Letter to the DM Register:　
The Register’s September 11, 2011 review of outside attorneys fees provided an excellent overview of the cost of legal services. It reveals an hourly rate spectrum from $70 to $375. The public has a right to be concerned about how their money is spent. Likewise, the government has a duty to [...]

Tre Critelli was recently elected president of the Des Moines Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Tre will serve a 2 year term as President. More information about the Chapter and its events can be found at their website, www.fraudiowa.org.

Tre Critelli will be joining Legal Assistance Coordinator Patricia Hoff, U.S. Department of State/U.S. Central Authority for the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction and immigration attorney Kathryn Salazar in a state-wide panel presentation on Human Trafficking and Int’l Child Abduction over the ICN. Click on the header for more info.

Tre Critelli will be joining speakers from the Electronic Crime Institute, National White Collar Crime Center, Iowa Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce and the Department of Criminal Investigation of the Iowa Attorney General’s Office in this years Cyber Crime Awareness Conference held on March 27, 2010. Click on the header for more information.

Tre Critelli and Bryan Burkhardt, Director of the Electronic Crime Institute, were interviewed on IPR’s “The Exchange” on identity theft and fraud prior to the Fraud & Theft Conference. If you missed the show, we’ve got the links.

Tre Critelli, the Iowa Attorney General’s Office and Lifelock will be presenting at the Electronic Crime Institute and the Des Moines Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners’ half-day seminar on fraud, phishing and identity theft. It’s free and open to the public. Click on the header for more info.

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to practice law in a Barrister’s Chambers, our former pupil can tell you all about it….

There will be two launches of our former Anglo-American Scholar Tim Kevan’s forthcoming book BabyBarista and the Art of War (Bloomsbury Publishing) which is based on the blog he writes for The Times newspaper and which was described by broadcaster Jeremy Vine as “well-drawn, smartly plotted and laugh out loud”.
Both events are open house, feature [...]

We at CritelliLaw are proud to announce that one of our past Middle Temple Anglo-American Scholars, Mr Richard Hermer QC has recently obtained the highest designation an advocate can achieve: Queen’s Counsel.

As many of you know, Nick has been deployed to assist in the running of the emergency operations center in Minnesota. He and two other members of the Des Moines’ U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 4 have been called upon due to their experience with massive flooding such as that experienced here in Iowa last  [...]