Lew Eells attended the State College of Iowa (SCI) at Cedar Falls, Iowa and received a Bachelor of Arts Degree majoring in Sociology in June of 1966. While at SCI (now University of Northern Iowa) he was a member of Phi Mu Alpha fraternity, and a member and President of Alpha Phi Omega fraternity.

Lew Eells attended the University of Iowa College of Law and graduated with a Juris Doctorate in 1968. He was admitted to practice before the Iowa Supreme Court, the United States District Court for the Northern and Southern District of Iowa and the 8^th Circuit Court of Appeals. Lew Eells was a member of Phi Alpha Delta Legal Fraternity at the University of Iowa Law School.

Upon his graduation from the University of Iowa Law School, Mr. Eells practiced law in Dubuque, Iowa for a period of sixteen months.

In the fall of 1969, Lew Eells began practicing law in Cedar Rapids, Iowa where he has practiced doing a general practice to the present time. From 1975 to 1982, Lew Eells also practiced part time as an Assistant Linn County Attorney handling only felony prosecutions. Lew Eells formed the firm of Eells & Sovern Law Offices PLC in 1993. Eells & Sovern Law Offices PLC continued to practice in Cedar Rapids, Iowa as a general practice firm, until October 2004 when the name was changed to Eells & Tronvold Law Offices PLC.

Lew Eells is engaged in the general practice of the law including but not limited to personal injury, estate administration, probate, estate planning, trial defense, family law, close corporations and other business organizations, real estate transactions, title examinations and criminal defense of all kinds. His practice has encompassed a wide variety of cases. See, for example, cases listed in this attorney portfolio profile, including such cases as Hedricks v. Broderick, 284 N.W.2d 209 (Iowa, October 17, 1979); Schuller v. HyVee Food Stores, Inc., 407 N.W.2d 347 (Iowa App., March 31, 1987); Ross v. City of Iowa City, 353 N.W.2d 887 (Iowa App., June 26, 1984); Stoffel v. Thermogaas Co., 998 F Supp.1021, 35 UCC Rep.Serv.2d 90 (N.D.Iowa, December 11, 1997).

Areas of Practice

• Civil Rights and Discrimination Cases
• Collections Law
• Contracts Law
• Corporate Law
• Criminal Law
• Family Law
• Personal Injury
• Real Estate Law
• Trial Law
• Wills, Trusts, Estate Planning and Probate Law

Litigation Percentage

• 15% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Bar Admissions

• Iowa, 1968
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Iowa, 1968
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Iowa, 1969
• U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit, 1970
• U.S. Tax Court, 1987

Education

• University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City, Iowa, 1968
  J.D.
  Honors: BNA Award for Most Satisfactory Progress, 1968
  Honors: American Jurisprudence Award in Law & Psychiatry, 1968
  
  
• State College of Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA, 1966
  B.A.
  Major: Social Sciences
  
  

Representative Cases

• Hames Mobile Homes, Inc. v. Sellers, 343 F Supp. 12 (N.D. Iowa 1972)
• Gordon v. Pfab, 246 N.W. 2d 283 (Iowa 1976)
• Hendricks v. Broderick, 284 N.W. 2d 209 (Iowa 1979)
• Ross v. City of Iowa City, 353 N.W. 2d 887 (Iowa Court of Appeals 1984)
• Committee on Professional Ethics and Conduct of Iowa State Bar Ass'n. v. Bronemann, 210 N.W.2d 607 (Iowa 1973)
• In re: Marriage of Grother, 242 N.W. 2d 1 (Iowa 1976)
• Schuller v. Hy Vee Food Stores, Inc., 407 N.W. 2d 347 (Iowa Court of Appeals 1987)
• Stibbs v. Mapco, Inc., 945 F. Supp. 1226 (S.D. Iowa 1996)
• Stoffel v. Thermogas Co., 998 F Supp. 1021 (N.D. Iowa 1997)
• In re: Slipped Disc Inc., 245 B.R. 342 (Bankr. N.D. Iowa 2000)

Representative Clients

• Executive Construction Company
• Executive Marketing Co.
• Executive Realty Co.
• Hyatt Legal Plan
• Jim Miller Nissan, Inc.

Classes/Seminars Taught

• Trying the Soft Tissue Injury in Iowa, National Business Institute, 1999

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Cedar Rapids Library Board, 1988 - 1998
  Trustee & President
  
  
• Cedar Rapids Library Foundation, 1994 - 1997
  Member
  
  
• Iowa Young Lawyers Newspaper, 1973 - 1974
  Editor
  
  
• Iowa Bar Association, 1968 - Present
  
  
• Linn County Bar Association, 1969 - Present
  
  

Past Employment Positions

• Linn County Attorney's Office, Assistant County Attorney, Felony Division, 1975 - 1982

Pro Bono Activities

• Moot Trial Judge, 1991; 1998 - 2000
• Moot Trial Coach, 1989 - 1990

Fraternities/Sororities

• Phi Alpha Delta
• Phi Delta Phi
• Alpha Phi Omega

Birth Information

• 1943, Belle Plaine, Iowa, United States of America