Family Law

• Guardianship
  Heather Timmins is a partner in the firm’s business division. Her practice areas include trusts and estates, probate, guardianships, business law, real estate, tax law, estate planning and landlord-tenant law.

Criminal Law

• Criminal Defense
  While in law school, Rachel served as the Secretary of the Moot Court Board and worked as a Research Assistant for Professor Robert Rigg of the Drake University Law School. She was also a student attorney in the Criminal Defense Program and the Wrongful Convictions Clinic of the Drake Legal Clinic. Rachel has been published in Volume 69 of the
• Wrongful Death
  Guy Cook is a senior member in the firm’s litigation division. For more than 35 years he has been one of the leading trial attorneys in the state of Iowa. He has served as counsel in more than 1000 litigated matters and has tried more than 200 jury trials. He has successfully defended major business litigation, obtained million dollar jury verdicts and successfully defended significant federal criminal cases. He has tried complex civil and criminal cases throughout the state of Iowa, including wrongful death, serious personal injury, products liability, securities fraud, bank fraud, medical malpractice, manslaughter, healthcare, semi-truck collisions, insurance fraud, sexual assault, false arrest, dram shop and breach of contract claims.
• Sex Crimes
• Fraud
  Guy is a Des Moines, Iowa, native. He worked his way through school as a union ironworker, campus security officer and law library assistant. Upon graduation from law school, he served as a judicial law clerk for Justice J.L. Larson of the Iowa Supreme Court. In 1983, Guy was appointed Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa. Among the cases he prosecuted were the largest insurance fraud in Iowa history, the then largest drug case in Iowa history, and the largest tax evasion case in Iowa history.
• Assault
• Manslaughter

Business and Corporate Law

• Business Disputes

Employment Law

• Workers Compensation
  Laura Martino is a partner in the firm’s litigation division. She represents clients on a wide array of civil litigation matters including insurance defense, municipal liability claims, professional malpractice, and workers compensation claims. In addition, she represents insurance companies and self-insured clients in coverage and bad faith disputes.
• Employment Discrimination
  Michael Savala sued the State of Iowa, the Iowa Department of Corrections, and the director of the Iowa Department of Corrections for employment discrimination. He alleged the defendants discriminated against him on the basis of his age, race, color, and national origin in violation of the Iowa Civil Rights Act. At his trial, Savala raised […]
• Sexual Harassment
  Anita Dhar Miller is a partner in the litigation division of Grefe Sidney. Her practice includes general civil litigation. Anita represents clients in civil matters before the Iowa district courts and federal district courts. She has experience in insurance defense matters, including automobile personal injury, construction claims, gross negligence, slip and fall, discrimination, sexual harassment, and workers’ compensation. Anita’s work has included successfully representing clients before the Iowa Court of Appeals and obtaining summary judgment from the Iowa district courts.

Property Law

• Premises Liability
  Andrew D. Hall is the managing member of the Grefe Sidney Litigation Division. He has practiced with Grefe & Sidney since 1990 and in that time has developed extensive experience in insurance defense matters, including automobile personal injury, construction claims, premises liability, and workers’ compensation. He represents clients in state and federal district court, appeals courts, and before the Iowa Workers’ Compensation Commission.
• Construction Litigation
  Clark Mitchell is a member in the firm’s Litigation Division. He has extensive trial experience in insurance defense, personal injury, premises liability, and construction claims. He has represented a variety of contractors and builders in all aspects of construction law and has personal experience in the construction industry including contracting, framing, and carpentry, allowing him to serve the diverse needs of builders, contractors and suppliers throughout Iowa.
• Real Estate Transactions
  Jonathan De Reus is an associate attorney in the firm’s business division.  His practice areas include assisting his clients in the development of their estate plans, trust and estate administration, real estate transactions, and business formations and other small business matters.
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Aaron Lindebak is a trial attorney in the firm’s litigation division. His practice areas include bad faith, coverage disputes, personal injury, and appellate practice. What was your first job? I was a law clerk for Judge Mary Tabor of the Iowa Court of Appeals. What do you like most about working at Grefe & Sidney? […]
• Medical Malpractice
  In September 2020, Jahn and Sara Kirlin filed suit against two doctors and Methodist Physicians Clinic alleging negligence following medical treatment received by Jahn. The Kirlins timely filed a certificate of merit affidavit signed by Dr. David Segal, a board-certified neurosurgeon. Iowa Code section 147.140 requires plaintiffs in medical malpractice suits to serve a certificate […]
• Auto Accidents

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
• Trusts
• Probate

Finance Law

• Foreclosure
  Lincoln Savings Bank served a foreclosure lawsuit on the attorney for Debra Emmert after her loan payments failed to arrive. After the deadline for a responsive pleading had passed, the bank mailed a notice of intent to file an application for default judgment to Emmert’s attorney. The notice of intent was not separately mailed to […]
• Tax Law
  While in law school, Heather practiced as a student attorney in the income tax division of the Drake Legal Clinic, representing clients with a variety of tax matters. She also was a junior staff member on the Drake Law Review, a member of the Drake Law Women, and served as Treasurer on the Executive Board of the Delta Theta Phi law fraternity.