may be approved or determined from time to time by the House of Delegates or the Executive Council.
(H) Resignation. Any member may resign either active or inactive membership in the Bar Association by tendering his or her written resignation to the Administrator of the Attorney Services Division on a form to be provided. This form shall include an affidavit to be completed by the member seeking to resign, stating that the member has not been suspended or disbarred in any other state or by any court; that the member has not voluntarily surrendered his or her license to practice law in any other state or to any court in connection with any investigation or disciplinary proceeding against the member; that to the member's knowledge he or she is not then under investigation, nor has a complaint or charges pending against him or her with reference to any alleged violation of professional responsibilities as a lawyer; and that the member agrees to be subject to the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court for a period of 3 years from the date his or her resignation is accepted for the purpose of disciplinary proceedings for any alleged violation of his or her professional responsibilities as a lawyer. During this 3-year period, the acceptance of his or her resignation may be set aside by the Supreme Court upon application filed in the Supreme Court by the Counsel for Discipline. Once the affidavit is completed, the Administrator of the Attorney Services Division shall submit the form to the Supreme Court which may accept the resignation, provided the resigning member's mandatory membership assessments are not delinquent, or may accept it upon payment of any such delinquent assessments, unless the member seeking to resign has been suspended for the nonpayment of assessments as provided for in § 3-803(E), in which event the submitted resignation shall not be acted upon until the member seeking resignation has been reinstated as provided for in said section. In the event the affidavit is not fully completed, or any exception is taken to it, the tendered resignation shall be rejected. The Clerk shall keep a complete record of all submitted requests for resignation and all resignations and shall report to the Administrator of Attorney Services Division the names and addresses of members whose resignations have been accepted by the Supreme Court.
(I) Reinstatement Following Resignation. Whenever a former member of this Association who resigned is readmitted to the practice of law in Nebraska by the Supreme Court pursuant to the process set forth in § 3-119(E), the member shall not pay mandatory membership assessments for the year in which he or she is readmitted, as the reinstatement application fee includes the mandatory assessment for the year of reinstatement.
Rule 3(B)(3) - (6),amended March 19, 2003, effective November 1, 2003; Rule 3(D)(1) amended February 25, 1998; Rule 3(D)(1) amended October 9, 1998; Rule 3(D)(1) amended July 27, 2000; Rule 3(D)(1) amended March 19, 2003, effective November 1, 2003; Rule 3(H) amended March 19, 2003, effective November 1, 2003. Renumbered and codified as § 3-803, effective July 18, 2008. § 3-803(D)(1) amended September 11, 2008; § 3-803 amended December 3, 2013, effective January 1, 2014; § 3-803 amended March 19, 2014; § 3-803(C) amended September 24, 2014, effective January 1, 2015; § 3-803(D)(1) amended January 14, 2015; § 3-803(A) and (D) amended December 14, 2016; § 3-803(D) amended March 8, 2017; § 3-803(F) and (I) amended January 2, 2019; §§ 3-803(B), (B)(2), (E), (F)(1 to 3), and (I) amended March 13, 2019; § 3-803(E)-(H) amended September 4, 2019.