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There are many decisions facing a client going through a divorce, custody or support modification.   With a background in civil litigation, Dylan works with people during these stressful times to sort out the best options.   Because of his experience in this area, Dylan continues to enjoy and excel in resolving complex property division and large asset cases.. While he could have picked any area of law, Dylan knows that family law is where he can truly make a difference. And, he chose Four Point Legal because he wants to practice with the best.

Ted is a member of Tonkon Torp's Real Estate practice group. His practice focuses on real estate acquisitions, sales, leasing, financing and development, particularly in the seniors housing market. Additionally, he counsels on general business matters and negotiates and drafts a wide variety of business contracts. He has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America for his real estate law expertise.

Susan Glen, a partner at Dunn Carney, focuses her practice primarily on real estate acquisition, sale, leasing, development, financing and financing workouts, and tax-deferred exchanges.  Susan also heads the firm’s Condominium and Planned Community team and has considerable expertise in formation of condominium and planned unit development of all types as well as related matters.

Susan currently serves as Chair of the firm's Business Restructuring and Bankruptcy Group, which was named a 2016 Tier One Law Firm by "Best Law Firms" U.S. News & World Report & Best Lawyers®. She has been individually named to Oregon's Top 50 Super Lawyers and Oregon's Top 25 Women Super Lawyers Lists. She has also been selected for inclusion by Best Lawyers in America in the practice area of Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law. Susan has devoted substantial time to professional and pro bono organizations throughout her career, including serving as Chair and a member of the Executive Committee of the Oregon State Bar Debtor-Creditor Section, and as a Board Member and Officer of the Northwest Chapter of the Turnaround Management Association. She is a regular speaker and moderator at continuing legal education programs, and volunteers her legal services to the Oregon Legal Aid Bankruptcy Clinic. Susan has also volunteered as an Attorney-Coach for Jesuit High School's Mock Trial Program, including the team that won the Oregon State championship in 2012.

Steve combines his 17 years as an estate planning attorney with a solid tax background working at two of the "Big Five" accounting firms. As Shareholder of the estate planning practice Steve manages the business and assists clients with all aspects of their estate plans including wills, trusts, life insurance planning, estate and trust administration after death (including probate), and business succession planning, as well as estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax planning. Steve’s focus is on helping people plan for protecting what is important to them, both during life and upon their deaths.   As an estate planning attorney, Steve is a sincere advocate and planner, working with clients through the complexities of their situations. In his personal life Steve enjoys spending time with his family, bicycling around Portland and planning for his next big travel adventure!

Ryan focuses his practice primarily on tax and business law, with an emphasis on partnership and corporate tax, state and local taxation, international taxation, executive compensation, and tax incentives related to energy and affordable housing. There is no shortage of interesting tax issues that arise from the unique tax structures of Oregon and Washington. Ryan has assisted clients both with resolving state and local tax controversies and with planning and structuring client operations to best meet his clients' business needs, including navigating Oregon's income and property taxes and Washington's sales and use and Business and Occupation (B&O) taxes.In the area of executive compensation, Ryan assists clients in navigating the increasingly complex tax rules applicable to executive compensation and equity awards, including compliance with Internal Revenue Code Section 409A. Ryan has assisted clients in designing multifaceted equity compensation plans, as well as deferred compensation plans for current and incoming executives. Ryan's work in the affordable housing area includes assisting clients with all phases of affordable housing development, including structuring legal entities and financing, negotiating with public and private funders, due diligence and document review and negotiation, troubleshooting and resolving real estate and construction issues, and navigating complex tax issues.

Representative Clients in Prominent Chapter 11 Cases. For Debtor. For Creditors Committee. For Secured Lender and/or Purchaser of Assets

My brother Jim and I are pleased to announce the formation of Clifford & Clifford LLC with offices in Kennebunk and Portland. A predecessor firm, also known as Clifford and Clifford, was founded in 1915 in Lewiston by our grandfather and his brother. It existed for nearly a century, until 2000, and included a number of judges and public service oriented attorneys. We hope to continue this tradition going forward and look forward to working with many of you!

Ken Davis brings an unusual combination of skills to his legal practice. Before becoming an attorney, Mr. Davis worked for more than eight years as an independent property and casualty insurance agent and principal with a family-owned insurance agency, assisting individuals and business with their insurance needs. He then spent four years in commercial real estate leasing with a prominent Oregon firm before turning to the practice of law. The breadth of Mr. Davis's background gives him real-world insight into the needs of clients seeking business, business succession and estate planning advice.

Ken Antell is a partner in the Real Estate Practice Group at Dunn Carney Allen Higgins & Tongue LLP, where his practice focuses on commercial real estate purchase, sale, financing and leasing transactions. Ken also has extensive experience in development, construction and entity structuring in real property transactions. During his more than 27 years of practice, Ken has represented buyers, sellers and other stakeholders in numerous transactions involving shopping centers, office buildings, industrial and multi-family properties. Ken’s practice is national in scope. Notably, he has served as lead counsel for Retail Opportunity Investments Corporation, a publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trust, in its acquisition of over 30 shopping center properties in Oregon, Washington and California during the past 3 years.. Ken has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America in Real Estate, from 2004 through 2015. Ken has also been recognized in the Chambers and Partners USA survey of America’s Leading Business Lawyers as a top Real Estate attorney in Oregon each year from 2003 through 2014. From 2006 through 2014, Ken has been selected for inclusion in Oregon Super Lawyers in Real Estate. Ken is also active with a number of commercial real estate organizations, including the Building Owners and Managers Association of Portland (BOMA) for which he has served as a member of the Board of Directors for over 10 years.

Keiter & Associates offers clients a tradition of highest quality, cost effective legal services, as well as personal attention and aggressive promotion of our clients’ interests. We bring the experience of over 25 years representing companies and enterprises of all sizes, to issues both large and small. We pride ourselves on taking a personal approach, and on building long term relationships with clients by focusing on their goals and needs, and the most practical ways of achieving them. We are dedicated to our clients and consider ourselves team members with clients in pursuing their goals, whether that may be closing a business deal, starting a new venture, avoiding a liability or just helping to make an important decision. We insist on the highest standards of legal practice, and pay attention to the details.. Tim Keiter graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, and began his private practice in 1992, after spending several years with a major Portland firm, and refusing an offer of partnership there. He offers the insights and perspective of the highest quality legal education, combined with many years of real life sophisticated commercial practice. He has dealt successfully with national, international, as well as regional and local companies, from large corporations to mom and pop businesses, both as clients and as opposing parties. His friendly and practical approach to finding solutions to clients’ varying challenges, and his toughness and vigorous representation of his clients’ interests, are hallmarks of his practice. He is pleased to know both when to say “yes,” and when to say “no,” whether in negotiations, in court, in mediation, or in other types of discussions.

Josh is a principal of Matchstick Legal, a Portland, Oregon law firm helping freelancers, growing studios, busy agencies, and new media companies find practical solutions to their business law problems. Client-focused and detail-oriented, Josh is always looking for opportunities to help clients up their legal game.. Josh hails from Bozeman, Montana where he earned a BS in accounting cum laude at Montana State University and became a CPA. From there, Josh attended Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Oregon where he met his wife.. In the community, Josh is a former Treasurer and member of the Board of Directors of AIGA Portland, the professional association of design. Josh helped found and serves as an advisor to Operation Pitch Invasion, a local 501(c)(3) that builds, restores and maintains soccer fields throughout the Portland metro area. Josh also helped establish and advises the 107 Independent Supporters Trust, the nonprofit organizing and financial engine behind the Timbers Army.. Josh is an an avid supporter of the Portland Timbers and proud member of its supporter group, the Timbers Army. If you stand in the North End of Providence Park on match days, you might even hear him sing.

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Irina's practice is primarily concentrated in the area of business and family-based immigration. She works with domestic and international companies in developing appropriate strategies to facilitate the international transfer of skilled employees and secure temporary employment visas and permanent residence. Irina manages the relationships with key corporate clients, providing legal advice and guidance to small and large companies on the issues of immigration and compliance.  Irina also works with individual clients in the area of family-based immigration, and to date, have represented clients from over 70 countries around the world.. Irina is a native of Russia, who in 1994 was selected to participate in the Future Leaders Exchange (Flex) Program, sponsored by the United States Department of State as part of the Freedom Support Act (FSA) of 1992. She was one of 1,200 talented and motivated students who spent the 1994 academic year in the United States with a goal to enhance an understanding and dialogue between the people of the United States and Russia.  Irina graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science degree from Portland State University in 2000.  Irina subsequently earned her Juris Doctorate degree from Lewis and Clark Law School in 2004.. Prior to founding The Batrakova Law Office (TBLO) in 2012, Irina was an Immigration Associate at one of the largest business immigration practices in the U.S. of Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC in Raleigh, NC, where she was managing the relationships with key corporate clients, providing legal advise and guidance to small, mid-size and Fortune 100 companies on the issues of immigration and compliance.  Prior to joining Ogletree Deakins, Irina was an Immigration Attorney for with a boutique firm of Samuels Yoelin Kantor LLP in Portland, Oregon, where she practiced in the area of employment-based and family-based immigration.

In more than 35 years of law practice, Dean Alterman has advised private businesses and real estate investors across a range that includes buying, selling, and leasing commercial and multi-family real estate, negotiating development agreements, forming condominiums, acquiring and selling businesses, and the other legal matters that come up in the business world. Known for his unusual memory and his mathematical mind, Dean brings to his practice the experience of eight years in real estate sales, two terms on a county planning commission, and a stint as an outside director of a community bank and its holding company.. Dean frequently speaks and writes on real estate and land use topics. In 2015 the American Bar Association published his first book, a primer for aspiring real estate lawyers titled "How to Build a Real Estate Law Practice," and in 2020 the ABA published his second book, "How to Draft Easements." When not at his desk advising clients, Dean is an active leader in Portland's civic life, with present or past board service on many cultural and educational organizations, including the Portland Japanese Garden and Portland Piano International. Dean earned his A.B. in statistics from Harvard College in 1981. Dean received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College in 1989.

I represent domestic and international clients in securities, mergers and acquisitions, general corporate and business law, and the life sciences. I assist clients in initial and secondary public offerings, formation of joint ventures and ongoing compliance with state and federal securities laws. I also provide corporate governance and business advice to boards of directors and executive officers. I have authored articles on federal securities laws, Oregon corporations and securities law.. My clients include: adidas America, Acacia Venture Partners, Auctionpay, AVI BioPharma, Canterbury Park Capital, Celartem, Inc., Communication Intelligence Corp., Goldbrook Ventures, Inc., Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Pacific Crest Securities, Inc., Renewal Partners LP, Tag Oil Ltd. and Yamhill Valley Vineyards.

I am a real estate attorney with an emphasis on commercial real estate transactions and development, drafting and interpretation of easements, covenants, conditions and restrictions, real estate entity formation, financing, leasing, and management of condominium and planned community homeowner associations and commercial property associations.

I am a co-founder of Greene & Markley, which is recognized throughout the Pacific Northwest as a leading law firm for bankruptcy and insolvency matters.. I handle the firm's commercial clients’ complex bankruptcy and business reorganization matters, as well as business transactional matters. My bankruptcy-related clients include debtors, secured creditors, key vendors, asset purchasers and bankruptcy trustees. I frequently am employed by committees of creditors in major Chapter 11 reorganization cases. Recent engagements include court appointments in the Chapter 11 cases concerning the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland (the Future Claimants Representative for unknown and minor child abuse victims) and the Oregon Rose Garden (the Examiner).. I have been a featured lecturer at various seminars on topics relating to debtor/creditor relations and bankruptcy, including Oregon State Bar (cosponsored by Debtor-Creditor Section) Seminar, 2005; Oregon State Bar Debtor-Creditor Section Annual Meetings, 1984, 1988, 2004 and 2009; Northwest Bankruptcy Institute Annual Meeting, 1992 and 2013; Oregon Trial Lawyers Association Seminar, 1987; and Turnaround Management Association, Northwest Chapter Meeting, 2002 and 2011.

I am a co-founder of Greene & Markley, PC, where I have been practicing for more than three decades.  My practice concentrates on business, commercial, and real estate documentation and litigation.  My experience includes representation of creditors in major bankruptcies and serving as counsel to state-chartered and national banks, savings and loan associations, equipment lessors, and retail merchandisers.  I earned my B.A. at University of Washington, and my J.D., cum laude, at Lewis & Clark Law School.  I am admitted to practice in Oregon and Washington; the U.S. District Court in the District of Oregon and the Eastern and Western Districts of Washington; the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; and, the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Gil Parker is a partner in the Real Estate and Land Use section of the firm. 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 and communications. 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 also structures purchases and sales of closely-held businesses. 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.  He is currently serving on the firm’s Executive Committee.. Gil was selected by his peers to be included in The Best Lawyers in America in the Real Estate Law section. In 2004-2013, Gil was recognized as a top Real Estate Attorney in Oregon by the Chambers and Partners USA survey of America’s Leading Business Lawyers. His peers describe him as a “constructive deal-maker” who is “perceptive, unflappable and accommodating.” In 2006-2013, Gil was selected for inclusion in Oregon Super Lawyers in Real Estate.  He is also a 2013 Top Rated Lawyer in Real Estate in Martindale-Hubbell.. Gil focuses on transactional work because he enjoys creating solid business connections among the involved parties. Understanding that transactions depend on clarity and trust, he finds satisfaction in crafting agreements that integrate the parties’ diverse objectives.. Gil Parker served 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.

Eric is a partner at Dunn Carney and heads our Insurance Defense Practice Team. Eric practices in the areas of commercial litigation, construction law, personal injury defense, insurance defense and insurance coverage.  He handles an array of litigated matters including business disputes, contract disputes, construction claims, trespass claims, and a variety of personal injury defense ranging from automobile accidents, products liability, and premises liability.  Eric has published articles involving Oregon’s product liability law and affecting service of process in automobile accident cases.  Eric is a member of the Oregon Association of Defense Counsel and is also admitted to practice in the state of Washington.  Prior to law school, Eric worked as a marketing and sales manager for Dahlin Dental Laboratories and Productivity Training Corporation.. Eric has special expertise in defending construction defect and design claims, many relating to moisture penetration and mold.  He has represented architects, engineers, general contractors and subcontractors, including deck water proofers, plumbers, roofers, window installers, framers and siding contractors.  Claims have ranged from a few hundred thousand dollars to over 120 million dollars.  In 2006, Oregon Super Lawyers recognized Eric as a Super Lawyer in Construction Litigation.

Diane Polscer is a founding member of Gordon & Polscer, L.L.C. and has been the managing partner since the firm’s inception in 1994 in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington. Gordon & Polscer was named, once again, one of the 2016 U.S. News & World Report - Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms,” recognized as Tier 1 in Portland for Insurance Law. Diane focuses her practice on insurance coverage, commercial litigation, and a wide range of business and insurance disputes.

David is a partner at Dunn Carney whose practice focuses on real estate and corporate law. He leads the firm's Real Estate and Land Use team and is an active member of the Corporate Counsel, Hospitality, Intellectual Property, and Condominium and Planned Community teams.  He has extensive experience in commercial property acquisitions and dispositions as well as commercial leasing and lease enforcement.  He also works with real property owners to form new construction condominiums, conversion condominiums and planned unit developments. He has particular expertise in the hospitality industry working with restaurant and bar owners.   In 2007, David's peers recognized him as an Oregon Super Lawyer in Real Estate.. In addition to his real estate work, David advises clients regarding entity selection and formation, including the representation of closely held business and emerging growth companies receiving venture capital investment.  He also works with clients on licensing, Federal and State trademark registration and domain name disputes.. David is also active in the community serving as a board member for Community Warehouse, Inc. and is active in several real estate organizations in Portland.