Jeff R. Sykes

About Jeff

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION Best Lawyers in America: Employment Law 2013 2005 Award Recipient, Idaho Business Review's "Forty Accomplished Under Forty" AREAS OF EXPERTISE EMPLOYMENT LAW: Negotiate, draft and enforce employment contracts, employee manuals, non-competition agreements, and non-disclosure agreements LITIGATION: BUSINESS, EMPLOYMENT, CONSTRUCTION AND REAL ESTATE LITIGATION Representation of businesses in contract litigation, secured transaction litigation, insurance litigation, trade secret litigation, fraud claims, sexual harassment claims, age, disability and other discrimination claims, wage claims, and breach of warranty and defective product litigation Construction claims and defense Title claims, easement disputes, access and boundary disputes ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION Arbitration and mediation of claims and disputes PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1997 - Present: Partner, Meuleman Mollerup LLP 1994 - 1997: General practice of law in Boise, Idaho 1993 - 1994: Judicial law clerk to Honorable Justice Linda Copple Trout, Idaho Supreme Court Licensed to practice law in Idaho and California BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY ACTIVITIES Idaho State Bar State Bar of California American Bar Association, Litigation Section, and Employment and Employment Law Section Human Resource Association of Treasure Valley (HRATV), Board of Directors 2011-2013 Boise Downtown Rotary Club 2006-2010 Idaho Associated General Contractors Idaho Land Title Association Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Order of Barristers COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Southwest Idaho, former member Board of Directors Boise Family YMCA Youth Government Program Judge Pro Tem, Boise Family YMCA Youth Court EDUCATION Gonzaga University School of Law, J.D., summa cum laude, 1993 California State University-Chico, B.A. with honors, Political Science, 1990

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Education

• Gonzaga University, J.D., graduated 1993
• California State University Chico, BA, graduated 1990

Bar Admissions

• Idaho, Idaho State Bar
• California, The State Bar of California

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