Client Collaborations
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Iván understands the unique interplay between antitrust law and education law. Iván regularly helps higher education institutions navigate the federal and state antitrust laws and works with them to establish safeguards to minimize the risk of antitrust scrutiny.
Drafted, revised, and audited employment policies and handbooks for multiple employers, including ensuring legal compliance for local and state wage and hour regulations, leave laws, and benefits.
Assist employers in strike preparation and contingency planning.
Successfully defended landlord of automobile repair facility in wrongful-death and catastrophic-personal-injury litigation resulting from gasoline and natural gas explosion. Case was resolved after mediation.
Represented Washington-based financial institution in connection with multimillion-dollar collection action against distressed property developer (Bankr. D. Or., Case No. 10-60244).
Negotiated successful resolution of manufacturing and distribution dispute, including six figure recovery on behalf of client.
Represented electric utility in defense of $80 million claim challenging increase to industrial users electric rates. Court of Appeals affirmed trial court’s dismissal of all claims. Klamath Off-Project Water Users v. PacifiCorp, 237 Or App 434 (2010)
Obtained a unanimous jury verdict matching our client’s valuation evidence exactly in a multi-week, 30-party, 100-percent virtual condemnation trial. The local transit authority client needed to acquire the right to amend restrictive covenants to allow it to construct and operate its light rail project and the total valuation dispute was more than $5.5 million in just compensation. (12-Person Jury Trial)
Drafted noncompete agreements for large technology employers, sport franchises, and other employers, and reviewed existing restrictive covenants to determine enforceability and legality in a quickly changing legal landscape.