Around the Bar

Mark Kramer

Mediate to Success

After almost 40 years of family law litigation practice, Mark Kramer announces his new mediation practice - Mediate to Success - with a focus on family law issues to assist both self-represented and represented individuals. He will apply his experience from trying hundreds and settling thousands of cases to his mediation practice with the same dedication and thoroughness he has demonstrated in his legal practice. He will provide both in person (downtown Portland), Zoom and hybrid mediation. See www.mediatetosuccess.com. His litigation practice will continue through 2023.

the Oregon legal community for more than a decade, and comes from a nonprofit fundraising background.

Keller Rohrback property and contract disputes, consumer and securities fraud matters, class actions, and complex civil litigation.

Keller Rohrback LLP is thrilled to welcome attorneys Keil Mueller and Joshua Ross, who join Yoona Park as partners in the firm’s new Portland office. Mueller practices in Keller Rohrback’s complex litigation group. He brings extensive experience litigating securities and financial fraud claims, environmental remediation cases, class actions, and shareholder and partnership disputes on behalf of government entities, investors, consumers and other plaintiffs.

Tonkon Torp LLP

Partner Michael Willes has been elected Secretary of Virginia Garcia Memorial Foundation Board of Directors. The Foundation provides fundraising and community relations support to Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center, ensuring the continuation of vital primary care, dental, and pharmacy services to more than 45,000 people in Washington and Yamhill counties.

Willes is a member of Tonkon Torp’s Litigation Department. He represents clients in a broad range of business matters, including contract, trade secret, and securities litigation. He is one of a handful of Oregon attorneys who have tried a nine-figure federal jury trial.

Markowitz Herbold PC

The firm is pleased to announce the arrival of Adele Ridenour, Alexandra Rhee, and Nicholas Sanchez

After her nearly 15-year tenure at Ball Janik, Ridenour has joined the firm as of counsel. She will continue her commercial litigation, construction, insurance, and design-related disputes practice. Additionally, she advises educational institutions on Title

IX, including analyzing school facilities and new construction.

Rhee joins Markowitz Herbold as an associate from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) where she worked as an assistant general counsel for the litigation branch of the FBI’s Office of General Counsel. Rhee has extensive experience with eDiscovery, information governance, data privacy, and data security from her tenure at the Redgrave LLP boutique firm in Washington DC.

Sanchez joins the firm as an associate. Before joining the firm, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Mustafa T. Kasubhai in the US District Court for Oregon and the Honorable Chief Judge James Egan for the Oregon Court of Appeals. Sanchez also worked as a deputy district attorney in Jackson County, Oregon.

Campaign for Equal Justice

Ayla Ercin was appointed to lead the Campaign for Equal Justice, a nonprofit that supports Oregon’s statewide legal aid programs.

Ercin takes the place of former Executive Director Maya Crawford Peacock who is leaving the organization after six years to serve as Executive Appointments Director in the office of Governor Tina Kotek. Ercin has worked at the CEJ as the Annual Fund Director since 2021. She is an attorney who practiced in

Ross splits his time between the commercial litigation group and complex litigation group. Ross represents clients in trust and estate litigation, shareholder disputes, breach of professional and fiduciary duty actions,

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