Business Briefs

2023 Year in Review

Dear Clients & Friends,

We hope your 2023 has been productive and happy, and we wish you the best as we jump into the New Year. In this Business Brief, we want to recap our year with you by sharing important legal updates, highlighting our community partners, and introducing new faces on our team. Thank you for journeying with us this past year and we look forward to working with you in 2024.

– Your Friends at Saalfeld Griggs PC

FIRM UPDATES

New Partner effective January 1, 2024: Margaret Y. Gander-Vo

Effective January 1, 2024, Margaret Gander-Vo will be a Partner at the firm. Margaret joined Saalfeld Griggs in 2016. She is a member of our Real Estate & Land Use practice group and our Dental and Development Industry Groups. Margaret also serves on the Habitat for Humanity of the Mid-Willamette Valley board of directors.

Get to Know Margaret

Five New Associate Attorneys

We welcomed five associate attorneys to our firm in 2023.

Gizem Demirel (top left): Business Law & Taxation Law

Marelie Vorster (top right): Real Estate & Land Use

Emily Rich (bottom left): Real Estate & Land Use

Greg Allen (bottom middle): Litigation

Nicolai Strömmer (bottom right): Business Law & Taxation Law

Meet our Attorneys

Partners with over 60 Organizations

Here at Saalfeld Griggs, we care about our community. Our goal is to be partners with those organizations most important in our area by giving monetarily and serving them with our time and skills. We want to recognize each of these wonderful establishments and the greatness they accomplish.

In 2023, our firm and attorneys partnered with over 60 different organizations throughout Oregon:

AgLink
Bend Chamber of Commerce
Blanchet School, Boys & Girls Club
Boys & Girls Club Foundation
Broken Shackles
Cascade Youth Soccer
Catholic Community Services
Central Oregon Center for the Arts
Central Oregon Community College Foundation
Children's Educational Theatre
EDCO
Educational Foundation for Bend–La-Pine Schools
Family Building Blocks
Family YMCA of Marion & Polk Counties
Habitat for Humanity
HBA of Marion & Polk Counties
The Heritage School
High Desert Museum
The Historic Elsinore Theatre
Horses of Hope
Ike Box
Independent Retirement
KIDS Center
Liberty House
Marion County Bar Association
Marion Polk Dental Society
Marion Polk Food Share
Marion Polk Junior Livestock Auction
McLaren Leadership Foundation
Multnomah Dental Society
NAWIC – Salem Chapter
OHSU American Student Dental Association

Oregon Artist Series Foundation
Oregon Bankers Association
Oregon Business & Industry
Oregon Club – Willamette Valley
Oregon Community Foundation
Oregon Entrepreneur's Network
Oregon Home Builders Association
Oregon State Bar Association
Oregon Symphony in Salem
Oregon Women Lawyers
Oregon Women Lawyers Foundation
Polk Community Development Corporation
Salem Area Chamber of Commerce
Salem Art Association
Salem Art Association Foundation
Salem Catholic School Foundation
Salem Leadership Foundation
Salem Main Street Association
Salem Y Veteran's Housing
Samaritan Health Services
Santiam Memorial Hospital
SEDCOR
Silverton Area Community Aid
Silverton Youth Baseball
Society for Human Resource Management – Oregon State Council
St. Paul Rodeo
Tandem Northwest
The Lawyers' Campaign for Equal Justice

LEGAL UPDATES

2023 Yearend Estate Planning Newsletter

As with years past, our Estate Planning team has sent out a letter with new information on prospective tax updates and law changes, as well as key estate planning reminders for an estate planning checkup.

Access Letter Here

New Developments with

Pre-condemnation Rights of Entry

By Jennifer C. Paul

When the government takes private property for public use, such as for public projects, right of way expansions or for other public development, the government is constitutionally required to pay just compensation, under the Fifth Amendment...

Learn More About Pre-condemnation

Nine Defamation Cases That Will Leave Your Speechless

As a law firm with nearly a dozen civil litigation attorneys, we are often asked about defamation cases. These cases receive attention from the media and loom large in courtroom dramas and the public imagination.

Are You Ready for Paid Leave Oregon?

What Employers Need to Know

By David M. Briggs

Employees are eligible to apply for benefits and can start receiving those benefits beginning on September 3, 2023. The Oregon Employment Department is estimating that 41,000 individuals will apply for benefits before the program even begins. Do you have everything in order? Are your policies up to date? All notices posted?

Learn More About Paid Leave Oregon

Happy Holidays and best wishes for the New Year.