The Best Lawyers in America list for 2014 has been announced and 52 attorneys from Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt have been presented with this prestigious distinction. Schwabe has steadily grown the number of attorneys who receive this honor; 48 attorneys were named on the 2013 list.

Portland

  • Al AuYeung – patent law
  • David Axelrod – intellectual property litigation, patent litigation
  • David F. Bartz, Jr. – environmental litigation
  • Ray R. Benner – employee benefits law
  • Carmen Calzacorta – banking, corporate and securities law, financial services law
  • Michael Cohen – copyright law, intellectual property litigation
  • William B. Crow – commercial, product liability and antitrust litigation
  • Robert D. Dayton – trusts and estates
  • Paul DeMuro – health care law
  • Jim Dulcich – real estate law
  • Thomas V. Dulcich – commercial and securities litigation, employment and labor litigation
  • Jeffrey Eden – product liability, securities and commercial litigation
  • Frank Erisman – energy, mining, natural resources law
  • Michael Garone – labor and employment law
  • Jill S. Gelineau – eminent domain and condemnation law
  • Walter Grebe – corporate law
  • John D. Guinasso – real estate law
  • Kelly Hagan – health care law
  • Kurt Hansen – health care law
  • Richard Hansen – product liability litigation
  • Timothy Haslach – intellectual property litigation
  • Nikki Hatton – trusts and estates
  • Terry C. Hauck – real estate law
  • Román Hernández – employment law
  • Peter E. Heuser – intellectual property and copyright law, patent litigation
  • Margaret Hoffmann – product liability, and labor and employment litigation
  • Bruce Howell – health care law
  • Kirk Johansen – natural resources and timber law
  • Kevin Kerstiens – tax law
  • Jan K. Kitchel – personal injury litigation
  • Daniel F. Knox – construction, maritime and professional malpractice law
  • Darien Loiselle – construction law
  • Mark Long – business organizations, corporate law, securities law
  • Mark Manulik – real estate law
  • Walter Miller – employee benefits law
  • Peter L. Osborne – tax law
  • Alex Poust – bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights
  • Kent Roberts – maritime law
  • Elizabeth Schleuning – employment law
  • Marc K. Sellers – tax law
  • Mark A. Stayer – real estate and timber law
  • Thomas Tongue – corporate and insurance law, mergers and acquisitions
  • Katherine VanZanten – trusts and estates
  • Jay Waldron – environmental law and litigation, regulatory enforcement litigation

Bend

Salem

  • Martha Pagel – water law

Seattle

  • Connie Sue Martin – Native American law, environmental law and litigation
  • Dennis Ostgard – real estate law
  • Larry Ream – bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights

Best Lawyers compiles lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. In the U.S., Best Lawyers publishes an annual referral guide, The Best Lawyers in America, which includes 50,834 attorneys in 134 practice areas, covering all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

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