You have many options to choose from when deciding whether and with whom to enforce your legal rights. But I will add value to your case by making it an interactive effort between us. I will do that by guaranteeing:

  1. Personalized attention. You will talk to me, your attorney, from the beginning of your case. Not staff, not other attorneys. You will not have an attorney who steps in at the very end of your case without ever having directly worked on it previously.
  2. Prompt communication. I respond to all telephone calls and e-mails the same day without exception. If you are thinking about, curious about, or concerned about your case, then so am I.
  3. Explanations. I do my best to make sure that my clients understand their legal rights and the strengths and weaknesses of their cases.
  4. Preparation. We will not meet at the last minute before something happens in your case. You will never feel that something has just occurred that we were not prepared for or expecting.

News & Case Updates

September 29, 2011 - ERBE LAW FIRM FILES BULLYING SUIT AGAINST PERRY SCHOOL DISTRICT

Erbe Law Firm has filed a bullying and wrongful termination lawsuit against the Perry Community School District on behalf of an elementary school student, Taylor Patrick, and her mother, Janice Patrick.

For several years Taylor has been bullied and harassed, including threats and physical abuse, by another student.  We claim that the Perry Community School District has violated its obligation to protect Taylor from the bullying.

Erbe Law Firm also filed suit on the Janice Taylor's behalf for wrongful termination.  She worked for the school district.  Janice asserts that she was fired after she learned of another incident between her daughter and the student and tried to take the student to school offices to complain about the conduct and seek discipline.

To learn more about this story, please visit:

http://www.whotv.com/news/who-story-perry-lawsuit-bullying-092811,0,4752180.story 

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110929/NEWS/110929017/Girl-who-says-she-was-bullied-sues-Perry-schools-

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110929/NEWS/110929033/Perry-family-sues-school-district-over-alleged-bullying-incidents

http://qctimes.com/news/state-and-regional/iowa/girl-who-says-she-was-bullied-sues-iowa-district/article_2895ea3a-8994-5c93-b2d2-1b74eea61091.html
 
http://www.myabc5.com/category/190187/myabc5com-video?clipId=6304028&topVideoCatNo=165457&autoStart=true

This lawsuit is currently pending in the Iowa District Court for Dallas County.

September 7, 2011 - ERBE LAW FIRM PUSHES CASES INVOLVING DEPUTY SHERIFFS

Erbe Law Firm has been involved in two cases that center on the conduct of deputy sheriffs.
 
In one case from Muscatine County, Erbe Law Firm is actively representing Muscatine County Deputy Sheriff Michael Wade after Deputy Wade was accused of using excessive force and fired by the sheriff's office.  In February 2011 Erbe Law Firm successfully argued that Deputy Wade should keep his badge.  Deputy Wade's case is now on appeal in a further effort to completely clear his name.  For more information, please visit this link to the Muscatine Journal's coverage of the proceedings:
 
http://muscatinejournal.com/news/local/article_016a9a42-3b18-11e0-81c5-001cc4c002e0.html
 
In another matter, Erbe Law Firm has assumed representation of Luis Loza.  On August 27, 2011 Mr. Loza was involved in a road rage incident with an off-duty Polk County Deputy Sheriff, Shawn Vanhoozer.  Deputy Vanhoozer hit Mr. Loza on the head with a gun during that encounter, causing a gash on Mr. Loza's head that needed to be closed with staples.  Erbe Law Firm is assisting Mr. Loza with an internal sheriff's office complaint against Deputy Vanhoozer.  For more information, please click on the following links to the Des Moines Register and WHO-TV 13 Des Moines:
 
http://www.whotv.com/news/who-story-deputy-complaint-20110906,0,5829297.story
 
http://www.whotv.com/news/who-story-road-rage-deputy-083111,0,1268188.story
 
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110907/NEWS/309070058/Polk-County-sheriff-urged-to-probe-clash-involving-deputy
 
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110831/NEWS/308310054/Off-duty-deputy-was-aggressor-3-men-say
 
http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2011/08/29/deputy-three-in-truck-trade-road-rage-accusations/


January 20, 2011.The Iowa Court of Appeals ruled in favor of an Erbe Law Firm client in an overtime case.  Erbe Law Firm was hired by an individual who believed that her employer should have paid her overtime.  We filed suit on the employee's behalf.  The employer refused to pay what we believed was a fair amount for the client's unpaid overtime, so we took the case to trial.  The trial court ruled that our client was an "exempt" employee and thus not entitled to overtime.  We disagreed with the trial judge's decision and appealed it.  The Iowa Court of Appeals sided with Erbe Law Firm and our client, concluded that the client was not an exempt worker and should have been paid overtime, and sent the case back to the trial court for a determination of our client's damages, including unpaid overtime.


February 26, 2010. Following a bench trial, a Polk County judge ordered a local employer to pay damages, including attorney fees and litigation expenses, to an Erbe Law Firm client in a wage violation case. The employee argued that she had accrued vacation that, per her employer's policy, should have been paid out to her after she quit her employment. She made several demands of her employer requesting that it pay her in accordance with its policy. She hired Erbe Law Firm to represent her after the employer ignored her requests. The Polk County court rejected the employer's argument that the former employee had used all of her vacation time before she quit and was thus entitled to nothing.


February 1, 2008. The Iowa Supreme Court reversed the Iowa Court of Appeals and the Iowa District Court for Polk County in Speight v. Walters Development Company. The Speights were the third owners of a home that they allege was defectively constructed. Their case was rejected by two lower courts before the Iowa Supreme Court agreed with Harley and, for the first time, held that later owners of a home have rights against builders in construction defect cases.

September 28, 2007. A Wapello County judge entered a $40,000 judgment in favor of Harley's clients after a trial to the court in a breach of contract case. The court rejected the defendant's argument that Harley's clients lost their right to be paid for their work as drywallers because they did not submit the proper paperwork and had otherwise breached their obligations to the defendants.
 
September 18, 2007. A Jefferson County judge granted Harley's pretrial motion for summary judgment on behalf of a client in an employment case concerning Iowa's employee drug and alcohol testing statute. Harley sued for wrongful termination after the employee was fired for allegedly failing an alcohol test. The court agreed with Harley that the the results of the employee's alcohol tests did not allow the employer to legally fire the client. The case will now go to trial on the issue of money damages only.

May 22, 2007. A Polk County jury returned a $65,000 verdict for Harley's clients in a construction defect case against their homebuilder. The jury awarded the builder $0 on its counterclaim for breach of contract

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