I help clients resolve difficult business disputes. My practice focuses on breach of ??contract claims, real property disputes, and assisting clients with insurance ?coverage issues.?I advise religious and other youth-serving organizations on child protection and ?child safety issues. I have ?defended numerous child sexual abuse-related lawsuits ?in federal and state courts in Oregon and Washington regarding ?claims dating ?from the 1960s through the early 1990s. I also am a member of the National ?Diocesan Attorneys ?Association.?In addition to my litigation experience, I serve as Deputy General Counsel at ?the firm?.?

Bar Admissions

• Oregon State Courts
• Washington State Courts

Education

• Willamette University, Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude (2000)
• University of Notre Dame Law School, Juris Doctor degree (2005)
• Tokyo Kokusai Daigaku, study abroad (Fall 1998)

Significant Accomplishments

• Drafted and negotiated transactional documents related to several million-dollar healthcare-based loans
• Defended religious and other youth-serving organizations in dozens of cases related to child sexual abuse
• Interviewed and deposed several dozen plaintiffs, claimants, and witnesses involved in child sexual abuse claims dating from the 1960's through the early 1990's
• Negotiated a complicated settlement involving a cutting-edge product with relatively little market presence
• Worked successfully with a receiver in a receiver's auction to achieve an efficient resolution of a million dollar collection matter
• Assisted a client with a market withdrawal involving a highly sensitive food product
• Efficiently resolved several loan and other contract disputes with negotiated settlements

• Schwabe in The Field: Josephine County Court Strikes down Genetically Modified Crops Ordinance
• Food Fight Over GMO Labeling Moves to Oregon

Seminar

• Ethics Hour: Legal Confidentiality
• Ethics Hour: Ethical Communications
• Ethics Hour: Do I Have a Conflict?