Stoll Berne is thrilled to announce that twelve of our attorneys were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2025®. Additionally, two attorneys, Cody Berne and Rob Shlachter received a Portland, Oregon Lawyer of the Year designation. Best Lawyers is a purely peer-reviewed legal awards network highlighting top legal talent around the world. To learn more about their methodology, visit their website at bestlawyers.com.

  • Appellate Practice
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Bet-the-Company Litigation
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Litigation – Securities
  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
  • Securites / Capital Markets Law
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Litigation – Antitrust
  • Litigation – Securities (Portland, OR Lawyer of the Year)
  • Securities / Capital Markets Law
  • Advertising Law
  • Litigation – Intellectual Property
  • Litigation – Patent
  • Litigation – Securites
  • Appellate Practice (Ones to Watch)
  • Commercial Litigation (Ones to Watch)
  • Litigation – Environmental (Ones to Watch) 
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Litigation – Securites
  • Securites / Capital Markets Law
  • Advertising Law
  • Bet-the-Company Litigation
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Litigation – Antitrust
  • Litigation – Securites
  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
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  • Real Estate Law
  • Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships
  • Real Estate Law
  • Tax Law
  • Advertising Law
  • Bet-the-Company Litigation
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Litigation – Intellectual Property
  • Litigation – Patent (Portland, OR Lawyer of the Year)
  • Trade Secrets Law

Nine individual Stoll Berne attorneys have been recognized by Super Lawyer Magazine in their 2024 Oregon Super Lawyers edition. They include:

In addition, Tim Dejong was ranked in Oregon’s Top 50 Category.

Oregon Super Lawyers selections are based on peer nominations and evaluations combined with their own independent research. For more information on Oregon Super Lawyers, visit their website. 

A long-standing lawsuit between shareholders and Under Armour has come to a settlement. Under Armour has agreed to pay $435 million to resolve the accusations from shareholders.  The shareholders alleged that Under Armour misled them about the company’s financial health. Claims that the popular sports company inflated its sales figures and failed to alert shareholders to the risks associated with over-ambitious expansion plans between the years 2015-2019 were the basis for the lawsuit.  The company intends to pay the settlement with both cash on hand and credit.


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Apple Inc. is settling the AppleCare and AppleCare+ class action lawsuit for $95 million. The lawsuit alleged that Apple replaced covered products with remanufactured items and not brand new products.

The class plaintiffs alleged that the replaced items were not as advertised in the programs. The class consists of individuals who purchased either AppleCare or AppleCare+ directory or through an iPhone upgrade program on or after July 20, 2012 and received a remanufactured replacement device.


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A class action settlement has been announced in a long running case against Bausch Health Cos. Inc., formerly known as Valeant Pharmaceuticals. The settlement announced December 16, 2019 said Bausch will pay $1.2 billion to resolve the securities class action accusing its former leaders of fraudulently inflating its stock when the Canadian company was known as Valeant Pharmaceuticals.

The nearly five-year-old lawsuit claimed Valeant used a clandestine network of pharmacies to push high-priced drug prescriptions, sending the stock plummeting once price-gouging allegations surfaced. Under the settlement, payouts will begin in mid-January and will be funded by cash and revolving credit, according to the announcement.

The stock-drop litigation represents consolidated claims by investors who saw Valeant’s stock price slide from more than $250 a share in 2015 to below $10 two years later. The company has been fined by regulators and sued by investors who said it defrauded the market.

The complaint alleged that Valeant duped insurers by changing prescription codes to ensure they were filled with Valeant-branded drugs and making claims for unrequested refills, investors said, and covered up the scheme by lying about the pharmacies’ ownership and issuing a series of false statements to investors.

The case is In re Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. Securities Litigation, case number 3:15-cv-07658, in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.


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Some Stoll Berners recently participated in the 2019 St. Andrew Legal Clinic’s Race for Justice on Saturday, June 15, 2019. We are proud to support SALC in their service to Oregon families. St. Andrew Legal Clinic serves low-income families with family law needs. To learn more about SALC, visit their website here.

2019 Lincoln High School Mock Trial Team
2019 Lincoln High School Mock Trial Team

Lincoln High School’s mock trial team took third place (out of 75 teams) in the 2019 statewide high school mock trial competition championship. The Lincoln High team took first place in the regional competition as well.

Founding Shareholder, Rob Shlachter, along with his wife, Mara, have been coaching high school mock trial teams for 23 years. They have coached to four state championship designations, earning the titles in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2018. They earned state runner-up in 2008.

Over the years, Stoll Berne attorneys have been active in coaching, mentoring, and volunteering for this event sponsored by the Classroom Law Project. Steve Berman and Josh Ross, along with former Stoll Berne attorney Mark Friel, have all participated. The students use the firm’s space for practice and preparations.

“Mara and I are honored to have participated all these years with these wonderful, intelligent, and bright students. Even more rewarding is watching them grow with the process as well as staying in touch while they make their way in to their futures. Congratulations to the mock trial team of Lincoln High School!” says Rob Shlachter.