Attorneys

Bryce Adams represents clients across the public and private sectors in insurance law. He approaches his practice with a clear understanding that all legal services must provide value to a client's bottom line.

Brittany Adikes is a litigation defense attorney who represents companies and individuals involved in commercial, products liability, professional malpractice, and catastrophic injury disputes.

Mr. Arthur's practice emphasizes complex litigation and dispute resolution concerning commercial, surety, fidelity, and property insurance matters.

Bob Barton is a seasoned trial attorney with more than 30 years of experience in a broad range of matters, including trucking and transportation claims, products liability, commercial litigation, industrial accident, wrongful death, catastrophic loss, personal injury, and tort cases.

Dan Bentson is a shareholder in Bullivant Houser Bailey's Seattle office. His practice focuses on complex commercial disputes, including insurance coverage, bad faith litigation, admiralty and maritime litigation, and appeals.

Lloyd Bernstein's practice focuses on litigation where clients rely upon him to evaluate, analyze, and resolve insurance coverage disputes and extra-contractual or bad faith claims in the Pacific Northwest.

Sarah Bowen is an associate with Bullivant Houser Bailey's San Francisco office where she specializes in employee benefits and represents Taft-Hartley multiemployer benefit plans.

Amanda Bryan is a business law attorney who represents clients in transactional and litigation matters.

Mary Butler is a civil litigator who defends clients in complex litigation matters involving claims of negligence, breach of contract, product liability, wrongful death, and catastrophic injury, as well as in employment-based harassment and discrimination disputes.

Laura Caldera focuses her representation of clients in three areas: professional liability, business disputes, and intellectual property.

John Carley is a member of the firm's casualty litigation practice where he defends clients in complex civil litigation matters including personal injury, premises liability, construction defect, wrongful death, product liability, and catastrophic injury cases.

Ron Clark brings a trial lawyer's expertise and experience to bear in cases involving insurance coverage litigation and bad faith, product liability and general tort actions. His representation focuses on the Western states including Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah and Alaska in state and federal courts.

Andrea Clifford practices as an associate in Bullivant's Casualty Law Group.

Megan Cook's practice focuses on personal and catastrophic injury litigation. In addition she has experience in environmental, insurance, business, real estate, and land use law.

Raymund Deng practices as an associate in Bullivant's Insurance Law Group. Before joining the firm, he worked as a law clerk where he assisted on matters in a wide variety of areas, including personal injury and medical malpractice.

Wilhelm Dingler devotes his practice to the defense of professionals, primarily accountants, attorneys and real estate professionals. He also provides risk management services and advice to CPAs across the country on "hotlines" under contract with three national insurance carriers.

Andy Downs has been litigating and counseling clients regarding complex commercial and insurance coverage litigation for over 35 years.

Penn Gheen is a litigator representing clients in products liability, professional liability, and medical malpractice, including defense of skilled nursing facilities, hospitals, and other healthcare institutions. He has also handled catastrophic injury cases involving construction, vehicular collision and product failure. He has tried more than 100 jury cases to verdict in both the state and federal courts of Washington and Oregon for the past 37 years.

Monica Ghosh is a member of the firm's casualty litigation practice where she defends clients in complex civil litigation matters including product liability, medical malpractice, class action, and catastrophic injury cases.

Leta Gorman is an experienced trial lawyer who has personally tried as first chair more than 25 bench and jury trials in state and federal courts in Oregon and Washington. She has handled hundreds of class actions, arbitrations, and mediations. If a case cannot be resolved without a trial, her clients know they have a skilled, competent, and talented trial lawyer on their side.

Nellyl Greenberg's practice centers on commercial litigation, railroad law, and medical malpractice defense where she has experience in motion, discovery, and briefing practice in both state and federal court, and in many jurisdictions throughout the United States.

Michael Guadagno focuses his practice on insurance coverage and complex commercial litigation matters.

Lorianne Hanson is a member of the Bullivant Casualty Law practice, with a primary focus on complex litigation, including product liability and commercial litigation. She also represents employers in the defense of claims for discrimination and harassment in the workplace, wage and hour violations, and breach of contract.

Elizabeth Hebel practices as an associate in Bullivant's Insurance Law Group.

Alex regularly represents and advises small and larger businesses regarding a wide variety of legal matters including contract disputes and liabilities, entity formation, mergers and acquisitions, and general litigation matters.

After 60 years at Bullivant Houser, our friend and colleague, Doug Houser, has retired from the practice of law. However, Doug won't be a stranger to us and will continue to come into our office from time to time to share his wisdom and experience with his colleagues.

Tom Hutchinson's Washington and Oregon business litigation practice focuses on advising entities and individuals regarding a wide range of issues with an emphasis on disputes involving financial matters.

Alexander Jurisch practices as an associate in Bullivant's Casualty Law Group.

Matthew Kaufmann is an attorney in the firm's Casualty Law Group. His practice focuses on defending businesses and individuals in a wide variety of tort litigation, from premises liability to catastrophic injury to product liability, with a strong emphasis on trucking and commercial transportation cases.

Jared Kiess focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation matters. Prior to joining Bullivant,

John Kreutzer's practice focuses on employment litigation, advice, and counseling.

Diane Lenkowsky helps public and private clients resolve problems in and out of the courtroom as a civil litigation attorney.

Over his career, Dan Lindahl has handled approximately 200 state and federal appeals, making him one of the most experienced appellate lawyers in the Pacific Northwest. He leads Bullivant's appellate practice, which includes lawyers across many practice areas.

Clinton Lipscomb is a member of the firm's insurance law group.

Jeanne Loftis is a trial attorney who represents companies in the Pacific Northwest in a wide variety of commercial and casualty cases, with an emphasis on asbestos product liability claims and other mass tort litigation.

Brittany Madderra's practice includes all aspects of civil and commercial litigation, with a focus on complex litigation.

Michael McCormack has almost 30 years of litigation experience with first and third party coverage and bad faith matters arising from all aspects of commercial and HO lines. Michael also handles fraud and arson cases.

Westin McLean has been advising and representing insurance companies, individuals, and businesses in complex matters and litigation since 2009.

Jackie Mitchson joins the Insurance Law Group as an associate where she brings both private business and judicial clerk experience to the firm. Prior to joining Bullivant, she was a Judicial Clerk for Judge Charles D. Carlson of the Lane County Circuit Court where she conducted research and wrote memoranda on issues on the civil motions docket.

Owen Mooney practices in the firm's Insurance Law Group. He previously clerked for The Honorable Nancy Saitta of the Nevada Supreme Court. Owen's analysis of complex legal issues included civil and criminal procedure, constitutional rights, parentage, premises liability, workers' compensation, and class action litigation.

Sean Murphy is a member of the firm's insurance law group.

Sean O'Connor's practice focuses on the prosecution and defense of complex civil litigation claims, including premises liability, products liability, subrogation, and general commercial matters.

Linda Oliver has extensive experience in complex civil litigation and class actions in federal and state court and in arbitration.

John Osburn's practice focuses on eminent domain and condemnation, real estate litigation, asbestos trial and litigation, and representing private citizens, business, and government in all aspects of their interaction, including public contract formation and litigation, land use matters and regulatory matters. 

Loren Podwill heads the firm's Fidelity and Surety practice groups and litigates construction disputes. He represents clients in commercial and intellectual property litigation with experience ranging from one day to 12 week trials and numerous mediations and arbitrations.

Marilyn is a Certified Specialist in Admiralty & Maritime Law, as recognized by The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. She has counseled and represented clients in maritime, transportation, insurance, subrogation, and commercial matters for more than 40 years. Her maritime and transportation law practice includes diverse areas such as cargo loss and damage; collision and allision; tug and tow; seaman's personal injury; longshore and passenger personal injury; maritime liens; chartering; marina operator's liability; salvage and general average. She represents cargo owners, vessel owners, freight forwarders, non-vessel operating common carriers, warehousemen, and transportation brokers. She regularly advises clients on cargo, hull, protection and indemnity (P&I), marina operator's liability, marine general liability, charterer's legal liability, inland marine, and property insurance matters and represents them in coverage litigation including extra-contractual claims.

Mike Ratoza practices Copyright and Trademark law, both transactional and litigation, from Bullivant's Portland office.

Gardner Reed practices as an associate in the firm's Insurance Law Group.

Malcolm Reilly brings his insurance coverage and commercial litigation experience to Bullivant's Insurance Law practice where he represents clients in coverage and extra-contractual disputes. He has extensive experience litigating cases involving insurance coverage, liability defense, contract interpretation, and subrogation recovery in federal and state courts throughout the United States.

Peder Rigsby's practice includes a variety of areas in casualty and commercial litigation in both state and federal court of Oregon and Washington. His practice emphasizes insurance defense, products liability, wrongful death and catastrophic injury, professional malpractice, employment litigation, and general commercial litigation.

Sam Ruby leads the firm's Insurance Law Group and is the Shareholder-in-Charge of the San Francisco office. Sam advises and defends national and international insurers in connection with complex property, liability, and marine insurance claims. He has defended multi-million-dollar lawsuits for breach of contract, bad faith, and declaratory relief.  He also provides coverage opinions and represents insurers at appraisals and examinations under oath.

David Ryan is a civil litigator with nearly 25 years of experience.

Karleen Scharer is a civil litigator who defends clients in casualty related claims including bodily injury, personal injury, and property damage.

Matt Sekits is a trial lawyer who focuses his practice on defending and prosecuting cases on behalf of corporate clients, including insurance companies, in complex commercial litigation. Matt has significant litigation experience in a wide range of multi-million dollar cases involving liability and property insurance, bad faith, complex business litigation, and catastrophic personal injury. Matt has successfully tried multiple cases to verdict.

Summer Smith brings substantial experience and in-depth knowledge to the firm's litigation group. Her practice focuses on business and commercial litigation, along with the representation of professionals.

Antoine Smith practices as an associate in Bullivant's Business Law Group and Casualty Law Group. With an LL.M. in Tax, his practice focuses on professional malpractice matters as well as complex business disputes and E&O matters.

Robert Spajic's practice focuses on litigation where his clients rely on him to successfully defend against professional liability, product liability, personal injury, transportation, and construction claims.

Katherine Steele is a civil litigator with more than 30 years of experience defending clients in complex civil matters, primarily in the areas of product liability, asbestos defense, complex litigation management, construction defect, wrongful death, personal injury, general maritime law and Jones Act cases.

Kathleen Thompson has more than 23 years of experience as a trial attorney devoting the majority of her practice to personal injury, property damage, premises liability, and product liability claims in state and federal court and to handling appeals brought before the Washington State Court of Appeals and Washington Supreme Court.

Our friend and colleague, Megge Van Valkenburg, has retired after practicing law for over 30 years. Megge's practice focused on resolving insurance coverage issues for insurance carriers, both through negotiation and litigation.

Richard Williams brings his experience in civil litigation to Bullivant's Insurance Law Practice Group where he represents clients in coverage and extra-contractual disputes.

Charles Willmes has more than 25 years of experience in defense litigation. His practice focuses on complex litigation with an emphasis on premises liability and product liability matters.

Evie Winters is a litigation attorney whose practice focuses on a variety of commercial and casualty matters, including professional liability defense, business disputes, products liability defense, and wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases. Evie has experience in bench and jury trials, arbitrations and appeals. She has represented clients in state and federal courts in Oregon and Washington, successfully arguing dispositive motions and defending clients at trial.

Matt Wojcik is a litigator who defends clients in complex civil matters and class actions, primarily in the areas of product liability, medical malpractice, professional liability, catastrophic injuries, class actions, toxic torts, and construction defect litigation.

Gregory Woods is an associate in Bullivant's Business Law Group. His practice focuses on commercial litigation, with an emphasis on securities and regulatory investigations.