C. Hobart Keith v. Louis K. Freiberg and William M. Rensch

Plaintiff, C. HoBart Keith, brought this diversity action in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska against his former attorneys, Louis K. Freiberg and William M. Rensch, charging them with malpractice, breach of promise, deceit, and “ripping them off.” The district court 1 found that defendants’ quantity of contacts with Nebraska was few, the quality of contacts was weak, the cause of action arose in South Dakota, and Nebraska neither had a significant interest in resolution of the dispute nor afforded any convenience to the parties which was unavailable in the courts…