My name is Tom Foley, and I am a trial attorney specializing in employment disputes. Dana and I first met in law school. She was dating a close friend of mine. She was the first woman I met who refused to take any excrement from me.
We have been married almost thirty years. We have three boys, Ryan 30 , Tyler 28 , and Ethan I grew up in Iowa City and received both my undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Iowa. I practiced law in Des Moines for thirty-three years, twenty-four of those with the largest law firm in the state.
I returned to Eastern Iowa in February I represented employers in employment-related matters for the first twenty-four years of my career. I enjoyed working with employers, and I forged strong relationships many of which I maintain to this day. In , I decided to try something different and started representing individuals.
I thoroughly enjoy what I do and feel privileged to represent the people I help. My clients range from highly-compensated executives to highly-educated university professors to hard-working hourly employees. What they all have in common is that they were fired or otherwise mistreated at the workplace and are searching for fairness.
I fight to obtain fairness for them. In the movie Philadelphia, the character Tom Hanks played said that one of the coolest things about being a lawyer is that sometimes you get to play a part in justice being done. In my practice, that means negotiating a fair and reasonable settlement, convincing an employer to reinstate a wrongfully discharged employee, persuading a jury to return a verdict that fairly compensates my client, or honestly telling a client that she does not have a claim.
