The Portland Business Journal is holding their inaugural “Thought Leaders Live: Business Strategies for 2020” on October 16, 2019 from 7:30-9:30 a.m. in downtown Portland. Tim DeJong will serve as a panelist member. Andy Davis and Tim DeJong each are a contributing author to the guide.

Stoll Berne is excited to announce that fifteen of our attorneys were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America©2020 as well as three Shareholders named as Portland, Oregon’s Lawyers of the Year.

Stoll Berne attorney Josh Ross was a panelist member discussing his experience working with the Domestic Violence Project on September 4, 2019.

Plaintiffs and Airbnb have reached a settlement in a lawsuit, filed in March 2017, alleging that Airbnb’s policies allowed its hosts to discriminate against African Americans and deny them access to accommodations by using guests’ photographs and full names to review reservation requests in violation of Oregon’s Public Accommodation laws.

A Minnesota federal judge recently denied defendants’ motion to dismiss a securities class action against CenturyLink and several of its senior executives.

On August 8, 2019, the U.S. District Court (Oregon) preliminarily approved three proposed class action settlements totaling $234.6 million on behalf of a class of Aequitas investors.

A federal court has appointed Stoll Berne, led by partners Keith Dubanevich and Keil Mueller, as co-lead counsel in a proposed federal class action against a group of manufacturers of cedar shakes and shingles and the industry’s trade association.

A United States District Court Judge has preliminarily approved a settlement in the Premera data breach lawsuit, which arose after Premera was the target of an external criminal-cyberattack that began in May 2014 and resulted in the cyberattackers having access to personal information stored on Premera’s computer network system.

Stoll Berne attorney Tim DeJong, along with his band Habeas Corpse, took home the top prize at the Multnomah Bar Association’s Battle of the Lawyer Bands July 25, 2019.

Stoll Berne attorney Tim DeJong was interviewed for the July 18, 2019 Portland Business Journal article “Three Questions with the Plaintiff’s Attorney in the Massive Aequitas Settlement.”

Stoll Berne attorney Nadia Dahab was featured in an article in the 2019 Oregon Super Lawyers magazine.

Stoll Berne attorney Nadia Dahab was honored to be listed in the recent University of Oregon’s Oregon Quarterly “100 Ducks Who Made a Difference” list. Oregon Quarterly, the University of Oregon’s alumni and former students publication, is celebrating their 100th anniversary in 2019. In honor of the occasion, Oregon Quarterly sought nominations for alumni, students, faculty, staff, administrators, and friends of the university from 1919-present who have worked to make the world a better place.

Settlements totaling $234.6 million have been reached on behalf of approximately 1,600 investors in a proposed class action against various third parties alleged to have participated in or materially aided sales of securities by the now-defunct Aequitas companies of Lake Oswego, Oregon.

Eleven individual Stoll Berne attorneys have been recognized by Super Lawyers Magazine in their 2019 Oregon Super Lawyers edition. 

Stoll Berne attorneys Tim DeJong, Jen Wagner, and Lydia Anderson-Dana will present at the June 5, 2019 Oregon State Bar Securities Regulation Section meeting.

Tim DeJong was recently elected to the Oregon Patent Law Association Board of Directors. The OPLA is a non-profit organization that emphasizes legal education with events relating to intellectual property law with a focus on patent law.

Stoll Berne has been recognized by the Chambers USA 2019 Guide as a top (Band 1) General Commercial Litigation – Oregon firm. Chambers states that Stoll Berne “…features a deep bench of high-quality practitioners.”

Stoll Berne attorney Nadia Dahab was named to the 2019 class for the Portland Business Journal’s Forty Under 40.