Boise County Lawyers

Initium provides experienced corporate legal services for your small business, start-up, or nonprofit. Essentially, we offer your organization a “Virtual General Counsel”. Initium uses an innovative approach that disrupts the status quo through a nonprofit law firm model aimed to make business law services attainable to small businesses, startups, and nonprofits. Initium employs alternative fee structures, including a pay it forward approach where technology companies can pay it forward to off-set legal costs to startups. We think this promotes growth and innovation in the Boise community.

Ms. Maxwell has spent her legal career as in-house counsel primarily focused on...

Cheryl Allaire has more than 20 years of experience providing legal and strategic counsel to businesses ranging in size from small start-ups to established publicly held corporations. Her practice focuses on a wide variety of corporate and business matters including entity selection and formation, corporate governance, equity and debt financings, SEC securities compliance and public company reporting requirements, venture capital and private equity, mergers and acquisitions, partnerships and joint ventures, commercial transactions, contract negotiations, employment and consulting agreements and equity compensation plans. She assists businesses throughout their entire life cycle, from startup to exit, and in many different industries including...

Glenn Godfrey is the founder and primary attorney at Idaho Bankruptcy Center, PLLC. He prides himself on offering free initial consultations to all with no high pressure sales or time limits. When you call the office, you will speak directly to an attorney, not a paralegal. His flexible payment plans make his services available to anyone.

Glenn received a Bachelors of Science from Brigham Young University in 1997 and graduated from the University of Idaho College of Law in 2001. Upon graduating, Glenn and his family moved to Utah where he started a small, solo-law practice representing numerous clients in bankruptcy...

J.J. Despain is a managing attorney in Boise for W&O’. He is admitted to the Colorado State Bar and practices mostly family-based and employment-based immigration law. J.J. has represented clients in over 100 interviews with USCIS. He has participated in events at community centers in both Utah and Idaho to present issues in immigration law and speak about the many possibilities available to potential clients. J.J. graduated from Brigham Young University, where he earned a bachelor of arts in communications with an emphasis in print journalism. He spent two years as an opinions editor, sports editor, and web editor for...

Rick focuses his practice on representing businesses in transactional and litigation matters, as well as individuals in estate planning, real estate, family law and litigation. He brings a passion for developing and implementing sophisticated, creative and effective solutions to help clients overcome challenging problems in a cost-effective manner. Rick is also a seasoned litigator, who regularly appears in state and federal courts on behalf of his clients.

Prior to moving to Idaho with his family and forming Roberts Law, Rick practiced complex commercial law and litigation in the Washington D.C. area for Reed Smith LLP, Gilbert Heintz & Randolph LLP, and...

Jordan Moody is the managing attorney at the firm's Boise, Idaho office. He specializes in immigration law, and is particularly involved in representing clients in family-based, transactional, asylum, U-visa, and removal defense cases. One of Wilner & O’Reilly’s many bilingual attorneys, Jordan is also fluent in the Spanish language. Jordan did his undergraduate studies at Brigham Young University. He attended law school at the University of Iowa College of Law. While there, Jordan served as president of the Iowa Student Bar Association, the law school's student government. Before joining the team at Wilner & O’Reilly, he worked at...

Brian has been a practicing attorney since 2006. In 2011, he gained national recognition for his knowledge of short sales and foreclosures during a National Public Radio report. He is a contributor to the Idaho Business Review and contact for the Idaho Statesman and 580 KIDO.

In addition to his law practice, Brian often participates as an instructor in seminars for attorneys and workshops for real-estate professionals. Prior to earning his law degree, he worked for six years in IT as a Sr. Developer and Programmer for Nationwide Financial, a publicly traded company and affiliate of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company.

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My practice emphasizes general civil litigation, debtor and creditor relations, real estate, trucking and transportation law, and business law.

Meridian and Boise, Idaho personal injury attorney. I started my own practice right out of law school in 2003 and have been successfully representing individuals and families injured in car, trucking and motorcycle accidents. I answer my own phone, each and every time you call in (assuming I am not in court or with another client).

Attorney Yvonne Franco Perez earned her Juris Doctorate from the University of Idaho College of Law with an emphasis in enterprise organization. She holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Political Science, with a minor in Spanish and a Masters of Public Administration from Idaho State University. Attorney Franco is passionate about serving the community. Prior to law school, she served with AmeriCorps VISTA, a national service program designed specifically to fight poverty and help those in disadvantaged circumstances. There she dedicated her time to creating a sustainable KinCare Program for relatives raising relative children. Prior to AmeriCorps...

Michael earned his Juris Doctor from Washburn University Law School in 2010 with a Certificate in Business and Transactional Law with Distinction.

In law school, Michael frequented the Dean’s List and graduated in the top 10% of his class. He was a legal intern with Washburn’s Law Clinic in both Civil Litigation and Small Business and Transactional Law.

Michael received his Master of Laws at the University of Georgia School of Law.

Michael obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice from Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah. While attending school, he interned with SUU’s Public Safety Office. He earned his Master’s...

I was born in Southern California but moved to Arkansas as a youth. I was the first in my family to attend college and graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2002 with a Bachelors in Sociology and Psychology. After college, I spent seven years as a parole/probation agent. Through this experience, I saw the need for quality legal representation for immigrants. In 2013, I moved to Idaho with her husband and five children. After this move, I enrolled at Concordia University School of Law, graduating with a Juris Doctor in 2018. While in law school, I knew she...

John Barrera is an immigration attorney and criminal defense attorney with over twenty years of experience who is fluent in Spanish. John Barrera has successfully represented clients in complex removal defense proceedings in immigration courts around the United States as well as successfully representing clients in employment based immigration matters, Green Card, asylum applications and U-visa applications. John has represented and obtained not guilty verdicts and dismissal in numerous complex criminal cases involving Drug Trafficking, Homicide, Theft Offenses and cases involving Traffic Offenses including Driving Under the Influence charges. John Barrera is admitted to practice in the States of New...

I am a registered Patent Attorney with a degree in chemical engineering and industry experience in food processing and electrical engineering. I represent innovative entities seeking to protect intellectual property rights. I work with inventions in a breadth of industries including the chemical, material science, electrical, medical, nanotechnology, gaming, and consumer products industries. In addition to patent work, my practice includes trademark, copyright, licensing, and general IP counseling.

Kelby Monks began his successful legal career shortly after earning his juris doctorate. Just before he joined the team of personal injury attorneys at The Idaho Advocates, he proudly finished his degree at the University of Idaho College of Law.

Prior to graduation, Kelby worked as an intern for the Idaho Supreme Court. The internship allowed him to work directly with the Honorable Justice Robin Brody, where he explored the ins and outs of the state’s supreme court. He practiced scripting bench memorandums and drafted original copies of opinion statements. Kelby also spent time in law school working as a law...

I am an associate attorney at Wilner & O’Reilly, APLC. My practice is focused on removal defense. I am admitted to the State Bar of Washington, but I can practice immigration throughout the country. I am fluent in Spanish. For my undergraduate studies, I focused my coursework in Spanish, English, and pre-law. I was actively involved in leadership in the Latino Student Association, the Spanish Honors Society, and Pre-Law Society. After graduating from my undergraduate studies, I worked for the Washington State House of Representatives as a Legislative Assistant. I worked closely with many state and local government leaders, including...

Elizabeth L. Mathieu is a co-founding member and a managing partner of the firm. She has been providing Federal tax, fiduciary and planning guidance to individuals and tax-exempt organizations since 1991 in the Chase Manhattan Private Bank, Neuberger Berman Trust Companies, AMA-Eagle, a multi-family office, and in her own law firm in New York. She recently moved to Idaho and joined the Idaho Bar to practice law focusing on trust, estate, and charitable planning, and tax-exempt organization law. Elizabeth speaks and publishes on a broad range of topics including tax, charitable, and estate planning, non-profit and for-profit corporate governance, and...

Ron was born in Garden Valley, Idaho and has lived in Idaho for all but three years of his junior high school days. Ron graduated from Boise State University in 1999 and attended law school at the University of Idaho College of Law where he earned a juris doctorate degree in 2002. Ron immediately joined the outstanding Nampa law firm of Hamilton, Michaelson and Hilty, LLP (“HMH”). Ron worked as the Caldwell City Prosecuting Attorney during his first two years with HMH during which time Ron gained valuable trial experience and developed rapport and trust with the judges, many of...

I am the owner of Meridian law firm specializing in business matters including litigation, business formation, employment law, administrative law, and other matters related to small and medium sized businesses. I have had a variety of experience in litigation, property disputes and have successfully resolved multiple matters through alternative dispute resolution. I am active in the community and an active and involved father.

We only handle personal injury and accident cases at Johnson and Lundgreen, PC. By focusing only on those types of cases, we can offer a greater level of service. We have a dedicated staff that will always be available to help you with this tough time in your life, and help to remove the stress of dealing with your case. We can't take the pain of an accident away, but we can relieve your pressures and guide you through the process. We have attorneys licensed in both Oregon and Utah, as well as our primary focus on Idaho...