Idaho Business Review IBR

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon hear a case that has the potential to rock the world of unions that represent public sector employees throughout the country. The court will decide whether state government workers who do not wish to ...

The capital projects business requires a lot of communication and interaction. There’s a continuing interaction between all parties in a project, from the initial phases of the design, in construction and all the way through commissioning. There are many contacts ...

A chief pleasure of this column lies in exploring grammar’s schools of thought. To serial-comma or not to serial-comma; to purge that from our sentences or let it flourish; to place two spaces after a period or only one. But ...

My hometown, Minneapolis, is the host city for Super Bowl LII, and, for trademark attorneys, it brings a treasure trove of trademark observations. The most striking to me is the NFL’s aggressive policing of its SUPER BOWL trademark. It is ...

It is now well accepted that the tax bill signed into law on December 22 does not accomplish simplification of the tax code.  Instead, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act brought reductions in tax rates and wholesale changes in deductions, ...

After a lifetime of dedication and success, your client is ready to retire from the family business. He’s designated his two adult sons as 50/50 owners. One has worked in the company for a decade. In fact, he’s second in ...

Boards of directors bear enormous responsibilities for the tone at the top and corporate culture of the companies they are entrusted to oversee. This fiduciary duty is evident in the selection of senior management and when assessing the overall ethical ...

When it comes to office and industrial space, there’s no question: Right now it’s a landlord’s market in Boise. This is in stark contrast to conditions back in the Great Recession, when tenants ruled the world of commercial space. Back ...

If your partnership was audited, would you want the IRS to select your representative? If you joined a partnership this year and it was subject to a tax assessment related to a year when you were not a partner, would ...

I am sick and tired of hearing about how the downtown Boise office market is in trouble because of the cost or availability of parking.  This is ridiculous.  If you don’t see that downtown Boise is booming, then you just ...