About Ms. Nina M
Ms. Nina M Forcier constructed a continuous legal path after a couple of Midwestern educations. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from the University of Northern Iowa in 1999 and finished her Juris Doctor at Drake University Law School in 2007. Those years formed a pragmatic strategy to client work and court process.
Admitted to practice in Iowa in 2007, Forcier additionally holds admission within the Sac and Fox Tribe within the Mississippi in Iowa. She started her professional legal career the year she earned her J.D., becoming a member of the Iowa State Bar Association and starting to take on cases throughout the state. Over time she developed a practice that combines courtroom work and negotiated resolutions.
Criminal defense figures prominently in her professional lifestyles. She is a member of Black Hawk County Criminal Defense and of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, organizations she joined in 2015 and 2014, respectively. Those memberships reflect sustained involvement in defense practice and an emphasis on trial preparedness and client advocacy. At the identical time, her affiliation with the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals shows experience with opportunity dispute processes that keep events out of courtroom when suitable.
Her professional community extends through numerous national and state groups. She joined the American Bar Association in 2012 and the Iowa Association for Justice in 2011. Her non-stop club in the Iowa State Bar Association dates again to 2007. These institutions offer ongoing legal training, peer contact, and forums for staying current on evolving rules and procedures.
Forcier keeps an office at 405 Jefferson Street. From that base she accepts things in state judiciary and in the tribal jurisdiction the place she is licensed. Her work blends direct representation in contested matters with efforts to get to the bottom of disputes through collaborative techniques when those alternatives go well with the client and the case.
Colleagues describe her as continuous and pragmatic; clients notice thorough preparation. She balances trial work towards negotiated solutions and chooses the path that most intently aligns with a client’s dreams and the realities of each case. Her current practice makes a speciality of criminal protection and collaborative legal matters in Iowa and before the Sac and Fox Tribe within the Mississippi in Iowa.
