Bob Chaloupka

Bob Chaloupka was revered for his powerful courtroom presence and for taking on cases that other lawyers believed couldn’t be won. Not only did he wholeheartedly embrace fighting for the underdog - and being the underdog himself - Bob obtained Nebraska’s first million-dollar jury verdict in a personal injury case. He is believed to be the first trial lawyer in Nebraska to secure both a million-dollar verdict and an acquittal in a first-degree murder case. Bob Chaloupka turned down a steady job as a big-city federal prosecutor to build a law practice in rural Nebraska. It was 1970. Bob was...