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Rebecca (Becky) Wood Anderson is Shareholder at Jones Williams Fuhrman and Gourley and is a member of the Idaho, Oregon and California State Bars with over 30 years of experience in commercial real estate and business law. Her practice includes commercial financing, office and retail center development and leasing, farm/ranch leases and operating agreements, multi-parcel assemblage and development, purchase and sale transactions, energy transactions, residential and condominium development, conservation easements and transactions, communication tower transactions, land use, easement and right of way issues, business entity and LLC formation, operation and dissolution, project due diligence, approvals, and permitting.

In addition to her commercial real estate practice, Becky is also a Mediator and leads the  firm’s Dispute Resolution practice. She 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. She provides mediation, advocacy and  facilitation services in all types of business and real estate disputes including those arising  in employment settings and divorce and trust/estates proceedings. Becky also serves as  “co-counsel” in difficult divorce and estate cases involving high net worth clients and  complex business and real estate holdings and serves as a court appointed mediator in  litigation. Approximately 80% of Becky’s practice is dispute resolution, handling both  litigation and non-litigation disputes.  

Becky offers workshops and trainings in dispute resolution to corporations, individuals  and governmental entities and serves from time to time as an Adjunct Professor at Boise  State University teaching “The Art of Conflict Resolution” ,a conflict resolution class taught  through the medium of watercolor painting. Becky is a speaker on a wide array of conflict  resolution topics including “Communication GPS”, “Mediating the Transactional Way”,  and “Powering up to the Bully”.  

Becky’s legal career began in San Diego, California where she practiced with Gray, Cary,  Ames and Frye in the commercial real estate department. 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. In 2004,  Becky 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. Becky has been with  Jones, Williams, Fuhrman and Gourley since 2014. Becky 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