Lori Murphy

Managing Partner

Overview

Lori brings a comprehensive set of skills and legal experience to Lynch Murphy McLane LLP. She focuses her practice on estate planning, estate administration, including individual and business succession planning, and land use. She advises on wills, powers of attorney, living wills and trusts, and special needs trusts. Clients include individuals, couples, business owners, and families who have members with special needs.

Lori has two children and is an avid weekend traveler. She enjoys participating in her children’s dance, golf, 4-H cooking and photography projects and supporting her friends in CrossFit and cycling competitions.

Experience

Lori assists families with decedents’ estates, including estates related to personal injury, wrongful-death or class-action suits. Lori helps navigate both the small-estate and full probate processes in Oregon. She’s highly sought after for assistance with trust administration, guardianship and conservatorship.

Lori’s trusts and estates experience extends back to 1999 when trained by a senior attorney representing clients in six different states. She followed suit and obtained her license in four states. She is experienced in wills, revocable trusts, irrevocable trusts, life insurance trusts, asset protection trusts, personal residence trusts, firearms trusts, formation of special needs trusts, intrafamily loan arrangements, business succession planning, business entities in relation to estate planning, and coordinating with philanthropic plans. Lori is frequently consulted on will and trust contests, fiduciary matters, and gifting.

Lori also focuses on due-diligence review of developable sites and the resolution of land use, planning, and zoning issues. A LEED Accredited Professional, Lori is experienced in all aspects of land use and provides a deep understanding of the law as it relates to the design, construction, and operation of green buildings.

Areas of Practice

Estate Planning
Estate Administration
Trust Administration
Advanced Wealth Transfers
Land Use, Planning and Zoning

Education

Willamette University, Bachelor of Science, Environmental Science, cum laude
University of Oregon, Juris Doctorate, business law certificate; associate editor and internet editor, Oregon Law Review, 1996-1998

Bar Admissions

Oregon
Washington
Virginia
District of Columbia (inactive)

Professional Activities

Oregon State Bar, Real Estate & Land Use, member
Oregon State Bar, Trusts & Estates Sections, member
Washington State Bar Association, Estate Planning/Probate/Wills Sections, member
Washington State Bar Association, Real Property/Land Use Sections, member
Virginia State Bar, Real Property and Trusts and Estates Sections, member
District of Columbia Bar, member
Deschutes County Bar Association, member
Central Oregon Estate Planning Council, member
Central Oregon Elder Law Council, member