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Scott O Carter
Klamath Falls, OR Estate Planning Lawyer with 29 years of experience
Free ConsultationEstate Planning, Criminal, DUI and Divorce
Willamette University College of Law
Mr, Carter has been practicing law in Oregon courts for over 20 years. He speaks fluent Spanish. After graduating from law school, Mr. Carter began practicing law in 1995 at Garland and Associates in Hillsboro, Oregon. Two years later, he accepted a position as a Deputy District Attorney I Klamath County- a position he would hold or over seven years. Mr. Carter then opened his private practice,
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Rodney Grafe
Portland, OR Estate Planning Attorney with 43 years of experience
Free ConsultationEstate Planning, Bankruptcy and Probate
University of Oregon School of Law
Third generation Oregonian; Lewis & Clark College BA and U of O JD; Practicing since 1981: Debt issues, Estates and Probate; Municipal Judge for over 15 years
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Wendy S Fay
Portland, OR Estate Planning Attorney with 18 years of experience
(503) 295-6191
680 Umpqua Bank Plaza
One SW Columbia Street
Portland, OR 97258
Estate Planning, Family and Probate
Willamette University College of Law
Wendy’s practice includes dissolution of marriage proceedings, legal separations, modifications of child custody, child support and spousal support, and contempt and enforcement proceedings. Wendy’s practice also includes probate administration, estate planning, and protective proceedings.
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James Huffman
St Helens, OR Estate Planning Lawyer with 48 years of experience
Estate Planning, Bankruptcy, Personal Injury and Probate
Lewis & Clark Law School
Serving clients in Northwest Oregon, including St. Helens, Scappoose, Rainier, Clatskanie, and Astoria, since 1976. I have always advocated with thoroughness, passion, and compassion, for fairness and justice for all.
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Donald Rolfe
West Linn, OR Estate Planning Attorney with 19 years of experience
Free ConsultationEstate Planning and Probate
Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
I am a reformed litigator. While rewarding, litigation focuses on cleaning up messes due to poor planning. I knew there was a better way to practice law, and I find it much more rewarding. That better way is to serve my clients as an Estate Planning Attorney and Business Planning Attorney.
My new role is to help my clients avoid the need of a litigator’s services. Working with my personal and business clients I strive to anticipate and head off problems that far too often end up costing lots of money to deal with.
I help families, individuals and their loved...
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Alan Andrews
Lincoln City, OR Estate Planning Lawyer with 42 years of experience
Estate Planning, Elder, Probate and Tax
Western State University College of Law
Alan has been practicing law for 25+ years. He focuses on tax, estate planning, and business law. He has worked in both private practice and in association with established law firms. Before becoming a lawyer, Alan owned and operated several businesses. When handling his cases, he draws from his hands-on experience as an entrepreneur, providing valuable insight on real estate, business law, wealth management, and more. Alan received his law degree from Western State University College of Law in Fullerton, CA and his Master of Science degree in Taxation from Golden State University in San Francisco, CA.
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Robert LeChevallier
Lake Oswego, OR Estate Planning Lawyer
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfEstate Planning, Business and Real Estate
Rob Le Chevallier practices business law, business formation, estate planning, trust administration, real estate law, and corporate financing. Rob serves as corporate counsel for a variety of manufacturing and service companies. He has been described by the Oregonian as “the legal profession’s equivalent of a midwife” to hundreds of businesses in the Portland area.
Rob particularly focuses on the estate planning needs of business owners, who are often so preoccupied with their business that they neglect their own succession issues. Rob prepares estate plans for business owners and other high net-worth individuals and their families with an...
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Grant Richard Burton
Hillsboro, OR Estate Planning Lawyer with 22 years of experience
161 NW Adams Ave #300
Hillsboro, OR 97124
Estate Planning, Business, Divorce and Family
I am the President of Hillsboro Law Group PC, an Oregon law firm dedicated to helping clients find long-term solutions to difficult legal issues. My practice focuses on family law and wills, trusts, and estates.
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Joel Geelan
Bend, OR Estate Planning Lawyer
Estate Planning, Divorce and Family
Willamette University
Joel Geelan has extensive experience representing clients in areas of estate planning, including wills, trusts, power of attorney, and advanced healthcare directives.
In his work with family law clients, Joel handles divorce, custody, parenting time, child and spousal support, high asset division, move-away cases, grandparent and co-parent third party rights, and DHS-involved cases. He has litigated and settled numerous matters in each area. He specializes in resolving cases involving children and complex financial issues, such as valuing and dividing businesses, real estate, investments, and retirement accounts.
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Jessica Larsen
Hillsboro, OR Estate Planning Lawyer with 6 years of experience
Estate Planning, Divorce, Domestic Violence and Family
Willamette University College of Law
Jessica values the preservation of familial relationships for the sake of family unity and ensuring simplicity in future dispute resolutions. She understands that each family is different, and is committed to working toward solutions that best fit the needs of you and your family.
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Jeffery Demland
Portland, OR Estate Planning Lawyer with 10 years of experience
(503) 420-5708
9220 SW Barbur Blvd.
Ste. 119, No. 205
Portland, OR 97219
Free ConsultationEstate Planning, Probate and Real Estate
Lewis & Clark Law School
Jeff focuses his practice on estate planning, administration, and litigation. His practice grows from his experience in academic and pharmaceutical research, where he worked closely with oncology patients undergoing experimental treatments. He enjoys tackling complex issues, while keeping his clients’ real-world needs at the forefront of every decision. Jeff listens carefully to his clients to help them find the solution that’s right for them. His experience with scientific research taught him to be resilient and creative, and he enjoys applying this approach to advocate for his clients today.
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Alexis Shimada
Beaverton, OR Estate Planning Attorney with 6 years of experience
Free ConsultationEstate Planning and Probate
Willamette University College of Law
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Wesley Fitzwater
PORTLAND, OR Estate Planning Attorney with 43 years of experience
Estate Planning, Elder and Probate
My practice emphasizes the legal and crisis issues faced by the elderly and their families, including incapacity, guardianship, long-term care, and end-of-life concerns. In my 30+ years of practice, I have truly enjoyed the relationships I have developed with my clients and their families. I have the privilege of helping and protecting them – often at one of the most difficult times in their lives. I count myself very fortunate because I like my job. I enjoy the wonderful group of attorneys and staff I work with every day. Most importantly, I get to help clients who need and appreciate...
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Andrea Bachhuber
PORTLAND, OR Estate Planning Lawyer with 19 years of experience
Estate Planning and Elder
University of Oregon
I am a partner with Fitzwater Law. My practice consists of estate planning and administration, including the preparation of wills and trusts, gift and estate tax planning, special needs planning, and the administration of trusts and probate estates.
Estate planning and administration is the only area of law out there for me. There is no other area of law in which I would rather practice. Over the years I have discovered that my job typically consists of equal parts teaching, counseling and lawyering. Tellingly, teaching and psychology were the other careers I considered before deciding on law. I feel incredibly fortunate...
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Vincent J. Bernabei
Beaverton, OR Estate Planning Attorney with 40 years of experience
(503) 443-1177
Cascade Square, Suite 102
8625 SW Cascade Avenue
Beaverton, OR 97008
Free ConsultationEstate Planning, Divorce, Elder and Probate
Lewis & Clark Law School
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John Gear
Salem, OR Estate Planning Lawyer with 20 years of experience
Free ConsultationEstate Planning, Consumer, Elder and Probate
Western Michigan University Cooley Law School
Since 2010, serving people with consumer and employee law issues: I prefer to help people anticipate and avoid legal problems by understanding how the law affects them and what they need to do to get the results they want. But sometimes legal problems can't be avoided, such as when someone treats you unfairly and you need to respond. Sadly, among the many reputable businesses who pride themselves on treating everyone fairly, there are a few others, who often try to take advantage of their customers and even their employees at every opportunity. Many lawyers...
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Karen Oakes
10.0 (2 Peer Reviews)
Free ConsultationKlamath Falls, OR Estate Planning Attorney with 25 years of experience
Estate Planning and Bankruptcy
University of Idaho College of Law
Karen Oakes was raised as an Army officer’s daughter — living in various areas of the United States and Panama. Ms. Oakes was born in Michigan and has lived in Georgia, California, South Carolina, Virginia, and Idaho. While living in California as a young adult, she married and began her family. The family expanded dramatically in 1984 when three nieces/nephew were added to the family.
During her third year of law school, Ms. Oakes was selected for a national position with the American Bar Association/Law Student Division as the student director of the national...
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David Johnson
Salem, OR Estate Planning Attorney with 11 years of experience
Estate Planning, Divorce and Family
Willamette University College of Law
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James Oberholtzer
Portland, OR Estate Planning Attorney with 45 years of experience
Free ConsultationEstate Planning, Real Estate, Securities and Tax
DePaul College of Law and Washington and Lee University School of Law
James Oberholtzer has provided legal services to clients for over 35 years. He has provided legal representation to: Families. Estate planning, family wealth planning, wills and trusts, taxation of wills and trusts, guardianship and conservatorships, creation and administration of trusts, and probate of estates. Entrepreneurs. Closely held companies, family partnerships and individual entrepreneurs in formation and finance of enterprises, acquisitions and joint ventures, strategic planning and executive compensation, entity governance, integration of tax, legal and business objectives, protection of intellectual property and selection and supervision of local counsel. Senior Housing. Senior housing owners and operators...
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Jeremy R. James
Portland, OR Estate Planning Lawyer with 11 years of experience
Estate Planning, Elder, Probate and Real Estate
Lewis & Clark Law School
I handle civil litigation, business, real estate, and fiduciary litigation matters. For litigation matters, my focus is Oregon state court, although I also appear in Oregon Federal District Court. I am well-versed in all phases of litigation and comfortable taking a case to trial. Given the risk and expense of litigation, many cases settle before trial. I have participated in numerous mediations and judicial settlement conferences. However, sometimes settlement does not make sense and a client needs their day in court. I thoroughly enjoy the challenges and complexities that trial brings and feel at ease...
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Michael Scott Evans
Tigard, OR Estate Planning Attorney with 39 years of experience
Estate Planning, Divorce and Family
University of Oregon
Michael S. Evans has been licensed to practice law in Oregon since 1985. He has handled a wide range of family law cases, as well as many matters involving business litigation. His knowledge of family law and business law has given him a unique perspective on how to handle the financial aspects of family law matters. Mr. Evans also has extensive experience in interstate child custody disputes. He has presented on various topics to the legal community, including child support, property division, prenuptial agreements, and more. He has been featured in the Ask the Expert column in the Oregonian.
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Neal Metler
Klamath Falls, OR Estate Planning Lawyer with 9 years of experience
Free ConsultationEstate Planning and Personal Injury
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
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Mark Kramer
Portland, OR Estate Planning Lawyer with 42 years of experience
Estate Planning, Divorce, Family and Personal Injury
Northeastern University School of Law
Mark Kramer, Attorney, specializes in family law and civil litigation including personal injury, civil rights, and employment cases. He has more than 35 years of trial experience and extensive experience in family law issues ranging from adoption and contested custody to grandparent and psychological parent rights. Mark has served as a pro-tem judge for the Multnomah County Circuit Court. As co-counsel for the Oregon State Judiciary Committee and in private practice, Mark drafted family law legislation that is now Oregon law. Mark is the author of several articles about family law and is a frequent speaker on the subjects of...
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Frederick Schroeder
Bend, OR Estate Planning Attorney with 17 years of experience
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfEstate Planning, Family and Probate
Lewis & Clark Law School
Professional Experience: Fred has over a decade of legal experience. After passing the bar in 2007, he clerked for Judge Herndon in Clackamas County Circuit Court. Fred moved to Bend and joined Stahancyk, Kent & Hook in 2010 and in 2019 was elected a shareholder with the firm. In 2024 he joined Phillips Traylor Myers Goodin & Schroeder as a partner.
Professional Activities: Fred is an active member of the Oregon State Bar, the Deschutes County Bar Association, and the Jefferson/Crook County Bar Association.
Community Involvement: Fred has been an active volunteer in the community coaching youth sports and...
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David W. Haskett
Bend, OR Estate Planning Lawyer with 6 years of experience
Estate Planning, Business and Family
Lewis & Clark Law School and University of Arkansas School of Law
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Timothy J O'Donnell
Milwaukie, OR Estate Planning Lawyer with 15 years of experience
Estate Planning, Elder, Probate and Real Estate
Golden Gate University School of Law
Born and raised in Clackamas County, attended Law School in San Francisco, came back to Oregon in 2012. Father of two boys. My practice is primarily civil litigation with an emphasis on real estate. I also handle personal injury actions, estate planning and probate, and landlord-tenant law.
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Paul T Loney
Portland, OR Estate Planning Attorney with 32 years of experience
Free ConsultationOffers Video ConferencingVideo ConfEstate Planning, Business, Cannabis Law and Criminal
Paul Loney has practiced law for over 27 years. In 2009, Mr. Loney developed the legal blueprint for Oregon’s first private cannabis club, “Highway 420,” and the first National high-profile cannabis café, “Oregon NORML’s Cannabis Café.” Mr. Loney’s practice focuses on a variety of legal issues associated with cannabis and hemp, specifically in the areas of business law and regulatory compliance.
Paul Loney has served as Oregon NORML’s legal counsel for over 13 years and has helped draft numerous cannabis-related legislative initiatives involving Oregon’s medical marijuana and recreational marijuana issues. He has assisted clients in drafting language for proposed additions...
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Valerie Ingram Kirkendall
Tigard, OR Estate Planning Lawyer with 22 years of experience
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfEstate Planning, Elder and Probate
Lewis & Clark Law School
Ms. Kirkendall offers caring legal expertise in a practice that includes adoption, elder law, estate planning and probate. She specializes in the areas of probate, wills, trusts, estate planning, guardianship and conservatorship, and adoption. A graduate of the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College, Ms. Kirkendall is a volunteer with OASIS and Legal Aid Services for Seniors, serves as a volunteer judge with the Tigard Police Department Peer Court, and is a member of the Oregon State Bar Standing Committee on Adoption.
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Stephen Palmer
Newberg, OR Estate Planning Lawyer with 30 years of experience
515 E 1st St
Newberg, OR 97132
Estate Planning, DUI, Divorce and Family
University of Oregon
Steve has been practicing law since 1994, graduating from University of Oregon Law School where he served on the Managerial Board of the Oregon Law Review.
Steve has served as a Municipal Court Judge for the Cities of Newberg, Sherwood, Dayton, Dundee, Yamhill-Carlton, and McMinnville. He is a current member of the Estate Planning and Domestic Relations Sections of the Oregon State Bar as well as the Yamhill County Bar Association.
Steve is a managing partner at the law firm, Brown Tarlow Bridges, & Palmer, PC in Newberg, Oregon. Steve's practice focuces primarily on:
Family Law including:
Complex Dissolutions &...
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Stan Butterfield
Dallas, OR Estate Planning Lawyer with 20 years of experience
Estate Planning, Elder and Probate
In the 1980s, as young newlyweds, Stan Butterfield and his wife, Connie, befriended an elderly neighbor; the 106 year old man was a treasury of stories. He enthralled Stan with tales of his work as a shipwright on some of the last of the merchant sailing ships and of his mid-life career change as a mechanic for the Wright brothers. It was with this old friend in mind that Stan began to advocate for the elderly; starting in 1988 as a Washington State legislator and then later in Oregon in his work as an attorney in private practice. In...
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Jonathan David Mishkin
10.0 (3 Peer Reviews)
Bend, OR Estate Planning Attorney with 18 years of experience
Estate Planning, Business and Tax
Georgetown University Law Center and University of Oregon School of Law
Jonathan D. Mishkin, LL.M., has 15+ years as a practicing tax and estate planning attorney where he utilizes his extensive background in individual, corporate, international and real estate taxation along with knowledge in asset protection/estate planning techniques to consult with clients in matters of estate planning and tax mitigation strategies.
Mr. Mishkin has an economics and political science degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Oregon School of Law and an LL.M. in Taxation from the Georgetown University Law Center where he served as the Graduate Tax Policy Scholar advising the United...
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Kathy Proctor
Beaverton, OR Estate Planning Lawyer
Estate Planning, Criminal, DUI and Divorce
Willamette University
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Matthew McKean
Hillsboro, OR Estate Planning Attorney with 20 years of experience
Estate Planning, Elder, Probate and Real Estate
Lewis & Clark Law School
Nothing makes me happier than to help clients through a complicated legal issue and have them come out the other side ready to move on with their lives. Whether you are going through a probate, guardianship, adoption, need an estate plan, or starting a business, I can help you through the process. As a sole practitioner I like to work closely with my clients. Your legal issues are important to me and I want to be accessible. I am also Of Counsel with the Harris Law Firm and can tap into a team of outstanding attorneys that can...
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Benjamin Taylor Ybarra
Oregon City, OR Estate Planning Attorney with 11 years of experience
Estate Planning, Business, Consumer and Employment
Gonzaga University School of Law
Benjamin Ybarra, Attorney at Law is a general practice that serves the Portland metropolitan area. I work with individuals and businesses in a variety of transactional areas and legal disputes.
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Marcus A. Walker
Salem, OR Estate Planning Attorney with 9 years of experience
Free ConsultationEstate Planning
University of Oregon
J.D. University of Oregon Law School 2013 - Statement of Completion in the Estate Planning Program
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Mack Shively
Portland, OR Estate Planning Attorney with 44 years of experience
Free ConsultationEstate Planning, Business, Probate and Tax
New York University School of Law and Lewis & Clark Law School
Masters in Taxation, New York University School of Law
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Darin Dooley
Lake Oswego, OR Estate Planning Lawyer with 16 years of experience
Estate Planning and Elder
Willamette University College of Law
Darin practices in the areas of estate planning, elder law, Medicaid, special needs planning, probate, estate tax planning, and trust administration. He is a member of the Oregon State Bar Estate Planning and Administration and Elder Law sections, the Multnomah Bar Association, and the Elder Law Section Executive Committee.
Darin Dooley enjoys helping people plan for their future, including the prospect of declining health. Darin understands how emotionally difficult the process can be and he wants his clients to feel good about their planning and confident that their wishes will be carried out effectively. Before becoming an attorney, Darin...
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Allen Drescher
Ashland, OR Estate Planning Attorney with 51 years of experience
21 S 2nd St
Ashland, OR 97520
Estate Planning, Business and Real Estate
Columbia Law School
Admitted to practice before all state and federal courts in Oregon, Allen Drescher has provided legal services in Southern Oregon since 1973 with an emphasis in the areas of estate planning, real estate and business law, elder law, wills, trusts, probate, guardianships, conservatorships, leases, sales, transactions and disputes.
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Christian Froide Donica
ASHLAND, OR Estate Planning Lawyer with 25 years of experience
Estate Planning
San Francisco Law Sch
I provide Estate Plan services: setting up Wills, Trusts, Powers of Attorney, Health Care Directives, Deeds, Guardianships, and Conservatorships.
I provide very personalized care and attention to every client, taking extra time to really get to know my clients, their families, and their individual needs. Every estate plan is completely unique from every other, and I strive to make the process easy and less stressful.