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Admitted: 1982, Iowa; U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa; U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; U.S. Court of Federal Claims; U.S. Tax Court

Law School: Drake University, J.D., 1981

College: University of Iowa, B.A., 1979

Birth Date and Place: Des Moines, Iowa, August 23, 1956

Practice Areas: Personal Injury; Insurance; Trial Practice; Products Liability, Qui Tam Claims, False Claims Act Violatons

Additional Information: See: United States of America v. WDC Acquisitions LLC d/b/a Wellman Dynamics; John Doe v. Gregory Scott Stephen and Barnstormers Basketball, Inc., d/b/a Barnstormers Basketball of Iowa

Polk County (Chair, Continuing Legal Education Committee, 1995—; Board of Directors, 2000-2001; Treasurer, 2001-2003; President-Elect, 2004), Iowa State (Member, Federal Practice Committee, 1988-1998; Litigation Resources, 1997-1998; Iowa Civil Jury Instruction Committee, 1997— Editor, Federal Practice Manual, 1994), Federal and American (Member, Litigation Section) Bar Associations; American Judicature Society; Iowa Trial Lawyers Association; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Million Dollar Advocates Forum.

Law Clerk to Hon. J.L. Larson, Justice, Supreme Court of Iowa, 1983-1987. Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Iowa, 1983-1987. Member, Merit Selection Panel, U.S. Magistrate Judge, Southern District of Iowa, 1994-1995. Fellow, Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers; American Board of Trial Advocates; Senior Counsel, American College of Barristers. (Board Certified Civil Trial Advocacy Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy)

Guy R. Cook is a Des Moines, Iowa, native. He has been practicing law more than 25 years. He is a board certified trial lawyer by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Guy has served as counsel in more than 1000 litigated matters and has tried more than 200 jury trials. He is one of only 20 Iowa attorneys to be inducted into the Million Dollar Advocates Forum for verdicts and settlements in excess of one million dollars. Guy is recognized in both The Best Lawyers in America publication and the list of Iowa Super Lawyers.

Guy has extensive and wide-ranging courtroom experience. He has successfully defended major business litigation, obtained million dollar jury verdicts, and successfully defended significant federal criminal cases. He has tried complex civil and criminal cases throughout the state of Iowa, including wrongful death, serious personal injury, products liability, securities fraud, medical malpractice, semi truck collisions, insurance fraud, sexual assault, false arrest and breach of contract claims.

Guy is a graduate of the University of Iowa and Drake University Law School. He worked his way through school as a union ironworker, campus security officer, and law library assistant. While in school Guy was vice president of the Liberal Arts Student Association, resident advisor for Acacia fraternity, and worked as a legislative intern in the Iowa General Assembly. During law school he was a staff writer and researcher for the Drake Law School Legal Research Service and a prosecutor intern in the Polk County Attorney's Office.

Upon graduation from Law School, Guy served as a judicial law clerk for Justice J.L. Larson of the Iowa Supreme Court, assisting Justice Larson in researching and drafting legal opinions of the Iowa Supreme Court.

In 1983, Guy was appointed Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa. As a federal prosecutor, Guy tried a wide range of criminal cases, including embezzlement, bank robbery, tax fraud, murder for hire, obstruction of justice, narcotic offenses, bank fraud, and kidnapping. Among the cases he prosecuted were the largest insurance fraud in Iowa history, the then largest drug case in Iowa history, and the largest tax evasion case in Iowa history. Guy received written commendations from FBI Directors William Webster and William Sessions. He has also received commendations for his trial work in major criminal cases by the District Director of the IRS and the Resident Agent of the U.S. Secret Service.

In 1987, Guy joined Grefe & Sidney, P.L.C. as a trial attorney. He is a senior partner practicing exclusively in the field of litigation. Guy's extensive courtroom work has taken him to courts across the state of Iowa. He has also appeared in federal courts in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Missouri and Illinois. He has been involved in nearly all types of litigation.

In addition to his work as a trial lawyer, Guy is past president of the Polk County Bar Association, the largest metropolitan bar in the state of Iowa representing more than one-fourth of all the lawyers in the state. Guy presently serves as a Board of Governor of the Iowa State Bar Association.

Guy was elected to serve as commissioner on the Iowa State Judicial Nominating Commission. He has also served as an appointed member of the Merit Selection Panel for selection of U.S. Magistrate Judges for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. Guy was appointed by the Chief Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court to serve as a member of the Iowa Supreme Court Grievance Commission.

Guy is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and has served as membership director for the Iowa chapter. Guy is also a fellow of the Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers, an invitation only organization, limited to the top 250 trial attorneys in the State of Iowa. He has also been inducted into the Society of Outstanding Lawyers of America and is a certified member of the American College of Master Advocates and Barristers, an invitation only group requiring more than 75 jury trials. He has also been recognized repeatedly as a "leading individual" in litigation in Iowa by Chambers and Partners, a world wide legal publication. Guy has been a guest speaker and lecturer on a number of litigation topics throughout Iowa.

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