Top Litigation Lawyers in Des Moines | 18 available

Firm: Zenor Kuehner, PLC

111 East Grand Avenue, Suite 400 , Des Moines , Iowa 50309

Practice Areas: Litigation

Firm: Nyemaster Law Firm

700 Walnut St , Des Moines , Iowa 50309

Practice Areas: Civil , Insurance , Labor , Military , Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation

Firm: Wandro & Associates, P.C.

2501 Grand Ave Ste B , Des Moines , Iowa 50312

Practice Areas: Agricultural , Products Liability, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation

Firm: LaMarca & Landry, P.C.

1820 N.W. 118th Street , Des Moines , Iowa 50325

Practice Areas: Criminal Defense , Family , Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation

Mr. Vald has earned certification as a mediator through the Polk County Bar Association District Court Mediation Program. As a trained and certified mediator, Mr. Vald has experience in helping parties to resolve difficult divorce and domestic relations issues. He is also one of a select few attorneys in the State of Iowa certified as a Parenting Coordinator trained to resolve complex parenting disputes in high conflict families.. Roman Vald was admitted to the Iowa Bar in 1995. His practice includes primarily domestic relations and criminal law. He has handled hundreds of criminal cases, including major felonies. He has managed a number of complex domestic relations cases, including divorce cases involving substantial personal and business assets, complex property division, asset valuation, and custody issues. He has also prepared and argued numerous criminal and civil cases on appeal before the Iowa Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.. In addition to his criminal law and domestic relations practice, Mr. Vald’s administrative law practice includes representing doctors, pharmacists and nurses in licensure matters before the Iowa Boards of Medicine, Pharmacy and Nursing. He has also represented numerous clients in actions involving state agencies such as the Iowa Department of Human Services and Iowa Department of Transportation. He has been repeatedly selected to the National Trial Lawyers “Top 100 Trial Lawyers” in America.

Firm: Patterson Law Firm, L.L.P.

505 Fifth Avenue, Suite 729 , Des Moines , Iowa 50309

Practice Areas: Personal Injury, Workers Compensation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation

Firm: Zenor Kuehner PLC

111 East Grand, #400 , Des Moines , Iowa 50309

Practice Areas: Litigation

Firm: Brownwinick, P.L.C.

666 Grand Ave , Des Moines , Iowa 50309

Practice Areas: Litigation

Matthew H. McKinney is a member of BrownWinick and is active in the firm's government relations and litigation practice groups. Matthew 's practice focuses primarily in the areas of government relations and complex business litigation.. Matthew graduated from the University of Iowa in 2004, receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and the University of Iowa Business School's Certificate in Entrepreneurship. Thereafter, Matthew received his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Creighton University School of Law, while also earning certificates of concentration in litigation, and criminal law and procedure. Throughout law school, Matthew competed on Moot Court and Mock Trial traveling teams. While competing, he presented arguments in the Seventh, Eighth, and Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. Matthew was also the sole recipient of the David A. Svoboda Trial Advocacy award, recognizing excellence in trial advocacy.. Prior to joining BrownWinick in 2010, Matthew worked with Tiffany & Bosco, P.A., in Phoenix, Arizona, as an associate attorney. Matthew is also a former prosecutor, serving the State of Iowa as an Assistant Polk County Attorney under the direction of John P. Sarcone.. Matthew is admitted to practice in state courts in the State of Iowa (admitted 2007) and the State of Arizona (admitted 2008). Additionally, Matthew is admitted to practice in Iowa Federal District Court (northern and southern divisions) as well as in Colorado Federal District Court. Matthew previously served as a member of the Board of Directors and as Vice President-Elect for the Arizona Small Business Association (2009-2010) as well as a Director and Treasurer for the Maricopa County Bar Association's Corporate Counsel Division (2009-2010). Matthew is a member of the Polk County Bar Association, West Des Moines Chamber of Commerce (Board of Directors 2015), West Des Moines Leadership Academy (Class of 2012-2013), and the Des Moines Downtown Chamber. Matthew has also been appointed to serve on the Litigation Section Council and the Committee on Ethics and Practice Guidelines for the Iowa State Bar Association, serves as a Director for the Iowa Legal Aid Foundation and was appointed to the West Des Moines Sister Cities Commission from 2014-2016. He was elected to serve as Director and President of his Homeowners Association, Heritage Bend, in West Des Moines, Iowa for 2015 and was selected to serve as a Director on the West Des Moines Historical Society Board of Directors. Matthew is a graduate of the Greater Des Moines Leadership Institute Class of 2014-2015.

Firm: Faegre Baker Daniels LLP

801 Grand Ave., , Des Moines , Iowa 50309

Practice Areas: Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil , Corporate , Defamation, Libel and Slander, Intellectual Property , Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation

Firm: Zenor Law Firm

106 SW 7th St., Ste. 400 , Des Moines , Iowa 50309

Practice Areas: Personal Injury, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation

I am a trial lawyer representing clients in state and federal courts throughout Iowa. I handle products liability, complex financial and commerical litigation, and catastrophic injury.

Firm: Wandro & Associates

2501 Grand Ave Ste B , Des Moines , Iowa 50312

Practice Areas: Litigation

Firm: Frank Smith Law Office

4215 Hubbell Avenue , Des Moines , Iowa 50317

Practice Areas: Litigation

Firm: Weinhardt & Logan

2600 Grand Avenue. , Des Moines , Iowa 50312

Practice Areas: Civil , Criminal Defense , Employment & Labor , Appeals, Appeals, Appeals, Appeals, Appeals, Appeals, Appeals, Appeals, Appeals, Appeals, Appeals, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation

Firm: Nyemasters Goode West Hansell & O'Brien

700 Walnut Ste 1600 , Des Moines , Iowa 50309

Practice Areas: Civil , Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation

Firm: Grefe & Sidney PLC

500 East Court Ave , Des Moines , Iowa 50306

Practice Areas: Litigation

Guy R. Cook has been practicing law for more than 35 years. He is a double board certified trial lawyer by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Guy has served as counsel in more than 1000 litigated matters and has tried more than 200 jury trials. He is one of only 20 Iowa attorneys to be inducted into the Million Dollar Advocates Forum for verdicts and settlements in excess of one million dollars. Guy is recognized in both The Best Lawyers in America publication and the list of Iowa Super Lawyers. He has been named one of the Nation's Top 100 Attorneys.. Guy has extensive and wide-ranging courtroom experience. He has successfully defended major business litigation, obtained million dollar jury verdicts, and successfully defended significant federal criminal cases. He has tried complex civil and criminal cases throughout Iowa and the country, including wrongful death, serious personal injury, products liability, securities fraud, bank fraud, medical malpractice, health care, manslaughter, semi truck collisions, insurance fraud, sexual assault, false arrest, dram shop, and breach of contract claims.. Guy is a graduate of the University of Iowa and Drake University Law School. He worked his way through school as a union ironworker, campus security officer, and law library assistant. While in school Guy was vice president of the Liberal Arts Student Association, resident advisor for Acacia fraternity, and worked as a legislative intern in the Iowa General Assembly. During law school he was a staff writer and researcher for the Drake Law School Legal Research Service and a prosecutor intern in the Polk County Attorney's Office.. Upon graduation from Law School, Guy served as a judicial law clerk for Justice J.L. Larson of the Iowa Supreme Court, assisting Justice Larson in researching and drafting legal opinions of the Iowa Supreme Court.. In 1983, Guy was appointed Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa. As a federal prosecutor, Guy tried a wide range of criminal cases, including embezzlement, bank robbery, tax fraud, murder for hire, obstruction of justice, narcotic offenses, bank fraud, and kidnapping. Among the cases he prosecuted were the largest insurance fraud in Iowa history, the then largest drug case in Iowa history, and the largest tax evasion case in Iowa history. Guy received written commendations from FBI Directors William Webster and William Sessions. He has also received commendations for his trial work in major criminal cases by the District Director of the IRS and the Resident Agent of the U.S. Secret Service.. In 1987, Guy was asked to join the Des Moines law firm of Grefe & Sidney, P.L.C. as a trial attorney. He is a senior partner practicing exclusively in the field of litigation. Guy's extensive courtroom work has taken him throughout Iowa and across the country. He has handled cases in Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Wisconsin, and Washington D.C.. He has been involved in nearly all types of litigation.. In addition to his work as a trial lawyer, Guy is past President of the Iowa State Bar Association. Guy is also past president of the Polk County Bar Association, the largest metropolitan bar in the state of Iowa. He has also served on the Board of Counselors of Drake University Law School.. Guy was elected by fellow lawyers in Iowa to serve as commissioner on the Iowa State Judicial Nominating Commission, which interviews and screens judicial applicants for positions on the Iowa Supreme Court and Iowa Court of Appeals. He has also served as an appointed member of the Merit Selection Panel for selection of U.S. Magistrate Judges for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. Guy was appointed by the Chief Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court to serve as a member of the Iowa Supreme Court Grievance Commission. The Commission investigates and hears ethical complaints against Iowa lawyers.. Guy is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates. Guy is also a fellow of the Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers and a fellow of the American College of Board Certified Attorneys. He is a founding member of the National Association of Distinguished Counsel. He has also been inducted into the Society of Outstanding Lawyers of America and is a senior counsel member of the American College of Master Advocates and Barristers. Guy's legal abilities have been rated as "very high to preeminent" and his ethical standards as "very high" by fellow Iowa lawyers in the Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory. He has also been recognized repeatedly as a "leading individual" in litigation in Iowa by Chambers and Partners, a world wide legal publication. Guy has been a guest speaker and lecturer on litigation topics, legal ethics, and trial practice throughout the country.. Guy is married and has two children. He counts among his most significant accomplishments donating a kidney to his son for a successful kidney transplant. Guy has been active in various local and national political campaigns and in the Des Moines community as a Commissioner on the Des Moines Historic District Commission and a member of the Des Moines Community Issues Forum.

Firm: Beattie Law Firm, P.C.

4300 Grand Ave , Des Moines , Iowa 50312

Practice Areas: Litigation

Firm: Brownwinick Law Firm

666 Grand Ave Ste 2000 , Des Moines , Iowa 50309

Practice Areas: Litigation

Firm: Whitfield and Eddy Law

699 Walnut Street , Des Moines , Iowa 50309

Practice Areas: Litigation

GUIDING INDIVIDUALS AND BUSINESSES THROUGH DIFFICULT LEGAL ISSUES AND LAWSUITSZach Hermsen is an active trial attorney who represents individuals and businesses with legal issues and, when necessary, lawsuits. He has successfully tried jury and bench trials across Iowa and has a clear understanding of the many strategic considerations that factor into a favorable outcome in a legal case.. His business litigation experience includes the Iowa Business Specialty Court, which provides a forum for expedited and cost-conscious business litigation cases.. Zach represents individuals just as zealously as he represents his business clients. This includes representing Iowans in cases ranging from contract disputes, dog bites, automobile accidents, and property disputes.. He also represents individuals in the highly-specialized National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. This Program, created by the Reagan Administration in the 1980s to save litigation costs for all parties involved in vaccine-related litigation, is a no-fault compensation scheme designed to quickly and fairly compensate persons who experience one of the extremely rare, but recognized, side effects from a vaccine.. NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION PROFESSIONAL REPRESENTATIONZach proudly represents transportation professionals throughout the United States that facilitate delivery of food, medicine, building materials, and other critical supplies to locations across the country. He is an active member of the ALFA International Transportation Group, offering a nationwide rapid-response team with the expertise to immediately and effectively respond to incidents should they arise.

Firm: Finley Law Firm, P.C.

699 Walnut Street , Des Moines , Iowa 50309

Practice Areas: Medical Malpractice, Professional Liability, Litigation