Eric J. Neiman
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Phone: 503-944-6943 Fax: 503-222-7261 Email: eneiman@williamskastner.com |
888 SW Fifth Avenue, Suite 600 Portland, OR 97204-2025 |
Eric Neiman is the Portland Branch Office Lead Member for Williams Kastner. He specializes in general civil litigation with an emphasis on health care, professional, commercial, and product liability issues. Mr. Neiman has been listed in Best Lawyers in the area of Medical Malpractice Law since 2007, and has been named to Super Lawyers by Law & Politics magazine since 2007.
Mr. Neiman has been lead counsel in more than 80 trials. His trial experience includes defense of accountants in cases involving investment losses, shareholder litigation, business failures, tax planning and advice, and business and personal tax liabilities.
Mr. Neiman has served on several committees of the Oregon State Bar, including the Local Professional Responsibility Committee, the Affirmative Action Committee, and the Client Security Fund Committee. He presently serves as disciplinary counsel for the Bar. Since 1991, he has served actively as a pro-tem circuit court judge.
Professional Experience:
- Williams Kastner, Member | 2004 - Present
- Duden Neiman LLP, Partner | 2002 - 2003
- Tooze, Duden, Creamer, Frank & Hutchison, Partner | 1986 - 2002
- Tooze Kerr, Associate | 1982 -1986
Memberships:
- American Bar Association (and various sections and committees)
- American Board of Trial Advocates
- American Health Lawyers Association
- Defense Research Institute
- Multnomah County Bar Association
Recent Articles and Publications:
- Co-Author, “Punitive Damages Against Healthcare Providers in the Healthcare Reform Era,” Physician Organizations, American Health Lawyers Association, February 2010; AAOS Now, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, February 2010.
Seminars and Presentations:
- Presenter, "Survivor: Idaho and Oregon Strange Differences in Civil Trial Practice Across the Border," Idaho State Bar, Young Lawyers Section, January 24, 2008.
- Moderator and Speaker for the Oregon Women Lawyers Arbitrator Training Program, December 7, 2007.
- Presenter, “Training for Arbitrators,” Multnomah County Bar Association CLE Seminar, October 26, 2005, November 9, 2005, May 24, 2006, June 12, 2006, October 30, 2007 and March 5, 2010.
- Co-Presenter, “Summary Judgments,” Oregon State Bar Association CLE Seminar: Powerful Motion Practice, Portland, Oregon, September 23, 2004
Areas of Practice
- Commercial Litigation
- General Litigation
- Health Care
- Insurance
- Liquor Liability
- Long Term Health Care
- Mass Torts
- Product Liability
- Professional Liability
- Senior Living & Long Term Care
Bar Admissions
- Oregon
- Washington
- Idaho
- U.S. Court of Appeals (Ninth Circuit)
- U.S. District Court (Oregon, Idaho, Western Washington, Eastern Washington)
Education
- University of Oregon School of Law (JD)., 1982, Order of the Coif
- University of California, Santa Barbara (BA), with highest honors, 1978
- University of California, Los Angeles, 1975 - 1977