Department Reports by Abby L. Kostecka and Teresa A. Baker
Admissions Report by Abby Kostecka The Idaho State Bar Admissions Department administers the rules governing admission to the practice of law in Idaho. Attorneys can be admitted by taking the Idaho Bar Examination, transferring a Uniform Bar Examination (“UBE”) score…
Read Full ArticleCommissioner’s Column: Dementia—Options for Paths to Prevention, Detection, and Treatment by Hon. Robert L. Jackson
If you have not read the excellent article in the March/April 2025 Advocate entitled “Balancing the Scales: Practicing Law While Managing Mental Illness,”[1] please do. That anonymous author presented many of the points I had intended to make with this…
Read Full ArticleThe State Public Defender Act: Continuing the Journey of Public Defense in Idaho by Jordan S. Crane
It’s June of 2005. I’m in the first days of what would become a decades long career as a public defender. On my desk is a three-foot stack of files, inherited from my predecessor, representing the cases set for court…
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