Valliere, John Charles

Richard K. Updegraff is a member of BrownWinick and has served as one of the members of the Management Committee for a period of six years.

Rich has practiced law primarily in the area of civil trial and has argued numerous cases before juries in the Iowa District Court and United States District Court, as well as appeals before the Iowa Supreme Court and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Rich has represented banking and business clients in the areas of commercial transactions, foreclosures and grain origination and contracting litigation, as well as general business litigation concerning employment contracts, buy-sell agreements, commodities and other areas unique to the clients of the firm.

Rich has been an active member of government in Iowa, having three times been elected to county office in Warren County, Iowa, and served as a member of the Warren County Compensation Commission from its origination in 1987 until 1999. Rich has represented clients before numerous county and city boards and government entities in the areas of taxation, business development, zoning and land use issues. Rich has also represented clients before County Boards of Supervisors and City Councils concerning municipal finance, tax increment financing and bonding, both revenue bonds and other tax free bonds in Iowa and other States.

Rich has presented papers and lectured numerous business groups on the subject of insurance coverages, in particular directors and officers coverage, and other aspects of insurance law.

Rich received both his B.A. in 1973 and J.D., with high distinction, in 1976 from the University of Iowa. Rich is a member of the Polk County, Iowa State and American Bar Associations and the State Bar of Arizona. He was admitted to the Iowa bar and Arizona bar in 1976.