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I grew up an hour outside a Northern California mill town, in a remote wilderness area without electricity. My brother and I spent our days climbing trees, building forts, making moss beds, and putting rafts into the creek. The woods were our wonderland, and the mill town down the road was the community’s economic foundation. I understood early t…

Logging is hard, physical, dangerous work. It runs through heat, dust, mud, steep ground, mechanical breakdowns, fire restrictions, and narrow margins. Loggers know how to fall timber, run heavy equipment, build roads, move logs, and keep a job going. Most loggers do not enter the industry wanting to review insurance endorsements. Honestly, neither…

The federal government has announced two related but distinct changes to the public charge ground of inadmissibility. First, the U.S. Department of State has begun using public charge bonds in select immigrant visa cases. Second, a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rule will change how certain public charge determinations are made beginning…

Addition will expand Fennemore’s Boise presence with 13 legal professionals serving Idaho’s fastest-growing industries. BOISE, ID (August 6, 2026) — Boise, Idaho (August 6, 2026) — Fennemore, one of the nation’s fastest-growing Am Law 200 firms, will combine with Boise-based McConnell Wagner Sykes + Stacey (MWSS+), a busi…

For many business owners, estate planning hasn’t kept pace with the business itself. Midyear is a great opportunity to step back from day-to-day operations and assess whether your estate and succession plans reflect how your business operates today, and your hopes for the future. Estate planning often lags behind business growth. Ownership struct…

Health insurance premiums continue to rise, and most people assume the reason is simple: health care is expensive. While the cost of care is a major driver, other factors often operate in the background, affecting businesses, employees, and families: fraud, waste, and abuse within parts of the health care system. These schemes rarely look like obvi…