Representative Experience
Gene is co-chair of DWT’s real estate and land use department, and his experience includes all aspects of real estate transactions and land use entitlement work on all types and sizes of property including residential, industrial, office, retail and municipal. Having served six years as planning commission chair and eight years as mayor of Happy Valley, he has an unusual appreciation and understanding of the public sector as well as the private sector perspective of the majority of his clients.

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Prior Experience
Partner, Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C., 1987-2003

Representative Clients
Pacific Landmark Development
1201 Lloyd Associates LLC
Louis Dreyfus Property Group
Hemstreet Development Company
Mountain Meadows LLC
St. Paul Properties
First Technology Credit Union

Publications and Presentations
Author, "Mix of uses make for mix of ideals," The Daily Journal of Commerce, January 24, 2008

Author, “Measure 49 bulldozes awareness of other building legislation,” The Daily Journal of Commerce, September 2007

Co-author, “Oregon legislature amends Oregon Condominium and Planned Community Acts,” The Daily Journal of Commerce, June 2007

Author, “Will new office towers rise in Portland?,” The Daily Journal of Commerce,
July 27, 2006

Author, “As region expands, growing pains are a given,” The Daily Journal of Commerce, April 20, 2006

Co-editor, Oregon State Bar CLE Handbook Principles of Oregon Real Estate Law and author of Chapter 4, “Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions,” (1995-2003)

Chapter 7, “Ground Leases,” Oregon State Bar CLE Handbook Documentation of Real Estate Transactions (1992-2001)

Chapter 10, “Mixed Use Projects and Business Parks,” Oregon State Bar CLE Common Interests in Real Property (1986)

Disturbing Concepts: Quiet Enjoyment and Constructive Eviction in the Modern Commercial Lease,” accepted for publication in Real Property Probate & Trust Journal (Winter 2000)

“First Class Condition: Responsibilities, Rights, Remedies Respecting the Condition of Commercial Leaseholder Premises,” Volume 29, No. 4, Real Property Probate & Trust Journal (Spring 1995)

“Subrogation, Indemnification and Exculpation in the Context of Commercial Leases,” Volume 21, No. 3, Real Property Probate & Trust Journal (Winter 1993)

Speaker and author of articles in connection with many other real estate law conferences throughout the country

Memberships and Activities
Admitted to practice in Oregon State Courts; United States District Court, District of Oregon

Real Property, Probate and Trust Law section of the American Bar Association; serves on the editorial board for its magazine, Property & Probate

Past Chair, Oregon State Bar Real Property and Land Use section

Mayor, City of Happy Valley; past-chair of its Planning Commission

Vice president of legal affairs and executive board member, Cascade Pacific Council, Boy Scouts of America

Named one of “Portland’s Best Lawyers” in Real Estate Law by Portland Monthly, 2006

Selected to "Oregon Super Lawyers," Law & Politics, 2006, 2007

Named as one of "America's Leading Business Lawyers" by Chambers USA, 2005-2006

Named as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” in Real Estate Law by Woodward/White

Recipient, BSA Eagle Scout rank and the Silver Beaver Award, the highest award given to volunteer leaders of the BSA Cascade Pacific Council

Education
J.D., University of Oregon School of Law (Order of the Coif), 1979

B.A., University of Oregon (Honors Program), 1976