Audrey R. Svane

Audrey Svane joined the firm’s litigation group in 2015. Her practice includes construction law, commercial litigation, and product liability and personal injury claims. As part of Audrey’s unique practice, she counsels and advocates for clients dealing with serious injuries and families that have experienced traumatic loss. She has advised and represented clients in civil cases in various state courts, federal courts, mediation, arbitration, and on appeal.

Audrey also provides general risk management strategies to general contractors and subcontractors on a variety of construction-related matters, including drafting and analysis of contracts and claim preparation.  She speaks regularly on construction-related topics to various trade groups and is a contributing author to the Nebraska Chapters of the State-By-State Guide to Architect, Engineer and Contractor Licensing (2nd edition), and State-by-State Guide to Design and Construction Contracts and Claims (2nd edition). Audrey is also an adjunct professor of Pretrial Litigation and Construction Practice at the University of Nebraska College of Law, her alma mater.

During law school, Audrey received multiple CALI Excellence for the Future Awards, was a problem writer for the Moot Court Board, and a member of the National Trial Team. She also had the opportunity to advise and represent clients in a variety of civil cases as a student attorney in the law college’s civil clinical law program. Audrey graduated from the University of Nebraska College of Law with high distinction and was elected by the law school faculty to both the Order of the Coif and Order of the Barristers.