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In conjunction with the District of Oregon and its Pro Bono Program, and the ACLU, we have represented several indigent clients and prisoners bringing civil…
In 2019, three of our attorneys spent a week in El Paso, Texas, representing asylum seekers who were fleeing their home countries because they were…
We regularly file amicus curiae briefs in Oregon courts on behalf of public interest and community groups in a wide variety of cases. These have…
As local counsel we defended a national bank, acting in its capacity as mortgage loan securitization trustee, against allegations that our client and other defendants…
As local counsel, we represented two investors who filed a derivative lawsuit on behalf of Lithia Motors, Inc. to challenge an overly generous transition agreement…
In a classic “bet the company” case we represented a 50% shareholder in litigation against the other 50% shareholder and President of an Ohio company…
We represented the owners of a commercial building in which tenants’ inventories were ruined due to a sewage back-up that occurred after a heavy rainfall.…
We represent a client being sued by the State of Oregon for fraud and unjust enrichment in his capacity as an officer of his company.…
After three homeowners’ brand new houses began to crack and sink, we filed a lawsuit on their behalf against the contractor, engineers, and others, including…
When a general contractor excavated the toe of an unstable slope he set off a landslide that severely damaged uphill homes. We represented the homeowners…
A Fortune 500 company sued our clients, a highly successful officer of the company and his team, and the national company they moved to, for…
Within a just a few days of learning our client’s former employee was using proprietary and confidential information to steal away customers, we filed a…
Our client, a national bank, was sued for violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act for allegedly wrongful reporting of a personal debt owed by…
When a franchised waste hauler sued our client for its doorstep trash and recycling services at apartment complexes, our defense resulted in dismissal of all…
In a classic exemplar of bookkeeper embezzlement, we tried a case for a national bank against whom the plaintiff car dealership made allegations of failing…
We tried a case for a national bank that was trying to enforce a personal guaranty of a substantial corporate debt. In response to the…
We represent 125 investors who collectively lost over $50 million in a local Ponzi scheme. To get their money back, we sued one of the…
Because public agencies are under tight deadlines to produce requested records, it takes swift and decisive action and knowledge of administrative and civil procedures to…
Our client, a metal recycler, was sued for $5 million under state and federal environmental statutes related to the contamination and clean-up of PCB containing…