We are here to help you.

Welcome to the Smith & McOwen law firm, serving clients in Bonner, Boundary, and Kootenai counties and in California. We hope that our combined 50+ years of experience will help you successfully take care of your legal needs.

Our goals in serving you include:

Treating you as we would want to be treated if we were the clients.

Typically, our clients come to us because they need to resolve a legal problem, or they are at some significant point in life when they need to have documents prepared to deal with a legal issue. We will use our best efforts to provide you with an understanding ear to listen to you, a wise and comprehensive evaluation of the alternatives available to you, a realistic estimate of the costs involved and the likelihood of success in those alternatives, and our recommendation of the best alternative for you.

Communicating with you regularly so that you feel confident about the progress achieved.

We have a policy of being available to clients, especially by telephone, and trying to return telephone calls within less than a day. Our assistant will either have the answer to your question, or will find out the answer and make sure that you receive a return call.

Explaining legal terminology and procedures in words that you will understand.

Our intent is to help you understand what the legal jargon means in practical terms and how the rules of procedure, evidence and ethics impact your legal matter. We want you to feel confident about what needs to be done, how we are doing it, and the results being achieved.

Almost all of our clients come to us through referrals from other clients and professionals with whom we work. We want you to be a satisfied client with a good report of how we helped you.

Please click here to visit our legal services page to see a complete list of the many ways we can help you with your legal needs.