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Michael D. Ensley

Michael D. Ensley

Mike Ensley, after graduation from the University of Iowa Law School,  started his career as a trial attorney in Iowa practicing with Hanson, Bjork & Russell in 1998.    Mike immediately began litigating a variety of cases both in the trial and appellate court level.  During the past 10 years his practice areas have included insurance defense, products liability, personal injury, medical malpractice, property matters – including tax sale certificates and deeds, and family law. Among his cases as a personal injury attorney in Des Moines, Mike successfully litigated Parish v. ICON, 719 N.W.2d 540 (Iowa 2006), which affirmed a summary judgment ruling making new law applying the Restatement (Third) of Torts, Products Liability.  Mike has also been a speaker at the Iowa State Bar Association’s Family Law Seminar and was a co-author of “Dealing with the Mentally Incapacitated Client:  Ethical Issues Facing the Attorney” published in Family Law Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Summer 1999). He is a Certified Family Law Mediator.

Born:

  • Jefferson City, Missouri, December 16, 1972

 

Education:

  • Iowa State University (B.S. 1995)
  • University of Iowa (J.D. 1998)

Admissions:

  • Iowa Bar (1998)
  • U.S. District Court (Northern/Southern Districts of Iowa)

Professional Associations and Memberships:

  • Polk County Bar Association
  • Iowa State Bar Association
  • Iowa Defense Counsel 
  • Polk County Volunteer Lawyers Project, Volunteer
  • Certified Family Law Mediator

 

Publications:
Co-Author: M. Ensley and D. Bray, “Dealing with the Mentally Incapacitated Client:  Ethical Issues Facing the Attorney,” 33 Family Law Quarterly 329 (1999)

Practice Areas: 
General Practice, including but not limited to:


  • Appellate Practice
  • Employment Law
  • Family Law
  • Insurance
  • Litigation
  • Personal Injury
  • Trial Law