This "best of" blog comes from June of 2011. Enjoy! If you are a Baby Boomer nearing retirement, you probably have a different concept of retirement than your parents. Retirement for you may not mean an extended vacation on some…

In terms of new formations, the Limited Liability Company (“LLC”) is the new King. The former King, the corporation, has been deposed, and relatively few corporations are now being formed other than for companies that have a future hope…

If a conflict of interest arises in fact between the spouses, their estate planning attorney should withdraw and advise the spouses to retain separate counsel. Having represented both of the spouses, the attorney may not thereafter represent…

By Alyssa Yatsko Under a new bill recently signed into law by Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, employers are prohibited from requiring access to an applicant’s or employee’s personal social media account. Violations could result in…

By Brad Williams The writing’s still not on the wall. On May 7, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) controversial poster rule requiring 6 million…

By Mark Wiletsky and Steve Gutierrez Small businesses beware: your employees now have more incentive to sue you. As of January 1, 2015, employees can recover compensatory and punitive damages for employment discrimination claims against…

One of the most immediate impacts on your life when you are charged with a DUI is the license suspension.  Not being able to drive, especially in Idaho, would be crippling to anyone’s life.  You cannot get to work, you cannot…

The State has two ways of proving a DUI charge.  The first and most common way is to prove that a defendant was driving a vehicle while his blood, breath or urine contained .08 alcohol or higher.  The reason this is the most common…

The two sweetest words that anyone charged with any criminal charge will ever hear from a prosecuting attorney are “Case Dismissed!”  But what happens after the charges have been dismissed?  Is it possible for the State…

Holidays and special occasions can be emotionally draining when you are sharing custody of your children.

Since each judge (and every case) is different and brings with him or her a different perspective and life experience, and the judge often has to apply competing principles of law to the complicated lives of diverse individuals, family law is…

So a little while back you decided to start a company. You were excited and ready to take on the world. In these formative moments everyone told you, “You need to incorporate to make sure blood sucking plaintiff’s lawyers can’t get your…

Credit card companies are increasingly doing something they have historically refused to do -  cutting deals on delinquent accounts for substantially less than the amount owed, according to a recent article in the New York Times. …

According to a recent study by Harvard Medical School, 62% of all personal bankruptcies filed in 2007 were related to a significant extent to medical bills.  Further, the really shocking statistic is that of those bankruptcies where medical…

A court in South California has issued an order halting certain home foreclosure sales.  The injunction – which I believe to be the first of its kind for a broad class of borrowers — prevents stops foreclosure sales on properties…