Fredericks Peebles & Morgan LLP Attorneys


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CALIFORNIA Sacramento Office: 2020 L Street, Suite 250 Sacramento, CA 95811 Phone: 916-441-2700 Fax: 916-441-2067 COLORADO Louisville Office: 1900 Plaza Drive Louisville, CO 80027 Phone: 303-673-9600 Fax: 303-673-9155 MICHIGAN Peshawbestown Office: 2848 Setterbo Road Peshawbestown, MI 49682 Phone: 231-631-8558 MINNESOTA Minneapolis Office: 5401 Gamble Drive Suite 280 St. Louis Park, MN 55416 Phone: 952-681-7925 Fax: 952-681-7945 NEBRASKA Omaha Office: 3610 North 163rd Plaza Omaha, NE 68116 Phone: 402-333-4053 Fax: 402-333-4761 Winnebago Office: 504 Ho-Chunk Plaza, Ste 7 P.O. Box 792 Winnebago, NE 68071 Phone: 402-878-4383 Fax: 402-878-4384 NORTH DAKOTA Mandan Office: 3730 29th Avenue Mandan, ND 58554 Phone: 303-673-9600 Fax: 701-663-5103 SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls Office: 3817 Slaten Park Drive Sioux Falls, SD 57103 Phone: 605-338-9147 Fax: 605-339-1769 Rapid City Office: 2040 W. Main, Suite 110 Rapid City, SD 57702 Phone: 605-791-1515 Fax: 605-791-1915 WASHINGTON, D.C. 1301 Connecticut Ave. NW Suite 450 Washington, D.C. 20036 Phone: 202-450-4887 Fax: 202-450-5106

BEN FENNER –Attorney at Law
Omaha, Nebraska
phone: 402.333.4053
fax: 402.333.4761
email: email me

Mr. Fenner joined the firm as an associate in 2007.

PRACTICE AREAS: Trial advocacy; contracts; taxation; election law; gaming law; reservation economic development; tribal acknowledgment and recognition; tribal self determination.

ADMISSIONS: New York; Nebraska; United States District Court for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of New York; Winnebago Tribal Court; Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians Tribal Court.

EDUCATION: Albany Law School of Union University (J.D., 2006); University of Wisconsin, Madison (B.A., 1997).

PRIOR LEGAL EXPERIENCE: Law Clerk, Fredericks & Peebles LLP (2006); Legal Aide, Claims Bureau of the New York State Office of the Attorney General (2005-06); Judicial Clerkship, the late Honorable Vincent G. Bradley, New York State Supreme Court (2004); Legal Intern, Child Protection Unit, Connecticut Attorney General’s Office (2004); Paralegal, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Wallace Law Registry (client: Seeger Weiss LLC, Corporate Department) (1999).

LEGAL AUTHORSHIP: “The Misrule of Law: A Recent Supreme Court Ruling Proves Once Again that Indian Country Needs a Strong Tribal Judiciary,” This Week From Indian Country Today, Nov. 2, 2011, at 34; “Indian country in Cyber Space: Bella Hess and Commerce Clause Constraints on Interstate, Mail-Order Transactions,” 71 Alb. L. Rev. 401-414 (2008); “Indian Country in Cyber Space: Tribal Tax and Regulatory Jurisdiction and Online Business,” 12 NO. 5 J. Internet L. 3 (2008).

REPRESENTATIVE CASES:Gristede’s Foods, Inc. v. Unkechauge Nation, 2009 WL 4981905 (E.D.N.Y. Dec. 10, 2009); Native American Capital, LLC v. Avondale Investments, LLC, 10-CV-696 (S.D.N.Y. August 12, 2010); Williams v. Lac Vieux Desert Election Board, 10-AP-03 (Lac Vieux Desert Appellate Ct. Dec. 20, 2010); Wanatee v. Sac & Fox Tribe, C 11-44 (N.D. Iowa June 2, 2011).

TEACHING POSITIONS: Guest Lecturer, Creighton University School of Law, Spring 2010.

ASSOCIATIONS: Federal Bar Association; New York State Bar Association; Nebraska State Bar Association; Omaha Bar Association; American Bar Association.