About Tim
Tim Bottaro educated first as a liberal arts scholar and then as an attorney. He earned a B.A. from Creighton University in 1981 and took his law degree from the University of South Dakota School of Law, receiving a J.D. in 1983. Those credentials set the trail for an extended legal career in Iowa.
He joined the Iowa bar in 1983 and spent years constructing a practice rooted in trial work. In 1995 he became a companion at Vriezelaar, Tigges, Edgington, Bottaro, Boden & Lessmann Law Office. That partnership lasted through decades of legal proceedings and client work. In 2023 he took on a companion role at Tigges, Bottaro, & Lessmann, LLP, persevering with to practice from the same area and expert network.
Bottaro’s credentials include mediation education geared toward personal damage things. He completed mediator training thru Iowa Mediation Services and a Creighton University CLE program. The mediator certification complements his trial experience and offers him any other tool when instances go toward resolution instead of trial.
His professional life has covered continuous involvement in state and local bar institutions. He has been a member of the Iowa State Bar since 1983 and joined the Iowa Association for Justice in 2002. He served as president of the Iowa Association for Justice from 2017 to 2018. He has additionally been lively in the Iowa American Board of Trial Advocates, serving as its president starting in 2021. Locally, he is a member of the Woodbury County Bar Association.
Bottaro participates in judicial-advisory work as nicely. He holds club at the highest court Advisory Committee on Iowa Rules of Civil Procedure and at the Iowa highest court Advisory Committee concerning sure Civil Justice Task Force suggestions. Those roles have put him in conversations approximately procedural rules and civil practice reforms at the state level.
Colleagues describe him as a lawyer who balances trial experience and opportunity dispute decision abilities. He has practiced in Iowa for many years and continues to manage litigation, mediations, and related court preparation. His recent practice is primarily based at Tigges, Bottaro & Lessmann, LLP, the place he makes a speciality of civil litigation, including private damage matters.
