Southwest Iowa Law Office

Tricia & Emily are truly the best in the business when it comes to criminal defense law. This office took over my case from a previous attorney who mishandled, and underrepresented my matters for an extended and incomprehensible period of time. As soon as Tricia filed her appearance for my case, it instantly changed the prognosis of a best possible outcome from ‘negligible’, to ‘probable’. They were immediate to listen to my side, relate to my position and expressing intent of willingness to represent my case, as well as extremely affordable, and flexible cost-wise for the magnitude of the case, while still providing beyond exceptional service and results.
I truly believe that Tricia’s prior experience as a county attorney, and other areas of law is absolutely crucial, and beneficial to her clients and the success of their case.
While even if a ‘complete dismissal’ is not always possible, she will strive to achieve the very best possible outcome in the interest of her clients, while still maintaining that respect for the rule of law itself, and due regard for society as a whole when it comes to pleas and sentencing.
It is clear that through her work, she has undoubtedly built and maintained great working business relationships and connections with experts in the fields related to evaluation, and risk-assessment/sentencing recommendation— as well as the county attorneys office itself. She will handle your case in the most timely manner possible depending on individual circumstance, and is extremely respectful, informative and responsive to communication. In my experience, once Tricia took over my case I did not need to appear in court again for the duration of her representation, which greatly benefited my personal and work schedule. She highly values client future goals, rights, and freedom as well as the impact on such while representing her clients during criminal proceedings.
Tricia is client cost focused, and does not overly communicate any more than required to prevent undue fees and cost to the client, while still working tirelessly behind the scenes.
Emily is also outstanding, as I was notified via email and/or phone within the DAY of any court proceedings, of future court proceedings and the testimony, as well as any updates on my case. Emily was prompt, respectful, forthcoming and compassionate. Both Tricia & Emily are extremely compassionate, educated, and experienced individuals in the field of criminal law, and truly value their clients best interest and future.
I would not have gotten the incredibly successful legal outcome I have received, had it not been for SW Iowa Law Office.
I would absolutely recommend retaining SW Iowa Law to anyone within the area, and jurisdiction of Tricia’s scope of practice, for any criminal defense case— big, or small.
I cannot thank you enough Tricia, and Emily!!!

I am awestruck. After a rigorous search for an attorney in my case, I struck gold with Emily and Tricia. Emily heard me out; she actually listened to me, I didn't feel judged after telling her the situation. Emily was insightful, warm, encouraging, and left me impressed. I hired her services and the result speaks for itself. The resulting case was dismissed. 6 out of 5 stars, would HIGHLY recommend.

In late January of 2024, I retained Tricia as my attorney to represent me in multifaceted case after having lost confidence in my previous attorney. Tricia and Emily immediately got to work on my case and from there my situation begin improving bit by bit in a consistent manner. I was treated with compassion, understanding, and at times patience, while simultaneously being represented in an ethical, honest, and when needed, aggressive manner throughout my case. Tricia responds to communication in a timely and concise manner, and does not leave you feeling out in the cold during your time(s) of need. Tricia will also actively work for you in a manner that is meant to save on billable hours. She did not operate in a way that would encourage behavior or unnecessary communication that would cost, me the client, more money than I had to spend to navigate the complexities of the legal system. You can feel confident that you are in good hands at Southwest Iowa Law Office.

Called to just get pointed in the right direction and her receptionist was rude and disrespectful I just hung up. Like really so now ik your reviews was staged.

My experience from the beginning to the end was beyond positive. The secretary that took my phone call was incredibly helpful and empathetic to my situation. My attorney, McKenzie was diligent about responding to me within a timely fashion along with my concerns while listening to my questions and answering them. She put forth 150% effort to represent myself against Mills County School District. I truly believe that she is one of the attorneys that fights for the greater good of humans. Not only for their civil/human rights as well as taking into account what I was up against personally with a child that has disabilities. She does truly care about seeing Justice in a system that is broken. After the sentencing of my guilty vetdict she spoke with me for quite some time. I believe in my heart that she proved the school district to lack accountability and resources for parents of children with disabilities. I left today knowing that this town is not able to own their lack of responsibility on their end even moreso than I had already been aware of throughout our time fighting to get help from a District that cares more about monetary value than they do a child's well being and education. I would refer McKenzie and trust her with another case if I ever had to be represented again. It is not just a job for her but a passion that radiates from her soul. I wish everyone at this office the best and would like to say that in my eyes we had a win today. We did prove beyond a reasonable doubt of all the efforts that have been used by this single mom/dad. Unfortunately, Mills county is more about money than they are helping families that do not meet their socio economic expectations.