Academy Member Inducted 2022
Map & Directions
Video ConferencingAvailable
- Practice Commenced7
- # of MEDS (as of 16/4/24)200
- # of ARBS (as of 16/4/24)20
Current Practice
Online / In-Person
Biographical
Dave Knotts is a partner in his firm’s Alternative Dispute Resolution practice group. ADR has become his passion and principal focus. Mr. Knotts has mediated or arbitrated numerous disputes involving a broad range of claims and issues. These have included injury claims, insurance disputes, professional malpractice, construction defect claims, commercial disputes, employment related claims, property damage claims, estate disputes, landlord-tenant disputes, consumer claims, losses due to fire, explosions, and water damage, and claims involving nursing homes, governmental entities, and Native American tribes.
Mr. Knotts is a Certified Professional Mediator and is listed on the mediator panels for the Idaho Supreme Court and the United States District Court for Idaho. His practice, however, extends into all the neighboring jurisdictions (Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and Montana), and beyond.
2022 Lawyer of the Year in Professional Malpractice Law - Defendants in Boise
2023 Lawyer of the Year in Insurance Law in Boise
Mountain States Super Lawyer, Alternative Dispute Resolution
Case Experience
- Admiralty
- Agricultural
- Appellate
- Arts (Fine/Performing)
- Automotive
- Aviation
- Business Dissolution
- Civil Rights
- Class Actions
- Commercial/Business
- Community Associations
- Condominiums
- Construction
- Consumer Fraud
- Contract Disputes
- Discrimination
- Divorce (High Asset)
- Education
- Elder Abuse
- Eminent Domain
- Employment
- Engineering
- Entertainment Sector
- ERISA
- Family Businesses
- Franchise
- Health Care
- Industrial
- Insurance
- Intellectual Property
- Landlord/Tenant
- Legal Malpractice
- Libel & Slander
- Local Govt./Municipalities
- Media & Communications
- Medical Devices
- Medical Malpractice
- Natural Disasters
- Non-profit Organizations
- Nursing Homes
- Partnerships
- Personal Injury
- Pharmaceuticals
- Police
- Premises Liability
- Product Liability
- Professional Fees
- Professional Liability
- Professional Malpractice
- Professional Negligence
- Property Damage
- Railroad & Trucking
- Real Estate
- Sexual Harassment
- Shareholder Disputes
- Title Disputes
- Torts
- Trademarks/Patents
- Transportation
- Trusts / Estates
- Unfair Competition
- Wage & Hour/FMLA
- Wrongful Death
Education
- University of Oregon, J.D., 1985 Order of the Coif
- University of North Carolina, M.A., 1982
- Indiana University, B.A., 1977 summa cum laude
- Phi Beta Kappa
Memberships & Affiliations
- American Arbitration Association Panelist, mediations, construction arbitrations, and consumer arbitrations
- Idaho Mediation Association
- Resolute Systems Panelist
- Member, Roster for Mediators and Arbitrators, State of Idaho Department of Administrative Hearings
Rates Information
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