Laurie L. Dawley

Attorney, Senior Vice President

Laurie L. Dawley is an attorney and senior vice president at Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, P.L.C. Her work focuses on business law, banking and finance law, real estate law, and mergers and acquisitions. She has served on the firm’s board of directors and compensation committee and is past chair of the firm’s business practice group and associate/recruiting committee.

Laurie represents numerous businesses and their owners, banks and financial institutions, agricultural and commercial real estate owners and developers.

Iowa Real Estate Commission (2003-2012)
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, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization 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)

Practice Areas

Education

Wartburg College, B.A. Political Science and Business Administration with an emphasis in Management (1995)
- Summa cum laude
University of Iowa, J.D. (1998)
- With high distinction
- Journal of Corporation Law–Articles Editor (1997-1998)
- Author: “The Continuing Debate Regarding the Lease Versus Disguised Security Interest Issue: Did the Edison Court Correctly Find a True Lease?” 24 Journal of Corporation Law 169 (Fall 1998)