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Commercial Litigation - Boise, Idaho
About this Practice AreaMr. Anderson’s insurance defense practice involves the representation of policyholders, insurance companies, and self-insured corporations. Mr. Anderson provides comprehensive legal services in all aspects of insurance-related litigation, arbitration, subrogation, risk management, and alternative dispute resolution. In addition, Mr. Anderson has extensive experience in providing coverage analyses and representing and advising insurance companies regarding declaratory judgment actions an...
Dean Bennett represents clients to resolve complex contract and business disputes. Dean has handled matters throughout the state of Idaho and regionally, and has tried complex cases to juries in both state and federal courts. He is also experienced in resolving matters through various forms of alternative dispute resolution, including arbitration, mediation, and informal settlement negotiations between counsel. Dean previously served as a Law Clerk Extern for the Honorable Mikel H. Williams o...
Richard Boardman, a partner in the firm's Boise office, focuses his practice on civil litigation (trial and appellate), commercial litigation, construction law and intellectual property litigation. Richard was selected as the recipient of the Perkins Coie 2010 Pro Bono Leadership Award because of his consistent leadership efforts and long history of pro bono service. During his career at Perkins, Richard has taken on pro bono cases directly as well as supervised associates on their matters. H...
Keely Duke is one of Idaho’s premier litigation and trial attorneys. For over two decades, she has dedicated her career to defending health systems, companies, employers, and individuals in complex business litigation and in medical malpractice, legal malpractice, dental malpractice, employment, skilled nursing defense, insurance bad faith, and product liability/medical device litigation. She has tried several cases to successful verdicts for her clients in both state and federal court,...
Tom's practice has allowed him to work on a wide variety of commercial and civil litigation and other matters, including collection, bankruptcy, employment, insurance defense, real estate development and leasing, personal injury, as well as securities, general business and corporate law. Tom is rated "AV" by his peers and by local judges through the Martindale Hubbell rating process. Tom is periodically asked to present on real estate related issues to interested groups such as other attorney...
Deb, a partner at Givens Pursley LLP, is a general business litigator in state and federal courts, with a particular emphasis in the areas of employment and media law. Her experience includes representation of a wide-variety of businesses and industries throughout the state of Idaho ranging from agricultural, environmental and construction interests to healthcare, manufacturing and high tech companies. Moreover, as one of the state’s premier media attorneys, Deb has represented major media an...
Nicole Hancock is the Boise Office Managing Partner and a trial attorney who handles complex business litigation matters in federal and state court. Nicole is a business-savvy trial attorney, having served as in-house counsel for a global seed company and as lead trial counsel in state and federal court matters. She is focused on her clients’ business needs and works to find solutions that meet their business goals. In addition to her litigation work, Nicole serves as outside general co...
The greater part of David's practice has been devoted to major and complex civil litigation. Building on that experience, David now offers civil mediation services. David's litigation practice has included the successful defense of claimed groundwater contamination in a case brought by the United States under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the recovery of RCRA remediation costs by the City of Boise, the successful prosecution of a claim that amendments to statewide telecommunications contracts ...
Mike Roe represents individuals and entities in a wide variety of business matters, transactions, and commercial litigation. His primary focus is in the areas of business-related litigation, entity formation, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, finance, and more recently, oil and gas matters. In addition, he represents business clients in criminal and administrative proceedings. Mr. Roe also has extensive experience with loan workouts and business restructuring. He has successfully tried a...
Newal Squyres has over 40 years of experience as a trial lawyer in commercial, employment, and tort litigation. A Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, Newal has tried to verdict complex lawsuits in such matters as insurance bad faith; product liability; breach of fiduciary duty and professional negligence; breach of contract and shareholder/LLC agreements; lender liability; wrongful death; breach of government contracts; theft of trade secrets; and wrongful termination/whistleblow...
Erik advocates on behalf of clients involved in complex litigation. Technology, manufacturing, natural resources, software, construction and real estate companies in more than 20 states have turned to Erik to achieve favorable results as lead trial counsel and appellate counsel in their cases. Erik has extensive experience litigating business, software, civil fraud, class action, product, natural resources, environmental, construction, real estate and shareholder disputes. In addition, Erik h...
Dick has a litigation practice that includes insurance coverage litigation, professional liability defense, commercial and business litigation, products liability defense and civil rights defense. He has tried lawsuits throughout Idaho, and he has handled appeals before the Idaho Supreme Court, the Idaho Court of Appeals and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Dick also has handled matters before various state agencies, including the Idaho Human Rights Commission and the Idaho State Board of ...
PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION Best Lawyers in America: Employment Law 2013 2005 Award Recipient, Idaho Business Review's "Forty Accomplished Under Forty" AREAS OF EXPERTISE EMPLOYMENT LAW: Negotiate, draft and enforce employment contracts, employee manuals, non-competition agreements, and non-disclosure agreements LITIGATION: BUSINESS, EMPLOYMENT, CONSTRUCTION AND REAL ESTATE LITIGATION Representation of businesses in contract litigation, secured transaction litigation, insurance litigation, trade...
Alex Grande assists clients with disputes involving breach of contract, equity claims, employment discrimination, and a range of business torts. As a member of Boise’s commercial litigation group, and through her experience in a broad array of disputes, Alex helps clients navigate all stages of the dispute resolution process, representing clients in both state and federal litigation as well as mediation and arbitration. Alex also represents clients in various labor and employment relate...
Chris McCurdy focuses his practice on litigation, assisting clients to find efficient, cost-effective, and practical solutions to a wide range of commercial disputes. Clients benefit from Chris’ extensive courtroom experience that includes dozens of bench trials, numerous jury trials, and multiple state court appeals he handled from briefing through oral argument. Prior to joining Holland & Hart, Chris served as deputy prosecutor at the Ada County Prosecutor’s office where he ...
Melodie focuses her practice on litigation, including commercial, employment, eminent domain, construction, real property, and procurement disputes. Experienced in all stages of litigation, Melodie handles motion drafting and hearings, depositions, discovery, mediations, trial work, and appeals. She has litigated cases throughout Idaho and has argued before the Idaho Supreme Court. Before joining Givens Pursley LLP in 2013, Melodie worked as an associate attorney at a litigation firm in Washi...
Jenny Palmer is an associate in Stoel Rives’ Litigation group who advises clients on a variety of complex business litigation matters in federal and state court. Jenny regularly represents companies in commercial contract disputes, business torts, and investigations. She also represents companies in employment matters, including those related to claims of wrongful termination, discrimination, and retaliation, both in court and before administrative agencies. Jenny has represented her cl...
Commercial Litigation Definition
Litigation increasingly occurs in various venues, from state and federal courts to private arbitrations and administrative hearings. Proceedings can involve business-to-business disputes or any number of government agencies. Understanding the motivations and outlook of each of the litigation participants is important for determining weak points to exploit and strong points that will persuade the audience in question. During the past decade, commercial litigators have seen a dramatic uptick in multidistrict and inter-disciplinary litigation, making the stakes higher, the cases more complex, the parties more numerous and the discovery more complicated and unwieldy. Firms that are able to develop and implement a creative legal approach to each individual problem, efficiently focus on the key legal and factual issues, and master and manage the various aspects of these complex matters will be the busiest in the years to come.
In the current challenging economic climate, commercial litigators are under increasing client pressure to keep costs in check, which has both sides testing the efficacy of alternative fee arrangements and the scope of reasonable discovery. Whether the “death of the billable hour” is ultimately realized, the keys to a commercial litigator’s success will continue to be strong client relationships, thought leadership, practical management skills, deep experience, and personal commitment.
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