About The Firm

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The Parrish Law Firm is a full service firm of 16 lawyers located in Des Moines, Iowa. The Firm, established in 1974, represents individuals and businesses from around the state and country.

Our attorneys are trained to think outside of the box. Every meeting, pleading and hearing is an opportunity to advance our client’s cause. Our mission is to provide the very highest quality legal services to our clients that we can. Our style is aggressive. There is a saying in the law that your reputation is only as good as your last case. We believe that, and we define ourselves by results.

Our services are efficient and our offices technologically advanced. We endeavor to staff our cases in a legally effective, and at the same time cost-efficient manner, keeping in view always the objective of the litigation or business matter. We send only essential personnel to depositions, court appearances and meetings. We maximize electronic research, the use of paralegals, electronic conferencing, in-house investigative capabilities, and other mechanisms to help our clients control their costs.

The attorneys at the Parrish Law Firm are committed to serving their community. The Firm’s lawyers serve on a pro bono basis as trustees, members of boards of directors and in other capacities in numerous charities and civic organizations. Lawyers at the Firm volunteer with many civic and not-for-profit organizations as well. The Firm’s lawyers additionally lend their expertise to further the goals of their profession, donating time and talent to, and serving in leadership positions on, such organizations as Iowa Legal Aid, the Iowa State and American Bar Associations, and the Iowa and American Trial Lawyers Associations.

We believe we serve our community through our work as well. By filing lawsuits on behalf of injured persons, we make our community safer. We hold businesses and careless individuals accountable for their actions. By constantly challenging our criminal justice system, we make that system fairer. By bringing action against a discriminating employer, we make the next employee’s job a little easier.

Many of the lawyers at the Parrish Law Firm have practiced together throughout most of their legal careers. We attribute our cohesion to a shared philosophy of excellence. By adhering to that philosophy, we believe we make a difference, one case at a time.