Academy Member

Regularly travels out of state to: Missouri
Other ADR Services: ADR Training/CME, Discovery Referee, Early Neutral Evaluation, Facilitation & Systems Design, Fact Finding, Med-Arb, Special Master
Available
- Practice Commenced: 2001
- Total Mediations (as of Apr 2021): 500
- Total Arbitrations (as of Apr 2021): 20
Practice Percentages
- CEDAR RAPIDS/IOWA CITY
- DAVENPORT
- DES MOINES
- OMAHA/COUNCIL BLUFFS
- SIOUX CITY
- WATERLOO-CEDAR FALLS
Biographical
With his background in workers’ compensation mediation, he has mediated many workers’ compensation cases, some involving settlement of a related third-party district court matter.
Joe is available for mediations outside of Iowa and using Zoom video, especially in the construction litigation area.
Case Experience
- ADA Disability
- Agricultural
- Appellate
- Arts (Fine/Performing)
- Automotive
- Banking & Finance
- Bankruptcy/Creditors
- Business Dissolution
- Civil Rights
- Commercial/Business
- Community Associations
- Condominiums
- Construction
- Consumer Fraud
- Contract Disputes
- Cross Cultural
- Debt Collections
- Discrimination
- Education
- EEOC
- Elder Abuse
- Employment
- Energy Sector (Oil/Gas)
- Engineering
- Environmental
- Family Businesses
- Franchise
- Health Care
- Insurance
- Internet
- Land Use/Planning
- Landlord/Tenant
- Legal Malpractice
- Lemon Law
- Libel & Slander
- Local Govt./Municipalities
- Media & Communications
- Medical Devices
- Medical Malpractice
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Mortgage Foreclosure
- Natural Disasters
- Non-profit Organizations
- Nursing Homes
- Partnerships
- Personal Injury
- Pharmaceuticals
- Police
- Premises Liability
- Probate
- Product Liability
- Professional Fees
- Professional Liability
- Professional Malpractice
- Professional Negligence
- Property Damage
- Public Policy
- Railroad & Trucking
- Real Estate
- Religious Institutions
- Sexual Harassment
- Shareholder Disputes
- Software
- Technology
- Telecommunications
- Torts
- Transportation
- Trusts / Estates
- Unfair Competition
- Venture Capital
- Wage & Hour/FMLA
- Workers' Compensation
- Wrongful Death
Education
- Creighton University 1982
- Creighton University School of Law 1985
Memberships & Affiliations
- American Association of ADR Attorneys (Board Certified) **The Iowa Supreme Court does not certify lawyers as specialists in the practice of law and certification is not required.
- American Bar Association Forum on Construction Law
- C. Edwin Moore American Inn of Court
- Iowa Association of Workers Compensation Attorneys
- Iowa State Bar Association Construction Law Section
- Iowa State Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section (Section Chair 2018-present)
- Polk County Bar Association Board of Directors (2017-present)
- ISBA Board of Governors (2017-present)
- Fellow, American Bar Foundation
- Fellow, Iowa Bar Foundation
- Fellow, Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers
- Member, Construction Lawyers Society of America
Rates Information
Hourly rates are $285.00 per hour for preparation and mediation sessions. Mediation in WC cases is $200 per hour for the first three hours. Travel time is billed at $100 per hour, and mileage, airline fees and hotel expenses may apply. No administrative fee, cancellation fee or hourly minimums are charged. Different hourly rates for multi-party or multi-day mediations may apply on a case by case basis. Experienced in Zoom mediation.