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BrownWinick Ranked in U.S. News - Best Lawyers 2014 "Best Law Firms" List

BrownWinick has been included in the U.S. News - Best Lawyers® 2014 "Best Law Firms" rankings. The fourth edition of the U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers released the 2014 "Best Law Firms" rankings on November 1, 2013. Firms included in the 2014 "Best Law Firms" list are recognized for professional excellent with persistently impressive... Read More

Attorney Brian Rickert Selected for Fellowship in the Litigation Counsel of America

BrownWinick attorney Brian Rickert has been selected for Fellowship in the Litigation Counsel of America ("LCA"). The LCA is a trial lawyer honorary society whose membership is limited to less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers. Fellowship in the LCA is highly selective and by invitation only. Fellows are selected based upon... Read More

BrownWinick Attorney Jonathan Gallagher Selected as a Member of the West Des Moines Leadership Academy 2013-2014 Class

Jonathan Gallagher, an attorney at BrownWinick, was selected to the West Des Moines Leadership Academy Class of 2013-2014. Individuals from a variety of industries and backgrounds were selected for inclusion in the Academy. The West Des Moines Leadership Academy is an intensive, regionally-oriented leadership development nine-month program... Read More

BrownWinick Attorneys Featured In 2013 Great Plains Super Lawyers and Rising Stars

Eight BrownWinick attorneys were selected for inclusion in the 2013 Great Plains Super Lawyers online listing: • Brian Pingel - Intellectual Property • Ronni F. Begleiter - Employee Benefits/ERISA • William C. Brown - Tax • Michael A. Dee - Business Litigation • Bruce Graves - Tax • Alice Helle - Employee Benefits/ERISA • Ann Holden Kendell -... Read More

BrownWinick Attorneys Featured In 2013 Super Lawyers Business Edition

Six BrownWinick attorneys were selected for inclusion in the 2013 Super Lawyers Business Edition publication listing: • Brian Pingel - Intellectual Property • Ronni F. Begleiter - Employee Benefits/ERISA • Michael A. Dee - Business Litigation • Alice Helle - Employee Benefits/ERISA • Ann Holden Kendell - Employment & Labor • Brian P. Rickert -... Read More

BrownWinick Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America 2014

BrownWinick is proud to announce that 18 attorneys were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2014 (copyright 2012 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC), the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. The lawyers included are: Ronni F. Begleiter (Employee Benefits (ERISA)... Read More

BrownWinick Attorneys Named Best Lawyers in America "Lawyers of the Year" for 2014

Best Lawyers®, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, has named four BrownWinick attorneys as Best Lawyers "Lawyers of the Year" for 2014. Ronni F. Begleiter has been named Best Lawyers’ 2014 Des Moines Trusts and Estates "Lawyer of the Year." G. Brian Pingel has been named Best Lawyers’ 2014 Des Moines... Read More

Estate Planning Law Changes

Early this year, Congress passed the 2012 American Taxpayer Relief Act (the "2012 Act") in response to the "fiscal cliff." Among other items, the 2012 Act addressed the expiration of certain favorable federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer ("GST") tax rules. The purpose of this article is to provide a summary of the new estate,... Read More