Attorney
West Des Moines, Iowa, 50266
West Des Moines personal injury lawyer, Stephen D. Lombardi has practiced civil trial litigation (personal injury lawyer-litigator, accidents, construction site injuries including death and workers’ compensation cases) for over 35 years. He holds a law license in Iowa and Florida. Mr. Lombardi is dedicated to educating you, his client, about personal injury law in Iowa and how you can best protect your right to receive compensation.
From the first conversation you have with him, he’s assessing your ability to effectively tell your story; the facts that form the basis for recovery. He believes that if you take the guess work out of “what’s going to happen in a lawsuit”, and then the risk of loss is lessened. So what will he do for you and your personal injury case? He’ll prepare your case and you.
Lombardi Law Firm does not take every case. The firm chooses to limit it’s commitment to a few clients. Most of our clients have significant injuries or rights violations. We get many requests for legal help but with the legal climate being what it is we realize limiting the number of clients to just a few allows us to practice in the way that best suits you and us. Your right to receive fair compensation after being injured is the corner stone of this law practice. We are not shy and believe that no case or set of facts are too odd for consideration.
He was born and raised in New England and in 1975 moved to the Midwest to obtain his undergraduate degree from the University of Iowa. In 1981 he graduated from Drake University Law School. During law school, he worked as a private investigator in a five state region of the Midwest and has testified in court. Working his way through law school as a PI taught essential skills for gathering and preserving evidence. After law school, Mr. Lombardi chose to make Iowa his home. A choice he continues to make. Mr. Lombardi is a person driven to complete what he starts. He prides himself on telling his clients what they need to hear not what they want to hear.
He doesn't believe in awards, he believes in achievement. He doesn't concern himself with recognition of his accomplishments but focuses on winning the task at hand. He is a lawyer that hates to lose. His style is to begin to size up and prepare his clients from the first conversation through the trial.
All people that become his clients are important to him. After over 35 years of practicing personal injury law many former clients and attorneys from rural Iowa refer family members, friends and personal injury clients to his office for consideration and representation.
So who is he? I grew up in Bristol, Rhode Island mostly, and then moved to Iowa to finish undergraduate work at the University of Iowa, as a psychology department major. From there I attended Drake University Law School and then headed north to Waterloo where for five years I learned how to practice law. Law school teaches you how to think like a lawyer but how to practice takes good mentoring.
Thanks to Jim and Tom I did receive good mentoring. After five years it was on to central Iowa, West Des Moines, where I set up a practice focusing solely on the injured clients and their unique problems. If it’s taught me anything it is that all my clients are special people, unique in their lives and in their personal injury situations. No two client cases are alike. You are all different and each requires special attention.
