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| | Address | | 528 West 4th Street, P.O. Box 1200 | | Waterloo, Iowa 50704-1200 | | (Black Hawk Co.) | |  | Free Initial Consultation |
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(Main Office)
| Swisher & Cohrt, P.L.C. practices in the following areas of law:
General Civil, Trial and Appellate Practice in all State and Federal Courts; Insurance; Insurance Defense; Corporation; Banks and Banking; Commercial; Labor and Employment (public and private sector); Workers Compensation; Probate; Wills; Trusts & Estates; Business; Civil Rights; Education; Municipal; Premises Liability; Products Liability Defense; Utility; Employee Benefits; Collections; Debtor-Creditor; Environmental; Leases and Leasing; Professional Liability; Media; Medical Malpractice; Franchise and Franchising; Contracts; Family; Estate Planning; Public Utility; Administrative; Real Estate; and Personal Injury Law; Torts. | | Year Established: 1903 | Firm Profile:
Swisher & Cohrt is a full service law firm that prides itself in having lawyers who are good people who perform high quality legal work ethically, professionally and economically. Our practice area spans the state but is focused primarily in the eastern half of the state. We have a long history of doing insurance defense for many carriers both large and small and we have a strong history in the area of employment and labor relations. We have a large school law practice and represent many school districts throughout Northeast Iowa. We also take pride in our work in the area of probate and estate planning as well as other areas of general practice to meet the needs of our clientele. | | Firm Size: 11 | Clients:
FIRM IS COUNSEL FOR: Area Education Agency 267; Benton Mutual Insurance Assn.; Black Hawk Economic Development, Inc.; Community Foundation of Waterloo/Cedar Falls and Northeast Iowa; Exceptional Persons, Inc.; Family YMCA of Black Hawk County; First Security State Bank; Hawkeye Community College; Koehring Corp.; Mid American Energy Co.; MidwestOne Bank & Trust; Professional Office Services, Inc.; State Bank of Lawler; The Powers Manufacturing Company; Viking Pump Division, IDEX Corp.; Waterloo Community School District; Waterloo Industrial Development Association; Waterloo Industries Inc.; Waterloo Water Works. |
FIRM IS LOCAL COUNSEL FOR: Acuity; Allied Insurance Group; American Family Insurance; Church Mutual Insurance; Country Insurance & Financial Services; Deere & Company; Eagle Ottawa, LLC; EMC Insurance; Farm & City Insurance; Gallagher-Bassett; Guaranty National Companies; Hawkeye-Security Insurance; Indiana Insurance; Liberty Mutual Group; MSI Insurance; Nationwide Insurance Group; Orion Auto Insurance; PIC Wisconsin Insurance; Royal & SunAlliance; Sentry Insurance; Society Insurance; Terex Cranes, Inc.; United Fire & Casualty Co.; United States Fire Insurance Co.; Unitrin Insurance Group; Universal Underwriters Group; Viking Insurance; Wausau Insurance; West Bend Mutual Insurance; Western Reserve Group; Western World Insurance. | Office Hours:
Monday: 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Tuesday: 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Wednesday: 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Thursday: 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Friday: 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
| Rate Information:
Fixed Hourly Rates
Fixed Fees Available
Free Initial Consultation
| | Steven A. Weidner (Member) born Waterloo, Iowa, September 6, 1940; admitted to bar, 1965, Iowa; 1966, U.S. Court of Military Appeals; 1969, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Iowa; 1970, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; 1983, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Iowa. Education: University of Notre Dame (B.B.A., 1962; J.D., 1965). Member: Black Hawk County, First District and Iowa State Bar Associations; Iowa Council of School Board Attorneys. Practice Areas: Labor and Employment Law; Corporate Law; Real Estate; School Law; Business Law; Commercial Law; Probate; Estate Planning. Email: Steven A. Weidner | | Stephen J. Powell (Member) born Highland Park, Illinois, August 7, 1950; admitted to bar, 1975, Iowa, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Iowa and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; 1983, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Iowa. Education: University of Northern Colorado (B.A., 1972); Drake University (J.D., with honors, 1974). Member, Drake Law Review, 1973-1974. Member: Black Hawk County and Iowa State Bar Associations; Iowa Defense Counsel Association; Defense Research Institute; Association of Defense Trial Attorneys; Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers; American Board of Trial Advocates; International Association of Defense Counsel. Practice Areas: Insurance Defense; Personal Injury; Medical Malpractice; Labor and Employment. Email: Stephen J. Powell | | Jim D. DeKoster (Member) born Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, January 13, 1945; admitted to bar, 1970, Iowa; 1977, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Iowa; 1980, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Iowa; 1983, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Iowa State University (B.S., 1967); University of Iowa (J.D., with distinction, 1970). Phi Alpha Delta; Phi Eta Sigma. Member: Black Hawk County, First Judicial District (Nominating Commission, 1988-1994) and Iowa State (Member, Committee on Administrative Law, 1983-1987) Bar Associations. [Lt., USNR, JAGC, 1970-1976]. Practice Areas: General Practice; Appellate Practice; Civil Rights; Education Law; Employment; Insurance Defense Law. Email: Jim D. DeKoster | | Samuel C. Anderson (Member) born Centerville, Iowa, August 13, 1959; admitted to bar, 1984, Iowa and U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa. Education: University of Iowa (B.A., 1981); Drake University Law School (J.D., 1984). Phi Beta Kappa. Recipient: 1984 H.G. Cartwright Award. Member, 1982-1984 and Note Editor, 1983-1984, Drake Law Review. Author: Casenote, 32 Drake Law Review 531 (1983); Note, 32 Drake Law Review 785 (1983). Member: Black Hawk County and Iowa State Bar Associations (Executive Council of Young Lawyer's Division, 1988-1994); Defense Research Institute; Iowa Defense Counsel Association; Association of Defense Trial Attorneys; Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers. Practice Areas: General Practice; Civil Litigation; Workers Compensation; Insurance Defense; Personal Injury. Email: Samuel C. Anderson | | Kevin R. Rogers (Member) born St. Paul, Minnesota, September 8, 1958; admitted to bar, 1987, Iowa and U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa. Education: University of Iowa (B.A., 1984); Drake University Law School (J.D., with honors, 1987). Member, Drake Law Review, 1985-1987. Author: Note, 35 Drake Law Review 611 (1987); Casenote, 36 Drake Law Review 201 (1987). Member: Black Hawk County and Iowa State Bar Associations; Defense Research Institute; Iowa Defense Counsel Association; Iowa Association of Workers Compensation Lawyers, Inc. (Member, Board of Governors, 2004—); Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers. Practice Areas: Workers Compensation; Insurance Defense; School Law; Labor and Employment Law. Email: Kevin R. Rogers | | Beth E. Hansen (Member) born Omaha, Nebraska, June 18, 1951; admitted to bar, 1991, Iowa and U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa; U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court. Education: University of Iowa (B.A., 1973); Creighton University (J.D., cum laude, 1991). Member: Black Hawk County (Past President) and Iowa State Bar Associations; Iowa Defense Counsel Association; Defense Research Institute; Association of Defense Trial Attorneys; Iowa Council of School Board Attorneys. Practice Areas: Insurance Defense; Civil Litigation; School Law; Labor and Employment Law. Email: Beth E. Hansen | | Mark F. Conway (Member) born Scott Air Force Base, St. Louis, Illinois, January 15, 1960; admitted to bar, 1991, Iowa and U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa; U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. Education: Buena Vista College (B.A., 1982); University of South Dakota (J.D., 1991). Managing Editor, South Dakota Law Review, 1990-1991. Member: Black Hawk County and Iowa State Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Business Law; Corporate Law; Estate Planning; Probate; Banking. Email: Mark F. Conway | | Natalie Williams Burris (Member) born Omaha, Nebraska, March 25, 1969; admitted to bar, 1994, Iowa and U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa. Education: University of Northern Iowa (B.A., 1991); University of Iowa (J.D., with distinction, 1994). Author, Comment, "Updated Guidelines for Juvenile Curfews: City of Maquoketa v. Russell," 79 Iowa Law Review 465, 1994. Member: Black Hawk County and Iowa State Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Insurance Defense; Civil Litigation; Probate; Wills; Adoption Law. Email: Natalie Williams Burris | | —————————— | | Megan S. Fereday (Associate) born Akron, Ohio, March 6, 1974; admitted to bar, 2000, Wisconsin and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin; 2002, Iowa. Education: University of Notre Dame (B.A., 1996); Marquette University (J.D., 2000). Formerly with Office of the State Public Defender, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2000-2001. Member: Black Hawk County and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Wisconsin. Practice Areas: Insurance Defense; Civil Litigation; Criminal Law; Estate Planning. Email: Megan S. Fereday | | Ms Kami L. Holmes (Associate) born Grinnell, Iowa; admitted to bar, 2006, Iowa. Education: Coe College, (B.A., 2001); University of Iowa College of Law, (J.D., 2006). Member: Iowa State Bar Association. (Also at Independence Office). Practice Areas: Family Law; Education Law; Estate Planning; Labor and Employment. Email: Ms Kami L. Holmes | | Joseph G. Martin (Associate) born Waterloo, Iowa, December 25, 1981; admitted to bar, 2007, Iowa. Education: University of Northern Iowa (B.A., 2004); Drake University Law School (J.D., 2007). Member: Black Hawk County and Iowa State Bar Associations. (Also at Independence Office). Practice Areas: Estate Planning; Probate; Insurance Defense; Civil Litigation. Email: Joseph G. Martin | Other Office Addresses:
Independence, Iowa Office: 2300 Swan Lake Boulevard, Suite 302, 50644. Telephone: 319-334-4488. Fax: 319-334-4307.
| | Maintains an office in more than one location. | | The determination of the need for legal services and the choice of a lawyer are extremely important decisions and should not be based solely upon advertisements, certification, specialization or self-proclaimed expertise. A description or indication of limitation of practice does not mean that any agency or board has certified such lawyers as specialist or expert in an indicated field of law practice nor does it mean that such lawyer is necessarily any more expert or competent than any other lawyer. All potential clients are urged to make their own independent investigation and evaluation of any lawyer being considered. These disclosures are required by the Supreme Court of Iowa. |
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