Civil lawyers in Iowa Alicia Gieck to Kristina Stanger

Firm: H.J. Dane Law Office

1111 E River Dr , Davenport , Iowa 52803

Practice Areas: Civil , Family , Personal Injury, Workers Compensation, Divorce & Separation

Alicia D. Gieck joined H. J. Dane Law Office as a Partner in October 2009.  Alicia is a native of Albuquerque, New Mexico.  She received her undergraduate degree from Drake University where she majored in Political Science, with a minor in Women's Studies.  In May 2000, Alicia graduated from the University of Iowa College of Law with her Juris Doctorate.  Following law school, Alicia worked in several Quad Cities based law firms as an Associate Attorney and was a Partner in a Quad Cities based law firm prior to joining H. J. Dane Law Office.  She was very active in the local bar association where she served on the Executive Council  and as the President.

Firm: Peters Law Firm, P.C.

233 Pearl Street , Council Bluffs , Iowa 51502

Practice Areas: Civil , Workers Compensation

I was born March 14, 1960 in Council Bluffs and am a fourth generation member of the Peters Law Firm in Council Bluffs. I began working full time for the firm in 1983 as a law clerk, joined as an associate in 1985,  joined the firm as a partner in 1990 and have worked here continuously ever since. My practice is currently confined primarily to Iowa Workers' Compensation Claims on behalf of the Claimant, but I also handle claimant's cases in Nebraska. I also handle personal injury and automobile litigation. I am a member of the Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers, the Iowa Association for Justice and I have been active in civic and community affairs including serving on the Westfair board for 17 years from 1988 to 2005. I am currently active in the Pottawattamie County Pheasants Forever Chapter and other civic organizations.

Firm: Walker and Billingsley

2605 SW White Birch, Suite 110 , Ankeny , Iowa 50023

Practice Areas: Civil , Criminal Defense , Divorce, Estate Planning, Family , General Practice, Juvenile , Personal Injury, Probate , Real Estate , Wills, Estate Planning, Estate Planning, Estate Planning, Estate Planning, Estate Planning, Estate Planning, Estate Planning, Estate Planning, Estate Planning, Estate Planning, Estate Planning, Estate Planning, Estate Planning

My name is Beth Walker and I have been practicing law in Central Iowa for seventeen years.  The majority of my practice is real estate, estate planning and other probate matters. I grew up in Des Moines, Iowa and was a social worker when I graduated from college.  I learned a lot about families and helping people while practicing social work.  I attended Drake Law School and graduated Order of the Coif.  I joined Walker Billingsley & Bair in 2000 after finishing law school.. I am married to Corey Walker and we enjoy practicing law together.  We have two children and spend our free time doing outside activities.  One of our favorite hobbies is hiking fourteeners in Colorado.  We also enjoy good wine and visiting wineries to learn about the winemaking process.

Firm: Nyemaster Law Firm

700 Walnut St Ste 1600 , Des Moines , Iowa 50309

Practice Areas: Civil , Workers Compensation, Workers Compensation, Workers Compensation, Workers Compensation, Workers Compensation, Workers Compensation, Workers Compensation, Workers Compensation, Workers Compensation, Workers Compensation, Workers Compensation, Workers Compensation

Firm: Smith, Brooks and Masterson, P.L.

2629 Mitcham Drive , Tallahassee , Iowa 52308

Practice Areas: Automobile Accidents,Civil ,Insurance ,Medical Malpractice,Professional Malpractice

Firm: Eells & Tronvold Law Offices,P.L.C.

1921 51st St NE , Cedar Rapids , Iowa 52402

Practice Areas: Agricultural , Automobile Accidents, Birth Injuries, Civil , Civil Rights, Condemnation & Eminent Domain, Defamation, Libel and Slander, Discrimination, Head and Spinal Injuries, Legal Malpractice, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Premises Liability, Products Liability, Professional Malpractice, Toxic Substances, Wrongful Death

Firm: Willson & Pechacek P.L.C.

421 West Broadway, Suite 200 , Council Bluffs , Iowa 51503

Practice Areas: Business & Commercial, Civil , Internet , Personal Injury, Employment & Labor

Firm: Jim Nervig

9121 Wellington Dr , West Des Moines , Iowa 50266

Practice Areas: Civil , Corporate , Estate Planning, Municipal , Real Estate , Administrative Law, Administrative Law, Estate Planning, Estate Planning, Estate Planning, Estate Planning

Firm: Brick Law Firm

6701 Westown Parkway , West Des Moines , Iowa 50266

Practice Areas: Civil , Environmental , Labor , Municipal , Zoning, Planning & Land Use, Environmental and Natural Resources, Environmental and Natural Resources, Environmental and Natural Resources, Environmental and Natural Resources, Environmental and Natural Resources, Environmental and Natural Resources, Environmental and Natural Resources, Environmental and Natural Resources, Environmental and Natural Resources, Environmental and Natural Resources, Environmental and Natural Resources

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: Brick Gentry

6701 West Town Parkway Ste 100 , West Des Moines , Iowa 50266

Practice Areas: Civil , Workers Compensation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, 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: Dutton, Braun, Staack & Hellman, P.L.C.

3151 Brockway Road , Waterloo , Iowa 50701

Practice Areas: Civil , Personal Injury, Personal Injury, Personal Injury, Personal Injury, Personal Injury, Personal Injury, Personal Injury, Personal Injury, Personal Injury, Personal Injury

Erin Lyons is a partner at DBSH. He engages in the general practice of law, including but not limited to personal injury and employment law. He was born October 25, 1976, in Springfield, Illinois. He graduated with a B.A. in history and classics from the University of Iowa in May of 1999. He earned his J.D. with Distinction from the University of Iowa College of Law in December of 2004.. Erin is the author of “Give Me a Home Where The Buffalo Roam,” The Case in Favor of the Management-Function Transfer of the National Bison Range to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation, 8 J. Gender Race & Just. 3 (Winter 2005). He is a member of the Black Hawk County and Iowa State Bar Associations and the Iowa Association for Justice.. Erin is a former member of the Iowa State Bar Association's Professionalism Committee. He also serves on the Grievance Commission of the Supreme Court of Iowa.. Erin is a long-time member of the board of directors of the Waterloo Visiting Nursing Association, and he is a past president of that organization.  He is the president of the Waterloo Visiting Nursing Association Foundation.  He was a member of the board of directors for Grin & Grow, Ltd., in Waterloo, and is a past president of that organization as well.. Erin has been admitted to practice in the State of Iowa, the federal Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa, and the federal Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, all since 2005.

Firm: Brick Gentry Law Firm

6701 Westown Parkway , West Des Moines , Iowa 50266

Practice Areas: Business & Commercial, Civil , Family , Personal Injury, Business, Business, Business, Business, Business, Business, Business, Business, Business, Business, Business, Business, Business, Business, Business, Business, Business, Business

Firm: Gourley, Rehkemper & Lindholm, PLC

440 Fairway Drive, Suite 210 , West Des Moines , Iowa 50266

Practice Areas: Civil , Criminal Defense , Personal Injury, Workers Compensation, Drug Crime, Drug Crime, Drug Crime, Drug Crime, Drug Crime, Drug Crime, Drug Crime, Drug Crime, Drug Crime, Drug Crime, Drug Crime, Drug Crime

I focus primarily on defending those accused of possessing, delivering, cultivating or manufacturing marijuana and other narcotics.  I also specialize in helping individuals recover property that has been unlawfully seized through civil forfeiture, which allows Iowa law enforcement agencies to profit from large amounts of cash, firearms, vehicles and other property taken from innocent persons.  A significant part of my practice includes representing those charged with alcohol and drug-impaired offenses, ranging from public intoxication to OWI to vehicular homicide.. As a trial attorney, I've tried dozens of misdemeanor and felony cases to a jury and obtained dismissals of more than 170 other drug and OWI charges, including driver's licenses revocations, through successful pre-trial motions.. I take a keen interest in developing and litigating issues in traffic stops and other search and seizure contexts to expand the rights of the accused. Most recently, my efforts to overturn a search warrant based on information gathered during warrantless nighttime trash rips led to a landmark Iowa Supreme Court decision in State v. Wright, 961 N.W.2d 396 (Iowa 2021).  The decision was the first to recognize the rejuvenated trespass doctrine in Iowa.  By finding an expectation of privacy in garbage, the Court overturned a police tactic responsible for untold numbers of convictions during the past four decades.  The decision is based on Iowa Constitutional grounds under article 1, section 8. I have since worked diligently to expand the scope of the trespass doctrine to K9 searches, the deployment of recording devices by confidential informants under the one-party consent rule in Iowa and other areas that have typically been analyzed under an expectation of privacy approach.. In response to Wright, the Iowa General Assembly codified a new law in 2022, which sought to reinstate the now-unconstitutional police practice of surreptitiously searching curbside garbage without a warrant.  In what I believe to be the first ruling addressing the new law, the Iowa District Court for Boone County struck down the statute as unconstitutional in State v. Whaley, No. FECR115299, on September 28, 2022.  Rather than appeal the ruling, however, the State dismissed the charges instead.  Regrettably, this section has since been upheld by the Iowa Supreme Court. So, while Wright remains good law regarding the application of the trespass doctrine under the state constitution, the police can once again seize your garbage without a warrant and rummage throught it.. As trial counsel in State v. Pals, 805 N.W.2d 767 (Iowa 2011), I challenged the voluntariness of a detained driver's consent to search his vehicle under the Iowa Constitution.  The Pals decision is now one of the seminal cases on the issue of warrantless consent searches.. My knack for understanding and simply explaining complex scientific concepts such as infrared spectrophotometry in breath testing, headspace gas chromatography with flame ionization detection in blood and urine testing, statistical analysis and measurement uncertainty is well known throughout the defense bar.  The same can be said for my work in exposing drug K9 "alerts" that were either false positives or otherwise cued by the handler.  I am one of a few attorneys in the state who have successfully challenged a vehicle search based on these highly questionable "alerts.". I am twice published in the area of OWI defense. In 2014, I co-authored the first edition one of the few practice-specific treatises in the state, Iowa OWI Defense: The Law and Practice, published by Lawyers & Judges Publishing Company. I also wrote a chapter focusing on the use of indepedent forensic investigations, including crash data and blood alcohol analysis, in Defending DUI Vehicular Homicide Cases, 2013 ed. by Aspatore Books.  As an appellate lawyer, I have briefed and argued issues of constitutional and statutory importance before the Iowa Supreme Court and Iowa Court of Appeals. In addition to Wright, I successfully argued Mitchell County v. Zimmerman, 810 N.W.2d 1 (Iowa 2012), in which a unanimous Iowa Supreme Court struck down a local road-protection ordinance as unconstitutional under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.  More recently, I secured a second unanimous decision in 2023 by the Iowa Supreme Court in State v. Arrieta, 998 N.W.2d 617 (Iowa 2023), which reversed the Iowa Court of Appeals decision and held our client was unreasonably detained at a weigh station to await a drug K9.. I am co-counsel in Mumford v. Iowa, No. 24-1093, a matter pending before the United States Supreme Court challenging a trepass by a drug K9 on an open car window under the Fourth Amendment. This is an appeal of the Iowa Supreme Court's ruling in State v. Mumford, 14 N.W.3d 346 (Iowa 2024).. I have been named a Great Plains Super Lawyer in the area of Criminal Defense for seven years running (2018-2024).

Firm: Cashattwarren Family Law P.C.

130 E 3rd St Ste 203 , Des Moines , Iowa 50309

Practice Areas: Civil , Domestic Partnership, Family , Mediation, Divorce & Separation, Divorce & Separation, Divorce & Separation, Divorce & Separation, Divorce & Separation, Divorce & Separation, Divorce & Separation, Divorce & Separation

Firm: Mallory Law

12012 Ridgemont Dr , Urbandale , Iowa 50323

Practice Areas: Civil , Environmental , Municipal , Real Estate , Business, Business, Business, Business, Business, Business, Business, Business, Real Estate, Real Estate, Real Estate, Real Estate

Firm: Grefe & Sidney

2222 Grand Ave , Des Moines , Iowa 50312

Practice Areas: Civil , Insurance, Insurance, Insurance, Insurance, Insurance, Insurance, Insurance, Insurance, Insurance, Insurance, Insurance, Insurance

Firm: Newbrough Law Firm, LLP

612 Kellogg Avenue Box 847 , Ames , Iowa 50010

Practice Areas: Civil , Criminal Defense , Family , Personal Injury, 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