Mireya Barreto
Partner, Sioux City
Mireya runs the Sioux City office and the firm's Iowa and Nebraska cases.
Mireya was raised in Sioux City and came home after law school to work for a legal aid office, where she learned how much a missed deadline can cost a family.
She joined the firm to open its Sioux City office, and now leads its nursing home cases. She meets clients in English or Spanish.
Mireya's admissions and schooling
Bar admissions
Iowa
2006
Nebraska
2007
South Dakota
2012
Courts
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Iowa
U.S. District Court, District of Nebraska
Education
J.D., Creighton University School of Law
B.A., University of Iowa
Languages
English
Spanish
Memberships
Iowa State Bar Association
Woodbury County Bar Association
How Mireya reads a care home's chart
Mireya lays the nursing notes beside the staffing schedule, night by night. The gaps usually line up.
She reads Spanish-language family notes and texts the same way, so nothing a family wrote down gets lost in translation.
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