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With more than 30 years of experience working on commercial finance, real estate and creditors’ rights matters, Susan Alterman focuses her practice on commercial banking and complex real estate transactions. She assists a variety of financial institutions and real estate investors in structuring real estate and asset-based credit facilities, including loan documentation, underwriting considerations, and regulatory matters. Susan regularly represents banks and other financial institution...
Andrew Altschul mediates employment and ERISA disputes. In addition to his mediation practice, Andrew handles federal and state court appeals of employment litigation, provides day-to-day employment counseling, litigates ERISA benefit matters, serves as settlement counsel, and provides collective bargaining representation primarily for non-profit organizations. He also consults small law firms on law firm management. Andrew has over 20 years’ experience representing both employers and e...
David Angeli represents corporations and individuals in complex criminal, regulatory and commercial cases. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, David has repeatedly been named as one of “The Best Lawyers in America” in the categories of Bet the Company Litigation, White Collar Criminal Defense and Commercial Litigation. Mr. Angeli has the distinction of being the only lawyer in the State of Oregon to be included in all three of those categories. He is consistently id...
Ken Antell is a partner in Dunn Carney’s Real Estate Team who focuses on commercial real estate purchase, sale, financing and leasing transactions. He has extensive experience in development, construction and entity structuring in real property transactions. During his more than 30 years of practice, Ken has represented buyers, sellers, borrowers, lenders, landlords, tenants and other stakeholders in numerous transactions involving high-profile shopping centers, office buildings, and in...
Jay Beattie is a product liability and insurance litigation lawyer who also specializes in employment-related litigation and civil appeals. He has over 25 years of experience representing clients in federal and state trial courts and administrative forums. Jay has also handled numerous appeals in the Oregon, Washington and federal courts of appeals. Jay’s clients include the Port of Portland, Chartis Private Client Group, Red Shield Insurance, Farmer’s Insurance, Trek Bicycle Corp...
Clarence Belnavis is a partner in the Portland and Seattle offices. He is a trial attorney with a primary emphasis in employment litigation, including disability, racial and gender discrimination, retaliation, sexual harassment, and wrongful discharge. He also represents employers in wage and hour claims, employment class actions, and traditional labor matters. Clarence also has significant experience counseling clients with respect to labor and employment matters, including disability and re...
Jon Bennett is an experienced real estate and business attorney who has maintained an active practice while serving as managing partner of Dunn Carney LLP since 2011. He has more than 30 years of experience at the firm, representing business and real estate clients on matters ranging from daily operations to significant transactions and disputes. He focuses on real estate agreements involving leases, acquisitions, design, development and construction, and has special expertise in the negotiat...
Paul Berg splits his time between managing the firm and his litigation practice. Paul’s practice focuses on complex business and commercial litigation, along with personal injury and wrongful death actions. Paul co-authored the 2009 supplement to the “Case Investigation” chapter of the Oregon Civil Litigation Manual .
Aaron Besen has extensive experience representing long-term care providers (skilled nursing, assisted living, independent living facilities), landlords, and management companies to these providers and related businesses. For eight years he served as Vice President and General Counsel of Evergreen Healthcare Management, L.L.C. (now a subsidiary of EmpRes Healthcare Group, Inc.) and its affiliated companies which managed or operated over 60 skilled nursing and assisted living facilities in eigh...
Claude Bosworth is an AV-rated attorney whose practice emphasizes casualty, construction, environmental, insurance and toxic tort litigation. He has represented local, national and multi-national companies in small and large cases alike, having successfully defended hundreds of cases, including multi-million-dollar casualty and property damage cases. Claude has a wide variety of trial, arbitration, and mediation experience and has successfully argued in front of the United States Fifth Circui...
Ingrid Brydolf helps hospitals, physician groups and other providers, as well as insurers and coordinated care organizations in matters relating to regulatory compliance, fraud and abuse, business ventures, peer review and quality, and corporate governance. Ingrid has structured and negotiated physician integration deals, joint ventures, and employment and professional service relationships, and has assisted providers with new clinical lines of business. She also guides hospitals, networks an...
Brent Bullock's practice focuses on the representation of emerging growth companies, established public and private companies, and venture capital and private equity investors in various corporate matters and transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financings, and strategic partnerships, as well as corporate governance and securities law matters. With more than two decades of experience, Brent has been involved in hundreds of strategic transactions over the years, in...
Troy Bundy defends professionals, including dentists, hospitals, doctors, nurses and other health professionals. From complex obstetric and neonatal matters to more routine primary care issues, Troy has litigated and tried a wide variety of professional liability cases involving nearly every conceivable medical specialty over the course of his career, including the landmark birth injury case, Klutschkowski v. OMG. Dental cases have included lingual nerve injuries, TMJ claims, and endodontic c...
Mia Butzbaugh has more than 15 years of experience in employee benefits law and specializes in representing multiemployer pension and health and welfare plans. Ms. Butzbaugh has served as general counsel to many types of multiemployer plans, from large pension plans with alternative investments to small vacation plans, from plans terminated by mass withdrawal to those launching variable annuity programs. With this experience, she is able to readily assist trustees with issues that are common ...
Tom specializes in civil appeals and insurance coverage, including litigation of coverage disputes. He has argued over four hundred cases in various appellate courts, including the Oregon and Washington supreme courts and courts of appeal, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He has also argued a case in the United States Supreme Court (Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton (1995)). Tom also practices constitutional and election law. He has successfully challenged law...
Kevin Clonts is a shareholder at Rizzo Mattingly Bosworth PC. His practice focuses on complex litigation matters, including environmental, construction defect, and insurance coverage disputes. Kevin also represents business entities in litigation involving business dissolutions, contract disputes, intellectual property disputes, and target defendants (including business and government entities) in complex products liability and construction defect matters. Before joining Rizzo Mattingly Boswo...
Tim is a civil trial attorney with over 30 years experience. Tim has tried over 75 jury cases to verdict and has handled many more mediations and arbitrations. He has represented a variety of businesses and individuals in both complex litigation and a variety of challenging cases. He regularly handles the defense and prosecution of civil matters in the following areas: Labor and Employment LawPersonal Injury Railroad FELA and Railroad Crossings and other Railroad related cases Commercial Matt...
Attorney John Coletti is a personal injury lawyer based out of Portland who represents clients throughout both Oregon and Washington. Throughout his career, he has won several million-dollar verdicts for his clients. Some of those include a $12 million defective product case and a $5 million defective pain medication pump case. Not only has John obtained large verdicts, but he also has obtained record-breaking and rule-changing verdicts. The Inner Circle of Advocates has selected John as one ...
Sarah Crooks, a partner in the firm's Commercial Litigation group, focuses her practice on navigating clients through complex business litigation, class action lawsuits and attorney general investigations across a variety of industry sectors, including the telecommunications, food and restaurant, childcare and education and real estate sectors. Sarah also has extensive experience representing clients in the areas of consumer protection, securities litigation, fraudulent transfer litigation an...
Inspired by her grandfather, a labor lawyer in Michigan, Jackie Damm decided in law school that labor law was her true calling. Today, she represents both public and private sector employers in collective bargaining negotiations, National Labor Relations Board proceedings, Employment Relations Board proceedings, and labor arbitrations. Jackie believes in the power of prevention and has gained a reputation for helping clients avoid potential pitfalls. She advises clients on labor contract admi...
John DiLorenzo has authored and been a primary advocate for major legislation in the areas of state and local taxation, with special emphasis on property tax, tort reform, natural resources and economic development. John also assists clients in campaign finance, government ethics, initiatives and referendums, insurance recovery actions, environmental claim responses, appellate cases and a variety of government-related litigation matters.
JIM DWYER | WHY I PRACTICE LAW It’s hard to believe that I’ve been practicing law for 35 years. I love being a lawyer more than ever. I’m continuing to learn how to be a better attorney, and I never tire of helping people navigate a legal system where the insurance companies are looking out for themselves, not the injured person. Making the law a non-intimidating process that works for my clients brings me both personal and professional meaning. It’s about how I take c...
Michael Dwyer has been named Lawyer of the Year 2019 for Family Mediation in Portland by Best Lawyers of America. This is the third time he has been so honored, as Michael was previously honored as Lawyer of the Year in 2017 and 2015. He has been listed in Best Lawyers of America for Family Law Mediation since 2009 and in Oregon SuperLawyers for Alternative Dispute Resolution since 2007. Michael taught family and divorce mediation in 2018 as an adjunct professor at the Strauss Institute for D...
Expertise Overview With a career spanning over 30 years, successfully representing a wide range of clients in complex and high profile cases, Managing Partner Jeff Eberhard is a recognizable and reputable force within the industry. Jeff’s practice focuses on civil litigation throughout Oregon and Washington with an emphasis on the defense of complex liability claims, most notably, in dram shop/liquor liability. By successfully defending hundreds of cases, Jeff’s expert knowledge o...
Katie Eichner focuses her practice in the areas of medical malpractice and general litigation. While focusing on professional malpractice, Katie defends all types of civil litigation and has experience with employment discrimination, business disputes, personal injury defense, motor vehicle accidents, contract disputes, and even civil assault and battery. She has defended a varied number of tort claims on behalf of her clients, recently achieving a defense verdict in a medical malpractice tri...
Steve English has more than 35 years of jury and non-jury trial experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants. He has successfully tried over 100 cases to verdict. His trial experience includes business disputes, commercial torts, environmental claims, trade secrets, securities, breach of contract, directors' and officers' liability and product liability claims. He has served as national, regional and Oregon counsel for international businesses and manufacturers. He has broad experie...
LAW PRACTICE EMPHASIS: Asbestos Litigation, Insurance Defense, Product Liability Defense, and Construction Defect Litigation. Admitted to practice in Oregon and Washington. Allen E. Eraut is an attorney and shareholder with Rizzo Mattingly Bosworth PC in Portland, Oregon. He enjoys an active litigation practice defending personal injury and property claims. Allen has defended local and national companies in asbestos litigation, handled multi-million-dollar casualty cases, and managed construc...
Michael Estok is a litigator representing a diverse mix of clients in Oregon and Washington in areas including commercial law, professional liability (on behalf of physicians, hospitals, long-term care facilities, attorneys, and accountants), products liability, employment, securities, class actions, and appeals. He has successfully tried many cases before judges, arbitrators, and juries. In every case, Michael seeks to obtain a deep understanding of his client’s business or area of pro...
Elizabeth Falcone is a Shareholder with Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. Ms. Falcone represents private and public employers in all aspects of employment law, including wage/hour matters, wrongful termination, discrimination, and harassment litigation. She has experience defending single and multi-plaintiff cases, as well as class action cases. She has tried cases for employers in state and federal courts. She also has experience in traditional labor law, including handling ...
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