Practice Areas

Family Law

• Pre-marital and pre-cohabitation planning
• Preparing prenuptial and cohabitation agreements to protect assets and insure legacies and succession to non-joint children
• Divorce or dissolutions of registered same-sex domestic partnerships.
  • Complex valuation issues, closely held businesses, forensic accounting issues
  • Spousal support issues
  • Custody and parenting time issues
  • Abuse prevention and defense of claims of abuse
  • Emergency custody and restraining orders
  • Drafting of marital and property settlement agreements
  • Drafting of qualified domestic relations orders
  • Mediation and collaborative divorce
  • Collection actions for back support or delinquent property awards
  • Representation of the LGBT parent or child in family court
• Petitions and responses to dissolve domestic partnerships between members of the opposite sex.
• Prosecution and defense of actions to dissolve domestic partnerships implied by law.
• Modification of divorce
  • Custody modification
  • Parenting time modification
  • Support modification
• Adoptions
  • Contested adoptions involving the termination of parental rights
  • Step parent adoptions

Personal Injury and Tort Litigation

• Motor vehicle accidents for injury or death
• Premises liability
  • Claims against property owners for dangerous conditions on their premises
  • Dram shop actions against liquor establishments for injuries caused by patrons
• Civil actions to recover for the victims of domestic abuse
• Defective products
  • Claims against manufacturers, designers and distributors of defective products resulting in personal injury or death
• Claims of professional medical, dental and legal malpractice

Business Law

• Partner or member disputes
• Business formation
• Commercial collections
• Construction lien litigation
• Dissolution of closely held businesses
• Regulatory and administrative litigation for the small business owner, including representation of liquor, nursing, and foster home businesses in regulatory or administrative disciplinary or sanction proceedings
• General counseling to the small business owner
• Preparation of operating agreements for the closely held entity

Real Estate Law

• Drafting of real estate agreements
• Representation of the buyer, seller or agent involved in the disputed real estate transaction
• Boundary, easement and adversary possession claims litigation

Insurance Law

• Providing business and individuals “coverage opinions” concerning whether a loss is subject to payment under the provisions of a particular insurance policy
• Litigation against an insurance company for denial of claims under home owner’s fire, liability, health care or auto policies

Criminal Law

• DUII: driving under the influence of intoxicants
• License compliance issues
• Traffic crimes
• Major and minor felonies

Estate Planning

• Guardianships and conservatorships
• Estate planning, including wills and trusts
• Contested probate litigation including will challenges, removal of trustees, contested guardianship proceedings, claims of fiduciary misappropriation or wrongdoing
• Administration of estates and trusts

Administrative Law

• Compliance and contested case representation of claims by governmental administrative agencies against business or individuals who are subject to state licensing requirements
• Negotiation and litigation of claims by government against businesses such as liquor establishments, lottery licenses, adult foster homes and professionals who are subject to licensing by various boards
• Representation of nurses and physicians who are subject to practice or conduct allegations that implicate their license status

Construction Defect Litigation

• Prosecution of claims of defective construction
  • Preparation and preservation of claims for defective new or remodeled construction
  • Representation of claimants before the Oregon construction builder’s board
  • New home warranty claims
• Claims against homeowners’ associations for failure to maintain common elements.
• Moisture intrusion and building envelope claims

Appellate Law

• Family law and civil appeals
• Briefing
• Oral arguments

Consumer Law

• Representing the consumer or vendor involved in the purchase or patronization of goods and services offered within the setting of the commercial market
• Recovering Fraudulent or exploitative measures undertaken by vendors in violation of Federal and State consumer laws
• Warranty claims
• Unfair trade practice litigation
• Automobiles and automobile dealerships
• False or deceptive advertising
• Consumer protection

Employment Law

• Wage and hour claims
• Employment discrimination claims
• Employee rights
• Sexual harassment claims