Practice Areas

We represent innocent victims of corporations, insurance companies, government officials, and individuals who endanger the life, safety, and liberty of others in a variety of ways. Over the years the firm has recovered substantial verdicts and settlements for our clients, and we have been involved in numerous landmark cases that have improved the law for all Oregonians. This page highlights some of our practice areas.

Car, Truck, Bus, and Train Crashes:

We have successfully represented hundreds of victims of careless car, bus, train, and truck accidents, achieving settlements and jury verdicts. Recently, we negotiated a $200,000 settlement for the family of a teenager killed by a careless TriMet driver. Click here for article.

Victims of Drunk Drivers:

Over 30 years ago, Elden Rosenthal handled the first case in the Oregon Supreme Court that allowed victims of drunk drivers to bring claims for injury and death against taverns and bars that over-serve alcohol to their patrons. Click here for article. Our success in this area continues. Recently we negotiated a $1.35 million settlement for the families of two young women killed by a drunk driver. Click here for article.

Legal Malpractice:

We represent people who have been harmed by the professional malpractice of their attorneys. Over the past 30 years, we have negotiated numerous confidential settlements of cases arising from legal malpractice involving litigation, estate planning, land use, tax, bankruptcy, and other subject areas.

Representative cases include a $1.5 million settlement arising from illegal pre-bankruptcy asset manipulation, an $825,000 settlement for illegal post-death estate planning, a $729,420 verdict for a delay in completing a settlement, a $475,000 settlement for the poor handling of an environmental cleanup claim, and a $332,000 settlement for a father's loss of one year of custody and visitation with his son.

Medical Malpractice:

We represent victims of medical and nursing home negligence. Over the past 30 years, we have negotiated numerous confidential settlements of cases arising from failure to diagnose cancer and other conditions, surgical mistakes, nursing errors, and other medical negligence.

In 2006, we won a $5.75 million verdict for failure to diagnose breast cancer.

Civil Rights:

We represent individuals who have been deprived of their civil rights by government officials and private citizens.

Important civil rights cases include a $12.5 million verdict against a neo-Nazi organization arising from the beating death of an Ethiopian living in Portland, a $2 million settlement arising from a false fingerprint identification by the FBI, a $2 million settlement for two men wrongly convicted of murder in Eugene, a $700,000 settlement for an elderly woman assaulted by a bus driver, and a $667,000 settlement for a victim of sexual abuse by a Eugene police officer.

Sexual Misconduct:

We have successfully settled claims arising from sexual misconduct by medical and legal professionals, workplace supervisors, police officers, and others. Cases of this sort are always confidential.

Other Personal Injury, Products Liability, and Wrongful Death Claims:

We also represent individuals who have been harmed by corporations and individuals in a variety of other ways.

Noteworthy cases include a $1.8 million verdict arising from a faulty General Motors transmission that caused a van rollover, a $1.5 million settlement for a Corvallis man severly beaten by magazine salesmen, a $1.1 million settlement for the death of a father run over by a commuter train, a $1 million settlement for the insurance policy limits in a case for a young girl who suffered a brain injury after falling through an unscreened apartment window, and a $926,000 settlement against a neighbor who shot and paralyzed a young mother.