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Michael A. Dee is a member of BrownWinick and a member of the firm's Management Committee. Mike is active in the firm's Litigation, Intellectual Property, Construction and Employment and Labor Law practice groups.

Mike has been involved in litigation and trial practice for over twenty years, and is in and out of court all the time. He has tried dozens of cases in state and federal court and argued numerous times before state and federal appellate courts. He represents business clients in all aspects of litigation, including claims involving contracts, intellectual property, trade secrets, construction, business dissolution, employment, fraud and various tort claims. He has been involved in lawsuits not only in Iowa, but all over the Midwest, Texas, Virginia, Washington, D.C., New York and New England.

A substantial amount of Mike's time is spent on intellectual property litigation. Mike has been involved in cases involving patent infringement, trademark infringement, copyright infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets. He also has argued numerous times before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, conducted Markman Hearings, and been involved in many preliminary injunction hearings, representing both plaintiffs and defendants. 

Mike has an AV peer review rating from Martindale Hubbell Legal Directory and has been recognized for inclusion in Super Lawyers in 2008 for intellectual property litigation, construction litigation and general litigation and in 2009 for general litigation.

Mike is a former federal prosecutor with the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., where he prosecuted primarily bank fraud and complex white collar crime as part of the Criminal Division's Fraud Section.

Mike is a member of the Iowa State Bar Association, where he currently serves as the Chair of the Federal Practice Committee.  He also is a member of the Polk County Bar Association, where he served on the Board of Directors from 2002 to 2006. He is admitted to practice in the state of Iowa and the District of Columbia, the Federal District Courts for the Southern and Northern Districts of Iowa and the District of Nebraska, the Eighth Circuit and Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals, the United States Supreme Court and the United States Court of Federal Claims. Mike was the Chair of the Greater Des Moines Partnership's Government Policy Council in 2010, and currently serves on the Board of the Mercy Foundation, which serves Mercy Hospital and its affiliated entities.

Mike received a B.S., with distinction and honors, from Iowa State University in 1984 and his J.D. from the University of Iowa in 1987. Mike received the American Jurisprudence Award in 1986.

Michael A. Dee
Attorney at Law
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515-242-2475 direct
515-323-8575 fax
515-971-7010 cell

666 Grand Avenue
Suite 2000, Ruan Center
Des Moines, IA 50309
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Karen Rawson
515-242-2464
kcr@brownwinick.com

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Practice Areas
Construction Law
Employment and Labor Law
Litigation / Trial Law
Patent, Trademarks and Copyright
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Industries Served
Construction
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Education
Undergraduate:
Iowa State University
B.S., with distinction, with honors, 1984

Legal:
University of Iowa
J.D., 1987
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Admitted
Pennsylvania, 1988; District of Columbia, 1990; Iowa, 1995
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