SHERRETS BRUNO & VOGT - Key Persons
Biography
Diana Vogt has more than 25 years of civil litigation experience with an emphasis on federal court practice. Ms. Vogt has experience litigating disputes involving complex insurance and business disputes, real estate sales, broker commissions, and failure to disclose defects in commercial property. Ms. Vogt has also worked on cases involving construction defects, architect, engineer, and legal malpractice, and medical products liability. She has represented interest holders in business entity disputes, litigated insurance and reinsurance disputes and drafted insurance policies. Ms. Vogt also has experience litigating employment law, discrimination, and civil rights cases on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants.
Ms. Vogt has litigated ten cases that established new law, including a suit which expanded the liability of anesthesiologists to include liability for the negligence of employees working under the direction of the anesthesiologist. Some of her notable cases include an order directing performance of a real estate transaction worth more than $4 million, a settlement of $1 million for a bank's failure to disclose the existence of mold in a sale of commercial property, and obtaining an order enforcing covenants requiring a golf course property could not be developed for other uses. Ms. Vogt also obtained a verdict in a legal malpractice case resulting in a verdict of $1.8 million plus disgorgement of $360,000 in attorneys fees.
In addition to her experience trying cases, Ms. Vogt has an active appellate practice, appearing regularly in front of the Nebraska Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. Ms. Vogt has argued cases to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth and Ninth Circuits. Ms. Vogt is admitted to the Bar of the United States Supreme Court, the United States District and Bankruptcy Courts for the District of Nebraska, and the United States Courts of Appeal for the Third, Fifth, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits. Ms. Vogt is regularly hired as appellate counsel by other attorneys.
Ms. Vogt has extensive experience in federal court litigation and has written articles about the strategic use of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Ms. Vogt is a past recipient of the Omaha Bar Association's Public Service Award and has been recognized by membership in Lawyers of Distinction for excellence in civil litigation.
Ms. Vogt is available to act as a mediator in lawsuits involving discrimination, civil rights, employment and insurance disputes.
Practice Areas
Civil Litigation 80%
We regularly conduct trials to a jury and to the court. Attorneys from this firm have recovered or defended over $100 million in total claims. Even though we are a local firm, we practice wherever our clients need us. The attorneys at Sherrets Bruno & Vogt have handled cases in the state courts of Colorado, Iowa, Texas, Minnesota, Kansas, Missouri, Florida, Pennsylvania and New York. We have also represented clients in U.S. District Courts in the following states: California, Delaware, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, New York and Washington.
Jim Sherrets, founder of the firm, actively represented clients for more than 35 years focusing on business and property disputes. Mr. Sherrets has been admitted to practice in Nebraska, Colorado, Arizona, and Texas. Mr. Sherrets litigated more than 100 cases in which landowners were having property condemned by a governmental entity. Mr. Sherrets has acted as a member of numerous Boards of Appraisal assigned to assess fair market value for properties which were being condemned.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Associate, 1981 to 1982
- Summer Associate, 1989 to 1998