Client Collaborations
All Representative Cases
Represented life insurance company as both seller and buyer of downtown office buildings and suburban office/flex space.
Cancer therapy start-up license agreement. Erich has long been outside general counsel for this cancer therapy start-up. He recently assisted the company with a major international license transaction in which the company’s therapeutic drug will be used in clinical trials in the U.S. and overseas.
Appointed to serve as the future claimants representative for unknown and minor abuse victims in the chapter 11 case concerning the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland and to serve as the examiner in the chapter 11 case concerning the owner of the multipurpose arena in Portland originally known as the Rose Garden.
Advised higher education and K-12 clients on revisions of policies, procedures, and guidance regarding the 2020 Title IX regulations.
Assisted client with becoming compliant with its B&O tax obligations and with negotiating payment of back taxes.
Purchase and Sale Agreement. Negotiated a purchase and sale agreement for the sale of 200 acres of a soon-to-be former dairy farm in Camas, Washington.
Obtained post-verdict settlement on appeal to substantially reduce client’s financial obligations in relation to a previously-entered judgment on special verdict.
Represented individual critically injured when car driven by his co-worker crashed while returning from a jobsite, in appeal of trial court's dismissal of his lawsuit against the driver. The Court of Appeals reversed the trial court, finding that there was a material question whether the driver was acting in the course of his employment at the time of the crash. The case was remanded, resulting in a favorable settlement for the client.
Regularly represents investor-owned utility in a variety of litigation-related matters, including multiple lawsuits and demands arising out of the failure of a dike that flooded approximately 2,300 acres of farmland, a golf course, and a state highway, contract-based claims by customers over rate increases, disputes with public utility districts over terms of power purchase agreements, claims against a contractor for an explosion at a power plant, litigation relating to the contamination of a power plant's natural gas fuel supply, and challenges relating to the constitutionality and legality of certain taxes.