Recent Firm News

               Jean Bartley was recently recognized by the Iowa State Bar Association for her 50 years of service to the Association. Meardon Sueppel and Downer P.L.C. is proud of her achievement and congratulates Jean for her 50 years of service.

             Meardon, Sueppel & Downer P.L.C. takes great pride in announcing that attorneys Robert N. Downer, Thomas D. Hobart, Douglas D. Ruppert and William F. Sueppel have been acknowledged in the publication The Best Lawyers in America. This prestigious recognition is one of the highest honors a practicing attorney can achieve.

            Bob Downer has been recognized in the areas of corporate law and real estate law.  Tom Hobart has been recognized in the areas of business litigation and personal injury. and William F. Sueppel has been recognized in the area of municipal law.

           Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, has named Robert N. Downer as the "Cedar Rapids Area Best Lawyers Trusts and Estates Lawyer of the Year" for 2011. Mr. Downer is a member of the Iowa City law firm Meardon, Sueppel & Downer, P.L.C., with which he has been associated since 1963.

           After more than a quarter of a century in publication, Best Lawyers is designating "Lawyers of the Year" in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is being honored as the "Lawyer of the Year."

           Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The current, 17th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2011) is based on more than 3.1 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.

           The lawyers being honored as "Lawyers of the Year" have received particularly high ratings in our surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.

           Steven Naifeh, President of Best Lawyers, says, "We continue to believe - as we have believed for more than 25 years - that recognition by one's peers is the most meaningful form of praise in the legal profession. We would like to congratulate Robert N. Downer on being selected as the "Cedar Rapids Area Best Lawyers Trusts and Estates Lawyer of the Year" for 2011."