• Iowa Real Estate Commission (2003-2012)
• Iowa Title Guaranty Fund
• American Bar Association
  • Member of Business Law, Real Property Probate & Trust Law Sections
• Iowa State Bar Association
  • Member of Business Law, Commercial and Bankruptcy Law, Real Estate and Title Law Sections
• Linn County Bar Association

• Listed in the Best Lawyers in America® – Real Estate Law, Banking and Finance Law
• Listed as a Great Plains Super Lawyer® – Real Estate, Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights
• Waypoint Tribute to Women of Achievement Honoree (2008)
• Corridor Business Journal Forty under 40 Honoree (2007)
• Leadership for Five Seasons (Class of 2002)
• Bankruptcy Extern to the Honorable Paul J. Kilburg, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Iowa (1998 Spring Semester)

• 2012 – Statutory Liens: Obtaining, Protecting and Defending (Commercial & Bankruptcy Law Section of the Iowa State Bar Association seminar)
• 2010 – Multi-Family Residential Legal Issues: Residential Cooperative Formation and Structuring the Cooperative Loan (Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, P.L.C. client seminar)
• 2006 – Choice of Entity (Iowa State Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division Professional Development Committee Nuts & Bolts seminar)
• 2005 – Liens and Credit Issues in Bankruptcy (National Business Institute seminar)
• 2005 – Creditor Rights under the New Bankruptcy Act (Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, P.L.C. client seminar)
• 2003 – Advanced Collection Law in Iowa – Creditor’s Options upon Default (Lorman Education Services seminar)
• 2001 – Commercial Lease Drafting and Negotiating and Selected Bankruptcy Issues (Lorman Education Services seminar)

Laurie is proud to have worked with a local nonprofit organization to obtain its tax exempt status to further its mission of supporting Iowa’s women business owners.

Growing up on a farm in Northeast Iowa and married to a grain and cattle farmer, Laurie is passionate about the importance of agriculture to Iowa’s businesses, economy, and overall quality of life.

• College Community School Improvement Advisory Committee (2013-present)
• Prairie School Foundation Advisory Committee (2016-present)
• Cedar Rapids Country Club
  • Board of Directors (2014-present)
• Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa, Inc.
  • Board of Trustees
• The Eastern Iowa Chapter of the Risk Management Association
  • Board of Directors (2012-present)
• Cedar Rapids Downtown Rotary member
  • Board of Directors (2013-2016)
• Iowa Legal Aid
  • Volunteer Attorney
• United Way of East Central Iowa
  • Past steering committee member for the Women’s Leadership Initiative
• Affordable Housing Network, Inc.
  • Board Member (2007-2012)
• American Cancer Society, Linn County
  • Board Member (2003-2009)
• Freedom Festival
  • Board Member (1999-2002)