Shuttleworth & Ingersoll is a multi-specialty law firm of more than 50 attorneys with offices in Cedar Rapids & Coralville, providing legal services to clients in Iowa and around the world. Using a collaborative, team-based approach, our firm provides innovative, cost-effective solutions to client problems.
Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, P.L.C., is one of Iowa’s largest full-service law firms, serving clients since 1854.
With more than 50 talented and experienced attorneys, Shuttleworth & Ingersoll provides a wide range of specialized legal services to clients in Iowa, throughout the Midwest, and around the world.
The firm represents business clients in all stages of development, from start-up ventures to large publicly traded corporations, each with respect to a wide range of business transactions and relationships. The firm cultivates among its attorneys an aggressive, innovative and practical approach to business consulting and problem solving for clients. Our attorneys utilize specialization and separation of practice areas in order to deliver the highest quality legal services. Our business section is further divided into the practice areas listed below in order to emphasize specialization and efficiency.
Many of the business section attorneys are listed in The Best Lawyers in America in their practice areas. Several of the firm’s business attorneys have earned designations as registered Certified Public Accountants. Our attorneys are leaders in their fields who combine high quality legal education with high quality work experience. All of the business section attorneys regularly attend or teach continuing legal education seminars to enhance their skills. The business section attorneys also benefit from the diversity of knowledge and support from our attorneys in our litigation and intellectual property sections.
The firm represents a diverse range of individual and family related legal issues. From adoption to divorce cases, to estate planning, wills and trusts, Shuttleworth’s team of attorneys are here for you every step of the way. With a hyper-individualized approach uniquely specific to every clients’ need, our Individual & Family Law attorneys pull from their extensive experience and offer a practical approach to moving forward. As champions for our clients, our attorneys work tirelessly to make sure that matters which are most dear to you are always handled with thought, care, and dignity. Life is not black and white, but we can help bring clarity and simplicity to the legal decisions that impact you and your family the most.
Shuttleworth & Ingersoll attorneys can take you through the process of signing a will and establishing a plan to pass on your assets to your loved ones.
The Shuttleworth & Ingersoll estate planning attorneys represent clients with wide-ranging estate, tax, and business succession planning needs. Aggressive, innovative and practical approaches to client problems are standard. Estate planning is so much more than preparing a will. Often good planning uses a revocable living trust instead of a traditional will. Advance medical directives and power of attorney documents are important elements of good estate plans.
Attention must be given to retirement plan accounts, life insurance, and other assets with beneficiary designations. Sometimes limited liability companies, life insurance trusts, and other types of trusts help save or eliminate taxes.
We offer a coordinated approach to dealing with the complexities of planning for the transfer of estate wealth to younger family members and the transfer of business interests to key employees and/or family members. We have many years of experience and expertise in income taxation, accounting, qualified plan and IRA distributions, estate and gift taxation, estate and trust administration, and other aspects of business law. Our services are delivered timely and with sensitivity to the potential for conflict among estate beneficiaries.
Shuttleworth & Ingersoll has an extensive labor and employment law practice with experienced employment and labor law attorneys. The firm emphasizes the representation of employer interests in both private and public sectors.
Our attorneys work with employers to develop employment practices and policies that comply with the numerous federal, state and local employment related statutes, such as the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA), Health Care Reform Act, and Title VII and other civil rights statutes.
Services provided to clients range from training of supervisors, preparing employer policies and employee handbooks, counseling concerning employee terminations, designing and implementing voluntary severance or reduction in force programs, and advising on the drafting and implementation of drug testing plans. The firm’s practice includes the negotiation and administration of collective bargaining agreements, arbitration of contract disputes and representation of clients with respect to unfair labor practice charges. When needed, the firm represents clients in administrative proceedings and federal or state lawsuits.
A significant portion of the Shuttleworth & Ingersoll Labor and Employment Law practice is spent representing employers in the defense of work-related claims asserted by employees. These cases include age and sex discrimination charges, sexual harassment claims, wrongful discharge claims, unemployment compensation claims, workers’ compensation claims, claims for employee benefits, breach of contract claims, and claims involving alleged violations of non-compete and trade secret covenants. The Labor and Employment Law practice area also represents employees seeking to protect their rights.
