Dickinson business and banking law attorney Marc Ward was re-elected for a third term as president of the Taxpayers Association of Central Iowa at the group’s annual meeting on February 8.

U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers® have released the 2011-2012 “Best Law Firms” rankings, and once again Dickinson, Mackaman, Tyler & Hagen, P.C. is well represented in the rankings for the Des Moines metropolitan area, having received Tier 1 rankings in 19 areas of law.

Twelve attorneys from Dickinson, Mackaman, Tyler & Hagen, P.C. were selected by their legal industry peers for inclusion in 15 areas of law in the recently-released 2012 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® (Copyright 2011 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.).

Dickinson, Mackaman, Tyler & Hagen, P.C. is pleased to announce that attorney Sara R. Laughlin has joined the firm’s Des Moines office. Sara comes to Dickinson from another Des Moines law firm, where her practice included employment law and civil rights.

Dickinson, Mackaman, Tyler & Hagen, P.C. received a Patriotic Employer Award from Iowa Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve on September 1, 2011. The firm was nominated for the award by Janet E. Phipps Burkhead, an attorney at the firm and a Brigadier General in the Iowa Army National Guard.