Several small law practices made big waves in Oregon law this year, taking on major corporations and winning favorable jury verdicts and appeals.

The Business Journal asked six attorneys from a variety of specialties to describe a case, trial, decision, verdict, pro bono client or other legal work that stood out to them and why.

Here are their stories.

Brien Flanagan, Schwabe

“The energy sector has become a massive portion of my portfolio in the last several years,” driven in large part by capital from the federal Inflation Reduction Act, he said.

Flanagan is now helping Next Renewable Fuels revive the Red Rock Biofuels facility, which was originally envisioned as a plant to transform woody waste into a feedstock for sustainable aviation fuel. But delays in permitting doomed the project and the bondholders took it back. Next “looked at it and said, ‘We can buy this distressed asset, have the equipment there to go to market quickly with a different product,” Flanagan said.

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