Brad has been in practice for over 30 years, the last 18 primarily in government affairs at the Iowa Capitol representing clients in a wide variety of industries.
After graduating from the University of Iowa College of Law, he began his legal career in Omaha, Nebraska with the law firm of Brashear & Ginn. At the firm, Brad was the primary litigation associate practicing in commercial litigation, insurance defense and creditor’s rights.
After three and a half years, Brad took an in-house position with Norwest Financial in Des Moines, returning to the state of Iowa where he grew up. As an assistant general counsel, Brad worked with the branch offices and senior company management on a variety of legal areas including creditor’s rights, employee issues, the development of new loan products and management of litigation cases around the country.
Brad left Norwest Financial for an opportunity with a law firm in West Des Moines, Pingel & Templer, PC. There he represented large banks and finance companies in default loan litigation and in bankruptcy court. He also worked in the areas of construction litigation and work comp defense, and developed a state agency regulatory practice representing the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.
After five years Brad joined the Nyemaster Law Firm in 2004 primarily to continue his creditor’s rights practice, but also continued to represent contractors and the Girls Union. After several years at Nyemaster, he was recruited internally by the firm’s Government Affairs practice group and 2007 was his first session lobbying at the Capitol. Over the past 18 sessions Brad has represented individual companies and associations in a wide range of industries including the grocery industry, utilities, liquified petroleum gas, franchise car dealers and railroads, economic development for chambers of commerce, newspapers and broadcasters, professional associations for CPA’s and defense attorneys, alcohol manufacturing, insurance and the service contract industry, agriculture, consumer data industry, and the gaming industry.