I am Senior Counsel in the Firm’s Portland, Seattle and San Diego offices, and a member of the Firm’s Professional Responsibility and Litigation Practice Groups providing guidance and legal representation to attorneys, licensed professionals, and other business clients, including firms and in-house legal departments.

 

My practice centers on legal ethics, risk management, and discipline defense. I act as outside counsel to clients in a variety of industries, providing advice and counsel on all manner of ethics issues, including conflicts, confidentiality, malpractice, risk management, and fee issues.

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In addition, I represent lawyers, students, and other professionals in front of regulatory authorities and bar associations on licensing, admissions, reinstatement, reciprocity, character and fitness, consumer protection, unauthorized practice of law, and disciplinary matters.

 

Prior to joining Buchalter, I worked in the Oregon State Bar’s Disciplinary Counsel’s Office (DCO) as an Assistant Disciplinary Counsel, where I enforced the Oregon Rules of Professional Conduct through the investigation and prosecution of alleged misconduct. During my time in DCO, I successfully first-chaired several dozen civil trials, and investigated or prosecuted hundreds of disciplinary matters. The last six years of my tenure with DCO, I was the Chief Assistant Disciplinary Counsel and Deputy Director of Regulatory Services, and also acted as Chief Trial Counsel.

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​With more than 25 years of legal experience, including extensive civil trial experience and as a Bar prosecutor I am able to offer my clients a unique insight and expertise on ethics issues and professional obligations.

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Intimately versed in legal ethics, I developed, updated, and presented Legal Ethics Best Practices, a semi-annual “ethics school” for attorneys. I also prepared and edited the annual annotations of all Bar formal proceeding dispositions, requiring me to be expertly familiar with each stipulated and adjudicated case result.

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I regularly present seminars on ethics issues, both locally and nationally, and frequently provide ethics advice to attorneys. I have been named one of The Best Lawyers in America, for Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law in 2024-2025.