Representative Experience
Negotiated and litigated a farm workout involving multiple tracts of land and rapidly disappearing personal property for a financial institution in which the financial institution received its entire loan of $10+ million, plus interest and attorneys’ fees

Overturned for the first time since the 1930s in Oregon a Sheriff’s sale which caused the client who had a seven-figure second on the foreclosed motel to be paid in full

Successfully defended a title insurance company who was being sued for an excess of $2 million based on escrow errors

Negotiated and litigated loan workouts for several financial institutions and corporate clients

Tried or resolved several large litigation matters for real estate title companies and their insureds

Assisted financial institutions and corporate clients in closing several real estate loans and transactions

Established bankruptcy procedures, collection practices and small claims procedures for financial institutions and corporate clients

Familiar with the regulations facing financial institutions, lenders, buyers and sellers in real estate transactions, and the laws and regulations regarding consumer loans

Prior Experience
District manager and operations director for two large corporations

Publications and Presentations
Co-author, Oregon State Bar Real Estate Continuing Legal Education's chapter on "Financial Institution's Regulations"

Co-author, "Commercial, Consumer, and Debtor-Creditor Law" chapter in the Oregon State Bar's 1989 Legislative Update

Co-author, Supplements to Oregon State Bar Regulation and Taxation of Real Estate Continuing Legal Education's chapter on "Mobile Homes," 1999 and 2003

Speaker SES Seminar, “Real Estate Purchase and Sale Transactions: How To Do Them Right”

Speaker NBI Seminar, “Oregon Foreclosure and Repossession

Speaker at Debtor-Creditor Annual Meeting and CLE on: Legislative Changes; New Cases; Foreclosure of Deeds of Trust; and Tax Issues in Foreclosures

Speaker at Real Property Annual Meeting and CLE on: Foreclosing Deeds of Trust, Mortgages and Other Real Property Liens

Speaker at OLI seminar on Foreclosure of Personal Property

Speaker at Oregon Title Insurance Company’s Seminar on: Bankruptcy Issues Effecting Realtors; and Bankruptcy Issues in Foreclosures

Speaker at Multnomah Bar Association CLE on: Collecting Money Judgments; Attachment and Provisional Process

Memberships and Activities
Member of Oregon and Washington State Bars

Oregon State Bar Debtor-Creditor Section, 1982-present

Member of 2006 Oregon Law Commission Committee on Judgments and Judicial Sales

Editor on the Board for Debtor-Creditor Newsletter, 1985

Chairman & Member of the Debtor-Creditor Section Legislative Subcommittee, 1986-1990

Senior Facilitator on Debtor-Creditor Ethics Round Table Lunch Meetings, 2001

Member of the Debtor-Creditor Executive Committee, 1990-1992; 2002-2003

Oregon State Bar Real Estate Section Member, 1982-present

Education
J.D., Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College

B.S. in Social Sciences (Economics), Sacramento State University