Rebecca Wood Anderson - a Boise, United States Real Estate Lawyer

Boise Real Estate Lawyer

Updated: 02/19/2026

Areas of Practice

Real Estate
Dispute Resolution
Corporate/Commercial
Estate Planning and Administration

Attorney Information

Overview

Rebecca Wood Anderson leads the firms Dispute Resolution practice and is a member of the Idaho, Oregon, and California State Bars. She has over 30 years of experience in commercial real estate and business transactions and disputes, handling complex real estate development deals and workouts, purchases and sales, land assemblages, financing and leasing, business entity formation, operation and dissolution, family and estate disputes and a full array of other commercial real estate and business transactions and disputes.

Today, Rebecca focuses most of her practice on mediation, using her transactional expertise to resolve disputes in the areas of real estate, business law, trusts and estates and employment law. She is an Idaho court approved Mediator and mediates in both Idaho and Oregon. Rebecca combines her extensive legal knowledge and negotiation/deal-making skills with her ability to navigate difficult emotions and think "outside-the-box" to transform disputes into deals. Rebecca is Top Rated in Dispute Resolution by Martindale-Hubbell and is known for bringing structure and calm to emotionally charged situations where conflict is entrenched and resolution seems unlikely. Rebecca’s work is grounded in a deep understanding of how deals are made, how they break down and how disputes can be restructured into workable win/win solutions. Rebecca’s people skills add an essential human lens when tensions run high and trust and communication have eroded. Rebecca has a highly successful track record resolving disputes and is recognized for her professionalism, judgment and ability to balance legal insight with interpersonal skills and structure workable solutions. Simply put, mediation is Rebecca’s passion and nothing brings her more professional satisfaction than helping people move on with their lives after experiencing what seems to be unresolvable conflict.

Rebecca's legal career began in San Diego, California where she practiced with Gray, Cary, Ames and Frye, handling complex real estate finance, development, leasing, and other commercial transactions. In 1991, she joined Albertson's as an in-house attorney focusing on major retail development deals, later advancing to Senior Manager, supervising all aspects of commercial real estate development. She also supervised the legal team's work in pharmacy acquisitions, in-store banking, surplus property, and property management. Rebecca was appointed by Albertson’s top management to serve as one of five members of a re-engineering task force to re-engineer the store development process to meet corporate goals. In 2004, Rebecca opened up her own practice and maintained it for 10 years, serving a large energy-based client and medium sized businesses in Idaho and Oregon. In 2014, Rebecca joined Jones, Williams, Fuhrman, Gourley, P.A. where she mediates a wide array of real estate, business and trust and estate cases in Idaho and Oregon and also handles transactions in those areas.

Rebecca is a fourth-generation lawyer, born and raised in Portland, Oregon, where her great-grandfather, C.E.S. Wood, founded the Wood law firm, carried on by her grandfather and father. Rebecca is an active community member and workshop presenter and has taught “The Art of Conflict Resolution” both at Boise State University and the College of Idaho and has presented numerous other workshops to businesses and organizations on conflict resolution. She currently serves on the board of Common Ground Conciliation Services, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering individuals and organizations to reach personal and business success and resolve conflict through creative platforms. Rebecca also recently became a certified trainer in the Jack Canfield (author of “Chicken Soup for the Soul”) Success Principles. She loves painting, mountain biking, road biking, skiing, backpacking, and other outdoor adventures with her husband and four grown children.

Awards and Honors

Honors

AV Preeminent, Martindale-Hubbell
Top Rated, Dispute Resolution, Martindale-Hubbell
Top Rated, Commercial Real Estate Law, Martindale-Hubbell
Best Lawyers of America
Named as One of Five Members of Fortune 500 Company’s Re-engineering Brainstorming Task Force
Recipient, Sammy Award , 2005
Recipient, CRIPTC Award , 2005

Education

Legal Education
- University of California, Davis School of Law, Davis, California, 1987
  Honors: Graduated Order of the Coif, Top 5%
  Honors: Chairperson, Moot Court Board
  Honors: Winner, Moot Court Competition
  Honors: American Jurisprudence Award in Constitutional Law
  Honors: American Jurisprudence Award in Business Associations
Non Legal Education
- University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1984
  Honors: magna cum laude
  Honors: Phi Beta Kappa
  Honors: Honors, Political Science Department

Current Employment Position(s)

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Of Counsel, Attorney and Mediator
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Past Positions

Gray, Cary, Ames and Frye
Albertson’s, In-House Attorney, 1991
Albertson’s, Senior Manager
Rebecca Hardesty Law Offices, Founder and Partner

Classes and Seminars

Visiting Speaker, Real Estate and Conservation Transactions, University of Oregon
Key Note Speaker and Workshop Presenter, Dispute Resolution and Corporate Communication
Adjunct Professor-Conflict Resolution Courses, Boise State University

Pro Bono Activities

Common Ground Conciliation Services, Board Member
Boise Co-Op, former Board Member
YMCA, Downtown Committee Member
YMCA, Horsethief Development Committee Member
Founder, Say Yes to Art Program (teaching art in Boise Public School)

Bar Admissions

Idaho
California
Oregon

Other Affiliations

Idaho State Bar (Member)
Oregon State Bar (Member)
California State Bar (Member)
Court of Idaho (Mediator)
Court of Oregon (Mediator)
United States District Court for the District of Idaho (Mediator)
BOMA Idaho (Member)

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Contact

Boise, ID

225 N. 9th
St. #820
Boise, ID 83702

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Phone: 208-331-1170

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Hours: Mon - Fri: 8:00AM - 5:00PM

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