Opinion ID: 1652750
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Heading: Activities of Bar Foundation.

Text: Among the Bar Foundation's early activities, and one of the original goals of the foundation, was fund raising for construction of a headquarters building for the Nebraska State Bar Association. Eventually, the Bar Foundation constructed the Law Center, in which law-related organizations occupy 56.3 percent of the center's usable floorspace, namely: the Bar Foundation occupies 13 percent; the Nebraska State Bar Association, 35.8 percent; and Nebraska Continuing Legal Education, 7.5 percent. The Nebraska State Bar Association and Nebraska Continuing Legal Education pay rent to the Bar Foundation for their floorspace in the Law Center. The remaining 43.7 percent of the Law Center's floorspace is leased to tenants unassociated with law-related activities. Among its specific activities, the Bar Foundation has supplied seed money for Nebraska Continuing Legal Education, that is, initial funding for commencement of that educational corporation, and has made annual grants to Nebraska Continuing Legal Education since its inception. The Bar Foundation funded a Student Legal Services Handbook for the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska, a publication [t]o provide students with general information on areas of law that most frequently concern them. [The handbook] is written to inform rather than advise, the hope being that students who have an awareness of their legal rights will seek the advice of an attorney regarding a specific legal problem. Also, foundation funding was used for the Nebraska Annotations to the Restatement (Second) of Trusts and the Annotation and Restatement of Torts. Additionally, the Bar Foundation supplied or committed funds for a study of the Nebraska court system, the publication of a Consumer's Guide to Nebraska Law, a conference of state Supreme Court justices and court administrators, and a writing contest in Nebraska relative to the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution.