Attorneys
Cynthia J. Woolley
Ms. Woolley moved to Sun Valley in 1998 from San Francisco in pursuit of a life long dream to live in the Wood River Valley. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She graduated from Scripps College, Claremont, California in 1982 with a B.A. in European Studies after having studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. Beginning in 1984, she was a litigation legal assistant in San Francisco at Heller, Ehrman, White and McAuliffe and at Brobeck, Phleger and Harrison. She started and co-owned a business importing and distributing Italian tile, marble and granite until she went to law school at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago.
Ms. Woolley received her J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law in 1992. As a law student at the Northwestern University Legal Clinic, she practiced before the Illinois Supreme Court representing clients on death row, one of whom was granted clemency by the Governor of Illinois in 2002. In the summer of 1990, she was a legal intern at the Environmental Law Center in Bonn, Germany.
From 1992 through 1996, Ms. Woolley practiced general corporate and employment litigation at McCutchen, Doyle, Brown and Enersen (now Bingham McCutchen), San Francisco representing corporations including Fortune 50 companies and Stanford University. From 1996 to the present she has been in private practice.
Ms. Woolley’s practice emphasizes civil litigation and domestic relations law. Her practice includes employment litigation including civil rights in employment; labor and employment law compliance and management training for employers; real estate and land use litigation and advising non-profit corporations. She is licensed to practice before all state and federal courts of Idaho and California and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She is a member of the American Bar Association, Idaho State Bar Association; California State Bar Association; Idaho Trial Lawyers Association; and the National Employment Lawyers Association. She serves on the board of the Idaho Trial Lawyers Association.