Bithell Law Story

Bithell Law Story

For over 30 years Walt was a Senior Partner and Lead Litigation Attorney with a major Rocky Mountain law firm. He has been lead counsel on hundreds of large and complex cases and has tried more than a hundred cases to verdict. When that firm changed its policy about representing people or companies seeking to recover damages, Walt knew it was time to open his own practice.
Walt knows how big law firms and big companies operate and where they are vulnerable. Walt’s experience allows his clients to achieve outstanding results quickly, efficiently, and cost effectively. You will never be handed off to young lawyers who are trying to learn how to practice law. You will always be dealing face to face with one of the most experienced lawyers in the Rocky Mountains.
Walter's Story

Walter's Story

Walt grew up on a farm in Idaho. He put himself through college and law school running a produce business he started while attending the University of Idaho. After law school he worked for the Idaho Attorney General’s office where he became the chief legal counsel for two agencies: the Idaho State Tax Commission and the State of Idaho Department of Insurance. He left the Attorney General’s office and began life as a private attorney in 1972. He has practiced in Idaho as a trial lawyer for more than 40 years and he knows the State like the back of his hand. In addition to Idaho, Walt has litigated cases in Utah, Nevada, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Washington, Oregon, Wyoming, Nevada and California.
What We Do?

What We Do?

Bithell Law represents people and companies that have lost money from business or professional arrangements that have gone badly, and he represents people who have suffered catastrophic personal injury, including injury from medical malpractice.
Walt is also a trained mediator and is on the approved list of mediators for both the Idaho Supreme Court and the Idaho Federal Courts. For more than 40 years he has been a lawyer advocate in complex litigation cases and more recently he has been serving as a mediator. Walt understands what it takes to get complex high stakes cases settled.