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2026 cost estimates for dui / dwi in Nebraska, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a dui / dwi in Nebraska costs on average $6,250, typically $4,150-$8,300 for a moderate-complexity case, based on sourced attorney-fee and court-cost data. Typical attorney rates run $170 to $315 per hour. A moderate-complexity case typically takes 3-6 months to resolve. Common related costs include court filing fee ($100-$300) and dmv hearing fee ($100-$200).
Data verified: June 29, 2026
| Complexity | Low | Median | High | Typical Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simple | $1,750 | $3,100 | $4,400 | 1-3 months |
| Moderate | $4,150 | $6,250 | $8,300 | 3-6 months |
| Complex | $9,000 | $15,300 | $22,500 | 6-12 months |
Last verified: June 2026
$170 – $315/ hour
Median: $230/hr
3-6 months
For moderate complexity cases
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</script>DUI/DWI legal cost has two layers that are easy to underestimate: the attorney fee itself, and the non-attorney costs that follow a conviction or plea. The attorney fee is driven mainly by whether the case goes to trial (far more hours billed) or resolves through a plea agreement, plus complicating factors like BAC level, prior offenses, or an accident with injuries. Many DUI attorneys charge a flat fee for a straightforward first offense and switch to hourly billing once the case becomes contested.
Beyond the attorney, a DUI case typically layers on court fines, a state-mandated alcohol education or treatment program, license reinstatement fees, and — for many drivers — an ignition interlock device with ongoing monthly costs. Insurance premium increases are not a one-time legal cost but often the largest total expense over a 3-5 year period following conviction, which is why the figures on this page reflect legal defense costs specifically, not the lifetime cost of a conviction.
Take a moderate-complexity dui / dwi matter in Nebraska. The recorded median total is $6,250, with reported quotes clustering between $4,150 and $8,300. Each statutory line below is sized against that median.
Added together the itemised lines come to $1,200–$3,500, which leaves roughly $2,750–$5,050 of the Nebraska median as professional time — the part that differs between quotes. 2 further recorded fees are not itemised above and are not in that total.
At $6,250, the median dui / dwi cost in Nebraska runs 16% below the $7,403 national average across all 50 states and DC.
Nebraska carries 3 rows — simple, $1,750–$4,400 at $125–$250/hr over 1-3 months; moderate, $4,150–$8,300 at $170–$315/hr over 3-6 months; complex, $9,000–$22,500 at $210–$375/hr over 6-12 months — on 4 shared citations. Those figures place it in the lower quarter of the table.
$6,250 is a median, not the middle of the band — $2,100 above the $4,150 floor, $2,050 under the $8,300 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 51.
Sorted by median cost, Nebraska is 40th of 51 for a dui / dwi, placing it in the lowest-cost quarter of the table: $1,200 and 16% below the $7,450 midpoint, with 11 states recording a lower median still.
Iowa ($6,300) and Mississippi ($6,200) bracket Nebraska inside a $100 window — narrow enough that 40th is close to arbitrary.
6 tracked states — North Carolina, Missouri, New Mexico, Iowa among them — record a median within three percent of Nebraska's $6,250. The figure sits in the densest part of the dui / dwi distribution, where a rank change of several rows costs only a few hundred dollars.
Ranked by hourly rate instead of by total, Nebraska does not move: 40th on both measures, at $230 an hour. Rate and total are telling the same story here.
| Rank | State | Median | Against Nebraska |
|---|---|---|---|
| 34 | Indiana | $6,800 | +$550 |
| 35 | Tennessee | $6,550 | +$300 |
| 36 | North Carolina | $6,400 | +$150 |
| 37 | Missouri | $6,350 | +$100 |
| 38 | New Mexico | $6,350 | +$100 |
| 39 | Iowa | $6,300 | +$50 |
| 40 | Nebraska | $6,250 | — |
| 41 | Mississippi | $6,200 | −$50 |
| 42 | West Virginia | $6,200 | −$50 |
| 43 | South Dakota | $6,000 | −$250 |
| 44 | Alabama | $5,950 | −$300 |
| 45 | North Dakota | $5,800 | −$450 |
| 46 | Kansas | $5,750 | −$500 |
The 40th position is not a stable fact about Nebraska: $50 up or $50 down moves Nebraska a row, and a ten percent revision in either direction would cross 15 rows, 8 above and 7 below in near-equal numbers.
Climbing five places would mean passing Tennessee, North Carolina, Missouri, New Mexico, Iowa and adding $300 to the $6,250 recorded here.
Five places down means passing under Mississippi, West Virginia, South Dakota, Alabama, North Dakota: $450.
$3,550 short of Washington ($9,800), $700 clear of South Carolina ($5,550).
The $6,250 median divided by the $230 median rate implies roughly 27 billable hours. That rounds to the same 27 hours as the peer median, so on workload Nebraska is indistinguishable from the middle of the table at this precision.
The escalation is comparatively shallow on hours. A complex dui / dwi costs 4.9x a simple one in Nebraska, but the implied workload only rises 3.3x — 16 hours at $190 becomes 52 hours at $295 — meaning the senior-rate premium of 1.55x carries an unusually large share of the increase.
The Nebraska moderate band spans $4,150 to $8,300 — $4,150 — which is $850 narrower than the peer-median band of $5,000, so quoted dui / dwi figures cluster more tightly here than in most tracked states. End to end that is 18 hours at $230.
Spread across the 3-6 months the sources record for a moderate matter, the $6,250 median works out to roughly $1,389 a month. A complex dui / dwi runs longer, at 6-12 months, but it also runs hotter — about $1,700 a month — so the extra cost is not simply the extra calendar time.
A third ordering: by implied hours Nebraska is 24th of 51 at 27 hours, 16 places above its cost rank of 40th on cost — more work behind the same dui / dwi money.
80% up the $4,150–$8,300 band sits the $7,450 table midpoint, buying 32 hours at $230 against the 27 the local dui / dwi median implies — 5 hours apart.
| Measure | Nebraska | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $6,250 | 40th |
| Hourly median | $230 | 40th |
| Implied hours | 27 | 24th |
| Simple median | $3,100 | 34th |
| Complex median | $15,300 | 31st |
$230 an hour puts Nebraska between Mississippi ($230) and North Carolina ($230) — not the dui / dwi cost pairing.
5 other states record exactly $230 — Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota among them — so rate is a coarse instrument in this dui / dwi table.
$6,250 buys 33 hours at $190, 27 at $230, 21 at $295.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 38 | Kansas | $230 |
| 39 | Mississippi | $230 |
| 40 | Nebraska | $230 |
| 41 | North Carolina | $230 |
| 42 | North Dakota | $230 |
The ranking barely moves across tiers — 34th at the simple tier, 40th at moderate, 31st at complex of 51 — so Nebraska keeps roughly the same relative position whether the dui / dwi is straightforward or contested.
$3,100 is 34th of 51 on a straightforward dui / dwi, under Wyoming ($3,150) and over New Mexico ($3,100), $300 under the $3,400 tier midpoint.
$15,300 is 31st of 51 once contested, between Wisconsin ($15,950) and Michigan ($15,250), $1,050 off the $16,350 tier midpoint.
The lower two bands run into each other — the simple tier tops out at $4,400 against a moderate floor of $4,150 — but there is a clear gap of $700 between the moderate ceiling of $8,300 and the complex floor of $9,000. In Nebraska the jump into contested work is a step, not a slope.
| Tier | Nebraska | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $3,100 | 34th | $3,400 | 16 |
| moderate | $6,250 | 40th | $7,450 | 27 |
| complex | $15,300 | 31st | $16,350 | 52 |
$3,100 puts Nebraska 34th of 51 on straightforward matters, 6 up on its moderate position, and $300 (9%) under the $3,400 tier midpoint.
16 implied hours at $190: 59% of the moderate tier's 27, over 1-3 months.
Wyoming ($3,150) and New Mexico ($3,100) bracket it — a $50 window.
5 states sit within three percent of the $3,100 here, against 6 at the moderate row.
$15,300 puts Nebraska 31st of 51 on contested matters, 9 up on its moderate position, and $1,050 (6%) under the $16,350 tier midpoint.
52 implied hours at $295: 193% of the moderate tier's 27, over 6-12 months.
Wisconsin ($15,950) and Michigan ($15,250) bracket it — a $700 window.
5 states sit within three percent of the $15,300 here, against 6 at the moderate row.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 32 | Idaho | $3,150 |
| 33 | Wyoming | $3,150 |
| 34 | Nebraska | $3,100 |
| 35 | New Mexico | $3,100 |
| 36 | Iowa | $3,050 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 29 | Maine | $15,950 |
| 30 | Wisconsin | $15,950 |
| 31 | Nebraska | $15,300 |
| 32 | Michigan | $15,250 |
| 33 | North Carolina | $15,250 |
$6,250 ranks a dui / dwi 3rd of 8 in Nebraska, under Divorce, over Immigration. At 76% of Criminal Defense ($8,250).
The state does not rank uniformly. Nebraska is 26th of 51 for Personal Injury but 42nd for Criminal Defense, a 16-place spread across the matter types tracked here, so its 40th on dui / dwi says little about what the other lines cost.
Nebraska is not equally priced in every practice area. Measured against each matter's own midpoint, Divorce runs 9% below its own midpoint while Personal Injury runs 25% below its own midpoint — a 16-point spread between the extremes.
The largest tracked median in Nebraska is 5x the smallest, effectively the 5.1x that the typical state records: the internal spread is ordinary even where the levels are not.
0 of 7 matter types rank Nebraska in the upper third, 6 in the lower, 1 between; dui / dwi is 40th.
In percentile terms it sits at the 22th percentile of the 51 tracked states.
| Matter | Simple | Moderate | Complex | Hours | Rank | vs mid | Above |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criminal Defense | $2,950 | $8,250 | $25,200 | 33 | 42nd | −19% | Louisiana |
| Divorce | $2,700 | $7,750 | $18,050 | 31 | 35th | −9% | Mississippi |
| DUI / DWI | $3,100 | $6,250 | $15,300 | 27 | 40th | −16% | Iowa |
| Immigration | $1,750 | $4,050 | $9,050 | 18 | 39th | −15% | Mississippi |
| Personal Injury | $1,150 | $3,900 | $11,400 | — | 26th | −25% | Tennessee |
| Bankruptcy | $1,200 | $3,050 | $4,150 | 15 | — | −15% | — |
| Real Estate Closing | $800 | $1,750 | $3,900 | 8 | 38th | −21% | South Carolina |
| Estate Planning / Probate | $450 | $1,650 | $5,200 | 7 | 36th | −20% | New Mexico |
Simple tier. $3,100 ÷ $190 = about 16 hours, spread over 1-3 months at roughly $1,550 a month. The $3,150 step to the moderate tier is 11 more hours at that rate.
Work against price. $6,250 to $15,300 is a $9,050 step, mostly work: 25 more hours at $230 is $5,750, while moving to $295 across 52 hours adds $3,380. Work carries 63%.
Borrowing the wrong row. Mississippi ($6,200) is $50 light, Iowa ($6,300) is $50 heavy — but the $7,450 table midpoint is out by $1,200, 24x the neighbour error.
Both ends, in time. $4,150 is 18 hours at $230; $8,300 is 36. Over the 3-6 months recorded for a moderate dui / dwi, that is 4 to 8 hours a month — the difference between an occasional file review and continuous work.
Contested against simple. At Nebraska's own recorded figures, $15,300 buys 4.9 matters at the $3,100 simple median — or, counted in time, 52 implied hours against 16, a factor of 3.3 — the two ratios differing because the rate rises with the tier.
Verified June 2026. Filing fees change on the Nebraskacourt's own schedule; billing models are covered in the legal fees guide.
This tool provides general cost estimates for informational purposes only. It is NOT legal advice. Costs vary significantly based on individual circumstances. Consult a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction for specific guidance.