Robert D. Houghton

Attorney, Senior Vice President

Assistant
Haley Fauconniere
(319) 731-2201

Paralegal
Shelly Bontrager, RN
(319) 731-2212

Robert is an attorney and senior vice president at Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, P.L.C. Robert’s work focuses on litigation, primarily in the areas of medical malpractice defense, commercial litigation and products liability.

American Bar Association
- Member of the Litigation and Tort & Insurance Sections
Iowa State Bar Association
- Member of the Litigation Section
Linn County Bar Association
American College of Trial Lawyers (Fellow)
American Board of Trial Advocates
Defense Research Institute, Inc.
Federation of Defense Attorneys
Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers (Fellow)
Iowa Defense Counsel Association
- President (2000)
Dean Mason Ladd Inn of Court (Master)

Listed in The Best Lawyers in America®–Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
Best Lawyers’ Cedar Rapids Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants (2014) and Bet-the-Company Litigation (2016) “Lawyer of the Year.”
Listed as a Great Plains Super Lawyer®–Civil Litigation Defense, Personal Injury Defense: Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury Defense: Products
Martindale-Hubbell, Inc. Rating “AV”

Practice Areas

Education

University of Iowa, B.B.A. (1966)
University of Iowa, J.D. (1971)
- With distinction