Garcia-Sepulveda, Flora

Mr. Gardner is a trial lawyer and maintains a broad-based litigation practice in both state and federal courts defending various clients in jury trials and workers' compensation hearings. His litigation practice focuses on personal injury, commercial litigation, products liability, insurance bad faith, professional malpractice and general workers' compensation defense. Mr. Gardner has also worked with several local hospitals in handling claims under the Idaho Medical Indigency Act, general collection matters and other health-care related issues.

Mr. Gardner was recently recognized by DRI publication The Voice for successfully obtaining summary judgment for a general contractor in a road-construction liability matter. He has also been successful in trying various cases on behalf of a large retailer involving claims of premises liability. In addition, he received favorable verdicts in two personal injury claims defending two different trucking companies and their drivers. He has successfully mediated cases in Idaho and Utah pertaining to all areas of practice and has presided as an evaluator over claims brought under the Idaho Small Lawsuit Resolution Act.

Mr. Gardner is admitted to practice in the Supreme Courts of the State of Idaho and Utah, and the U.S. District Court for the Districts of Idaho and Utah. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Idaho State Bar, the Utah State Bar and the Sixth District Bar Association. He participates as a member of the Defense Research Institute, the J. Reuben Clark Law Society Pocatello Chapter as a board member, the Idaho Association of Defense Counsel and the Idaho State Bar Workers' Compensation Section as a board member. He currently serves as the Treasurer of the Sixth District Bar Association on a four-year tenure to eventually serve as President. He has also been certified by the Idaho Industrial Commission as a Workers' Compensation Specialist.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Gardner completed a two-year clerkship with Sixth District Judges B. Lynn Winmill, now the Chief District Judge for the United States Court for the District of Idaho and N. Randy Smith, now a United States Court of Appeals Judge for the Ninth Circuit. As a law clerk, he researched and drafted court opinions, advised the court on matters of law, prepared jury instructions, and attended several hearings and trials.

Mr. Gardner graduated from Seattle University School of Law in 1995 where he was active in moot court as a member of the Moot Court Board. In his second year of law school, he received an American Jurisprudence Award in Evidence. He received his undergraduate degree in Psychology from Brigham Young University in 1992.