Barnes Gretchen S

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Neighborhoods: Downtown Portland, Neighbors West-Northwest
Categories: Corporation & Partnership Law Attorneys, Attorneys, Bankruptcy Law Attorneys, Bankruptcy Services, Business Law Attorneys, Business Litigation Attorneys, Criminal Law Attorneys, Estate Planning, Probate, & Living Trusts, Family Law Attorneys, Labor & Employment Law Attorneys, Patent, Trademark & Copyright Law Attorneys, Personal Injury Law Attorneys, Real Estate Attorneys, Tax Attorneys, Wills, Trusts & Estate Planning Attorneys

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Phone: (503) 224-3092

Address: 1050 Sw 6th Ave Ste 2000, Portland, OR 97204

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Guardianship
Luisa Britten, Senior Paralegal, provides clients and attorneys with comprehensive legal support in estate and trust administration, guardianships and conservatorships, and estate tax matters. She is an efficient paralegal with extensive experience who is committed to providing clients with exceptional and compassionate service.

Fraud
Cable Huston’s attorneys have experience defending and prosecuting securities litigation claims in federal and state courts and in Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) arbitrations. Our experience includes claims under the 1933 and 1934 Securities Acts, claims for securities fraud, nondisclosure, violations of state blue sky laws, suitability, churning, and breach of fiduciary duty claims. We also have experience defending non-broker professionals, such as real estate agents and attorneys, against claims under Oregon’s Securities Law.
Embezzlement
Foreign and domestic corporations, non-profits, governmental entities, public utilities, and insurers have relied upon Cable Huston to investigate allegations of waste, fraud, compliance violations, abuse, and other wrongdoing in their organizations. In the current legal, media, and regulatory climate, the need to promptly, thoroughly, and discretely investigate potential misconduct is becoming increasingly imperative. Cable Huston’s Internal Investigations team brings decades of experience responding to potential wrongdoing arising out of governmental investigations, lawsuits, employee embezzlement, whistleblower complaints, media accounts, auditing irregularities, and other matters.
Money Laundering

Business and Corporate Law

Corporate Law
Cable Huston’s litigation team has experience in all aspects of business and commercial litigation including disputes involving complex contracts, business torts, sports and entertainment law, corporate governance, insurance defense, securities, environmental compliance, and energy procurement and distribution. Cable Huston’s litigation practice also includes construction defect, real estate, hazardous waste disputes, products liability, white collar regulatory defense, and internal investigations.
Business Formation
We advise clients in all areas of entity formation by identifying the most effective structure for their specific goals and negotiating the agreements to govern the business relationships, including shareholder, operating, employment, independent contractor, vendor and other agreements our clients need to begin or continue their business relationships. We help clients maintain their entities to ensure continued liability protection and provide registered agent services.
Business Disputes
Cable Huston’s litigators support and work with its bankruptcy specialist partners on a wide range of bankruptcy and debtor/creditor law issues. We assist with the foreclosure of mortgages, security agreements in personal property or construction lien claims, and commercial litigation disputes, including issues arising from contracts for the sale of goods, collection of promissory notes, breach of contract claims, and other business disputes. We also work on the enforcement of judgments through garnishment, sheriffs’ sales, and other collection procedures.
Business Transactions
We assist clients with efficient negotiation, structuring, and documentation of their business transactions, including asset sales, stock purchases, and mergers. We facilitate transaction closings and post-closing relationships between the transacting parties to ensure a smooth business transition.
Limited Liability Companies
Our business attorneys work with all types of business entities, including corporations, limited liability companies, nonprofit groups, partnerships, and joint ventures, ranging from “Fortune 500” companies to small, locally owned businesses. Cable Huston’s partners bring meaningful experience working in multiple industries to their practices in business law, providing advice in formation, corporate governance, finance, tax, all forms of business transactions, and debtor/creditor issues.
Trade Secrets

Wrongful Termination
Employment Contract
Employment Litigation
Employers face an ever-growing array of employment laws. Compliance is challenging. Family leave. Paid sick leave. Reasonable accommodation. Wage and hour. Drug and alcohol policies. Affirmative action plans for federal contractors. Employment litigation. These are just a few of the areas that challenge employers in both the public and private sector.
Sexual Harassment

Construction Litigation
Cable Huston’s attorneys act as general and special counsel for government entities at every level, including the state, counties, cities, and special purpose districts. We provide advice on property issues (including negotiation, acquisition, and condemnation), insurance coverage and defense, public contracting, public meetings, public records, finance, system development charges, utility ratemaking, design and construction litigation, telecommunications, environmental and natural resources, energy, government ethics for public officials, franchise fees and privilege taxes, intergovernmental agreements, and other matters associated with conducting government affairs.
Real Estate Transactions
We provide a broad range of real estate services to our clients, who include property owners, government entities, lenders, developers, and landlords. We regularly assist in multi-million dollar real estate transactions, including acquisitions, purchases, loans, and construction financing for commercial, multi-family, industrial and office real estate. Our team also specializes in condemnation (representing both government entities and property owners), title insurance and escrow matters, and tax planning and 1031 exchanges.
Eminent Domain
Cable Huston has extensive experience helping public agencies, public utilities, municipalities, and private property owners navigate the complex laws and regulations governing eminent domain. We counsel and represent clients through every phase of the condemnation process, from pre-acquisition planning to the determination of just compensation at trial and on appeal. Our experienced attorneys work as a team with other professionals, including appraisers, engineers, and right-of-way experts to balance each client’s unique interests and achieve just results.
Land Use and Zoning
We provide a broad range of real estate and land use services to our clients, who include property owners, government entities, lenders, developers, and landlords. We regularly assist in multi-million dollar real estate transactions, including acquisitions, purchases, loans, and construction financing for commercial, multi-family, industrial and office real estate, as well as navigating Oregon’s intricate land use laws to secure land use permits and entitlements for those projects. Our team also specializes in condemnation (representing both government entities and property owners), title insurance and escrow matters, land use planning and appeals, and tax planning and 1031 exchanges.

Personal Injury
Naomi Fink is an accomplished Paralegal with 20 years of experience serving in a variety of fields including litigation, personal injury, corporate law, estate planning, corporate governance, product liability and IP. Naomi enjoys working in a cooperative setting with attorneys and clients in all phases from inception through discovery and trial. As part of her role, Naomi’s expertise focuses on research, document examination and management, litigation technology, preparation of pleadings, discovery, deposition and trial preparation and general client support.

Trusts and Estates

Estate Planning
We advise clients on the complex set of income tax rules governing trusts and estates. Our representative work involves advising executors on how to efficiently distribute assets to beneficiaries without incurring income taxes to the estate. In addition, we represent trustees who must administer trusts for the interests of beneficiaries while being mindful of the income tax consequences.
Trusts
We advise clients on the importance and complexities of charitable planning. Our representative work includes creating private family foundations, establishing charitable trusts to achieve income tax savings and charitable planning goals, and strategic charitable giving.
Probate

Bankruptcy
Foreclosure
Cable Huston’s attorneys work on a wide range of bankruptcy and debtor/creditor law issues in Oregon and Washington. We assist clients with collection and foreclosure cases, workouts between lenders and borrowers, and commercial litigation in the state and federal courts, including the bankruptcy court. Our attorneys represent bankruptcy trustees, secured creditors, business debtors, and unsecured creditors in all types of bankruptcy cases and deal with objections to claims, preferences, fraudulent transfers, objections to dischargeability, and confirmation hearings.
Tax Law
The Cable Huston litigation team works closely with its tax law partners to provide complete litigation services in when clients are faced with inquiries from the IRS and local departments of revenue. From the initial request for information, through audit and appeals, and through tax court, our attorneys are tireless advocates for our clients.

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