Free Legal Clinic

Ross Pesek is a Bi-Lingual (English/Spanish) trial lawyer, born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. Initially, he practiced as a criminal and immigration trial lawyer, obtaining legal immigration status or stopping deportations for hundreds of individuals (and their families) in his neighborhood.

Today, Ross focuses and assisting negligence victims get justice before Nebraska juries. Ross is one of few bi-lingual trial lawyers in Nebraska to have won a civil jury verdict for undocumented immigrants. Ross demands justice for immigrants and Spanish speakers that other lawyers choose not to represent and who opposing interests often discriminate against.

In 2011, Ross founded a free legal clinic at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in South Omaha – the same church where he was married and baptized. Every Monday night at 7:00 pm for the last ten years Ross and volunteer lawyers he has organized have provided thousands of free legal consultations to South Omaha families. Ross believes giving access to honest, competent legal advice without charging a consultation fee – often the equivalent of 15 or 20 hours of work on the factory line – is a valuable community service that expands access to legal services for many in South Omaha and surrounding areas.

Beginning in 2012, Ross assisted approximately 100 immigrants register for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) immigration program through his private law practice. After completing this work, Ross and his wife, Karen Pesek, founded the True Potential Scholarship. True Potential has awarded more than 120 DACA recipients and other immigrants full-tuition scholarships to attend community college in Nebraska and Iowa. DACA recipients and other immigrants are excluded from federal and state aid, such as FAFSA and Regent scholarships. True Potential fills this gap by raising and awarding 100% private funds.

Ross was awarded the "Outstanding Young Lawyer" by the Nebraska Bar Association (2013), an "Early Achiever" by the University of Nebraska College of law (2014), the "Seeds of Justice" award by Nebraska Appleseed (2017) and other professional recognitions.

Ross has been a member of the Metropolitan Community College Foundation Board of Directors (2014-2020), the ACLU lawyer review panel (2015-2019) and other boards. Today, Ross is the chairman of the South Omaha Business Improvement District.