Two partners who kept sending each other's clients to each other.

Catherine grew up in McCall, the third of four kids in a family that ran the same hardware store on Lake Street for two generations. Her route to law started with watching her parents navigate her grandfather’s estate the year she finished high school — and watching how much faster and quieter the process moved because someone had thought it through ahead of time.

She did undergrad at the University of Idaho, then stayed for law school at the U of I College of Law in Moscow — the only ABA-accredited law school in the state. After a clerkship year, she moved to Seattle and spent six years at a mid-size firm doing estate planning for tech-industry families: equity-heavy estates, RSU vesting timing, multi-state property, trust structures designed around exit liquidity. The work was rigorous and the planning was sophisticated. It was also, increasingly, not the work she wanted to do.

In 2019 she moved back to Boise with two goals: practice closer to family, and do estate planning for people who aren’t sitting on tech wealth. Most of her clients now own a home, have kids or aging parents, and have been putting off the conversation for two or three years because the language around wills and trusts and POAs made the decision feel bigger than it is. Her job is mostly to make the decision feel its real size.

She’s known around the firm for two things: explaining trust mechanics in plain language, and talking people out of trusts when a will is the right move. The fee on a will is roughly a third of the fee on a trust; clients who don’t need a trust shouldn’t pay for one, and Catherine won’t draft what isn’t needed.

Daniel is a third-generation Boise native. His grandfather ran a one-truck plumbing operation out of Garden City for thirty years; his father did residential and small commercial electrical until retirement. Daniel was the first in the family to go to college, and the first to take a desk job — though the clients he chose to represent kept him close to the kind of work he grew up around.

Undergrad at Boise State, then law school at Lewis & Clark in Portland. He spent four years at a Portland firm representing small-business clients on contract and employment matters — service businesses, light manufacturing, food & beverage, early-stage tech. The work taught him that the documents small-business owners actually need are usually shorter and simpler than the documents most attorneys want to give them. The important thing isn’t volume; it’s clarity about what each clause actually does when something goes wrong.

In 2020 he came home to Boise to start his own practice. The pitch he made to his first dozen clients still holds: he reads contracts no one else wants to read, and he talks small-business owners out of expensive mistakes for a living. The expensive mistakes are usually two: signing the wrong entity-formation shape because someone Googled “LLC vs S-corp,” and signing a contract that contains a clause the other side’s lawyer added at the last minute hoping nobody would notice.

He bills flat fees on most of the work that fits a flat fee shape (entity formations, standard operating agreements, contract reviews under a certain length) and hourly on everything else, with a written estimate before the hourly work starts. The boring details are on the How we workpage; the practical answer is that you’ll hear the number before deciding whether to hire him.