We have provided legal services in Missoula since 1946. Throughout our long history, we have advocated on behalf of clients, managed risk, found creative solutions to complex legal issues, sought fair resolutions to legal matters, and provided trusted leadership in community and professional affairs. To this day, we strive to meet the diverse legal needs of large and small businesses, governments, and individual clients. Boone Karlberg has an extensive trial and appellate practice with a tradition of actively working with our clients to achieve the optimal legal outcome.
Boone Karlberg provides a full range of expertise in all areas of the law. Our firm's attorneys are recognized as superior by national publications and have the respect of their peers. Communicating, educating, and offering peace of mind, our attorneys take ownership of clients' legal matters. Using responsive and collaborative teamwork, it is our goal to provide high-level service, while building client relationships through an objective, ethical approach to resolving legal matters.
Community Involvement
We are committed to our clients and surrounding community. We believe in the importance of supporting our community and encourage firm employees to participate and volunteer in community activities and programs. Our attorneys also serve on government boards and are active in the state and local bar associations and in professional groups. Attorneys and staff donate their time and money to a variety of charitable and cultural organizations:
Founded in 1946
30 people in their team
Boone Karlberg’s estate planning and probate attorneys emphasize their services in estate and gift tax oriented structures, family business succession planning and general family plans, including the use of wills, trusts (revocable and irrevocable), durable powers of attorney, living wills, and family limited partnerships. Asset protection also is a focus of this practice, including the use of trusts, limited partnerships and business entities.
Tax practitioners at Boone Karlberg offer clients assistance in federal, state, and local taxation, including the evaluation of the tax impact of investments and transactions, the creation of techniques and plans for minimizing taxes, and the negotiation and litigation of disputes with taxing authorities. Boone Karlberg has significant experience in the structuring and financing of federal income tax driven real estate developments.
In the probate area, Boone Karlberg assists personal representatives in working with the courts and administering and distributing the estate. These attorneys work to ensure that all necessary reports are filed and that all applicable estate taxes are paid in an orderly fashion.
Boone Karlberg attorneys have years of experience in the area of creditors’ rights as they relate to bankruptcy filings by enforcement of loans, negotiating workouts and forbearance agreements, and generally acting to protect creditors’ rights in connection with insolvent debtors. We have represented companies and others in complex restructurings, out-of-court workouts, Chapter 11 cases, and litigation matters that arise in many bankruptcy cases.
Boone Karlberg’s real estate lawyers are experienced in transactional arrangements and closings. We have handled real estate matters ranging from large ranch to residential transactions. We are involved in commercial and private lending, and mortgage and investment banking. We work on local and multistate secured financing, as well as title and land damage litigation, and collections through judicial and nonjudicial foreclosures.
Boone Karlberg and our attorneys recently received accolades from Chambers and Partners USA: "This team is known for being respected housing practitioners with experience handling an array of real estate mandates. In demand for its expertise on purchase, sale and lease transactions, as well as on financing and mortgages, enacted on behalf of clients from the real estate, healthcare, and financial sectors."
Boone Karlberg’s litigation group provides a broad range of legal services to individuals and to business, government, insurance, and banking clients across the state. This group also has extensive experience in complex commercial litigation, product liability claims, employment and labor law, insurance coverage and defense, personal injury matters, property and construction disputes, railroad litigation and protection of creditors’ rights in bankruptcy. Our litigators are admitted to practice in state and federal courts and have extensive experience at both the trial court and appellate court levels, including major cases in the Montana Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Boone Karlberg represents clients in mediations and arbitrations and acts as mediators and arbitrators of others’ disputes. Our litigation attorneys and litigation support staff strive to represent the client’s interest aggressively, while emphasizing practical and economical approaches to dispute resolution.
Boone Karlberg and our litigation attorneys recently received accolades in Chambers and Partners USA as a team "known for high-class practice that is highly reputed for a spectrum of contentious expertise, which incorporates railroad litigation, civil rights claims, and insurance issues. Regularly engaged on behalf of insurers, government entities and banks, and has experience before both the state and federal courts."
Boone Karlberg’s insurance law practice is multifaceted and serves a wide array of clients, from some of the nation’s leading insurance carriers to individuals and businesses making insurance claims. The firm is routinely engaged by insurance companies to defend insureds in civil litigation.
Our attorneys are known for a very proactive, yet cost-efficient, approach to litigation. They have extensive experience in the courtroom, both at the trial and appellate levels. Boone Karlberg also provides clients with pre-litigation coverage advice and assists with claims handling negotiation and settlement of claims.
A number of prominent insurance carriers regularly seek Boone Karlberg’s counsel on complex coverage issues, including bad faith matters. The attorneys in this area have a breadth of experience in the personal lines and commercial insurance realms. The firm frequently prosecutes and defends declaratory judgment actions in both state and federal courts on a broad range of coverage disputes.
