Newal Squyres has over 50 years of experience as a trial lawyer in commercial, employment, and tort litigation.
A Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, Newal has tried to verdict complex lawsuits in such matters as insurance bad faith; product liability; breach of fiduciary duty and professional negligence; breach of contract and shareholder/LLC agreements; lender liability; wrongful death; breach of government contracts; theft of trade secrets; and wrongful termination/whistleblower claims. He has handled countless other cases before judges and juries in Idaho state courts, and in federal courts in Idaho, Washington, California, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, including appeals before the Idaho Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
In recent years, Newal has leveraged his experience to add the role of mediator into his practice, where he brings the same commitment to problem-solving and civility to his mediation efforts. He has become highly sought after by parties seeking to resolve a wide array of disputes through mediation, including all manner of commercial disputes in addition to professional negligence (legal, accounting, medical malpractice), construction, employment, personal injury (catastrophic injury and wrongful death), and trusts/estates. He has conducted more than 400 mediations; having been an early adopter of Zoom mediations during COVID, he has conducted over 200 virtual mediations.