 At the University of Nebraska Lobingier earned an AB degree in 1888 (with Honors and election to Phi Beta Kappa), an AM in 1892 and an LLM in 1894.He was admitted to the Nebraska bar in 1890, practiced there for ten years from 1892 to 1902, and married Ellen Ballon Hunker on 31 November 1898.From 1900 to 1903 he was a Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska and he was granted a PHD from that institution in 1903.