Areas of Law

Bullivant Houser Bailey PC's Admiralty & Maritime Practice Group has represented clients in admiralty and maritime matters both nationally and internationally. With offices near every major port on the West Coast, we are uniquely positioned to represent clients with transportation-related questions.

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Our practice includes virtually all aspects of dispute resolution. We train arbitrators and mediators who help litigants, businesses, and their counsel resolve disputes. Our attorneys’ training in alternative dispute resolution processes and techniques pursues our goal: by creativity and a thorough understanding of our client’s situation and broader needs, we will identify the most appropriate way to resolve our client’s problem.

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Because the appeal process is often the most challenging aspect of legal representation, experience should be a key factor in selecting a firm. Bullivant Houser Bailey PC's appellate lawyers have years of experience and are known and respected by appellate judges. Most of our appellate lawyers exclusively practice appellate litigation. Our Appellate Group's experience includes handling close to 1000 appeals at all levels of state and federal courts. Our appellate attorneys appear before appellate courts throughout the U.S.

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Bullivant Houser Bailey PC has represented a wide variety of clients in asbestos claims over the past 30 years. Our experience gives us a unique perspective on this evolving field of litigation and has helped to hone our approach to the defense of our clients, who include masonry supply companies; building supply retailers; safety supply companies; auto parts distributors and retailers; raw materials suppliers and manufacturers; fireproof and acoustic materials applicators and subcontractors; ship builders and owners; heavy equipment manufacturers; pump, valve and gasket manufacturers; dryer felt manufacturers; and vinyl and tile flooring manufacturers.

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Bullivant Houser Bailey PC provides a full range of legal services, involving creditors’ rights, loan workouts, bankruptcy, Uniform Commercial Code, and sales disputes. Our attorneys routinely appear before state and federal courts, including bankruptcy courts.

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When our clients tell us they want their outside counsel to help them meet their long-term business goals, as well as take care of immediate transaction needs, we listen. Bullivant Houser Bailey has responded by bringing together a highly experienced group of transaction attorneys who act as long-term, trusted business advisors to our clients. Our goal is to know your business as well as you do, and to help you anticipate your future needs. We measure our success in that we have had extended relationships with many of our clients; some have been with Bullivant for more than 30 years.

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Bullivant Houser Bailey PC's Commercial Litigation Group serves clients in a wide range of industries from insurance, to energy and utilities, and consumer products and retail businesses to high-technology manufacturers.

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Our attorneys bring more to clients than their legal experience. Our attorneys include former construction professionals and civil and structural engineers. We have served as partnering facilitators on projects and have spent time in job trailers, facing the very same challenges as our clients.

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Our attorneys provide securities counsel to publicly held and private companies, assisting both companies and individuals in complying with the frequently complex rules and regulations under federal and state securities laws.

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The shareholders in our Corporate Growth and Governance Group bring over 150 years of experience in representing business entities, from family-owned and start-ups, to public companies, with several shareholders bringing years of experience as in-house counsel.

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Bullivant Houser Bailey PC's Distribution and Franchise group speaks to bottom line concerns of clients on functional level: pricing, selling, protecting trade secrets and intellectual capital, and receiving a return on intellectual capital.

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Bullivant Houser Bailey PC’s Employment Law team assists clients with employment issues including litigation, training, and daily human resources management services. Our employment attorneys have the background and experience necessary to handle the unique issues present in many employment disputes.

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Bullivant Houser Bailey PC's Environmental Group focuses on permitting, regulatory compliance and litigation associated with site contamination, natural resources and industrial and commercial activities.

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Providing our clients with timely, cost-effective advice is the standard by which the Bullivant Houser Bailey employee benefits group measures itself.  Due to the rising costs of health care, the increased complexity of benefit packages, and the changing and litigious world of retirement plans, our clients demand advice in real time and in a manner they can understand and act on.  Our attorneys understand that employee benefits are not just retirement and health plans, but rather the mechanisms by which employees have come to rely on for a secure and comfortable retirement and the protection health benefits afford working employees and their families.


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The Bullivant Houser Bailey PC estate planning and administrative practice differs from other firms because, in addition to our estates and trusts expertise, we have the litigation and business resources to integrate into and complement our planning and administration work. Our West Coast presence also allows us to better serve our clients with planning issues in multiple states. The group has been structured so attorneys have complementary focus areas.

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With a practice that spans the entire Northwest and Alaska, Bullivant has steadily built a reputation over the years as the firm of choice in fidelity and surety cases that matter. Measured by any parameter, our firm sets the benchmark for both reputation and achievement. Our fidelity and surety lawyers have garnered virtually every national accolade and credential. Any foray into these specialized fields of practice will soon take you to a case we handled, a book we helped write or a seminar we gave.

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For the last 15 years, Bullivant Houser Bailey PC has been extensively involved in food liability litigation throughout the U.S. We have represented national restaurant clients, food suppliers, processors, distributors, and manufacturers in some of the most significant outbreak cases to date, including several food-related, class-action cases.

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The rules and realities of federal immigration law are complex and fluid. So when Bullivant’s business clients seek to add value to their operations by bringing in talented foreign workers, such as executives, managers, or specialists, they count on our experience and insight to help them successfully navigate through the constantly changing legal maze.

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Bullivant Houser Bailey PC attorneys work diligently to provide tribes with the same level of high-quality legal counsel that all firm clients - from Fortune 500 corporations to emerging companies to individuals - enjoy. We understand the unique legal needs tribes require to protect their sovereignty and achieve economic growth. Our experience also includes working with non-tribal entities that conduct business in Indian Country.

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Bullivant Houser Bailey PC’s insurance industry services practice is unique. We have more than 40 lawyers who practice in the field of insurance industry services on a full-time basis. Our coverage lawyers are recognized nationwide as experts in the field. Our coverage lawyers are physically located in four western states, but many are licensed in other states, and are generally able to assist with coverage matters across the country.

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Bullivant Houser Bailey PC's international experience encompasses transactions on several continents and clients of more than a dozen nationalities. Our attorneys represent major multinational corporations and growing companies in numerous cross-border business transactions. Bullivant Houser Bailey is a member of Multilaw, a London-based multinational association of independent law firms. Multilaw strengthens our international capabilities by connecting our firm to other first-tier law firms in major commercial centers around the world. With offices in major metropolitan areas throughout the West Coast, we are ideally positioned to serve clients with international legal needs in the Pacific Rim and other parts of the world.

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We help our clients structure deals with an eye toward achieving a positive outcome for shareholders, investors, senior management, as well as employees. We listen to our clients, and work to provide each with an individualized approach to accomplish their unique goals. Because our attorneys have handled hundreds of M&A transactions, we have the experience to know what makes a deal successful and what may cause it to fail.

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Given the increasing rise in mold exposure claims, our combination of experience and expertise in mold-related litigation is crucial because such claims frequently coincide with construction defect and personal injury tort claims. In addition to a broad-based perspective on developments in mold litigation, our attorneys are thoroughly experienced in construction defect litigation, ranging from actions involving single homes to complex developments.

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The trial lawyers of Bullivant Houser Bailey have more experience in evaluating, preparing, and trying personal and catastrophic injury, and wrongful death cases than almost any other West Coast law firm. We routinely handle large-scale cases for the world's largest insurance companies and other self-insured entities. Although we are based on the West Coast, we have a national practice and have tried cases throughout the U.S. Over the last 20 years, our firm has defended more than 1,500 jury trials to conclusion in which significant or highly public accidents were involved. During this same time period, the number of cases our firm has handled through settlement or mediation is conservatively estimated at tens-of thousands of cases.

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The American Lawyer selected Bullivant Houser Bailey PC as a leading Pacific Northwest firm for product liability defense based upon the feedback of 400 corporate counsel on the firm's ability to provide quality, service and value.

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Bullivant Houser Bailey PC's professional liability group has extensive experience in a wide range of professional disciplines in handling professional liability matters. Our firm has represented architects, engineers, insurance agents and brokers, attorneys, directors and officers, real estate agents and brokers, and other professionals.

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Bullivant Houser Bailey PC's real estate and land use group focuses on individuals and businesses that own, buy, sell, lease, develop, and finance real estate. Our clients are involved in real estate transactions and developments of almost every size and type including industrial, commercial, and residential properties. We have unique experience in taking real estate development projects from beginning to end, from site selection and land use approval through development, construction, finance and refinance, leasing, and sales. Our group includes attorneys with significant experience in the industry, including several attorneys who have served as in-house counsel in the private and public sector. We understand what our real estate clients want and provide a practical approach to solving their problems.

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The attorneys at Bullivant Houser Bailey PC provide full representation in ERISA matters. The Employment Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) governs the establishment and operation of retirement plans (multi-employer or single employer), welfare benefit plans (including COBRA and HIPAA compliance) and employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs).

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Bullivant Houser Bailey PC's School Law Group has defended Oregon and Washington private and public school districts, colleges and other municipal corporations in both state and federal courts and before a wide variety of administrative agencies.

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Our lawyers have broad experience in securities litigation, the principal area from which claims against directors and officers most frequently arise. The firm has considerable experience in defending insureds under executive protection lines of coverage in both the general corporate and financial institution areas. Our experience includes the defense of securities claims and alleged regulatory violations, as well as mismanagement and breach of fiduciary duty claims. We have defended numerous claims brought by borrowers under financial institution bonds including lender liability claims. We have defended insurers who have denied coverage under financial institution bonds, and have also provided coverage opinions.

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The Insurance SIU group is a specialized branch of the Bullivant Houser Bailey PC Insurance Practice Group. The group protects and defends insurers by providing complex coverage analysis, assisting in the identification and investigation of suspicious losses and claims, and litigating residential and commercial insurance fraud and organized fraud operations. The Insurance SIU group also protects and defends insurers by providing guidance on the avoidance of "bad faith," and aggressively defending insurers against allegations of "bad faith," and lawsuits seeking extra-contractual or punitive damages.

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We provide assistance in large loss investigations, preserving subrogation rights during claims adjustment, analysis of recovery potential against potentially responsible tortfeasors, and prosecution of subrogation claims to verdict. Attorneys in each of our West Coast offices are actively involved in all aspects of subrogation.

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Having merged with a 108-year-old maritime law firm in 2000, Bullivant Houser Bailey PC is one of the leading West Coast transportation law firms.

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Bullivant Houser Bailey PC’s trial lawyers handle litigation involving a variety of industries and regulatory frameworks. We aggressively pursue a litigation strategy designed to obtain early, favorable, and cost-effective results. Our trial lawyers are experienced in all stages of litigation as well as in various forms of alternative dispute resolution, such as arbitration and mediation. We also have the experience and expertise to handle complex litigation and the specialized case management procedures required in such litigation. To provide our clients with the best service possible, we use state-of-the-art technology in the courtroom and in document handling, retrieval, and production.

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