Members

• C. Timothy Hopkins
• Gregory L. Crockett
• D. Fredrick Hoopes
• Lary S. Larson
• Paul B. Rippel
• Steven K. Brown
• Kristopher D. Meek
• Sean J. Coletti

Of Counsel

• William C. Roden
• John D. Hansen
• John Michael Brassey
• Bruce L. Thomas

In Memoriam

• Seward H. French (1941-1984)
• Ted C. Springer (1943-1984)
• Willis B. Benjamin (1939-1999)

aul is a partner in the firm who began his practice in 1982. His practice consists primarily of litigation in numerous areas, including family law, real estate and condominiums, workers' compensation, negligence, insurance, commercial law, construction claims and criminal law. He also handles transactional matters in real estate and condominiums, immigration, and family-oriented business formation and estate planning.

Paul was born in Borger, Texas, but his family soon moved to Idaho Falls where he grew up. After graduating from Skyline High School, he attended Idaho State University and the University of Idaho where he earned a degree in Rangeland Management from the College of Forestry. He then obtained a masters degree from New Mexico State University before returning to the University of Idaho where he earned his law degree in 1981. After law school, he clerked for the honorable Arnold T. Beebe, who impressed upon him the importance of legal scholarship in the practice of law.

Paul is a member of the Idaho State Bar Association and its Family Law and Workers' Compensation Sections (past board president), and a member of the Seventh District Bar Association. He is admitted to practice before all state and federal courts in Idaho, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Court of Federal Claims. He is also a member of the Idaho Association of Defense Counsel. He has spoken at workers' compensation seminars and served on the Idaho Industrial Commission Rehabilitation Task Force and on the State Bar Examination Committee. He is currently chairman of the State Bar Examination Reasonable Accommodation Committee and a volunteer for the YMCA. He received the Idaho State Bar Professionalism Award in 2003 and the Idaho State Bar Service Award in 2005.

Paul and his wife, Alexis, have a son and a daughter. They enjoy outdoor activities and sports events together. He also works to keep the weeds down and his old tractor running on the farmhouse they share south of town.

Paul B. Rippel
Hopkins Roden Crockett Hansen & Hoopes, PLLC
P.O. Box 51219
428 Park Ave.
Idaho Falls, Idaho 83405-1219
Phone: 208-523-4445
Fax: 208-523-4474
Email: paulrippel@hopkinsroden.com