Laura L. Folkerts

Attorney

Assistant
Jammi Welter
(319) 365-9461

Laura Folkerts is an attorney at Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, P.L.C. practicing primarily in the area of labor and employment law, including employee benefits and employment-related litigation. Laura provides guidance to employers on a wide range of employment matters, including deferred compensation and employee benefits. She additionally assists with training, policy review, and investigations and complaints, both internal and before civil rights commissions. Before joining Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, Laura worked at a law firm in Waterloo, Iowa, where she maintained a general practice with an emphasis on labor and employment.

Iowa State Bar Association
- Board of Governors
- Labor & Employment Section Member
- Former Member of Young Lawyer’s Division Executive Committee
American Bar Association
- Labor & Employment Section Member
- Business Section Member
Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)

Award of Merit – Iowa State Bar Association Young Lawyers’ Division (2018)
Governor’s Volunteer Award (2018)
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier 20 under 40 award recipient (2016)

Laura regularly presents on various topics, including FMLA, FLSA, ADA, and other employment-related topics.

Denver Savings Bank (Board of Directors)
PSB Corporation (Board of Directors)
ONE Cedar Valley (Past Board Member)
Volunteer Center of Cedar Valley (Past Board Member)
Black Hawk-Grundy Mental Health Center (Past Board Member)

Practice Areas

Labor & Employment

Education

University of Northern Iowa, B.A. (2005)
University of Iowa College of Law, J.D. (2009)