On March 21, 2025, Dickinson Bradshaw insurance coverage litigators Benjamin J. Kenkel and Sean O’Brien obtained a favorable decision for their client in Waterloo Community School District v. Employers Mutual Casualty Company, affirming the district court’s summary judgment.
The Iowa Supreme court agreed with Mr. Kenkel and Mr. O’Brien that their client’s coverage obligations arising…
Dickinson, Bradshaw, Fowler & Hagen, P.C. has been recognized in the 2025 edition of Best Law Firms® regionally in 28 practice areas. Ranked by U.S. News – Best Lawyers®, the list recognizes firms who exhibit professional excellence with impressive ratings from their clients and peers.
Achieving a Best Law Firms ranking signifies a high-quality legal…
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Based on peer reviews, 34 Dickinson Bradshaw attorneys have been named by Best Lawyers® to all three of its recognition lists in 31 practice areas for 2025.
This includes three Dickinson Bradshaw attorneys who were named “Lawyers of the Year” for receiving the highest level of peer reviews in the Des…
Dickinson, Bradshaw, Fowler & Hagen, P.C. is pleased to announce our 2024 Summer Associates, (left to right) Emily Byrnes, Nicholas Ahlquist, Aiden Ruble, and Elena Pinnow.
Elena Pinnow
Elena is currently attending Drake University Law School where she will graduate with the Class of 2025. She holds an undergraduate degree in political science with a…
Super Lawyers has announced recognition of 17 Dickinson, Bradshaw, Fowler & Hagen (Dickinson Bradshaw) P.C. attorneys as 2024 Great Plains Super Lawyers. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
Those attorneys included in the 2024 Great Plains Super Lawyers list include:
Ted…
In remembrance of our friend and colleague, Donna Henkels. After graduating from the American Institute for Business (AIB) in 1983, Donna started her 39-year career as a legal assistant at the former Bradshaw law firm in 1984 and retired in December 2023.
It is with heavy hearts that we report our friend and fellow attorney, Fred Schneider, has passed away. Prior to the formation of Dickinson Bradshaw, Fred had been with the Dickinson firm from 2011 until his retirement in 2018, practicing in the areas of business and corporate law, with a focus in the publishing industry.…
We are deeply saddened to share the passing of our friend and colleague, Thomas Hanson. Tom had been an esteemed member of the Dickinson Bradshaw family since 2012.
Throughout his 54-year legal career litigating civil and criminal cases in state and federal court, he was one of most active trial lawyers in the Central Iowa…
Attorney Sean O’Brien of Dickinson Bradshaw will be addressing international insurance leaders as part of a litigation and regulatory risk panel during the Global Insurance Symposium on April 17th in Des Moines.
O’Brien and additional leading insurance litigators from Carlton Fields and Maynard Nexsen will be covering how the impact of litigation and regulatory risk and…
Dickinson, Bradshaw, Fowler & Hagen P.C. is pleased to announce that Benjamin J. Kenkel has been named a shareholder of the law firm. Ben joined the law firm in 2019 as a summer law clerk before passing the Iowa State Bar exam and joining the firm as an associate attorney in spring 2020.
At Dickinson Bradshaw,…
