Category: Digital Advocate

By Fonda L. Jovick Dear Law Foundation Members and Friends, Thank you for being part of our important work. We appreciate your ongoing commitment to the work of the Idaho […]

By Mary V. York In my last Commissioner’s Column,[i] I wrote of the 2022 legislation that sought to change the process for filling judicial vacancies and selecting members of the […]

By Teresa A. Baker The 2023 Idaho State Bar Annual Meeting was held in Boise at Jack’s Urban Meeting Place (“JUMP”) from July 19th through the 21st. The meeting kicked […]

By James R. Cefalo In recent years, there have been numerous news articles about the causes and impacts of declining water levels in the Great Salt Lake.  Idahoans may feel […]

By Norman M. Semanko The Clean Water Act (“the Act”) has become fertile ground for extensive litigation in the federal courts. And no issue has been more prominent than the […]

By Meghan M. Carter No doubt many of you have seen these or similar headlines this spring: “Possible Water Curtailments Even in a Good Year”[i] and “New Idaho Department of […]

By Lacy Rammell-O’Brien Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus is attributed with the expression, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s […]

By Jennifer M. Schindele The Idaho Volunteer Lawyers Program (“IVLP”) is a program of the Idaho Law Foundation, a nonprofit organization with a mission to increase access to legal services […]

By Gary L. Cooper At the conclusion of the 2023 Idaho State Bar Annual Meeting, I was passed the gavel to start serving as president for the next year.  To […]

The following individuals have retired or will be retiring from judicial service in 2023. We honor them for their committed service on the bench! Hon. Barbara Buchanan retired as a […]