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Rated 5.0 out of 5
Firm: Dr. Aaron DeShaw, Esq., P.C.
2350 NW York St. , Portland , Oregon 97210
Practice Areas: Brain Injury
Aaron DeShaw is a personal injury lawyer with Dr. Aaron DeShaw, Esq., P.C. His $77,523,748 verdict in M.M. and N.S. vs. Nicolopoulos is the largest personal injury verdict in Oregon history (1), and the second largest amputation verdict in US history.(2) He has individually and with other firms, obtained over $1 billion in recoveries for his clients. He is the recipient of the Presidential Award from the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association for lifetime achievement in law. He has been selected for the American Board of Trial Advocates, a select group of less than 100 trial lawyers and judges in Oregon.. Dr. DeShaw's practice focuses on traumatic brain injuries, amputation cases, truck crashes, car accidents, dram shop claims, wrongful death and insurance bad faith. He has 25 years of experience. He is also CEO and founder of Trial Guides, the leading litigation publishing company where he has overseen the creation of the best selling litigation method texts for lawyers. He is the co-founder of Settlement Intelligence, an AI demand letter platform for plaintiff lawyers, based upon his research on bodily injury claim software used by insurers.. After completing his undergraduate work at Willamette University, Dr. DeShaw attended Western States Chiropractic College where he earned a Doctor of Chiropractic. Returning to Willamette University College of Law, he studied and obtained his Juris Doctor. From 1996 to 2000 he concurrently attended law school and practiced as a doctor in Europe. He attended Pepperdine School of Law in London. He retired as a doctor in 2000 to work as a lawyer full time. Since graduation he has completed a program at Harvard Law School for AI and Law.. Dr. DeShaw is admitted to practice in both Oregon and Washington, but has also been admitted pro hac vice in other states as co-counsel. Dr. DeShaw is a member of the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association, the Washington State Bar Association, and the Oregon State Bar. He is a former member of the American Association for Justice and the organization’s Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Division.. To actively give back to his community and help as many people as possible, Dr. DeShaw was a board member of the Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon from 2014 to 2021.. With his health care background, he is uniquely qualified to handle complex medical injury cases. The law firm's web site discusses our history of handling highly complex traumatic injury cases.. The author of three books and speaker in multiple recorded Continuing Legal Education programs, Dr. DeShaw has been a legal resource for organizations such as BusinessWeek, MSNBC, CNN and A.M. Best. Lecturing to both legal and medical professionals, he has presented for the North American Brain Injury Society ("NABIS"), the Brain Injury Association of California Med Legal Conference, Trial Guides, the Veterans Administration, the Spine Research Institute of San Diego, the American Association for Justice, the National Trial Lawyers Association, the Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon, Torts Made Perfect, 360 Advocacy, and multiple state physician and trial lawyer associations.. 1. (The tobacco case, Williams v. Philip Morris, obtained a verdict of $821,485 in compensatory damages and $79.5 million in punitive damages, but was reduced to $521,485 in compensatory damages and $32 million in punitive damages.). 2. The largest amputation verdict in US history was a verdict for $95,000,000, obtained by Joseph Powers, Jr. in Illinois.
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Firm: Wendell L. Belknap
411 5th Street , Oregon City , Oregon 97045
Practice Areas: General Practice, Family Law, Divorce, Cohabitation Agreements, Domestic Partnerships, Legal Separation Agreements, Marital Agreements, Marital Property Distribution, Marital Property Law, Marital Property Settlements, No Fault Divorce, Postnuptial Agreements, Premarital Agreements, Uncontested Divorce, Medical Malpractice, Medical Negligence, Annulment, Business Law, Business Arbitration, Business Development, Business Enterprises, Business Formation, Business Organization, Business Planning, Business Transactions, Business Transfers, Buy-Sell Agreements, Buying and Selling of Businesses, Limited Liability Company Law, Private Business Law, Professional Practices, Sole Proprietorships, Small Business Law, Adoption Law, Independent Adoptions, Private Adoptions, Step Parent Adoptions, Civil Practice, Collections, Commercial Collections, Garnishments, Post Judgment Collections, Professional Collections, Retail Collections, Secured Collections, Unsecured Collections, Commercial Law, Commercial Transactions, Commercial Transfers, Secured Transactions, Sale of Goods, Uniform Commercial Code, Commercial Real Estate, Commercial Real Estate Contracts, Commercial Real Estate Sales, Contracts, Breach of Contract, Commercial Contracts, Corporate Law, Corporate Formation, Corporate Organization, Corporate Real Estate, S Corporations, Small Business Corporations, Professional Corporations, Domestic Relations, Equitable Distribution, Guardianship and Conservatorship, Adult Guardianship, Advance Directives, Conservatorship, Guardianship, Inheritance, Malpractice, Insurance, No Fault Automobile Insurance, Personal Liability, Property Damage, Property Insurance, Property Loss, Property Insurance Coverage, Uninsured and Underinsured Motorists, Uninsured and Underinsured Motorists Arbitration, Commercial Leasing, Leasing, Legal Malpractice, Legal Negligence, Legal Professional Liability, Legal Separation, Birth Trauma, Chiropractors Malpractice, Dental Malpractice, Failure to Diagnose, Gynecology Malpractice, Medical Liability, Medical-Legal Law, Medication Errors, Nursing Liability, Nursing Malpractice, Nursing Negligence, Obstetric Malpractice, Oncology Law, Optometric Malpractice, Orthopedic Malpractice, Pediatric Malpractice, Pharmacists Liability, Physicians Professional Liability, Podiatric Malpractice, Surgeons Liability, Wrong Site Surgery, Negligence, Personal Injury, Accidents, Animal Attacks, Automobile Accidents and Injuries, Automobile Negligence, Bicycle Accidents, Boating Accidents, Bodily Injury, Brain Injury, Bus Accidents, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Catastrophic Injury, Dog Bites, Electrical Injury, Head Injury, Motor Vehicle Accidents and Injuries, Motorcycle Accidents, Neurolaw, Pedestrian Injuries, Plaintiffs Personal Injury, Power Line Contact Injury, Severe Burns, Spinal Injury, Third Party Wrongful Death, Traumatic Brain Injury, Whiplash, Wrongful Death, Probate, Ancillary Probate, Probate Administration, Professional Malpractice, Professional Negligence, Professional Liability, Real Estate, Land Sales, Real Estate Contracts, Real Estate Leasing, Real Estate Sales, Real Property, Residential Real Estate, Torts, Civil Liability, Trusts and Estates, Estate Administration, Estate Planning, Estate Settlements, Living Trusts, Powers of Attorney, Personal Planning, Trust Administration, Trust Law, Trust Planning, Wills, Living Wills
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