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Allison Abbott has been with Elverson Vasey since 1999 and has been a partner in the firm since 2006. Her areas of practice include civil defense, insurance litigation and defense, insurance subrogation, and family law. She is a member of the Iowa State Bar Association, Polk County Bar Association, Dallas County Bar Association, Iowa Defense Counsel Association and the Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers. She is currently serving a term on the Dallas County Magistrate Nomination Commission. She ser...

Bob Andeweg practices primarily in the real estate area, concentrating primarily in commercial real estate. Bob focuses his practice on transactional, leasing development and valuation issues regarding real estate. In addition, he also provides advice to a variety of business clients regarding general corporate transactions, including organizational, development and start-up issues, board of directors operations and duties and general contract drafting and negotiations. Bob received his J.D.,...

Randy is a member of the firm's Litigation and Labor and Employment Departments. He has litigated and tried a variety of commercial law and employment law cases in federal and state court. Randy also regularly advises clients on employment and business dispute issues.

Brad Austin has been with Nyemaster Goode since 1980, and is a member of the Business, Finance, and Real Estate Department, practicing primarily in the areas of real estate law (financing and acquisition), corporate law (organization, operation, and planning), and commercial law (secured and unsecured lending), with particular emphasis on commercial real estate financing transactions. Brad is a Fellow in the American College of Mortgage Attorneys. PRACTICE AREAS Banking and Secured Transactio...

Bruce Baker is a member of the firm’s Tax, Estate Planning, and Employee Benefits and Business, Finance, and Real Estate Departments. His practice includes tax dispute representation, federal, state, and local tax litigation involving income, estate, sales and use, and property taxes. Bruce regularly assists clients with estate and wealth transfer planning, charitable giving, and structuring tax-deferred exchanges. Prior to joining Nyemaster Goode, Bruce was a trial attorney with the Of...

Jeff has a business-focused practice specializing in the areas of corporate law, banking and financial services, commercial finance, real estate and land use law. He advises a wide array of clients in all phases of institutional lending, including loan structuring, negotiating and drafting credit transaction documentation. Additionally, he provides advice to a variety of business clients regarding general corporate transactions, including organizational, development, funding and start-up issu...

Brian D. Bergstrom is a corporate attorney with Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, president of the firm, and chair of the firm’s mergers and acquisitions practice group. Brian is listed in the Best Lawyers in America for Corporate Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law and Venture Capital Law and is listed as a Great Plains Super Lawyer in 2009 and 2011 for Securities & Corporate Finance and Mergers & Acquisitions. Brian serves as a member of t...

Bill’s practice is focused on helping charities and other tax-exempt organizations with all their legal and business needs. Over the course of his 25-year career at the firm, Bill has helped form nearly 200 non-profit organizations and secured tax-exempt status for them. His practice also involves assisting established non-profits with the full range of their various business matters. Clients Bill’s tax-exempt clients are located throughout Iowa and range from small start-up chari...

Bill Boyd is a member of the firm’s Business, Finance, and Real Estate Department and practices in the area of corporate law (organization, operation, and planning), regulatory law (financial institutions, health, certificate of need, insurance, and government contracts), and commercial law (secured loans, contracting matters, mergers, and acquisitions). Bill has extensive experience representing financial institutions, insurance companies, health care providers, and non-profits, includ...

Angie Brick is a shareholder in the firm's Tax, Estate Planning, and Employee Benefits Department and practices primarily in employee benefits and ERISA. Her practice is concentrated in the areas of retirement plans, both qualified plans and nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements and health and welfare benefit plans. Her practice experience in these areas extends to consulting, plan design, plan drafting, implementation, qualification, and administration compliance, and includes expe...

Ben has a business-focused practice specializing in the areas of banking and financial services, commercial finance, real estate and corporate law. He advises a wide array of clients in all phases of institutional lending, including loan structuring, negotiating and drafting credit transaction documentation. Additionally, he regularly advises commercial lenders and borrowers with regard to judicial and non-judicial foreclosure proceedings, UCC enforcement, bankruptcy, and has extensive experi...

Chemistry is Ryan Carter’s family business. His grandfather taught high school chemistry, and his dad was a chemist for Deere & Co. It’s not surprising that Ryan earned his undergraduate degree in chemistry. Before law school, Ryan worked in a lab making and purifying synthetic DNA. “Working alone in a lab was a solitary existence for me,” Ryan says. “I enjoy practicing law because it allows me to work collaboratively with clients.” When he decided that...

Kevin J. Caster is an Attorney and Senior Vice President at S&I whose work focuses on construction litigation. Kevin is a frequent lecturer regarding topics related to construction law, real estate development and standards for professionals in those industries. As a member of the Iowa State Bar Association, Kevin is currently serving on the Construction Law Section Council. Kevin belongs to the American Bar Association where he is a member of Construction Industry Forum. Kevin is an Alli...

Practice Areas: Bankruptcy Reorganizations Commercial Transactions Born Bowling Green, Kentucky, March 25, 1954; admitted to bar, 1982, Iowa; U. S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. Education: Western Kentucky University (B.A.,cum laude, 1976); University of Iowa (J.D. 1982). Research Editor, Journal of Corporation Law, 1981-1982. Law Clerk to the Hon. Wm. W. Thinnes, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, Northern District of Iowa 1982-1984. C...

Stacie maintains a diverse civil litigation and trial law practice. Her practice includes but is not limited to health law, professional liability and malpractice defense, professional licensing, employment law, products and premises liability, personal injury, insurance defense, insurance subrogation, and appeals. Stacie frequently represents clients in complex litigation, defends employers and individuals in employment related litigation, and provides employment related advice. A significan...

Kevin Collins is a member of the firm’s Litigation and Business, Finance, and Real Estate Departments. He concentrates in the area of commercial litigation, including intellectual property (patents, trademarks, and copyrights), business torts, products liability, and construction. He also routinely handles dissolution proceedings. Kevin served as the President of the Iowa State Bar Association from 2003 to 2004. He is a Fellow in the American Board of Trial Advocates as well as the Iowa...

Jeff Courter is a shareholder in our Business, Finance, and Real Estate and Litigation Departments. His practice is concentrated in the areas of creditor rights and bankruptcy. Jeff routinely represents clients across the state of Iowa in all types of creditor rights matters, including foreclosures of mortgages and security interests, replevins, breaches of contract/lease, and suits on notes. He also represents clients in bankruptcy matters throughout the state of Iowa and across the country,...

David advises clients, including small business owners and professionals, in a broad range of business and tax areas including corporate and business mergers and acquisitions, tax and employee benefits counsel and estate succession planning. This includes the preparation of wills, trusts and related documents. He also assists owners, professionals and executives in the formation and structure of their businesses including contract and compliance matters, and formation of corporations, limited...

Tom Cunningham is a shareholder in the Labor and Employment Department at Nyemaster Goode. Tom represents management of private and public sector employers, ranging from small and medium-sized businesses to publicly traded Fortune 500 companies in Iowa and throughout the Midwest. Tom has litigated discrimination and civil rights cases, and wrongful termination, FMLA, ADA, wage/hour, OSHA, and trade secret/non-competition cases in jury and non-jury trials in federal and state courts and before...

William J. Daly is an Attorney and Vice President with Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, P.L.C. Bill’s practice focuses on commercial and business law, finance, securities, sales and acquisitions of businesses, business contracts, and real estate. Bill serves as co-chair of the Firm’s Startups & Innovators Practice Group.

Terri C. Davis is an Attorney and Senior Vice President at Shuttleworth. She focuses her practice in Employment Law and Litigation, including employment related litigation, commercial litigation, product liability, and the handling of administrative trials, including utilities cases and workers compensation. She advises employers on employment matters, and assists with policy review and development, as well as handling of investigations and complaints, both internal and before civil rights co...

Laurie L. Dawley is an Attorney and Senior Vice President at Shuttleworth & Ingersoll. Her work focuses on business law, banking and finance law, real estate law, and mergers and acquisitions. She serves on the Firm’s board of directors and is past chair of the Firm’s business practice group and associate/recruiting committee; Past Chair of the Iowa Real Estate Commission; Past Chair of the Cedar Rapids Area Board and the Regional Executive Board of Junior Achievement of Easte...

Michael Dayton is the chairman of the Business, Finance, and Real Estate Department and a member of the Iowa State Bar Association’s Business Law Section Council. During his career, Michael has led and assisted on hundreds of merger and acquisition transactions from public to public mergers to the sales of small privately-held companies. Michael also routinely assists clients with general contracting matters, including contract management processes and data and cybersecurity matters rel...

Mark Dickinson is a member of the firm's Business, Finance, and Real Estate Department, and practices in the area of corporate and transactional law, with an emphasis on insurance regulatory matters, securities and corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions involving all sizes of businesses, and corporate governance. A significant portion of his practice is devoted to counseling Iowa domestic insurance companies, including with respect to matters pending before the Iowa Insurance Division. R...

Connie is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and is currently serving as the President of the Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers. In addition to healthcare litigation trials, she frequently appears before the Iowa Board of Medicine, the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals and the Office of Inspector General on issues related to licensing, EMTALA, HIPAA, Medicare/Medicaid Fraud and Abuse. She has also represented both facilities and professionals on issues of credentialing and...

Paula Dierenfeld is a member of the Governmental Affairs Department at Nyemaster Goode. Paula’s practice is concentrated in the areas of legislative representation, administrative law, and public utilities law. Prior to joining the firm, Paula served for over 15 years in various positions in federal and state government. Paula has held positions as Staff Assistant to U.S. Senator Charles E. Grassley, Research Staff Director in the Iowa General Assembly, Legal Counsel to Iowa Governor Te...

Kevin is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and a Fellow in the Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers. Kevin has been listed in the Best Lawyers of America since 2008 and Chamber's USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business since 2006. He was named "Des Moines Construction Lawyer of the Year" in 2015 and 2017 by Best Lawyers of America.Kevin maintains a trial practice in the area of professional negligence, in the defense of physicians, attorneys, architects and engineers, as well as ...

Cody leads Dickinson Law’s state and local tax practice and focuses on sales, use, and property tax controversy and litigation, multistate taxation , and general sales and use tax counseling. Cody has successfully represented before Departments of Revenue taxpayers of all sizes in industries including construction, manufacturing, health care, hospitality, technology, and agriculture. Mr. Edwards takes a creative approach to the practice of law, which includes utilizing the tools provide...

Dean R. Einck is an Attorney and Senior Vice President at S&I whose work focuses on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures of businesses, corporate law, tax law, estate planning, and communications law, employee benefits and executive compensation. Dean is the chair of the Media and Communications Practice Group and has significant experience representing media companies including newspapers, commercial printers, television stations and internet businesses. Dean is listed in The Best Lawyers...

Brad Epperly is a member of the firm's Governmental Affairs Department representing clients as a lobbyist at the state capitol before the legislature, the Governor, and regulatory agencies. His work as legislative counsel involves a broad spectrum of public policy issues, including economic development, labor and employment issues, workers' compensation, gaming, and utilities. In addition, Brad also practices in the areas of creditors' rights, construction law, and general civil litigation, r...

Mary E. Funk is a shareholder in our Litigation Department, handling almost exclusively employment and labor matters. She litigates on behalf of management in state and federal courts, administrative agencies and before arbitrators concerning employment contract disputes; sexual harassment; race, sex, age, national origin and disability discrimination; wrongful termination; Family and Medical Leave Act; Fair Labor Standards Act; non-compete agreements; and unemployment. In addition to litigat...

Todd was born in Storm Lake, Iowa and he has been a resident of the Des Moines area for approximately 40 years. Todd maintains his litigation practice in the areas of transportation, products liability, commercial, premises liability, legal malpractice and property rights. Todd has received defense verdicts in courtrooms throughout all parts of Iowa. Todd is recognized as a leader in Iowa in the defense of railroads and trucking companies. He is one of the only few railroad litigators whose o...

Brian is a trial lawyer born and raised in Iowa. Brian has dedicated his life to fighting for and giving voice to victims of medical malpractice, car crashes, defective products and other types of negligence or carelessness. Over the course of his career, Brian has recovered tens of millions of dollars for his clients through settlement and verdicts at trial. After obtaining his B.A. at Colorado College, a top tier liberal arts college in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Brian returned home to Iow...

Sarah Gayer is a member of the firm’s Litigation and Intellectual Property Departments. Sarah is registered as a patent attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Her practice focuses on representing companies in commercial litigation and intellectual property litigation. She also regularly represents companies in proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. In addition, Sarah concentrates on counseling clients regarding registration, maintenance, and enfor...

Board-certified in both Business and Consumer Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification, with practice devoted primarily to the representation of debtors, creditors, committees and trustees in bankruptcy and reorganization cases. Practice devoted primarily to Bankruptcy Law.

Howard Hagen practices primarily in banking law. For over 25 years he has counseled banks in virtually every Iowa county on such issues as regulation, acquisitions and various corporate and shareholder matters that have confronted banks in both good and troubled times. Howard also has served as counsel to the Community Bankers of Iowa for more than 20 years. He currently serves as a member of the American Bar Association Banking Law Committee. Earlier in his career, Howard served in the publi...

Terry Hancock is a member of the firm's Tax, Estate Planning, and Employee Benefits Department and practices in the area of employee benefits. He has been involved with all aspects of employee benefit plans, including nonqualified deferred compensation, for over thirty years. PRACTICE AREAS Employee Benefits Tax, Estate Planning, & Employee Benefits EDUCATION University of Nebraska (B.A., with distinction, 1968) Georgetown University and Drake University (J.D., with honors, 1973) BAR ADMI...

Tom Hanson has been one of the most active trial lawyers in Des Moines for more than 30 years, litigating civil and criminal cases in state and federal court. As a trial attorney, he represents clients in complex litigation. As an insurance lawyer, Tom served as president of the Iowa Defense Counsel Association. With his experience in the practice of business law, Tom also represents corporations, boards and corporate officers in business transactions, disputes, lawsuits and white-collar crim...

Frank Harty put himself through college and law school by playing football and working. He received a B.B.A. with honors in Industrial Relations from the University of Iowa School of Business. Frank graduated Order of the Coif from Drake University Law School where he was Editor in Chief of the Drake Law Review. Frank is the only Iowa lawyer representing employers who has been inducted into the American College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He is also recognized as a Leading Individual Lab...

Jeff received a degree in industrial engineering from Iowa State University and worked as an IT consultant with Accenture (formerly Anderson Consulting) before continuing his academic pursuits at the University of Iowa College of Law. He received his law degree with high distinction in 1995. After nearly 20 years in the practice, Jeff joined Nyemaster Goode, P.C. Jeff's primary focus is representing clients in intellectual property litigation matters. Jeff is also a registered patent attorney...

Jack is an elected member of the American College of Trial Lawyers. For more than 35 years his practice has focused on the defense of hundreds of civil cases in areas including: product liability, automobile liability, wrongful death, aircraft crash liability, defamation, premises liability, professional liability, drug and device liability, employment law, commercial liability and trustee and fiduciary liability. This exposure has resulted in more than 100 civil jury trials throughout the St...

William S. Hochstetler is an Attorney and Senior Vice President at S&I whose work focuses on business and estate planning for closely-held businesses and their owners. His primary work also includes estate planning for non-business owners and estate administration. Bill is listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Trusts and Estates. Bill is a Board Member for St. Luke’s Health Care Foundation and serves on the Executive Committee. He is also on the Board of Trustees and Finance Com...

Tricia L. Hoffman-Simanek is an Attorney and Senior Vice President at Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, P.L.C. Her legal work focuses on the area of litigation, which includes but is not limited to, professional malpractice, long term care litigation, insurance defense, and other health law litigation. Tricia also provides advice and representation on HIPAA compliance, training, and investigations, professional licensure matters, and risk management. She has achieved an “AV” rating wi...

Robert D. Houghton is an Attorney and Senior Vice President at S&I whose work focuses on litigation, primarily medical malpractice defense and products liability. Bob is listed in the Best Lawyers in America in Medical Malpractice Law and Product Liability Litigation. Bob is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers, is a Master in the Dean Mason Ladd Inns of Court, and is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, the Defense Research...

Wesley B. Huisinga is an Attorney and Senior Vice President at Shuttleworth & Ingersoll and chair of the Firm’s Banking and Finance and Bankruptcy practice groups. Wesley practices extensively in the areas of bankruptcy and creditor/debtor relations, commercial law, commercial litigation and distressed loan workouts. He represents National and Community Banks, Credit Unions and other Financial Service Providers in the enforcement of asset-based loan agreements (both real and persona...

Jill Jensen-Welch practices primarily in employment law and civil litigation. She serves clients ranging from small start-ups to large national companies in a wide variety of industries. Jill’s 16 years of human resources experience before law school informs her counseling of clients in contracts and restrictive covenants, policies and practices, employee relations matters, leaves, job analysis, pay structures, discipline, terminations, and training. In employment litigation, she handle...