Bernard Louis Spaeth

Experience & Professional Activities

Work Experience:

• Chair: ALFA Committee of Whitfield & Eddy, P.L.C. Litigation Practice Group

• Member with Whitfield & Eddy, P.L.C. since 1982

• Associate with Whitfield & Eddy, P.L.C., 1978-1982)

• Judicial Clerk: Scott County District Court, 1973

• U.S. Air Force: Judge Advocate and Captain, Certified Trial and Defense Counsel, 1974-1978

• Financial Committee: City of Clive, Iowa

Professional Activities and Affiliations:

• Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers (Fellow)

• ALFA International (sole Iowa member of Transportation Law Practice Group Steering Committee)

• American Inns of Court (Bencher: Blackstone Inn of Court)

• DRI, Voice of the Defense Bar (Iowa Liaison: Commercial Litigation Committee, 2000-2003)

• Iowa Defense Counsel Association

• Iowa State Bar Association (Sections: Business Law; Family & Juvenile Law; Litigation; Bench Bar Committee; Pro Se Litigation Task Force)

• Order of the Coif

• Polk County Bar Association

Cases, Presentations & Publications

Selected Publications, Presentations and Teaching Appointments:

• Presenter, "You Won't Believe What You Can Find on the Internet!" Iowa State Bar Association Bench Bar Conference, May 2004.

• Frequent presenter at CLE seminars sponsored by the Iowa State Bar Association, Iowa Defense Counsel Association, National Business Institute, University of Iowa College of Law, & Whtifield & Eddy, P.L.C.

• Adjunct Professor, "Constitutional Law," Park University, Kansas City, Missouri.

Civic & Volunteer Activities

• Iowa State Bar Association Public Service Project (formerly known as the Volunteer Lawyers Project)

• Catholic Charities of Des Moines (Chair, 2003-present; Board of Directors, 1991-present)

• Iowa Catholic Conference (Board of Directors, 1992-present)

• Bishop Drumm Foundation (Chair, 1997; Board of Directors, 1991-1998; Development Committee, 1998-2000)