This Is Not a Court or Government Office. This private reference resource cannot retrieve an official docket, reset a court date, seal or remove a filing, issue a certified copy, accept a court payment, or provide legal advice. Direct those requests to the appropriate court office below.
Need an Official Docket or Record?
Use the court label and record type before calling. The statewide service can help locate many case summaries, but a clerk is the source for a specified official record or current confirmation.
- A docket or Register of Actions: begin with the official case search route, then ask the clerk for an identified record if needed.
- A court date: check the court calendar channels and confirm a recent setting with the court division.
- County Court copies: contact the County Court division that holds the case type.
- District Court copies: use the District Clerk records request route for an identified document.
- Certified copies: state the case number, year, document, and certification need to the official clerk.
Lancaster Court Contacts
The Justice and Law Enforcement Center is at 575 S 10th Street, Lincoln, Nebraska 68508. Lancaster County Court is on the second floor; the Clerk of the District Court is on the third floor. Regular public hours listed by the court are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., excluding legal holidays. Confirm a special closure before traveling.
Clerk of the District Court
District civil, felony, domestic-relations, paternity, equity, and appellate record questions.
402-441-7328
Lancaster County Court
General County Court questions and date inquiry routing.
402-441-7291
County Court Civil and Small Claims
County civil and small-claims records.
402-441-7271
County Court Criminal and Traffic
Misdemeanor, traffic, and felony preliminary questions.
402-441-8959
Probate, adoption, and condemnation questions use 402-441-7443. The separate Juvenile Court uses 402-441-6928 and has its own record-access rules.