2006 - 2010:  Attorney at Meardon, Sueppel & Downer P.L.C., Iowa City, Iowa.  General practice including business and nonprofit law, trial and appellate litigation.
2005 - 2006:  Private Practice Attorney in Benton and Linn Counties, Iowa.  General practice including business law.

Bar Admissions:  Supreme Court of Iowa, U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa, United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit.

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significant legal cases
(all documents are public record)

Zimmerman v. Haste
Successful defense of a specific performance action against our client on a real estate transaction.
Trial Court Ruling - Johnson County EQCV066130
Iowa Court of Appeals Ruling - 766 N.W.2d 649, 2009 WL 606229 (Table, Text in WESTLAW), Unpublished Disposition, Iowa App., March 11, 2009 (NO. 08-1259)

In re Family Trust of Windus
Successful defense and cross-appeal of our client's right to use money from her husband's estate for her living expenses.
Iowa Court of Appeals Ruling - 758 N.W.2d 840, 2008 WL 3916438, (Table, Text in WESTLAW), Unpublished Disposition, Iowa App., August 27, 2008 (NO. 07-2006)

Carvour v. Ersland, et al.
Successful action for nuisance against smoking condominium neighbor.  Summary judgment for our client against principal defendant.
Media coverage of the case:  Cedar Rapids Gazette (Also appeared in the Chicago Tribune)

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research experience

In Summer 2004, I served as a Research Intern at the Krell Institute in Ames, Iowa.  I conducted extensive research for the Institute on matters related to their work with the Department of Energy.  I drafted a business and governance plan for the OpenHPC (High Performance Computing) project, a supercomputing development consortium linking several national nuclear laboratories and top research universities.

More information:
http://www.open-mpi.org/about/members/  |  http://www.krellinst.org/services/technology/