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The firm represents clients in litigation involving disputes over use, ownership, and security interests in real property. The firm represents commercial, agricultural, and private ownership interests. We handle a wide variety of cases, including real estate contract disputes, boundary disputes and adverse possession, foreclosures, environmental litigation, and condemnation. Our practical approach to litigation ensures that the client is always well informed and able to make thoughtful decisions regarding litigation and settlement strategy.

• Contract Disputes. We handle disputes between parties to land sale contracts and earnest money agreements. Our firm also represents commercial landlords in the enforcement of leases, either through collection of back rents or eviction.
• Boundary Disputes and Adverse Possession. Our firm frequently represents clients in establishing or defending against claims of title in land or easement interests by adverse possession.
• Foreclosures. We regularly institute and maintain foreclosure actions on behalf of commercial and private lenders.
• Environmental Litigation. Our firm prosecutes and defends cases under state and federal laws involving claims against potentially responsible parties for contribution of costs of investigation and remediation of environmental wastes.
• Condemnation. We represent land owners in condemnation and takings cases. Frequently, these cases concern a dispute over the property's development potential in the reasonably foreseeable future. Our expertise in land use matters serves our clients well in these disputes.

Representative Transactions.

• Prosecuted claims for landowners against major forest products company for breach of contract and timber trespass.
• Defended real estate developers in action to limit construction of custom homes in residential subdivision.
• Before the Court of Appeals, saved a beachfront property that encroached on a historic easement from a judgment that would have required the destruction of the home. See reported Case: Vossen v. Forrester, 326 Or. App. 323 (1998).
• Represent shopping mall with collections, eviction and other lease enforcement issues.
• Prosecuted landowners claims against neighboring business and formers owners to recover costs of environmental clean up of site.
• Defended landowners in condemnation claim by DOT as part of its Kuebler Exchange Project.
• Defended landowners in various condemnation claim by local goverments and state agencies 
• Defended landowners in condemnation claim by DOT as part of its Highway 97 Expansion Project.