Schwabe News Archive

Dress for Success Oregon has named Schwabe CEO Graciela Gomez Cowger as a winner of its 2018 Athena Award. The Athena Award is presented to women who, like the Greek goddess Athena, model wisdom, courage, and strength and are making great achievements and contributing back to the community.

Schwabe opens new office in Anchorage expands Transportation, Ports and Maritime industry group to 29 attorneys.

Lawyer Nika Aldrich says numerous artists have turned down participating in Soul'd Out, citing "the unlawful radius clause in their contracts with Coachella as the sole reason that they cannot do so."

“It is remarkable that Coachella thinks it is reasonable to exert its market power over 1,000 miles away, to harm a much smaller, regional music event,” Schwabe attorney Nika Aldrich said.

“The Coast Guard has been abundantly clear that those federal regulations pre-empt any state laws,” said Amanda Gamblin, an employment law attorney with Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt in the Pacific Northwest, an area in the thick of the recreational marijuana world.

In Washington State, criminal prosecutors recently charged the owner of a construction company with negligent homicide after a worker died in a trench collapse.

Schwabe announced that Nika Aldrich, David Anderson, Ryen Godwin, Milt Reimers, Ryan Strauss and Jennifer Woodhouse have been named shareholders at the firm.

A small Wilsonville medical maker of diabetes care products won a major patent victory last week that has billions of dollars worth of implications.

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has found that numerous claims from two patents relating to continuous glucose monitoring are valid after a San Diego manufacturer challenged the patents belonging to a New Hampshire-based rival in inter partes reviews.

Attorney Joe Straus stands before Puyallup City Council members to discuss the price of Puyallup's troubled road project.

The end of 2017 brought ups and downs with respect to employment law changes for Oregon manufacturers. 

John McDonagh, co-publisher of the Vancouver Business Journal, sat down with Graciela Gomez Cowger, CEO of Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt. Here are 10 things we learned about Cowger and Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt.

Michael Robinson is well-known throughout Oregon for his land use representation, focusing on obtaining land use approvals and highway access permits for commercial, residential and institutional development. 

Tech standards represented by Schwabe showed off complex ecosystems and product landscapes that are emerging based on these tech standards’ specifications. 

Dave is the 2018 recipient of the Frohnmayer Award for Public Service, given annually since 2002 by the University of Oregon’s Law School Alumni Association.

The Puget Sound region added 11 women to its CEO ranks this year, our own Graciela Gomez Cowger being one of them.

Cristin specializes in helping innovative companies develop, protect, and enforce their intellectual property portfolios.

We are pleased to announce that Ruby Hou Alexander has joined Schwabe’s Seattle office.

Katherine represents owners, developers, property managers, and tenants in real estate transactions, including purchases, sales, leases, and ground leases.

Schwabe attorney Maria Schmidlkofer explains how an estate plan will save your family not only time and money down the road, but also protect your familial relationships.

A Guest Blog Post by OMEP Sponsor Schwabe, Williamson and Wyatt.

A federal judge granted an emergency restraining order to bar sportswear maker Seirus Innovative Accessories, facing a $3.4 million judgment in a trial against Columbia Sportswear North America Inc.

Recent developments have thrust design patents back into light for companies looking for a well-rounded arsenal of intellectual property protections. 

Schwabe interviews leading companies from six different industries in order to take the temperature of the state of innovation in the Pacific Northwest.

Gomez Cowger believes that Schwabe’s commitment to innovation and diversity go hand in hand and will yield overwhelmingly positive results as the company recruits more attorneys and staff.

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt proudly ‎announced that six industry group areas were recognized by U.S. News—Best Law ‎Firms, one of the nation's leading publications in the ranking of law firms and ‎attorneys.

Portland's second-biggest law firm last week appointed its first-ever CEO in a move meant to signal that things aren't business as usual.

A new position for the firm. She is the first woman to lead Schwabe, and one of just a few Latinas to lead a U.S. law firm.

Graciela Gomez Cowger brings unique experience and vision to ‎leadership role.

Graciela Gomez Cowger became the firm's CEO Oct. 7. After being raised in Tijuana, Mexico, Cowger immigrated to the United States to attend college at San Diego State University. She's, according to Schwabe, one of a handful of Latinas to lead a law firm in the U.S.

Originally from Tijuana, Mexico, the new CEO was a Hewlett-Packard electrical engineer before she came to the University of Washington for law school.

I am honored to be named the new CEO of Schwabe, where I will lead a team of lawyers who provide exceptional legal counsel while drawing on a deep understanding of our clients’ businesses and industries.

Apparel giant Columbia Sportswear was recently awarded $3 million in a lawsuit the company filed against Seirus Innovative Accessories for infringing a patent on its Omni-Heat technology.

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