Man of many hats
Bill Schaefer/Idaho State Journal Bill Schaefer/Idaho State Journal Paul Malek is wearing two hats these days, one, as the president of United Way of Southeast Idaho, and the other as the purchasing manager for Simplot.

POCATELLO - When Bill Olson went to lunch with the partners in his law firm in 1963, they would play games of chance to determine who would have to pick up the lunch tab.

"We started out with three of us," he said. "There's 26 or 27 right now. It's hard to take 26 guys to the Press Box and flip a coin for lunch."

Some 45 years later, Racine, Olson, Nye, Budge & Bailey is one of the largest law firms in the state. But in 1963, it was only Olson, Louis Racine and Robert Huntley Jr.

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