Get the representation you deserve with the principled and zealous advocacy of Echo Hawk & Olsen, PLLC. We work hard to defend truth and protect those who seek our guidance. At our law firm, your case is taken personally and we work as a team to do everything possible for a favorable outcome.
Echo Hawk & Olsen, PLLC delivers insightful litigation and legal services to businesses and individuals throughout the area.
We are proud to assist tribes. Located in Pocatello, Idaho, near the Fort Hall Reservation, we have a wealth of experience in the unique area where federal, state, and tribal courts meet.
In addition to general litigation services, we offer a broad range of non-litigation legal services related to American Indian law. As enrolled members of the Pawnee and long-time lawyers of other tribes, the attorneys at Echo Hawk & Olsen, PLLC understand the issues facing tribal governments and economic enterprises. Our firm can work with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Department of Interior, and individuals within the legislative and executive branches of government for our clients.
Founded in 2000
18 people in their team
Let the attorneys at Echo Hawk & Olsen guide you through the process of buying and selling your business or help you understand how to achieve a better business succession plan. We strive to understand your objectives and present you with potential tools and options to ensure the owner’s goals for the transfer of your business are achieved. We will help business owners bring their unconscious expectations into conscious focus.
We regularly assist individuals in developing plans for:
Sound estate planning is not a one-size-fits-all proposition. No two people, no two families and no two estates are the same. Our team at Echo Hawk & Olsen understand this fact and we are here to serve your unique estate planning needs that fulfill your legacy, while at the same time reduce tax liabilities, limit expenses associated with estate administration, and minimize the possibility of costly litigation between beneficiaries. Our objective is to make sure your estate is handled promptly, efficiently, cost-effectively, and with minimal or no probate or other court involvement, all while minimizing or eliminating estate and other transfer taxes.
Our estate planning attorneys are experienced in crafting estate plans for small to multi-million dollar estates, aiming to accomplish the client’s goals with the lowest possible estate, gift and income tax cost. Our estate planning services include drafting wills and revocable trusts, setting up charitable entities and private foundations, and handling estate, trust and probate administration. Our attorneys also offer a variety of sophisticated planning techniques, including family limited liability companies, irrevocable life insure trust, multi-generational dynasty trusts and asset protection trusts.
Whether you have a small or large business, we understand that your focus is on helping your business grow. But in today’s environment, businesses can’t neglect the need to comply with a wide variety of employment laws and to have HR procedures in place to protect against expensive and time-consuming litigation. Our attorneys have represented employers of all sizes, from small companies to large multi-national corporations, and helped them navigate the complexities of federal, state, and local employment laws and to proactively establish policies and procedures to cultivate employee productivity and engagement. We will work closely with your team to help you remain compliant so you can focus on business.
Hiring the right person is key. But is your business compliant with employee recruiting practices, interviews, background investigations, and worker eligibility requirements? Does your recruiting team know what they can and can’t ask? We will work with you to help your hiring professionals know not only compliance requirements and how to avoid common mistakes, but also to understand best practices and tips to help your organization stand out from the crowd.
Discrimination claims, sexual harassment, and retaliation claims are expensive and will take your management team away from your business and into the litigation world of depositions and courtrooms. We will work with you to proactively train your management and HR professionals to know how to avoid litigation and civil rights complaints. Challenging questions like what reasonable accommodation must be provided to an employee with a disability and whether leave is required under the Federal Medical Leave Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, and applicable state and local medical, family, and pregnancy leave laws. We will work with your managers to help you make an informed decision.
Do you have employees who are not performing? Employee onboarding is expensive and turnover drains time, profit, and employee morale. Let us help. We will work with you to develop employee coaching policies and procedures to maximize employee engagement and to improve the culture of your company. By taking proactive steps to help your workforce engage, we help your company focus on profits. And we can counsel you with other ways to minimize the employee expenses and liability risks you face.
Federal, state, and local laws require strict compliance with payroll obligations. Let us help your business understand requirements under statutes like the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Portal to Portal Act, and other compliance requirements to avoid costly department of labor or private wage and hour claims filed by your employees seeking damages for wage forfeiture, back-pay wages, overtime wages, or reimbursement of business expenses.
Businesses invest large amounts of capital to create proprietary business, trade secret, and good-will of the company. Employees have access to this valuable information and are the front-line contacts with your clients. When they leave employment, you face the real possibility that they will then use these same business assets to complete against you for your clientele and key employees. We can help you secure your business investments by structuring your employment relationships with key employees to prevent competition against your business.
Our attorneys have experience representing management and labor in all aspects from organizing campaigns to bargaining, grievances to contracting, and from contributions to audits. We can help your business become and remain compliant with your collective bargaining agreements and obligations.
We have represented clients before a wide variety of state and federal discrimination commissions and labor departments and courts of law. While we strive to keep you focused on business, we have the experience and expertise to defend you in all stages of the complaint, investigation, and adjudication process.
We represent a wide variety of developers, owners and lenders with complex legal needs in the acquisition, sales, permitting, and development and leasing of major real estate projects throughout our area. We provide timely and creative solutions to our clients, whether they pursue growth, redevelopment or diversification.
We have highly experienced real estate attorneys and professionals that bring to clients a practical approach to success in all manner of real estate development projects and transactions. Clients have the opportunity of utilizing our proven ability to bring together and coordinate planning and zoning, creative forms of development and ownership, strategic planning, issue identification, environmental solutions, problem solving and financing through its attorneys and affiliated professionals as well as its extensive statewide contacts.
We are here to advise not only on traditional real estate law topics, such as the acquisition, leasing and conveyance of real property.
Our Bankruptcy and Creditors'Rights attorneys represent secured and unsecured creditors, creditors' committees, bankruptcy trustees and other parties affected by financial insolvency issues. We afford forceful and resourceful counsel regarding the varied issues that arise under the unique circumstances of each case. Drawing upon experience, we provide our clients creative and practical solutions.
We represent banks, companies, credit unions, individuals, insurers and other financial institutions with regard to matters occurring before, and after, the commencement of a bankruptcy case. Our clients also include lessors and lessees of commercial properties, partnerships and other parties involved in bankruptcy matters.
In the course of running a business, conflicts may arise. The attorneys at Echo Hawk & Olsen are here to help with those needs. While your skill and expertise as a business owner are invaluable in long-term planning and day to day operations, it is important to have a knowledgeable attorney on your side, especially if conflicts arise.
We understand the need to develop creative solutions to protect and defend your business, each business needs its own strategy to handle internal and external disputes. We tailor our approach to the specific needs of our clients because we know that no two businesses are alike. We represent businesses of all sizes and types that benefit from our years of practical experience in the field. We act as strong legal advocates, providing the guidance you need to ensure your business interests and assets are protected. We partner with you to understand immediate and long-term business needs, then craft a combined litigation and business strategy designed to meet your company's best interests.
