
W. Grant Stoddard Attorney
Contact Information
Practice Area
- Business Transactions and Counseling
- Wills, Trusts, Estate Planning and Probate Law
- Probate, Estate and Trust Litigation
- Banking and Finance
- Banking Litigation
- Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights
- Municipal Law
- Labor and Employment
- Immigration Law
Bar Admissions
- State of Iowa, 2018
Court Admissions
- US District Courts
- Northern & Southern Districts of Iowa, 2020
Education
- University of Iowa College of Law, JD with distinction, 2018
- Iowa Law Review, student writer
- Boyd Service Award recipient
- Jurisprudence Award for Academic Excellence recipient
- Brigham Young University, BA, cum laude, 2011
- History Teaching
- Utah State University, AS, 2006
- General Studies
Clerkship
- Law Clerk to Judge Michael J. Melloy, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 2018-2019
Grant Stoddard is an attorney with a general practice encompassing both business and transactional law and litigation matters. He has experience in banking and finance and creditor rights in bankruptcy matters as well as estate planning, trust and estate litigation and immigration law. Mr. Stoddard also handles employment issues and municipal law matters.
Mr. Stoddard earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Iowa College of Law. He then served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Michael J. Melloy of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Prior to attending law school, Mr. Stoddard attended Brigham Young University where he earned a BA in History Teaching. Mr. Stoddard spent the next four years teaching history and government classes at American Preparatory Academy, a public charter school, in West Valley City, Utah.
Before seeking his formal education, Mr. Stoddard served a two-year proselytizing and service mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ukraine where he became fluent in reading, writing, and speaking Russian and Ukrainian.
Professional & Community Affiliations
Professional Memberships
- Iowa State Bar Association
- Linn County Bar Association
- American Immigration Lawyers Association
- J. Reuben Clark Law Society, Member
- Cedar Rapids Area Estate Planning Council
- Board of Directors
Community Involvement
- Feed Iowa First, Board of Directors
Publication
2020 Publication
- COVID-19 and Its Impact on Debt Collection in Iowa, May 5, 2020 (Link)
News & Events
2020
- Grant Stoddard Joins Feed Iowa First Board, 09/16/2020