Retired Attorneys
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Terry W. Baker Retired Partner/InactiveOne of Tonkon Torp’s founding partners, Terry’s practice included litigation for product liability, eminent domain, and contract cases. Terry received the Heisman Trophy in 1962.503.802.2019 terry.baker@tonkon.com
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Bruce Berning Retired Partner/Inactive
Bruce had over 30 years of broad business and corporate law experience, including corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, commercial law, and contracts.
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Paul Cosgrove Retired
Paul Cosgrove retired with more than 30 years of experience in government relations and business law.
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Morris J. Galen Founding Partner (Deceased)
A Tonkon Torp founding partner, Morris had a long-running legal practice focused on counseling closely held businesses in their wide ranging legal and financial problems.
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Corbett Gordon Retired/Inactive
Corbett joined the Labor & Employment group at Tonkon Torp in 2013 after 11 years as a founder and senior counsel in the Portland office of Fisher & Phillips.
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Jeffrey Keeney Retired Partner/Inactive
Jeff’s real estate practice included acquisitions and sales, financing, commercial leasing, and land use permitting. He represented local, regional, and national property owners and developers in a wide range of transactional matters and assisted clients in land use proceedings before local governments.
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Albert N. Kennedy Deceased Partner
Al Kennedy passed away in December 2022. Through his four decades at Tonkon Torp, his positive impact on the firm and his clients was profound. Al was an exceptional lawyer, partner, mentor, and friend. Read more about Al’s career and impact at Tonkon Torp here.
Al’s practice focused on complex corporate reorganizations and restructuring. He had expertise in all areas of commercial, bankruptcy, and creditors’ rights law. He represented creditors (including a variety of financial institutions) and debtors in bankruptcy proceedings, commercial litigation, and real estate foreclosures before both federal and state courts.
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Barbee Lyon Retired Partner/Inactive
Barbee was an appellate lawyer for over 30 years. Prior to his retirement, he earned an outstanding reputation and record in Oregon, prosecuting or defending appeals involving antitrust law, patents, federal energy regulation, corporate law, contracts, and many other subjects.
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William (Rick) F. Martson Jr. Retired Partner/Inactive
Rick’s practice covered securities, shareholders rights, defense of accountants, environmental, and natural resources litigation. He tried over 200 cases and 75 injunctive proceedings.
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Max M. Miller Jr. Retired Partner
Max was a member and former Chair of the firm’s Environmental & Natural Resources Practice Group. His experience included both transactional counsel and litigation representation.
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Janet Neuman Retired Senior Counsel/Resigned
Jan retired in 2023 as Senior Counsel with Tonkon Torp’s Water Law and Environmental & Natural Resources practice groups. She represented clients in a variety of water and natural-resource-related matters, including obtaining, transferring, and protecting water rights for both groundwater and surface water. Jan is considered one of the foremost water law specialists in Oregon and is nationally recognized as a water law scholar.
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Darcy Norville Retired Partner/Pro Bono Member
During her impressive tenure at Tonkon Torp, Darcy was the first female attorney to serve as firm Managing Partner, during which time she helped kick-start and modernize the firm’s diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, launched a successful firm-wide rebrand, and developed a vital new strategic plan to guide the firm’s future development. Darcy’s practice focused on general business and corporate law., including an emphasis on executive compensation, ERISA, and employee benefits counsel.
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Ingolf Noto Retired Partner/Inactive
Ingolf became a partner with the firm in 1985. His practice emphasized federal, state, and international taxation.
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Ned Perry Retired Partner/Inactive
Ned joined the firm in 1984 and was a partner from 1991 until retiring at the end of 2019. His litigation practice emphasized complex real property, contract, and construction disputes.
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Scott Seidman Retired Partner/Inactive
Scott handled business disputes for clients at trial and on appeal for over three decades. His areas of expertise included antitrust, labor and employment, energy, and tax law disputes.
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Leon Simson Deceased Partner
Leon was a member of Tonkon Torp’s Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurial Services, and Mergers & Acquisitions practice groups. Leon represented corporate clients in a wide range of business matters, including finance, license agreements, customer and supplier issues, equipment purchasing and financing, acquisitions and divestitures, and shareholder and director issues. Leon passed away on Jul 2, 2024. Read more about his career here.
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George C. Spencer Retired Partner/Inactive
Before his retirement in 2018, George represented individuals and businesses on a wide range of issues in their personal, commercial, and corporate activities.
