Respect Renters’ Rights

3/7/18 Update: HB 656 will not be heard this year as the House leadership is trying to wrap up the session! There’s a bill in the Idaho Legislature that, put simply, is full of bad ideas. Among the issues we have with House Bill No. 656 are: It allows landlords...

Lawyers Love Conflict?

Lawyers love conflict. At least they would appear to, given their choice of career. For trial lawyers in particular, conflict is the name of the game. We have an adversarial judicial process and your job as a trial lawyer is to go to battle on behalf of one of the...

Handling Traffic Stops

We previously discussed what to do during an arrest. During that discussion, we only talked about how to handle police interactions when you are on foot. But modern Americans encounter the police in other scenarios. One of the most common is the dreaded traffic stop....