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.
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.
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