Lisa Kaner, a shareholder of the firm since 1994, has extensive trial experience in the most legally demanding and factually intensive cases. She has served as lead or co-lead counsel in a wide range of complex commercial cases representing both plaintiffs and defendants. Her practice areas include securities litigation, complex contract disputes, business fraud, insurance coverage, and employment. Over the past decade, Lisa has obtained multi-million dollar judgments and settlements, and defeated like-size claims.

In a statewide survey of lawyers conducted by Law & Politics magazine, Lisa was identified as a Super Lawyer, a designation limited to the top five percent of attorneys in Oregon. She also is recognized for commercial litigation in the legal profession's longstanding peer-review publication, The Best Lawyers in America.

As part of her baccalaureate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Lisa attended the University of Edinburgh in Scotland for a year. While at Villanova University School of Law, she was as an associate editor of the Law Review. After graduation, she served for two years as a law clerk in Oregon to U.S. District Court Chief Judge Owen M. Panner. Lisa has spent most of her career with the firm, first joining in 1988. She spent a year in Philadelphia as an associate at Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, and rejoined the firm in 1991.

Lisa served as chair and legal counsel for the Oregon Holocaust Memorial Coalition, a multi-ethnic inter-faith group of organizations. She guided the memorial through a heated six-year legal battle to its unveiling in 2004. During the past 12 years, Lisa served as a board member and an officer for the Oregon Chapter of The American Jewish Committee, the oldest human rights organization in the country. In 2002, Lisa co-chaired a coalition to bring to Portland the international exhibit, Anne Frank: A History for Today, which was experienced by more than sixty thousand visitors.

Oregon (1988)
Pennsylvania (1986 - inactive)
U.S. District Court, District of Oregon
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit