Our People

David S. Aman

David maintains a business litigation and intellectual property practice. Since 2008, David has been named one of Oregon's top attorneys in the area of...

Robyn Ridler Aoyagi

Robyn is a partner in our litigation group. Her practice focuses on appellate litigation and trial court motions practice. Robyn has briefed and argued cases...

Terry W. Baker (Inactive)

Terry is a founding partner of Tonkon Torp. His practice included litigation of product liability, eminent domain, and contract cases. Terry practiced in...

Vicki A. Ballou

Vicki has been a lawyer since 1986 and has focused on intellectual property law since 1999. She served as Chair of the Firm's Intellectual Property Group...

Eric C. Beach

As a member of the firm's litigation and intellectual property groups, Eric's practice focuses on resolving complex business disputes. Eric represents...

Bruce G. Berning

Bruce has thirty-three years of broad business and corporate law experience, including corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, commercial law and...

Haley B. Bjerk

Haley is an Associate in Tonkon Torp's Immigration Department. She focuses her practice on employment-based immigration and counseling businesses on...

Owen D. Blank

Owen has an extensive range of legal experience in business, commercial, real estate, and corporate matters. Among the clients he represents are small...

Ryan M. Bledsoe

Ryan Bledsoe is a senior associate in the firm's litigation department. Ryan has a wide-ranging trial practice representing individuals and companies of...

Kristin Bremer Moore

Kristin Bremer is a partner in Tonkon Torp's Labor and Employment group. She exclusively represents employers from claims of discrimination,...

Claire E. Brown

An associate in the firm’s Business Department, Claire is a graduate of Vanderbilt University Law School, where she was a Dean’s Scholar and an...

Robert L. Carey

Bob joined Tonkon Torp in September 2006 to chair the firm's Labor and Employment Practice Group. He represents companies, professionals, and executives...

Jeanne Chamberlain (Retired)

Jeanne has substantial litigation and trial experience in state and federal courts. Her practice emphasizes complex civil commercial litigation, including...

Paul Conable

As co-chair of the firm's Litigation Department, Paul has a wide-ranging trial practice representing both individuals and businesses in contract and...

Timothy J. Conway

Tim’s practice includes Chapter 11 corporate reorganizations, workouts, debtor-creditor law and commercial litigation. He has provided a wide range of...

Sherrill A. Corbett

Sherrill is Chair of the firm's M&A practice Group. She counsels clients on buying and selling businesses and structuring complex joint ventures. She...

Clay D. Creps

Clay’s 25-year career in labor and employment law has focused on providing counsel and litigation services to employers. He has extensive experience...

Jeffrey S. Cronn

Jeff's practice emphasizes mergers and acquisitions, and a range of corporate and business matters. He regularly counsels public, private, private...

Mark L. Cushing

Mark is chair of the firm's Government Relations and Public Policy Practice Group. A long-time political strategist, corporate executive and former trial...

Inga Deckert

Inga is a partner in the firm’s Government Relations and Public Policy Practice Group. Her practice focuses on representing clients before the Oregon...

Duncan B. Delano

Duncan is a member of the Corporate, Real Estate, and Environmental and Natural Resources Practice Groups. Duncan's...

Justin B. Denton

Justin practices general business and corporate law. Much of his practice focuses on counseling family-owned and other closely held businesses. He serves as...

Christopher D. Erickson

Chris focuses his practice on intellectual property matters. He helps companies register and protect their trademarks and service marks in the U.S. and...

Michael W. Fletcher

Mike’s practice focuses on debtor/creditor law, including bankruptcy and secured transactions. Mike's experience includes advising businesses...

David Copley Forman

David is chair of our Entrepreneurial Services Group as well as a member of the Corporate Finance, Energy, and Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Groups....

Morris J. Galen

A founding partner of Tonkon Torp, Morris is recognized as one of Oregon’s leading attorneys in real estate law by The Best Lawyers in America®....

Vanessa Lee Gebbie

Vanessa is an associate in the firm's business department and information security and privacy practice group. Vanessa counsels businesses on issues...

Corbett Gordon

Corbett joined the Labor & Employment group at Tonkon Torp in 2013 after 11 years as a founder and senior counsel in the Portland office of Fisher &...

Ronald L. Greenman

Ron’s business law practice emphasizes securities, finance and corporate acquisitions, and counseling companies through the stages of growth. He has been...

Gwendolyn Griffith

Gwen's tax practice includes advice to individuals, businesses, nonprofit entities and local governments on federal and state tax issues. She is...

Drew Hagedorn

Drew Hagedorn is a partner in Tonkon Torp's Government Relations and Public Policy Practice Group. Drew is a long-time...

Krista N. Hardwick

In her labor and employment practice, Krista represents and advises employers on a wide range of issues including defending them against claims of...

Caroline Harris Crowne

In her ten years at Tonkon Torp, Caroline has taken more than a dozen cases to trial and has resolved many more through motions and settlement. Ever since her...

Lynda J. Hartzell

Lynda Hartzell is a partner at Tonkon Torp LLP and is a senior member of its labor and employment group. Throughout her legal career, Lynda...

James K. Hein

James represents local and regional companies in a wide range of business matters. He regularly counsels clients on issues involving business formation and...

Theodore (Ted) G. Herzog

Ted is the Chair of Tonkon Torp's Real Estate Practice Group. His practice focuses on real estate acquisitions, sales, leasing, financing and...

Molly K. Honoré

Molly is an associate in the firm’s Litigation Department. She earned her J.D. with a certificate in business law from Lewis & Clark Law School,...

Shaun E. Jillions

Shaun joined the Government Relations & Public Policy Practice Group in 2012. His practice focuses primarily on representing a diverse range of clients...

Matthew L. Joseph

Matthew is an associate in the Business Department. Prior to joining the firm in 2012, he was a Tonkon Torp summer associate for two consecutive summers and...

Jeffrey H. Keeney

Jeff‘s real estate practice includes acquisitions and sales, financing, commercial leasing, and land use permitting. He represents local, regional and...

Albert N. Kennedy

Al’s practice focuses on bankruptcy, commercial law and creditors rights. He has expertise in all areas of commercial, bankruptcy and creditors’...

Blerina Kotori

Blerina Kotori’s practice focuses on labor and employment law. She advises and represents employers in various matters, including discrimination,...

Ari Okano Lee

Ari is an associate in the firm's business department, intellectual property group, and information security and privacy sub-practice group. In her...

Mark F. LeRoux

Mark's practice emphasizes federal, state and local taxation and the relationship and impact those areas of taxation have on both business transactions and...

Jackson Lewis

As the head of the firm's estate planning practice group, Jackson advises high-net worth clients on estate planning, estate administration and probate...

Colin Love-Geiger

Colin is an attorney in the firm's Labor & Employment group. His practice focuses on defending employers in lawsuits filed by current or former...

Barbee B. Lyon (Inactive)

Barbee has been an appellate lawyer for over thirty years. He has an outstanding reputation and record as an appellate lawyer in Oregon. He has prosecuted or...

Don H. Marmaduke

Don co-founded the firm in 1974. He is an active senior trial partner who specializes in cases before state and federal courts in Oregon and elsewhere. His...

William (Rick) F. Martson Jr.

Rick has a broad range of commercial litigation experience, including securities, shareholders rights, defense of accountants, natural resources-based and...

Marco Materazzi

Marco is a general business lawyer with a practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and a range of other business matters. He has...

Michael J. Millender

Michael practices in the areas of tax and employee benefits. His tax practice focuses on the federal, state and local taxation of businesses, with...

Max M. Miller Jr.

Max is chair of the firm's Environmental and Natural Resources Practice Group. His experience includes both transactional counsel and litigation...

Peter Mohr

Peter Mohr's practice serves a broad client base in matters ranging from environmental regulatory compliance to energy facility permitting and operation...

Michael M. Morgan

Mike is the managing partner of the firm and a senior partner in the firm's Energy and Regulated Industries Practice Group. He represents...

Janet Neuman

Jan is Senior Counsel with Tonkon Torp’s Water Law and Environmental & Natural Resources Practice Groups. She represents clients in a variety of...

Elizabeth (Bettie) R. Newell

Bettie has been a member of the firm’s Business Department since 2006, counseling clients from creative solo entrepreneurs to publicly traded...

Darcy M. Norville

In her business and corporate law practice, Darcy emphasizes executive compensation, ERISA, and employee benefits counsel. She is a partner in our Business...

Ingolf Noto

Ingolf became a partner with the firm in 1985. His practice emphasizes federal, state and international taxation. A considerable amount of his practice is in...

Steven D. Olson

As Co-Chair of the firm's Litigation Department, Steve has a broad range of commercial litigation experience. He represents companies, shareholders, and...

Turid L. Owren

Turid has practiced immigration law since 1988. She heads the firm's Immigration Practice Group, advising clients on employment-related immigration and...

Christopher J. Pallanch

Chris' practice focuses on resolving complex business disputes, whether through trial, arbitration, mediation, or settlement. He represents both plaintiffs...

Thomas P. Palmer

Tom serves as Chair of the firm's Corporate Finance Practice Group. His practice emphasizes securities and general corporate matters, including mergers and...

Alan C. Perkins

Alan is a member of the firm's immigration department and focuses his practice on employment-based immigration and counseling on employment law matters...

Edwin (Ned) C. Perry

Ned has practiced law with Tonkon Torp since 1984, and has been a partner since 1991. He has a commercial litigation practice, with emphasis on complex real...

Tatiana A. Perry

Tatiana’s practice emphasizes securities and corporate law and mergers and acquisitions of private and public companies. A portion of her practice...

David J. Petersen

David focuses his practice on renewable energy, land use and development, and local government law, and chairs the firm's Energy Practice Group. He has...

David A. Rabbino

David is a member of the firm’s Environmental & Natural Resources Practice Group. With more than 20 years of experience in environmental law and...

Shouka D. Rezvani

Shouka is a member of the firm's estate planning practice group. Her practice includes estate planning, through the drafting and implementation of trusts...

John H. Rosenfeld

John is a member of the firm's estate planning and probate practice that involves all aspects of gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes....

Kurt W. Ruttum

Kurt's practice emphasizes mergers and acquisitions, private equity, public and private securities offerings and general corporate counseling. He is a...

Melany I. Savitt

Melany is the newest member of the firm’s Immigration Practice Group. She represents clients from a variety of industries, guiding employers and foreign...

Andrea Schmidt

As a member of the firm's Business Department, Andrea's practice emphasizes securities, corporate governance, corporate finance, mergers and...

Ava L. Schoen

Ava's practice includes Chapter 11 corporate reorganizations, debtor-creditor law and commercial litigation. She was named as an Oregon "Rising...

Jeanette C. Schuster

As a member of the firm's Environmental and Natural Resources practice group, Jeanette assists clients with environmental and renewable energy projects, as...

Scott G. Seidman

Scott handles business disputes for clients at trial and on appeal. His areas of expertise include antitrust, labor and employment, energy, and tax law...

Leon Simson

A member of the firm's Corporate Finance Practice Group and the Mergers & Acquisitions Group, Leon is an experienced corporate and business...

Daniel H. Skerritt

Widely recognized for trial excellence during his past 35 years of practice, Dan represents both plaintiffs and defendants in their complex commercial...

Anna Sortun

Anna is a litigator with experience representing individuals and businesses in a diverse range of disputes, including matters with contract, tort, antitrust,...

George C. Spencer

George represents individuals and businesses on a wide range of issues in their personal, commercial and corporate activities. George’s practice...

Kimberlee A. Stafford

Kimberlee, a member of the Real Estate and Land Use, Environmental and Natural Resources, and Energy Practice Groups, emphasizes a wide range of commercial...

Kenneth D. Stephens

Ken is a founding partner of Tonkon Torp. His practice emphasizes corporate and securities matters, including the financial services industry. He has extensive...

Jon P. Stride

Jon specializes in resolving disputes for businesses and individuals. The disputes generally involve commercial matters. However, for many clients, the...

Joseph S. Voboril

Joe is a veteran attorney with extensive experience in the area of complex commercial real estate transactions and land use. He is licensed to practice in both...

David M. Weiler

David represents businesses and individuals in general commercial litigation cases and in intellectual property matters. He has tried several cases involving...

Frank J. Weiss

Frank's practice emphasizes complex commercial litigation, including insurance coverage and product liability matters. His experience includes trial work...

Steven M. Wilker

Steven counsels clients in complex commercial litigation, intellectual property, media communications and technology, energy, corporate governance, real estate...

Jeffrey W. Woodcox

Jeff focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, securities regulation, and corporate governance. He has experience advising...

Zachary W.L. Wright

Zach's practice is in complex business and securities litigation. He has also focused on regulatory litigation, insurance coverage litigation and the...