Allison D. Balus
Baird Holm LLP
Allison D. Balus primarily represents management clients in federal and state court employment-related litigation and arbitration. Her litigation experience includes federal court jury and bench trials in the FLSA, ADA, Title VII, FMLA, ADEA, breach of contract, and whistleblower cases. She has represented employers in the retail, food processing, health care, manufacturing, marketing, professional staffing, transportation, and fast-food industries, among others. Allison also has considerable experience defending and counseling clients in class and collective actions, particularly those involving claims under the FLSA and other wage and hour laws, the ADA, GINA, the FCRA, the TCPA, and various data privacy claims. Her successes in defending class and collective actions have been at the class certification, summary judgment, trial, and appellate levels.
In addition, Allison counsels and defends public sector clients in education law matters such as due process petitions under the IDEA, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and the Nebraska Special Education Act; due process hearings under Nebraska Revised Statute §§ 79-827 and 79-829; proceedings under the Nebraska Student Discipline Act; and Nebraska Tort Claims Act litigation.
Since 2019, Allison has been selected by her peers for inclusion in the Best Lawyers In America® for Labor and Employment Litigation and in 2022 and 2025 was selected as “Lawyer of the Year” for Omaha Litigation – Labor and Employment. She is one of only a handful of labor and employment lawyers in the region who has been elected a Fellow of “The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers,” the premier peer-selected organization of labor and employment lawyers in North America. Admission is by invitation only, following a rigorous screening process. Additionally, Allison is included in Great Plains Super Lawyers in the practice area of Employment Litigation, is recognized by Benchmark Litigation© as a Labor and Employment Star, and is named in Chambers USA. She also regularly speaks on employment law topics for organizations around the country.
