People

Robert Allen has practiced law in Portland since 1965. He specializes in corporate law and complex litigation, with particular emphasis on business proprietary rights, unfair competition, and shareholder disputes; agriculture, natural resources and water law rights; all aspects of complex commercial litigation; and advocacy for businesses in legislation and government relations.

Bob’s experience spans a variety of industries, including small and large business operations, corporate governance, and global supply chain management/transactions.

He served as Managing Partner of Dunn Carney 1994-2011 and is rated by Super Lawyers.

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 industrial and multi-family properties.

Ken has a pragmatic, practical approach that serves his clients well. He recognizes that clients generally expect their transactions to move quickly, and they expect responsiveness, timeliness and efficiency from their legal counsel. Ken’s consistent and long-standing industry recognition shows that he brings these elements to every transaction he handles.

When he’s not in the office, Ken enjoys spending time with his family and their dogs outdoors in the Pacific Northwest.

Kristen Baker, CRP™, OCP is a paralegal with Dunn Carney’s business team. Her work is primarily corporate-based with an emphasis on health care, but with nearly 20 years of legal experience, she provides efficient attorney assistance across practice groups. She also works on litigation, real estate and estate planning matters.

Kristen’s work involves all aspects of client interaction, drafting and reviewing documents, case management, file administration and records organization. She joined Dunn Carney in 2013 and has worked with other Oregon law firms as a legal secretary, legal assistant, bookkeeper and office manager. She has been a speaker about paralegal training and certification at Oregon Paralegal Association and Portland Community College events.

When away from work, Kristen is usually spending time with her husband and son, plotting finishing touches for her recently-built home, or searching for the Pacific Northwest’s best Philly cheesesteak.

Sheryl Becker supports estate planning and business attorneys. She focuses on the preparation of wills, trusts, and related estate planning documents; trust administration; assisting with the preparation and filing of estate tax returns; and coordinating as needed with state and federal government agencies.

Sheryl assists with gathering financial records in part by coordinating with accountants and other professionals. Her tenacity and attention to detail are extremely helpful when dealing with administrative, governmental and bureaucratic agencies.

Sheryl has worked in the legal industry since 1973, with most of her career spent at Dunn Carney. She uses her friendly demeanor and communication skills to help clients navigate the estate planning and trust administration process. During her decades spent at Dunn Carney, Sheryl has built longstanding relationships with many clients.

When not at work, Sheryl loves to travel; so far, she’s been on 10 cruises with plans for more.

Jon Bennett, Dunn Carney’s managing partner, has more than 30 years of experience representing clients involved in a variety of businesses on matters ranging from daily operations to significant transactions and disputes. He is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Team, as well as the Construction and Design Team. As managing partner, he chairs the firm’s Executive Committee.

Jon specializes in real estate agreements involving leases, acquisitions, design, development and construction, and has special expertise in the negotiation of American Institute of Architects (AIA) contracts.

His experience in both business and real estate, as well as litigation, has given him a practical sense of business reality that helps him get clients to the transactional “finish line” while limiting expense.

In 2014, Jon was elected to a three-year term as a board member for Habitat for Humanity Portland Metro/East; he was reelected to another three-year term in 2017.

Outside the office, Jon is an outdoor enthusiast who enjoys skiing, golfing, hiking and biking with his family and friends.

Tim Bernasek focuses on agriculture and natural resources law, as well as administrative, real estate, employment, and business law. He leads Dunn Carney’s Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Team, sponsor of the firm’s popular annual Ag Summit. He also heads Dunn Carney’s Government Relations Team.

Each business has a different goal. I try to give clients the flexibility to choose the option that gives them the best outcome for their business.

For nearly 20 years, Tim has honed his legal skills while immersed in the agriculture industry. Prior to joining Dunn Carney, he served as general counsel for the Oregon Farm Bureau Federation, where he developed a legislative strategy with the Governmental Affairs Department and served as the administrator for the Oregon Agricultural Legal Foundation. He is one of the first lawyers in Portland to develop a team approach for addressing the unique legal needs of those within the ag industry.

Tim is adept at getting to the heart of clients’ legal issues, whether they involve employment, land use, real estate or contract matters, or dealing with state or federal agencies, including U.S. Department of Labor and its “hot goods” authority.

He provides clients with alternatives they can understand and evaluate themselves, enabling them to make the most effective decisions for their businesses.

Within Dunn Carney, Tim serves on the Executive Committee and is a member of the Employment and Real Estate/Land Use Teams.

Tim and his wife Poppy live in Portland with their children. In his spare time, Tim enjoys fly fishing and hiking throughout the Northwest and particularly in Montana.

Samantha Blair is a paralegal with Dunn Carney LLP’s Litigation Team. She works primarily in construction defect, personal injury, insurance defense and employment.

Samantha is skilled in all areas of complex litigation, including document analysis, case organization, database management and trial support activities.

Conner Bottomly is a litigation associate and a recent graduate of Lewis and Clark Law School who began at Dunn Carney as a Summer Associate in 2017. Before joining the firm, Conner served as a fulltime Judicial Extern to the Honorable District Judge Michael H. Simon, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. During law school he clerked for trial lawyers in Oregon and his home state of Montana to gain litigation experience in both state and federal court. He is a member of Dunn Carney’s Litigation Group and has been active in the firm’s business and real estate teams.

Conner brings extensive research and writing experience to firm. During law school, Conner was a Teaching Fellow for Professor Bill Chin in Lewis and Clark Law School’s Lawyering Program, a year-long course that teaches legal research, writing and professionalism to first-year students. Conner has experience drafting court motions and legal memoranda, assessing legal, procedural and trial risk, and preparing various documents for client counselling and advancing real estate and business transactions.

While in law school he served as the Lead Article Editor on the Editorial Board of the Lewis and Clark Law Review and was on the board of the student Federal Bar Association. Before law school Conner did therapeutic social work with teenagers on a ranch in Montana. In his free time Conner likes to play soccer, mountain bike and backcountry ski.

David Boyer focuses on structuring, drafting and negotiating successful business and real estate deals with an eye to his client’s bottom line. He is a member of Dunn Carney’s Real Estate Team and Business Team.

David works with individuals and commercial businesses to obtain favorable agreements in complex residential, commercial and industrial transactions. He draws on his experience representing institutional lenders – including multi-national banks, credit unions and loan servicers – to help clients identify issues and navigate financing in acquisitions, transfers, refinancing and investment strategies.

David has steered numerous complex real estate matters in sticky public and political environments to earn winning resolutions for his clients. He brings a practiced eye to advising landowners on strategic positioning in sales, permitting, financing and commercial and residential disputes.

Outside the office, David enjoys playing futsal (Brazilian style soccer) with his two kids and wife, biking throughout the Northwest, and making time to cook elaborate meals for his friends and family.

Jered Brown is a paralegal with Dunn Carney’s litigation team. He handles complex litigation matters often involving employment, agriculture, catastrophic injuries and contract disputes.

Jered has worked as a paralegal for more than 12 years. His diverse experience working on plaintiff, insurance defense, workers’ compensation and disability matters brings a unique perspective and advantage in helping develop efficient case strategies. He has a sharp eye for ensuring electronic discovery is identified and collected early in a case, and believes that paralegals are an invaluable component to a strong and successful legal team.

Jered enjoys exploring the Pacific Northwest and can be found escaping to the San Juan Islands in Washington State several times a year. On long summer evenings, he enjoys kayaking after work and on the weekends.

David Buono has more than 45 years of experience in business, commercial and construction law, as well as probate and estate planning/wills and trusts.

David currently represents clients in business transactions, acquisitions and sales, business formation and organization, private and public construction law including construction liens and bond claims, and drafting of construction and other business agreements, real estate sales, and finance transactions. He also works with clients on estate planning/wills and trusts, and probate administration.

Previously, David was a partner at Lindstedt & Buono P.C. and Buono & Block P.C. where his practice focused on business, commercial, construction, real estate, employment, and estate planning and probate administration.

Melissa Busley is an estate planning and tax attorney who joined Dunn Carney LLP in 2007. She enjoys working with clients to address their concerns and developing plans to achieve their goals.

In her estate planning practice, Melissa works with individuals and couples to ensure they have plans tailored to their unique situations, which provides for the management of assets if the client becomes incapacitated and also addresses how to manage and dispose of assets upon death.

Whether creating a complex or simple estate plan, Melissa’s goal is to ensure that the plan is appropriate to her client’s specific needs, and that the client is comfortable with the final outcome. Generally, the plan includes preparation of a will, powers of attorney and documents to address healthcare decisions, but can also include trusts.

Melissa also works with families after the death of a loved one to navigate the administration process.  Whether there is a probate (court supervised administration process), a trust administration, or both, she walks the client through the process by providing an overview and breaking the process down into manageable steps.  If necessary, she assists clients with the preparation of estate tax returns, and dealing with assets that pass by a non-probate transfer mechanism.

In addition to planning and administration work, Melissa works with tax-exempt organizations on operational matters and tax compliance. She assists new organizations in forming and receiving recognition of tax-exempt status.

Alongside her legal credentials, Melissa is a M.O.M. (mother of multiples) and cancer survivor. She loves spending time with her twin daughters, Charlotte and Elsie, her husband Sam, and volunteering with the American Cancer Society. During rare quiet moments, Melissa enjoys spending time with fictional characters, especially those found in books by her favorite author, Jane Austen.

John Chambers is a partner specializing in commercial, construction and real estate litigation.  With over 25 years’ experience, John has a long and successful track record of obtaining successful results in courtrooms throughout Oregon and Southwest Washington.

John also has extensive experience representing material suppliers and contractors in construction lien claims, as well as representing creditors in collection actions, judicial and non-judicial foreclosures, and claims in bankruptcy proceedings.

While John’s courtroom and litigation experience is extensive, he knows that a client’s objectives are often best achieved through early dispute resolution, which often involves the effective use of mediation.  Both in and out of the courtroom, John’s effectiveness is enhanced through both his and the firm’s reputation with judges and attorneys.

In his spare time, John enjoys traveling, skiing, golf, camping, running and college football. While at the University of Michigan, John was a multi-year letter winner in track and cross country.

Kelley Chaney joined Dunn Carney LLP in 2012 as a complex litigation paralegal; she has more than two decades of experience working in the legal field. Kelley assists attorneys in all aspects of case management, discovery and trial preparation. She has extensive experience in employment law, traumatic brain injury cases, business litigation, insurance defense and personal injury litigation.

Kelley specializes in managing e-discovery by applying innovative ESI strategies. She tackles e-discovery early in the case, starting with developing a targeted defensible plan for identification, preservation, and collection. Kelley’s experience allows her to balance the use of the latest technology with a practical evaluation of cost-effective alternatives tailored for each case.

Active in the pro bono community, Kelley believes that paralegals have a unique set of skills that can benefit the equal access to justice goals of the legal community. Her passion is to continue matching appropriate pro bono and community service opportunities with suitable volunteer paralegals.

Jack Cooper specializes in antitrust and employment law at Dunn Carney. In his antitrust practice, he routinely counsels clients to ensure compliance with rapidly evolving standards, including pricing and distribution policies. He also is regularly involved in litigation, including several cases that have gone to the United States Supreme Court addressing group boycotts and monopolization. For many years Jack has worked closely with the credit industry on antitrust issues, and regularly attends meetings of national industry credit groups.

Jack has worked closely with clients on employment-related issues throughout his career, a period in which employers have experienced revolutionary increases in workplace complexities and resulting potential liabilities. He is regularly involved in addressing and resolving a wide range of issues, including those involving disability, age, race, sex, harassment/hostile work environment, and other statutory employment discrimination claims, together with wage and hour compliance, and drug/alcohol testing.

Jack also assists in the structuring and implementation of troublesome employment separations, particularly at high executive levels. He has specialized expertise in the drafting and enforcement of non-competition and trade secrets restrictions in employment settings.

Jack recognizes that workable employment policies and solutions vary widely from one workplace to another. To implement and maintain individualized programs that are practical and workable, Jack takes the time to get to know each of his clients and their workforces.  Through this process, he has become an integral part of many HR departments and management teams.

Jack has been with Dunn Carney his entire legal career, joining the firm in 1972. For many years, he served as a practice group leader for the Firm and as a member of its Executive Committee.

When not in the office, Jack tries his best not to be a lawyer. He and his wife enjoy spending time on the Oregon Coast and visiting grandchildren. He is also an avid baseball fan and an even more avid (if not irrational) supporter of Duke basketball.

Michael (“Mike”) Crew is Of Counsel at Dunn Carney where his practice focuses on healthcare law. He represents physicians in resolving healthcare “fraud and abuse” issues with government regulators, private insurers, and related matters before licensing boards. Mike also represents the Oregon Medical Association, a number of medical staffs in Oregon, numerous multi-specialty clinics, and doctor-owned IPAs (Independent Practice Associations) and health plans.

He has worked with physician groups in Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Idaho, organizing IPAs, physician hospital organizations, and physician owned insurance companies which insure both Medicare Advantage and Oregon Health Plan (CCO) enrollees. Prior to joining Dunn Carney, Mike was a partner at Cooney & Crew LLP.

Mike is a member of numerous organizations and societies including the Oregon State Bar and the American Health Lawyers Association. He was a member of the Governor’s Task Force on liability, and chaired and wrote the Tort Reform Bill which was enacted into law in 1987 in the State of Oregon.

Teri Lynn Curtin specializes in assisting attorneys working in estate planning, probate, trust administration and corporate law. She has worked in the legal industry since 1990, and has been with Dunn Carney since 1995.

She initially earned a degree in business administration, but found working in the legal field was a better fit. A native Portlander, Teri Lynn moved to rural Oregon in 2004 with her husband and three children.

Ken Davis is a partner at Dunn Carney LLP where his business, real estate, and estate planning and administration practice reflects the broad range of counsel he provides to closely-held businesses and individuals. Ken started with the firm as a law clerk and has been with Dunn Carney for more than 30 years.

Ken’s work with closely-held businesses includes helping business owners structure their business entities, negotiating and drafting contracts, assisting with the purchase and sale of businesses, helping document and close real estate transactions, and planning for business succession.

Clients often turn to Ken for estate planning and administration counsel as well. He helps a range of individuals craft estate plans that are tailored to their needs, and drafts wills and trusts to implement those plans. When it comes time to carry out the plan, Ken assists family members with the administration of the estate through a probate and/or trust administration, striving to make the process as straightforward as possible during what is always a difficult time.

Ken works on real estate finance transactions in conjunction with members of the firm’s Real Estate Team. He regularly assists with the closing of multi-million dollar loans for commercial real estate developers and investors.

In addition to his legal expertise, Ken draws on his personal experience in business to craft solutions that address the day-to-day issues faced by owners of closely-held businesses. Prior to law school, Ken worked as an independent property and casualty insurance agent and principal with a family-owned insurance agency. He also worked in commercial real estate leasing with a prominent Oregon firm. In college, Ken honed his analytical and problem-solving skills as a student of the sciences.

Away from the office, you are likely to find Ken with a camera in hand, photographing people, both out on the street and at festivals, and occasionally in more formal photo shoots.  Ken is also a fan of audio book mysteries and devoted to his family.

George Dingeldein is an experienced real estate professional. His background in real estate development and construction gives him a unique and thorough understanding of the industry, which saves his clients time, money and headache.

George is adept at handling a diverse array of real estate matters including acquisitions, leasing, financing, recapitalizations, land use and development, property management, construction contracts and disputes, title matters, joint ventures and entity formations.

He represents real estate developers and investors involving retail, industrial, manufacturing, commercial, office, residential and mixed-use properties. In addition, George represents a variety of businesses with corporate and general business matters, including asset and stock sales, mergers, shareholder agreements, financing transactions, manufacturing services agreements and operational matters.

Dan Drazan is a real estate attorney in Dunn Carney LLP’s Real Estate Team. Dan advises clients on a range of real estate transactions and on general business matters. He also represents landlords and tenants in commercial lease disputes, including mediations and evictions.

Dan strives to provide successful and efficient navigation of complex transactions and legal issues for his clients. His practice focuses on assisting clients purchase, sell, develop, finance, and lease all types of real property, including shopping centers, industrial parks, office buildings, multifamily housing, hospitality properties and personal residences.

In 2015 Dan completed mediator training, putting to new use his experience in the real estate industry. Enabling parties to craft their own dispute solutions to avoid the delay, expense and anxiety of litigation is the hallmark of mediation and a natural fit for Dan. He is available serve as a mediator to assist people in resolving a range of real estate disputes.

In addition to leading Dunn Carney’s Real Estate Team, Dan is a member of Dunn Carney’s Executive Committee.

Outside the office, Dan spends much of his free time fishing the Pacific Northwest’s rivers and bays in search of salmon, trout and steelhead.

Linda Escobar, CRP™, OCP assists Dunn Carney’s Real Estate Group and Business Group lawyers with entity formations, dissolutions, mergers and acquisitions, stock transactions, corporate governance and real estate transactions.

In addition to her work as a practice assistant and paralegal, Linda serves as Team Mentor for other staff in the firm’s Business and Real Estate Groups. Linda joined the firm in 2008 and has nearly 30 years’ experience as a practice assistant, paralegal and mentor.

A passionate gardener, Linda continuously plants flowers that entice hummingbirds, butterflies and bees to her garden. Linda also explores nature by hiking throughout the region, though only on sunny days.

Ashlee Espaillat joined Dunn Carney in 2015 as a member of the firm’s Business Team. She is an experienced commercial transactions attorney and trusted adviser to international and domestic executive management, with expertise in negotiation, contract drafting and cross-cultural business relations.

Ashlee enjoys maintaining a general business practice, and is happiest when she has a variety of types of transactions on her desk at once. She has experience dealing with matters ranging from supermarket and manufacturing acquisitions to commercial real estate purchase and lease agreements. Her broad experience continues to help sharpen her skills to identify the pertinent issues in the varying transactions she works on.

After beginning her law career in San Francisco, Ashlee took a position in Madrid, Spain as a global transaction negotiation lead for the Mediterranean division global wind turbine manufacturer. She spent four years in Spain before moving to Oregon in 2014 and she’s still getting used to the rain.

When not in the office, Ashlee is likely spending time with her Spanish husband working on the remodel of their home or out exploring all of the good food and wine Portland has on offer.

Anne Foster is an experienced trial lawyer and trusted business advisor. With a key focus on finding ways to protect her clients’ interests and avoid protracted litigation. Anne specializes in complicated business disputes, sticky employment situations, and catastrophic injury claims. She has successfully tried to verdict well over 50 cases in Oregon and Washington.

Anne gets results while providing personal attention to each of her clients. With every case, she takes the time to learn her client’s story, and dives deep when gathering details about both the client and the case at hand. Her clients share control and ownership throughout the litigation process, and she considers the client the most important member of the trial team.

Within the firm, Anne serves on the Executive Committee, leads Team People (personal and professional litigation team) and previously served as co-leader of the Litigation Team. Anne is also a member of the Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Team and Healthcare Teams. She also founded and leads the firm’s task force dedicated to implementing practical solutions for better retention and advancement of new lawyers.

When not practicing law, Anne enjoys spending time with her two girls – both of whom are wholly unimpressed with their mom’s trial skills.

Susan Glen is a partner at Dunn Carney LLP where she practices real estate and business law. She leads the firm Real Estate and Land Use Team and is an active member of the firm’s Construction and Design Team.

Susan’s more than 20 years of real estate transaction work includes acquisitions, sales, financing, Section 1031 tax-deferred exchanges of all types of commercial real property, and extensive lease negotiation experience. She has particular expertise with real estate development; industrial and environmentally impacted properties; and mixed-use development matters involving easements and covenants, conditions and restrictions.

Susan’s extensive experience with condominium and planned unit development construction and formation ranges from several-unit dwellings to complex mixed-use urban developments. Her practice also includes post-turnover condominium management issues, giving her a keen understanding of key issues for condominium construction and operation.

Susan emphasizes clear communication with her clients and works to make their priorities her own. By taking time to understand their objectives, she can provide the highest quality advice possible in a practical and cost-effective fashion. Her clients include large, closely-held investment and development companies, industrial property owners and companies, government entities, individuals and various smaller companies.

Before becoming a lawyer, Susan studied city and regional planning at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and worked as a regional planner in southern New Hampshire.  This training and experience give her a broad and practical understanding of land use planning and regulation, which helps her advance her clients’ interests.

When not practicing law, Susan golfs, gardens, and fly fishes throughout Oregon and during her travels.

Chelsea Glynn is a member of Dunn Carney’s Litigation Team. She has defended municipal bodies, individuals, commercial carriers and manufacturers in negligence, products liability, personal injury, construction and premises liability claims.

Before joining Dunn Carney, Chelsea served as an assistant county counsel for Washington County and in private practice. She has experience in state and federal court and the Oregon Court of Appeals.

Chelsea counts among her strengths her research and writing skills, as well as her experience in discovery.

Away from the office, Chelsea enjoys playing tennis and running. In addition to spending time with her pet African Grey parrot and her dog, she regularly fosters dogs and volunteers with a local animal shelter.

Heather Guthrie is a partner at Dunn Carney who focuses on estate planning and administration. She leads the firm’s Estate Planning and Administration Team.

Heather’s practice includes developing comprehensive plans for estates of all sizes, with an emphasis on legacy-building for families and individuals using complex tax-planning strategies. Heather also assists clients in establishing and administering guardianships and conservatorships, and through probate and post-mortem trust administration.

Heather prides herself on building close connections with her clients and structuring estate plans that reflect each client’s unique values and goals.

Active in the community outside her law practice, Heather serves on the board of directors for the United Way of the Columbia-Willamette and for the Portland Estate Planning Council. She can communicate reasonably well in Spanish and French.

When not working, Heather can be found courtside at her teenage daughter’s volleyball games or “glamping” in an Airstream trailer in the woods with her family (husband Gil, daughter Ellie, and Labrador Retrievers Zeus and Thor).

Tim Hering, a partner in the firm’s Real Estate and Construction groups, handles real estate transactions and real estate litigation in both Oregon and Washington.

His practice involves the acquisition, sale and leasing of a variety of properties, including shopping centers, office buildings, industrial parks and multifamily housing. Tim’s clients include owners, property managers, landlords, tenants, lenders, trustees and others. He has extensive experience in all phases of commercial and residential leasing, from initial lease negotiation and drafting to lease enforcement and evictions.

Tim has litigated numerous real estate and business disputes over the years and brings that experience to bear on his transactional work. He has a keen eye for identifying risk and is able to develop strategies to help his clients avoid it.

Tim is in the unique (unenviable?) position of being both a Washington Husky and an Oregon Duck, earning his bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington and his J.D. from the University of Oregon. He enjoys living in Portland with his wife and daughter, sharing the bike lanes, and experiencing the ever-shifting restaurant and craft beer scene.

Aurora Hood is a paralegal and practice assistant with Dunn Carney LLP’s Litigation Team, providing support to the firm’s trial attorneys and senior litigation paralegals.

Before starting her career at Dunn Carney, Aurora won a scholarship from the National Federation of Paralegal Associations and Thomson/Reuters for an article she wrote about Washington’s Limited License Legal Technician Program. The story appeared in the Summer 2016 edition of the National Paralegal Reporter.

Francesca Hrenko is a paralegal with Dunn Carney’s Real Estate team. She has more than 25 years’ experience assisting attorneys in a range of top law firms with corporate, business and litigation matters.

Francesca has developed extensive experience working on corporate and real estate transactions as well as tenant-in-common, construction, condemnation, environmental and land use cases.

She has worked with as many as 36 tenant-in-common owners per case, gathering extensive documents in multiple formats from across the country for discovery.
She serves as corporate paralegal for more than 150 entities and files articles of incorporation as well as annual reports in Oregon, Washington, Nevada and multiple other states.

In litigation, Francesca has handled intake and management, subpoenas, releases and discovery, complex chronologies, key document tracking and trial prep for high volume cases in Oregon, Washington and Federal Courts.

Bill Joseph leads the firm’s Construction and Design Team and is also a member of the firm’s Litigation Team. His practice emphasizes serving as outside general counsel for construction industry clients who either do not employ their own in-house attorneys or who need counsel in areas outside their usual expertise.

Bill advises developers, general contractors, subcontractors, design professionals, real estate professionals, as well as product manufacturers and suppliers regarding matters ranging from entity formation and administration, insurance and bonding, bidding and contracting, project administration and workouts, as well as liens and collections. Bill also has significant litigation and dispute resolution experience including successful representation of clients in mediation, arbitration, court trials and appeals.

He has litigated and tried construction and real estate-related disputes, including breaches of contract, construction defects, lien foreclosures, bond actions, adverse possession actions, encroachments, subsidence and other real estate disputes, unlawful trade practices and breaches of fiduciary duty claims, corporate and partnership disputes, statutory violations, negligence and other general tort matters.

Bill is also adept at handling transactional matters that clients regularly encounter in any general construction practice, including business formation and administration, contract drafting; real estate transactions, employment matters, and other construction and design-related issues.

Bill uses a holistic approach to problem solving, encouraging clients to look beyond the issue at hand and address larger structural or operational issues when possible. He finds this is the most effective way to help clients prevent future–and often more costly–legal problems.

When Bill isn’t practicing law, he is an avid guitar and ukulele player. He and his wife, Joanna Lezak, have a band called Baby Carrots that plays kid music they hope parents appreciate as well. Bill plays all kinds of guitar music, but his true love is jazz.

Eric Kekel is a partner at Dunn Carney who leads the Insurance Defense Team. His practice focuses on construction law, commercial litigation, catastrophic personal injury defense, insurance defense and insurance coverage. Eric handles an array of litigated matters, including construction claims, business and contract disputes, products liability, and a variety of personal injury defense.

Eric has special expertise in defending construction defect and design claims, many involving complex design and engineering issues, mechanical system issues and moisture penetration. He has represented developers, architects, engineers, general contractors and subcontractors.

As the high-rise market has grown in Oregon and Washington, Eric has been at the forefront of defending high-rise construction and design defect claims. He was among the first to defend high-rise construction defect claims with his representation of the developers involved in Portland’s South Waterfront. With entirely different issues surrounding high-rise and low-rise development, Eric is well-known for his experience with both.

Clients consistently rely on Eric to fully and fairly evaluate the liability and damages of a case; claims have ranged from a few hundred thousand dollars to more than $120 million.

Before he gets to the office, Eric has for years started his morning with a run. He is an avid supporter of both the Oregon State Beavers football team and the Linfield Wildcats football team. In the fall he is often on the road to root for them.

Elizabeth Knight is a litigator with extensive experience in state and federal court. She is a member of Dunn Carney’s Litigation Team, and her practice focuses on commercial litigation, trust and estate disputes, legal malpractice defense, and agriculture-related litigation. Elizabeth also frequently serves as local counsel for out-of-state attorneys and clients.

With every case she handles, Elizabeth strives to find creative solutions that lead to good results for the client as early in the case as possible. She uses a holistic approach, balancing vigorous advocacy with measured, strategic litigation, consistent with the client’s goals.

Elizabeth is Dunn Carney’s Hiring Partner, chair of Dunn Carney Cares, the firm’s private foundation, and former chair of the firm’s charitable giving and pro bono programs. She views pro bono work as part of her professional responsibility and was recognized by the Oregon State Bar for her countless hours of service with the 2015 President’s Public Service Award. Elizabeth currently serves as President of the Campaign for Equal Justice.

Allyson Krueger has more than 20 years of experience as a management-side employment lawyer representing small, medium and large businesses, as well as nonprofit entities, in cases involving claims of discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination, harassment and breach of contract.

Allyson also has extensive experience litigating claims related to trade secrets, confidentiality/nondisclosure provisions and noncompetition and/or nonsolicitation agreements. She regularly appears before the state and federal courts in Oregon and Washington, in private arbitration, and before administrative agencies. Allyson also litigates business and commercial disputes and is chair of Dunn Carney’s Litigation Practice Group.

Allyson has an active employment advice and counseling practice, assisting employers with creative solutions to workplace problems. She also helps employers navigate state and federal employment laws (FMLA/OFLA, ADA, FLSA, etc.), conduct policy reviews, and investigate workplace misconduct.

Outside of the office, Allyson enjoys cooking, hiking, and cycling.

Jonathan Liou is an experienced litigator who represents individuals and businesses involved in complex products liability, construction defect, personal injury, and professional liability disputes. Before joining Dunn Carney in 2016, Jon worked at two large Northwest law firms handling toxic tort, construction defect, and catastrophic injury litigation. Jon also honed his trial skills while working as a deputy district attorney for Multnomah County.

Jon takes pride in analyzing and understanding all facets of a case, and being able to clearly and concisely communicate his advice to clients. His experience with both settlement negotiation and handling cases that proceed to trial prepares him for any direction a case may take.

Outside of the office, Jon enjoys playing basketball, golf, rock climbing and creating stained glass. He speaks Mandarin fluently.

Michelle Lively has worked in the Portland legal industry for more than 20 years, developing diverse experience that allows her to work effectively across many different practice areas.

Since joining Dunn Carney in 2001, she has worked with attorneys on a wide range of cases involving everything from products liability, tort, employment, personal injury, insurance defense, business litigation, land condemnation and complex construction cases. Michelle’s experience gives her an ability to provide case analysis and case strategies for all types of cases.

Prior to becoming a paralegal in Oregon, Michelle was a real estate broker in Kona, Hawaii. Her expertise in the real estate profession included sales and management of both residential and commercial properties.

During her time away from the office, Michelle enjoys spending time on or near the water, traveling and spending time with her family and friends.

Intellectual property attorney Kelly Lusk focuses on all aspects of the acquisition, protection, enforcement, monetization, and litigation of trademarks, patents, and copyrights, including licensing, litigation, and prosecution. She is a member of Dunn Carney’s Business Team.

Kelly has worked with well-known Denver and Portland IP law firms advising clients ranging from individuals to start-up companies and Fortune 500 corporations. Her IP litigation, strategic planning, prosecution and licensing experience extends to a wide range of industries.

Kelly brings a unique understanding of the range of IP business and legal issues facing clients today. She is able to help her clients protect their ideas, mobilize their IP assets, and secure mutually beneficial business arrangements and relationships. In the event that a client needs to enforce or litigate its intellectual property, Kelly has the skill set and experience to handle the litigation.

Kelly is skilled in structuring, negotiating and drafting all types of intellectual property protection licenses and other types of IP contracts. She has drafted, prosecuted, enforced, and litigated trademarks, design patents, plant patents, utility patents and copyrights. She has also experience in Copyright DMCA actions, WIPO cybersquatting cases, and trademark oppositions and cancellations. Kelly also assists clients in developing and executing strategic intellectual property protection plans. She has extensive experience in drafting intellectual property opinions, such as invalidity or non-infringement opinions.

Kelly is a certified licensing professional and member of the Licensing Executive Society. She is admitted to prosecute patent applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

In her spare time, Kelly enjoys spending time with family and friends, scuba diving — she is a divemaster — and helping at the family saltwater aquarium store, Cuttle Fish and Corals.

Cristi Lutjen is a paralegal who has been with Dunn Carney LLP for more than 25 years. She specializes in commercial and construction litigation, as well as real estate and corporate law. Cristi routinely works on construction liens, collection issues and garnishments, skip tracing and asset location, and real property title searches in both Oregon and Washington.

In addition to paralegal work, Cristi supports Dunn Carney’s Real Estate Team, including the practice group leader and the firm’s managing partner.

She also serves as the Team Lead for the Real Estate Team and the Business Team, coordinating work flow and communication for staff.

Outside of work, Cristi is an avid runner who enjoys cooking, gardening, knitting and quilting.

Randall Malmstrom joined Dunn Carney as a corporate paralegal in 2011 and has been in the professional paralegal field since 1994. His duties include all aspects of business entity formation and maintenance; governmental filings; tax registrations; legal research; business licensing; business transactions; Uniform Commercial Code financing documentation and filings; real estate transactions; securities registrations; trademark registrations and maintenance; and copyright registrations. Randall’s years of diverse experience are an asset to the firm’s clients.

Outside his work in the legal field, Randall has been a music teacher of most every skill and education levels, and is currently a music arranger – his arrangements find ears across the globe. He spent decades as a professional musician, having played with the Oregon Symphony, Seattle Opera Orchestra and Portland Opera Orchestra among many other groups.

Jeana McGlasson is a partner in Dunn Carney’s Estate Planning and Administration and Tax teams. Her practice focuses on estate planning, probate and trust administration, and taxation. In addition to being an attorney, Jeana holds an Oregon CPA license and practiced as a CPA in Portland before becoming an attorney.

Jeana serves on Dunn Carney’s Pro Bono Committee and manages the firm’s annual fundraiser for the Oregon Lawyer’s Campaign for Equal Justice. As Chair of Dunn Carney’s Charitable Contribution Committee, Jeana also manages the firm’s charitable giving.

In her spare time Jeana enjoys traveling, reading, and spending time with family and friends.

Karen McGlone is the Director of Marketing for Dunn Carney LLP. She has extensive experience in developing and implementing marketing and communications programs within the legal services and education industry including work with the Oregon State Bar, Willamette University College of Law and Portland area law firms.

At Dunn Carney  Karen manages strategic marketing and communications, client development and day-to-day marketing initiatives.

Kate Moore works with clients as they navigate natural resource and environmental legal challenges.

Her natural resource practice is primarily focused on water law, in both transactional matters and litigation. She advises clients on water rights permitting and transfers, water rights transactions, easements, wetlands, and water quality. In addition, Kate handles matters related to the National Environmental Policy Act, public land permits and licenses, and the Endangered Species Act.

In her environmental practice, Kate helps commercial and industrial land owners and operators with environmental compliance, identifying and addressing environmental liabilities in property transactions, and Superfund and other environmental cleanup and cost recovery actions.

Communicating effectively with state and federal agencies and coordinating with environmental and natural resource consultants is an important part of Kate’s success in helping clients achieve their goals. Many matters are resolved outside of court, but Kate also handles matters in administrative proceedings and in state and federal courts. She enjoys managing her clients’ legal matters in this ever-changing regulatory environment so they can focus on what is most important to them.

Kate easily translates complex legal issues into succinct, manageable ideas that clients find easy to understand. Kate is also able to find common ground among stakeholders and audiences with diverse points of view.

When not in the office, Kate can be found with her two daughters and husband, running as the sun rises, and taking photographs. You might also find her hiking and skiing throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Donna Moser, SPHR, SCP, is the Director of Human Resources and Operations at Dunn Carney LLP. She has more than 25 years’ experience in human resources management and recruitment for leading healthcare and legal service providers. Her wholistic approach to hiring and operational decisions has helped shape the culture of the firm.

Marsha Murray-Lusby is a partner at Dunn Carney LLP. Her practice encompasses estate planning and administration for clients in a range of businesses and with varied assets. Marsha also helps agri-business families with the unique challenges involved in estate and tax planning for succession.

Her practice includes preparation of wills and trusts; administration of all types of trusts; administration of probate estates; estate and gift tax planning; preparation of estate and gift tax returns; and post-mortem planning, particularly involving tax, disclaimer, and environmental issues.

Marsha’s experience in both planning and administration, and her genuine interest in learning about her clients, enables her to accommodate each client’s unique family dynamic, anticipate issues and customize plans to help ensure successful administration. She views estate planning as a process and emphasizes the importance of client education and communication. Her goal is to help clients make good planning decisions to ensure peace of mind that their wishes will be carried out and family relationships will be preserved.

Within the firm, Marsha leads the Estate Planning and Administration Team and serves on the firm Executive Committee. She is active in the Oregon estate planning community and is currently serving on the Oregon Law Commission work group to modernize Oregon’s probate code.

Outside the office, Marsha likes to travel, cook and watch soccer games. She has a penchant for reading murder mysteries and thrillers, a response, she claims, to reading technical documents as part of her day job.

Since 2007, Linda Odermott, RP®, OCP has worked as a paralegal in complex litigation and municipal law. She has special expertise in land use, construction defect, real property and marijuana-related matters. At Dunn Carney, Linda works with attorneys in the firm’s litigation and real estate groups.

Linda’s experience includes extensive research on tribal law, treaties, franchise agreements, ordinances and resolutions of local and state agencies, case law, easements, rights of way, land use agreements, policies and regulations of government agencies, historic maps and diagrams, and public records.

An active member of the local and national paralegal community, Linda has been a panelist, facilitator and speaker at the National Federation of Paralegal Associations and Oregon Paralegal Association’s conferences. In addition, she teaches real property as a member of the part-time faculty at Portland Community College’s Paralegal Program.

When not working, teaching or volunteering, Linda spends time with her family and likes to paint and draw to relax.

Gil Parker is a partner in the Real Estate and Land Use Team of Dunn Carney LLP. His practice focuses on real estate development, business transactions, commercial lending, construction and construction liens, and secured transactions. He has extensive experience in handling multi-million dollar transactions for developers, buyers, sellers, and borrowers in commercial real estate. He also structures purchases and sales of closely-held businesses.

Transactions depend on clarity and trust  –  that’s what I try to provide.

While working with clients who are leaders in sustainable real estate development, Gil has acquired a broad knowledge of the legal issues involved in public and private sustainable development.  He focuses on transactional work because he enjoys creating solid business connections among the involved parties. Understanding that transactions depend on clarity and trust, Gil finds satisfaction in crafting agreements that integrate the parties’ diverse objectives.

His calm demeanor in the fast-changing real estate world has been noted by his peers who have been quoted in Chamber’s USA describing Gil as a “constructive deal-maker” who is “perceptive, unflappable and accommodating.”

Gil joined the firm in 1975 and became a partner at Dunn Carney in 1981. He was the firm’s managing partner from 1991 to 1993 and has served on the firm’s Executive Committee frequently since the 1980s.

Gil Parker is a skilled—but modest—woodworker who crafted the Purpleheart stand-up desk in his office. He is most proud of his former service on the Board of Directors for Riverbend Youth Center, Inc. for nine years. Riverbend is a nonprofit residential and day treatment center for emotionally disturbed adolescents and their families.

Jeff Perry is a business and tax attorney who draws on his extensive tax training and business expertise to develop practical solutions that support clients’ business and tax objectives. In addition to his J.D., Jeff has an LL.M. in taxation and eight years of experience as a senior tax advisor with two national accounting firms. He chairs the firm’s Business Team and is an active member of the Tax Team.

With clients ranging from local, closely-held companies to international corporations, Jeff advises on day-to-day business matters and transactions including entity formation and structure; mergers and acquisitions; restructurings; and transactions involving S corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies and pass-through entities.

Every transaction carries a range of tax implications. By bringing a tax perspective to business issues, I can develop strategies that are appropriate to each client’s situation.

Jeff uses a team-oriented approach, collaborating effectively with client consultants as well as other members of Dunn Carney’s Business Team. The result is workable solutions that draw from Dunn Carney’s full range of legal expertise and input from clients’ trusted advisors.  The approach also serves clients well who hire Jeff as in-house counsel. The relationship allows him a deeper understanding of the client, their business and their company culture, which he takes into account in developing business strategies.

When he’s not at work, Jeff enjoys spending time with his wife and children, visiting family in Hawaii, cheering for the Ducks and Timbers, and grilling throughout the year on the “Big Green Egg.”

Coni Rathbone is a remarkable negotiator and deal-maker. Bringing together seven years of management and financing experience prior to law school, Coni uses her negotiation skills to accomplish her clients’ goals with a minimum of conflict. She focuses her deal-making skills in the areas of real estate, tenant-in-common (TIC) workouts, corporate and securities law, mergers and acquisitions, and general business transactions. She is a member of Dunn Carney’s Real Estate and Business Teams.

Coni’s expertise helps her clients purchase, develop and sell commercial property as well as navigate securities transactions, including private placements of securities. She also forms, buys and sells businesses, and serves as general counsel for many startups and established businesses.

As a nationally known legal counsel to TIC owner groups, Coni has represented more than 150 groups since 2007.  She helps TIC owner groups with issues including protection from predatory asset managers or consultants and arrangements for loan modifications and manager changes. She is a prominent national speaker and writer in this area.

Lauren Russell is an associate who practices primarily with Dunn Carney’s Litigation Team.  Her practice focuses on employment-related matters – both plaintiff and defense side – and commercial litigation. Lauren has also represented corporate and individual clients across a diverse range of industries including insurance, rail transportation and health care. She participates in every phase of litigation, including research, drafting and argument of substantive procedural motions, discovery, and preparation for mediation, arbitration and trial.

In addition to her legal experience, Lauren’s persuasive written and oral advocacy skills make her a valuable asset to her colleagues and clients. Prior to law school, Lauren worked as a daily newspaper reporter and freelance writer in her home state of Montana. Through this experience, Lauren learned to craft a well-written narrative to fit a target audience, as well as how to communicate effectively with people of diverse backgrounds.

As a law student, Lauren clerked for the Oregon Department of Justice’s Appellate Division and externed for the Hon. Ann Aiken, then-Chief District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon.

Lauren enjoys exploring the Pacific Northwest on foot, by ski, and by boat and takes every opportunity to do so with family and friends.

Kyle Sele, CPA, CLM has led accounting, finance and administrative departments in law firms for more than 25 years. A motivational leader, she works closely with the teams she oversees to achieve company goals and encourage ideas for corporate growth.

Kyle is accomplished in all facets of corporate accounting, financial analysis, office management, budget preparation, billing, and accounting systems implementation. At Dunn Carney, she manages the Accounting/Finance, IT, and Records Departments.

Jennifer Severson assists estate and business attorneys with setting up and administering probates, handling trust administrations, preparing estate tax returns, and setting up guardianships and conservatorships. Jennifer has worked in the legal industry for more than 20 years, joining Dunn Carney in 1999 as a legal secretary in the Trusts and Estates Group. She has served as a probate paralegal at Dunn Carney since 2010.

Jennifer is dedicated to guiding clients step-by-step through the often complicated probate and trust administration processes. She enjoys helping ease the stress of what can be an overwhelming process for the decedents’ loved ones; Jennifer’s goal is to make the administration process as smooth and efficient as possible.

When away from work, Jennifer enjoys camping, boating, watching sporting events, and exploring the outdoors while spending time with her husband and two boys.

Sam Smith is a member of Dunn Carney’s Litigation Team. He represents both plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of matters, including employment, housing and civil rights, products liability and premises liability, healthcare litigation, elder abuse cases, and personal injury matters. He also litigates commercial disputes and is a founding member of the firm’s Team People, a plaintiff’s litigation group.

In all areas of practice, Sam advises clients on a wide range of legal issues – before, during and after litigation.

Prior to becoming a lawyer, Sam spent two years as a public school teacher in St. Louis, Missouri. (Go Langston Middle School Nighthawks!) After teaching, Sam moved back to his hometown in Oregon where he spent a year working in a local lumber mill before attending law school.

In his free time, Sam enjoys playing sports, reading books, and spending time with friends and family. He also manages the firm’s softball team.

Natalie Stack joined Dunn Carney in 2017 as a member of the Litigation, Business, and Estate Planning and Administration Teams. With the Business Team, she assists clients with entity formation, advises businesses on regulatory issues and intellectual property protection, and drafts and edits contracts. With the Litigation Team, Natalie performs research and prepares memoranda, and assists with discovery, motion practice, alternate dispute resolution, and trials for litigation relating to commercial disputes, insurance defense, and employment matters. With the Estate Planning and Administration Team, she assists with drafting estate planning documents, and researches matters relating to trust interpretation, modification, and reformation.

While attending Lewis & Clark Law School, Natalie clerked with Portland-area litigation law firms and served as Executive Editor of the Lewis & Clark Law Review, as well as President of the International Law Society. As an undergraduate, she also served as an intern for Legal Aid of Marin in San Rafael, California, performing client intake and case management for Spanish-speaking clients. She is fluent in Spanish.

Natalie has lived much of her life in the Pacific Northwest and, in her free time, enjoys boating, snow sports, wine tasting throughout the Willamette Valley, and exploring Portland’s amazing culinary scene. She lives in Portland with her fiancé and their Boston Terriers.

Joshua Stadtler is an experienced and versatile business litigator known for creatively achieving early resolution of complex disputes. He regularly represents and counsels individuals and businesses of all sizes in litigation involving business, commercial, corporate, employment, insurance coverage and defense, real estate, and trust and estate issues.

Josh draws on the breadth of his litigation and life experience to connect with his clients and understand their concerns within the context of the dispute at hand and the framework of the business and industry realities his clients face.  His clients benefit from his collaborative approach to identify and evaluate goals, recognize and assess risk, and develop and implement strategies to realize the client’s desired result efficiently and cost-consciously.

Josh has represented clients in state and federal trial and appellate courts and administrative proceedings throughout the country, at numerous mediations and arbitrations, and in investigations conducted by state and federal regulatory enforcement agencies.

Within the firm, Josh is an active member of the Litigation, Business, Real Estate, Insurance, and Employment Teams. He chairs the Pro Bono Committee and manages the firm’s participation in a monthly night legal clinic serving indigent clients in collaboration with Legal Aid Services of Oregon.  He also maintains an active pro bono practice of his own, in which he primarily represents victims of domestic violence.  In 2015, the Multnomah Bar Association honored him for those efforts.

Josh’s community involvement extends beyond the law, most notably to his service on the Board of Directors for Portland Homeless Family Solutions (since 2014, currently as Treasurer).

Prior to becoming a lawyer, Josh served in the United States Peace Corps in South Africa, and spent several years traveling on his own across Latin America, Europe, and Asia.  More than a decade later, he remains fluent in Spanish.

When Josh is not at the office, he is likely at the zoo, the park, or the community pool with his young daughter Stella and his wife Lily, cheering at Providence Park in the Timbers Army or at home for the Wisconsin Badgers, or hiking somewhere in the Southwest Hills.

Brian Talcott is a partner in Dunn Carney’s Litigation Team. He is the firm’s lead appellate attorney, and has briefed and argued numerous appeals in the state and federal appellate courts. Brian also specializes in insurance coverage, professional liability defense and complex civil litigation.

Kim Tellin is an experienced corporate and real estate attorney whose expertise includes business transactions, general corporate law, and closing complex commercial real property transactions. She is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Group.

Kim’s practice focuses on general corporate, business transactional and real property work, including business entity formations, entity maintenance and authority documentation, business asset sales and handling commercial real property sales, from purchase agreements through closing. Kim has managed and successfully closed complex commercial real property sales involving up to 35 separate owners and multiple properties. She uses her strong case management and organizational skills to deal with a wide variety of challenges to achieve successful closings. She handles all aspects of closing issues, including drafting agreements, preparation of all seller closing documents, resolving seller entity good standing issues and authorizations, working through various title issues, communications with owners, working with escrow and title officers, review of closing statements, and more.  She enjoys working within teams of attorneys and paralegals at the firm to achieve successful results for clients.

In business, Kim handles a wide variety of documentation for entity formations, shareholder and LLC member agreements, preparation of resolutions, drafting agreements and miscellaneous contracts, transfers of ownership documentation, and asset sales agreements. In addition to her business and real property experience, Kim also has several years’ experience in estate planning and trusts and estates administration, and enjoys assisting on those projects, as well.

Kim is a native Oregonian with long family ties to the state. She is one of five close family members that are Oregon State University alumni, soon to add a sixth. Go Beavs! Kim spent many hundreds of hours as a volunteer in various capacities while her children were enrolled in the Beaverton School District, as classroom volunteer, school newsletter publisher, fundraiser and event organizer, and parent/booster group officer and volunteer. Outside the office, Kim enjoys playing USTA tennis matches or practicing with friends.

Don Templeton is a partner at Dunn Carney, and is co-leader of the litigation team. Don has a diverse litigation practice, including more than three decades of experience in the areas of insurance coverage, professional liability, insurance defense, real estate litigation, estate and trust litigation, and business litigation.

Don has successfully tried to verdict more than 50 cases in the state and federal courts in Oregon and Washington. In addition to his extensive trial experience, Don has successfully resolved numerous cases and disputes through arbitration and mediation.

At the beginning of each case and matter, Don talks with the client about the client’s goals and options, and then develops a plan to achieve the client’s goals. Don involves the client in the decision making process from beginning to end. Don aggressively represents the client’s interests and position, while at the same time remaining pragmatic to achieve the client’s goals as efficiently and economical as possible.  This includes exploring early options of resolving the dispute when the client wants to explore these options.

Outside the office, Don enjoys playing golf, walking the family dog, and exploring the scenic areas of Oregon and Washington.

Since joining Dunn Carney in 1968, Tom Tongue has played an integral role in the firm. He has served terms as managing partner and leader of the Litigation Team, and as a mentor to many of the firm’s attorneys. His practice has centered on complex civil litigation and health law.

A highly respected fourth generation Oregon attorney, Tom represents the highest level of skill and professionalism in the practice of law. He has received the Multnomah Bar Association and the Oregon State Bar Litigation Section Owen Panner Professionalism Awards. In 2011-12, he was President of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the most distinguished group of trial lawyers in America and Canada. He was elected a Fellow in the ACTL in 1993. As recipient of the 2011 Judge Learned Hand Award, he was recognized for representing the same values as Judge Hand: upholding the rights of the individual and the importance of democratic values in an orderly society.

Tom’s career has been marked with a vast array of honors and awards, underscoring his reputation in the legal community and the example he sets for fellow lawyers.  His peers have been quoted by Chambers and Partners USA, describing Tom as “one of the finest – he has all the right attributes you want in a lawyer.”

Tom has been married to his wife, Dr. Andrea Tongue, since 1971. They have two children who both work in the legal field; his son is a fifth generation lawyer, and his daughter clerked for the U.S. Supreme Court and is now a law professor. In his spare time, Tom enjoys fly fishing, golfing and hiking.

Bob Winger acts as legal counsel to mid- and small-sized closely held businesses, providing a full range of commercial services with an emphasis on corporate, LLC and tax planning services, including income, gift, estate and property tax and succession planning. His clients span industries ranging from professional services, healthcare and real estate development to printing and agribusiness.

In addition to his work as general counsel, Bob focuses on tax, and employee benefits. He leads the firm’s Tax and Employee Benefits Team and is a member of the Business Team. He has significant experience with the design, implementation, and administration of retirement and health\welfare benefit plans, non-qualified deferred compensation plans, from prototype to individually designed plans and from basic 401(k) plans to complex ESOPs. He has developed a wide variety of stock incentive and deferred compensation plans and assisted numerous clients correct operational errors in plans through various governmental correction programs.

Bob assists clients with the choice, design and funding of entities, reorganizations, mergers, acquisitions, redemptions and liquidations and with the development of exit strategies for business owners and leveraged buy-outs.

Bob develops creative solutions for clients’ unique needs, first taking time to understand a client’s goals, then drawing from his experiences and expertise. Current on the latest trends and willing to proceed through unchartered waters, he will not recommend a course with significant risk or uncertainty without fully apprising the client of those risks and the potential downstream costs and impacts that may be involved.

Bob is a frequent presenter and author on matters encountered in his practice, including choice of entity, drafting issues, tax legislation, Affordable Care Act, COBRA, retirement plans, executive compensation and succession planning. He has authored articles or been a presenter for the Portland Business Journal, Oregon State Bar, Oregon Professional Liability Fund, Willamette University College of Law, regional CPA firms, brokerage firms and clients. He also has developed software to assist in the automation of legal services.

Bob is married to his high school sweetheart and has two adult children. He is a woodworker, fisherman and wildlife enthusiast.

For more than 20 years, Ty Wyman has helped clients caught up in Oregon’s arcane land use system. Using his background in the law, Ty typically guides property owners and builders who have a project at risk of being derailed. He has plenty of experience at contested hearings before state and local panels, but generally works to find common ground between government agencies and clients so projects can move forward without dispute.

I’m trying to chart a course that avoids the pitfalls and entanglements of the land use system.

Over the past seven years, Ty has gained particular experience working for a major railroad. This has broadened his experience, particularly in working with tribal governments.

Within Dunn Carney, Ty is a member of Dunn Carney’s Real Estate and Land Use Team and Agriculture & Natural Resources Team. Ty’s personal interests (now that his kids have grown) run to baseball (as part of Red Sox Nation) and board games.

David Zehntbauer is a partner at Dunn Carney LLP where he practices real estate and corporate law. He leads the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group and is also an active member of the Business & Corporate Practice Group and Agriculture & Natural Resources team.

David has extensive experience in commercial property acquisitions and dispositions as well as commercial and residential leasing, lease enforcement and secured financing on behalf of both lenders and borrowers.  In addition to his real estate expertise, David routinely advises closely held businesses ranging in size and industry regarding entity selection, formation and financing, mergers and acquisitions and asset and stock sale transactions. David also provides counsel on real estate transactions and corporate structure to clients engaged in the legal business of cannabis production, manufacturing and sales.

David is a responsive and practical deal maker who maintains a view of the big picture and the best interests of his client. He is adept at identifying risks and works to minimize them while facilitating smooth closings for his clients.

In addition to leading Dunn Carney’s Real Estate Practice Group, David served a three-year term on the firm’s Executive Committee starting 2012.

David lives with his wife and two children in Northeast Portland where he is active working out, playing soccer & golf, and attending his kids’ sporting events.