Timmer & Judkins attorneys Katie Ervin Carlson and Nate Borland recently filed a lawsuit on behalf of firm client Sierra Fox, the former West Union Police Sergeant and K9 Handler...
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TJ Attorney Invited to Speak at Midwest Employment Law Conference
TJ Attorney and co-founder Brooke Timmer will be speaking at this year's Upper Midwest Employment Law Institute in St. Paul, Minnesota. Each year, more than 1300 employment law practitioners attend...
Continued Coverage of Iowa City Breastpumping Case
Click here to read more about our client Jessica Clark, whose rights were violated when her former boss recorded her using what she describes as a "spy pen" as she...
Boss Secretly Records Employee Pumping Breastmilk at Iowa City Architecture Firm
T&J attorneys Katie Ervin Carlson and Emily McCarty recently filed a lawsuit in Johnson County on behalf of Jessica Clark, an architect in Iowa City. In December, Jessica realized her...
Police Sergeant Forced to Resign After Reporting Sex Discrimination
One of our many brave clients, West Union Police Sergeant Sierra Fox, was forced to resign after reporting sex discrimination and filing a complaint to protect her rights. Now the...
T&J Files Civil Rights Lawsuit against Polk County for Jailer’s Assault on Unarmed, Compliant Inmate
On March 12, 2019, Timmer & Judkins attorneys Brooke Timmer and Nate Borland filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Polk County Sheriff’s Department and a former jailer, alleging the...
Settlement in Iowa Prison Guard Case
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. ~Martin Luther...
We Love Babies at Work!
The Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa (GSGI) recently rolled out a wonderful new program that allows its employees to bring their babies to work for the first six months of...
Pushed Out Before They’re Ready, Older Workers Struggle to Recover
ProPublica and the Urban Institute recently released a data analysis that paints a bleak picture for older workers in the United States. This is consistent with what we’ve been seeing...
TJ co-counsels on Age Discrimination suit against the University of Iowa
The types of calls we get seem to ebb and flow. Sometimes, we get a lot of calls about disability discrimination. Other times, we have a lot of inquiries about...