Attorneys

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

Elizabeth Bain concentrates her practice on the defense of toxic tort and product liability cases.

Taryn Basauri joins Bullivant's Casualty Law practice representing clients in product liability, toxic tort, and related defense work.

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.

Bryana Blessinger, a civil litigator in Oregon and Washington, handles complex first and third party insurance coverage matters including extra-contractual bad faith claims, property loss, directors and officers (D&O), professional negligence, product defect, and crime coverage. Bryana also defends general tort actions, with an emphasis on property loss, professional malpractice, and employment law claims.

Holly Brauchli is a civil litigator who defends clients in products liability, medical device, malpractice, and general liability cases.

Mac Brown joins Bullivant's Casualty Law practice representing clients in product liability, toxic tort, and related defense work.

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.

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.

Parker Davidsons brings his experience in civil litigation to Bullivant's Casualty Defense team where he represents clients in product liability, toxic tort, and related defense work. In his previous role as in-house counsel for a major insurance company, Parker gained valuable client-side experience in all phases of litigation.

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 30 years.

Tracy Frazier brings her experience in casualty and commercial litigation to Bullivant's Insurance Law practice where she represents clients in coverage and extra-contractual disputes. In addition to her insurance practice, Tracy represents clients in employment, product liability, toxic tort, and related defense work.

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.

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

Brendan Hanrahan practices in the firm's Commercial Litigation Group and Insurance Industry Services Group. Prior to Bullivant, Brendan served as a deputy prosecuting attorney for the King County Prosecutor's Office.

Matt Hedberg's experience in jury and bench trials informs his approach to coverage matters where he represents insurance carriers in both contractual and extra-contractual claims. His experience includes trials involving first-party coverage issues for both personal lines and commercial lines of coverage.

Doug Houser's practice focuses on large "bet-the-company" type major disputes where his years of experience, practical common sense, and negotiating skills can be maximized to obtain effective and imaginative solutions to complex problems.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 as an associate 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.

Robert Moore, who retired December 2016, was with Bullivant Houser Bailey for more than 20 years. He assists privately held companies with all types of legal issues, from the analysis of the most beneficial form of business entity to ongoing corporate and business issues.

Jayme Mori practices as an associate in Bullivant's Insurance Law Group.

Paul D. Nelson is an experienced trial litigator and appellate lawyer with an emphasis on complex civil cases, including major class actions, insurance coverage, business disputes, mass tort, product liability and catastrophic injury matters.

 

Todd Norris is a West Coast litigator with more than 20 years of experience in complex commercial litigation, including commercial contract disputes, closely held business disputes, franchise, patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret and other intellectual property-related disputes.

Susan Olson is an employee benefits and ERISA attorney with extensive experience in Department of Labor and IRS Plan audits, investigations and qualification for tax exempt status. Susan serves as advisor to trustees of ERISA, collectively bargained retirement plans, health and welfare plans, as well as single employer retirement and health plans.

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 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.

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.

Norm Ronneberg, who retired January 2017, practiced with Bullivant's litigation group in the San Francisco office. Norm had taken more than 55 civil cases to jury verdict or judgment, had argued and briefed more than 20 appeals in federal and state courts, and had taught maritime and tort law in the United States and Europe.

Sam advises and defends national and international insurers in connection with complex property, liability, and marine insurance claims.

Christine Sargent joins Bullivant's Casualty Law practice representing clients in product liability, toxic tort, and related defense work.

Kyle Sciuchetti maintains an active general business practice throughout Oregon, Washington and Idaho. He regularly advises businesses and manages the legal needs of many companies ranging from firearm and firearm accessory manufacturers to construction companies.

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.

With great sadness, we regret to tell you that our friend and colleague, Katherine Somervell, passed away on Friday, February 17, 2017, after battling GIST Cancer for 10 years with a spirit that can only be called inspirational.

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.

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

Megan Uhle's practice at Bullivant focuses on product liability, toxic tort, and related defense litigation. Megan also has experience in a wide variety of complex civil trial and appellate litigation before multiple state and federal courts and FINRA arbitration panels in her prior experience as a New York law firm associate.

Megge's practice focuses on resolving insurance coverage issues for insurance carriers, both through negotiation and litigation. Megge's 30 years of practice—the last 20 years focusing exclusively on the insurance industry—gives her the experience to evaluate claims and cases and provide clients with effective representation in coverage determinations and litigation decisions.

Brian Weeks focuses his practice on all aspects of employment law, including discrimination, trade secret, competition, and wage and hour issues.

With great sadness, we regret to tell you that our friend and colleague, Dick Whittemore, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, July 5, 2015.

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, primarily in the areas of professional liability, medical malpractice, product liability and construction defect litigation.