Law firm of 180 attorneys providing business, employment and litigation services since 1875. Five offices are located in Washington, Oregon, Alaska and London, England. Named a Go-To Law Firm by Nordstrom and Nike in a survey by Fortune 500 general counsels. Firm engaged in American and International Law Practice, but not authorized to appear before the English Courts or to act as Solicitors.

Statement of Practice

Alternative Dispute Resolution, Admiralty and Maritime Law, Affordable Housing and Community Development, Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Appellate Practice, Aviation, Banking, Bankruptcy and Reorganizations, Business Law, Creditor Rights, Architects, Engineers, Construction and Design Law, Class Actions, Copyright, Corporate Finance and Securities, Emerging Companies and Venture Investment, Director and Officer Liability, Employee Benefits, Employment Law, ERISA Litigation, Energy Law, Environmental Law, Estate and Gift Taxation, Estate Planning, Natural Resources, Franchising, Governmental Law, Hospital and Healthcare, Immigration and Naturalization, Intellectual Property and Technology, International Business, Trade Regulation, Trademarks, Internet Privacy, Labor and Employment, Land Use, Litigation, Long-Term Care and Senior Housing, Medical Malpractice, Mergers and Acquisitions, New Market Tax Credits, Patent, Products Liability, Premise Liability, Professional Liability, Real Estate, Real Estate Development and Finance, Retail, Securities Litigation, Special Investigation Units, Taxation, Toxic Torts, Transportation, Trade Secret, Trusts and Estates, Local Government, Utilities, Wage and Hour, White Collar Criminal Defense, Wood Products and Forest Resources.

Representative Clients:

American International Companies
Advanced H20
Aramark Corporation
AT&T Corporation
Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc.
Callison Architecture, Inc.
ChevronTexaco Corp.
CNF, Inc.
Coffman Engineers, Inc.
Con-Agra, Inc., CONOCO/Phillips
Corbis Corporation
Cutter & Buck, Inc.
Equilon Enterprises LLC, ERA Aviation, Essential Baking Company, Extendicare Health Services, Inc.
Exxon Mobil Corporation
The Fishing Company of Alaska
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Frito-Lay, Inc.
General Electric Capital Corp.
Georgia-Pacific Corporation
Home Depot U.S.A., Inc.
Intel Corporation
Intelius, Inc.
Java Trading
Kennedy Associates Real Estate Counsel
Key Bank, N.A.
Les Schwab Tire Centers
Longs Drugs
Masins Furniture
Medzilla, Inc.
The MONY Group, Inc.
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co.
Monsanto Company
Mowat Construction Company
Nike, Inc.
Nordstrom, Inc.
Norm Thompson Outfitters, Inc.
Northwest Biotherapeutics, Inc.
Novartis Consumer Health, Inc.
Onlineshoes.com
Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund
Play Network, Inc.
Premera Blue Cross
Prudential Insurance Company of America
Quinton, Inc.
Shell Oil
Simpson Investment Company
Sound Transit
T-Mobile
Tokai Carbon Co., Ltd.
TransAlta Corporation
Triad Hospitals, Inc.
Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation (District of Oregon (Tri-Met)
Underwriters at Lloyd's
Union Pacific Railroad Corp.
Verisign, Inc.
Wah Chang
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Washington Mutual Bank, N.A.
Wells Fargo & Company
Weyerhauser Company
White Consolidated Industries, Inc.

Address

301 W. Northern Lights Boulevard, Suite 301
Anchorage, AK 99503-2648, (Third Judicial District)

Phone

Phone: 907-277-9511
Facsimile: 907-276-2631

Website

http://www.lanepowell.com

Firm/Affiliate Offices

(For complete biographical data on personnel at Portland, Oregon; Olympia, Seattle and Tacoma, Washington; and London, England, see Professional Biographies at those locations)

RESIDENT SHAREHOLDERS

Brewster H. Jamieson (Shareholder) admitted to bar, 1984, Alaska; 1985, Washington. Education: Willamette University (B.S., 1980; J.D., magna cum laude, 1984).

Areas of Practice

Brewster Jamieson represents a widely diverse clientele in both state and federal courts, including:

· Representation of corporations, partnerships, and LLCs in commercial disputes

· Product liability defense, including representation of manufacturers of heavy equipment, consumer products, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals

· Insurance litigation, including coverage and defense of bad faith lawsuits

· ERISA litigation, including cases establishing ERISA plans, claims for benefits under ERISA plans, class action suits brought by ERISA plan members

· Maritime litigation, including defense of vessel owners against personal injury, collision, administrative, and pollution claims

· Employment litigation, including defense of employers against wrongful termination, whistleblower, discrimination and defamation claims

· Professional liability defense, including defense of physicians, dentists, attorneys, accountants, real estate licensees and other professionals against malpractice claims

He also has an "AV" rating from Martindale-Hubbell and is a Ranked Attorney in Chambers USA.

Professional Experience

· Law Clerk, Alaska Supreme Court (1984 - 1985)

Practice Group and Specialty Team Memberships

· Admiralty and Maritime

· ERISA Litigation

· Insurance

· Lloyd's of London

· Native American Affairs

· Railroad and Mass Transportation

Awards and Honors

· Recommended by Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Litigation: General Commercial, 2005-2009

· Named as an Alaskan "Super Lawyer" in Law and Politics magazine, 2007

Professional and Community Activities

· The International Association of Defense Counsel

· The Maritime Law Association of the United States

· American Bar Association, Torts and Insurance Practice Section

Member: The International Association of Defense Counsel; The Maritime Law Association of the United States; American Bar Association (Member, Torts and Insurance Practice Section).

Practice Areas: Admiralty and Maritime; ERISA Litigation; Insurance; Lloyd's of London; Native American Affairs.Email: Brewster H. Jamieson

Michael Parise (Shareholder) admitted to bar, 1979, Alaska and Massachusetts. Education: Williams College (B.A., cum laude, 1975) Phi Beta Kappa; Awarded Honors in English; James Phinney Baxter, III Honor Scholarship; Boston University School of Law (J.D., 1978).

Areas of Practice

Michael Parise focuses his practice in commercial law; secured lending; bankruptcy; loan restructuring and work out agreements; real estate transactions, litigation and foreclosures; disputes and litigation under Articles 3, 4 and 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code; advising lenders and business owners with respect to ground water contamination or regarding real property or facilities that have been contaminated by discharge of oil or hazardous waste; financing secured by interests in oil and gas leases or in mineral leases; timber sale agreements; logging contracts; mining lease and exploration agreements; mining joint venture agreements; and litigation involving logging agreements or mining claims. He has advised and represented closely held corporations, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, financial institutions, Alaska Native corporations and their subsidiaries, and public corporations created by statutory authorization. He was selected for inclusion in Chambers USA, America's Leading Business Lawyers in the categories of corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, and bankruptcy in the 2007-2009 editions. He was selected for inclusion in the 2009 Alaska Super Lawyers list for the September issue of Washington Law & Politics magazine in the areas of bankruptcy and creditors' rights, business litigation, and banking.

He has represented Alaska Native corporations as borrowers in multi-million dollar financing transactions from lenders, including Transamerica, the Bank of Tokyo and the National Consumer Cooperative Bank. Over nearly three decades of law practice, he has advised financial institutions, businesses, creditors and public corporations, such as the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, in a number of real estate or industrial development transactions or loan restructurings, in complex construction loan transactions, and in bankruptcy reorganization cases, on projects throughout Alaska, including the Over the Horizon Backscatter Radar construction project for the Department of the Air Force, the wood chip loading and shipping facility in Homer, the Mount Roberts Tramway and tourist facilities in Juneau, the waterfront development project in Unalaska, the Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of the holders of oil and gas leases in Cook Inlet and on the North Slope, the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of the airline MarkAir, the acquisition out of bankruptcy of patented gold mining claims and state mineral leases in the historic Willow Creek mining district, and enforcement of a mining joint venture exploration agreement in the Nome mining district.

Professional Experience

· Shareholder, Birch, Horton, Bittner and Cherot (1991-2009); Associate in the firm's Fairbanks and Juneau offices (1981-1991)

· Attorney, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region I, Boston, Massachusetts (1979-1981). Recipient of EPA Special Achievement Award in hazardous waste litigation cases.

Practice Group and Specialty Team Memberships

· Litigation

· Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights

Representative Matters and Clients

· In re E. Brown Incorporated (secured lender's counsel in Chapter 11 of construction company)

· In re Forecenergy (counsel for creditor oil service company in Chapter 11 of oil and gas company)

· In re Stewart Petroleum Company (counsel for creditor secured by oil and gas leases)

· In re Kake Tribal Corporation (secured lender's counsel in Chapter 11 of an Alaska Native corporation)

· In re Wave Wholesale (secured lender's counsel in Chapter 11 of food wholesale distributor in rural Alaska)

· In re Pacific Forest Products (debtor's counsel for Chapter 11 of sawmill)

· In re Southeast Timber (creditor counsel in logging company reorganization)

· In re Glacier Bay Airways (counsel for creditor aircraft lender in air taxi Chapter 11 case)

· In re Rocky Mountain Helicopters (counsel for timber owner in Chapter 11 of logging company)

· In re MarkAir (counsel for flight attendants union)

· In re Inlet Fisheries, Inc. (bankruptcy counsel for seafood processor in reorganization under Chapter 11)

Practice Areas: Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights; Litigation.Email: Michael Parise

COUNSEL

Matthew W. Claman (Counsel to the Firm) admitted to bar, 1988, Alaska; U.S. District Court, District of Alaska; Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals; U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Colorado College, Colorado Springs (B.A., History); National Outdoor Leadership School, Lander, Wyo.; University of Texas law School (J.D., cum laude) Honor Grades: Contracts, Civil Procedure, Property, Business Associations, Evidence, Federal Courts, Federal Appellate Advocacy, Labor Law, and Conflicts of Law; Articles Editor and Member, Texas International Law Journal.

Area of Practice

Matt Claman joined Lane Powell's Anchorage office as Counsel to the Firm on November 1, 2007. Matt recently served the Municipality of Anchorage as its first Acting Mayor from January to June 2009. He brings his diverse experience as the chief executive of Alaska's largest city and as a trial attorney to the Firm's Commercial Litigation Practice Group. Matt is also available as both an arbitrator and mediator.

Matt has managed his own ?rm, worked with Preston Gates & Ellis, worked for the Alaska Public Defender Agency, taught at the University of Alaska Anchorage, clerked for a federal district judge and served as President of the Alaska Bar Association. After completing his work as mayor, Matt returned to service on the Anchorage Municipal Assembly, of which he is past chairman.

Professional Experience

· Acting Mayor, Municipality of Anchorage

· Attorney, Claman Law Firm

· Preston, Gates & Ellis

· Adjunct Professor, University of Alaska Anchorage

· Alaska Public Defender Agency

Practice Group and Specialty Team Memberships

· Litigation

Professional and Community Activities

· Alaska Bar Association
- President (2007-2008)
- Member, Board of Governors (2002-2008)

· Municipality of Anchorage
- Acting Mayor (2009)
- Assembly Chairman (2008-2009)
- Assembly Member (2007-Present)

· Anchorage Downtown Rotary Club

Member: Alaska Bar Association (President, 2007-2008; Member, Board of Governors, 2002-2008).

Practice Areas: Litigation.Email: Matthew W. Claman

Peter C. Partnow (Counsel to the Firm) admitted to bar, 1972, Alaska; United States District Court, District of Alaska; Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals; U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Education: Bowdoin College (B.A., magna cum laude, 1968) James Bowdoin Scholar; Phi Beta Kappa; University of Chicago (J.D., 1971).

Areas of Practice

Peter Partnow's practice emphasizes litigation and dispute resolution in employment and labor disputes, construction, public procurement and contract claims, and other complex litigation.

Professional Experience

Prior to joining Lane Powell, Peter has been an owner of his own firm as well as general counsel for the Anchorage School District and chief of the civil section of the Alaska Attorney General's Anchorage Office.

Practice Group and Specialty Team Memberships

· Construction

· Labor and Employment

· Litigation

Significant Experiences In Labor Area

· Member of Bargaining Team for the Anchorage School District in teachers' union negotiations

· Former hearing examiner for the Alaska State Commission for Human Rights. Hearing officer on ad hoc basis for numerous school districts in employee discipline and termination proceedings

· Expert witness in civil proceedings regarding public employment labor matters

· Presenter at various CLE's and panels including presentations on tort reform impact on employment and labor matters, COBRA, Fair Credit Reporting Act Impact on employment matters, and Fair Labor Standards Act

· Advocated for numerous employers in a variety of mediations, arbitrations, and other administrative proceedings involving dismissal, transfer, work assignments, employee benefits, discrimination, and retaliation

Reported Employment Related Appellate Decisions

· Raad v. Fairbanks North Star Borough School District, __ F.3d __ (9th Cir. 2006) (alleged discrimination and retaliation and award of attorneys fees)

· Raad v. Fairbanks North Star Borough School District, 323 F.3d 1185 (9th Cir. 2003) (alleged discrimination and retaliation)

· Raad v. Fairbanks North Star Borough School District, 86 P.3d 899 (Alaska 2004) (alleged employment discrimination and retaliation)

· Ellingstad v. State, Department of Natural Resources, 979 P.2d 1000 (Alaska 1999) (alleged breach of contract)

· Johnson v. University of Alaska, 1998 WL 34347965 (Alaska 1998) (alleged age discrimination in employment)

· University of Alaska v. Tovsen, 835 P.2d 445 (Alaska 1992) (termination of probationary employee)

· Anchorage Daily News v. Anchorage School District, 779 P.2d 1191 (Alaska 1989) (public records)

· Martinez v. Anchorage School District, 699 P.2d 330 (Alaska 1985) (termination of employment)

· Kenai Peninsula Borough Board of Education v. Brown, 691 P. 2d 1034 (termination of employment for immorality)

· Anchorage Education Association v. Anchorage School District, 648 P.2d 992 (Alaska 1982) (legality of public employee strike)

· Griffin v. Galena City School District, 640 P. 2d 829 (Alaska 1982) (termination of employment)

· Rouse v Anchorage School District, 613 P.2d 263 (Alaska 1980) (change of benefits under collective bargaining agreement)

Recent Trial Court Proceedings In Employment And Labor Area

· Flakes v. Alaska Sales and Service (alleged discriminatory failure to promote) Sears v. GCI et. al. (personal injury allegedly caused by negligent utility repair)

· Absolute Environmental Services v. Imperial et al. (complex multiparty construction dispute)

· Flory v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (alleged ADA claim)

· MP v. Kenai Peninsula Borough School District (student sexual assault alleged arising from failure to supervise)

· Smith v. Kenai Peninsula Borough School District (student injured in physical education class)

· Bashaw v. South Peninsula Hospital et. al. (claim of wrongful termination and interference with contract)

· Frost v. Morris (alleged employment discrimination and retaliation)

· Pierson v Restaurants Unlimited, Inc. (alleged age discrimination in employment)

· ACS v. Alaska Construction and Paving et. al. (complex dispute regarding road construction and alleged damages to buried utilities)

· Crittel v. Goerig (alleged attorney malpractice)

· Little v University of Alaska (promotion rights, equal pay, discrimination)

· Reynolds v. University of Alaska (enforceability of employee resignation)

· Freeman & Wilson v. Kmart (overtime claim by two former managers)

· Gann v Kmart (alleged harassment and sexual discrimination)

· Supervisors v South Central Foundation(overtime and COBRA claims)

· Johnson v. University of Alaska (non-retention and age discrimination claims)

· Cruey v Westward Seafoods, Inc. (overtime and constructive discharge claims)

Representative Clients

· Chastain Investments

· Coffman Engineers, Inc.

· EDS Information Services

· Fairbanks North Star Borough School District

· Kenai Peninsula Borough and Kenai Peninsula Borough School District

· Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

· WW IDEA, Inc.

Professional and Community Activities

· Alaska Bar Association

· Alaska Bar Association, Fee Arbitrator

· Alaska Bar Association, Labor and Employment Section Executive Committee

· Alaska Attorney Representative, Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference

· Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association, Board of Directors

Member: Alaska Bar Association (Fee Arbitrator; Member, Labor and Employment Section Executive Committee).

Practice Areas: Construction Law; Labor and Employment; Litigation.Email: Peter C. Partnow

ATTORNEYS

Michael B. Baylous (Attorney) admitted to bar, 2009, Alaska. Education: Pacific Lutheran University (B.S., 2002); University of Denver Sturm College of Law (J.D., 2006); Excellence Scholarship Recipient (2003-2005); American Jurisprudence Excellence Award for Advanced Legal Writing; Member, Construction Law Society.

Areas of Practice

Michael Baylous focuses on complex litigation. His experience includes working as a judicial clerk for both the Honorable Mark Rindner and the Honorable Larry R. Weeks. Michael worked in the Washington State Attorney General's Office where he researched environmental issues pertaining to CERCLA, CWA, Shoreline Management Act and Solid Waste Management Act.

Professional Experience

· Judicial Clerk, Honorable Mark Rindner (2007-2008)

· Judicial Clerk, Honorable Larry R. Weeks (2006-2007)

· Baxter, Bruce, & Sullivan, PC (2005)

· Washington State Attorney General's Office (2004)

· Supervisor, Whitestone Logging, Inc. (1998-2003)

Practice Group and Specialty Team Memberships

· Litigation

Practice Areas: Litigation.Email: Michael B. Baylous

Matthew Block (Attorney) admitted to bar, 2005, Alaska; U.S. District Court, District of Alaska. Education: Pepperdine University (B.A.); Duke University School of Law (J.D., cum laude) Faculty Award Winner for Excellence in IP and Technology Law.

Areas of Practice

Matthew Block has experience in a broad range of business and litigation matters, with particular emphasis on oil and gas, employment, Alaska Native Corporation and small business needs and copyrights and trademarks. Matt has assisted clients with all phases of simple and complex commercial litigation, including document-intensive discovery, negotiated and mediated settlements and trials and appeals. He has counseled both large and small commercial clients in issues dealing with copyright, trademark, corporate issues and employment matters.

Professional Experience

· Associate, Patton Boggs LLP (2005-2009)

Practice Group and Specialty Team Memberships

· Litigation

Professional and Community Activities

· Alaska Bar Association

· Bar Examiners Committee

· Alaska High School Mock Trial Competition

· Anchorage Youth Court

· Boy Scouts of America

· Phi Delta Phi

Member: Alaska Bar Association.

Practice Areas: Litigation.Email: Matthew Block