Bio
I grew up locally in Portland, Oregon graduating from Portland’s own Woodrow Wilson High School and Portland State University. I left the Northwest to continue my education at Texas Tech University. There I obtained both a Master of Business Administration (“MBA”) and a Juris Doctorate (Law) degrees.
After graduating I returned to Portland, Oregon. For approximately 19 years, I have helped Oregon employees to collect their wages by suing their current or former employers, bosses, and management. In particular, I focus on helping employees recover wages and penalties in overtime wage claims, minimum wage claims, unlawful deduction from wages claims, and late payment of final wage claims. I have prosecuted these wage claims for individuals and as part of large groups in class action wage claim cases. I have also represented employees for employment harassment, employment family leave, and employment discrimination claims. As a result of my litigation efforts, thousands were able to recover money damages, wages, penalty wages, costs, and attorney fees for prosecuting their claims.
Large corporate defendants can hire the biggest and best defense firms. Individual employess need someone who is not intimidated and can stand up to these corporate giants and who will fight to help them recover wages and penalties that they are due under Oregon law. I have prosecuted cases against both large and small Defendants such as: Swift Transportation, Solarworld, Reser’s Fine Foods, Pendum, Titus Transportation, Wal-Mart, Addus Healthcare, Circuit City Stores, El Paso Energy Petroleum, Freightliner, Columbia Collectors, Ace Parking, Xerox, Decision One, Tigard Tendercare, and many others. I do not get intimidated and will continue to fight for the rights of individuals.