Admitted to Oregon State Bar (1997)
Admitted to Washington State Bar (2000)
Admitted to United States District Court for the District of Oregon
Admitted to United States District Court for the District of Washington
Areas of Practice: Education:
Admitted to Washington State Bar (2000)
Admitted to United States District Court for the District of Oregon
Admitted to United States District Court for the District of Washington
Areas of Practice: Education:
- Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College (J.D., 1997)
- Moot Court Honor Board Graduate
- Washington State University, Pullman, WA (B.S., Biology 1993)
- Honors Program Graduate
- Fiduciary Litigation. See Article at www.wealthlawblog.com
- Oregon State Bar Association
- Washington State Bar Association
- Multnomah Bar Association
- Multnomah Bar Association, Service to the Public Committee
- Member, 2001 - 2004, (secretary 2004)
- Oregon State Bar Federal Practice and Procedure Committee
- Member, 1999 - 2004 (secretary 2004)
- American Inns of Court, Gus J. Solomon Chapter
- Member, 1999 - 2004
- Subcommittee Member Studying the Uniform Trust Code to Oregon 2005 legislature
- Lorman Education Services Speaker, "Advising Fiduciaries in Oregon," 2001 Portland
- ALI-ABA Speaker, "Representing Estate and Trust Beneficiaries and Fiduciaries," 2004 Boston, 2005 New Orleans, 2005 San Francisco, and 2011 Chicago
- Lorman Education Services Moderator and Speaker, "Oregon Trust Law," 2008 Portland
- United States Law Firm Group Speaker, "Drafting to Avoid Fiduciary Litigation," 2008 Seattle
- The Seminar Group Speaker, "Best of CLE: Trusts and Estates," 2008, 2009, and 2010, Portland
- The Seminar Group Speaker, "Virtual Assets: Integrating Virtual and Online Assets and Information into Estate Planning," 2011
- Oregon Law Institute Speaker, “ABCs of Decedent's Estate Administration”, March 2011
- Housecall Providers, Inc.
- Board Member, 2009 - Present
- Oregon Lawyers Against Hunger
- Board Member, 2003 - 2004
- Dress for Success, Oregon,
- Board Member, 2006-2007
- Project/Oregon Advocacy Center, Southeast Legal Clinic, 2000 - 2002
- High School Dropout Prevent Program Coordinator for Multnomah Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, in conjunction with the Oregon State Bar New Lawyers Division, 2001 - 2003
About Victoria
Since moving on from her state and then federal clerkships in the 1990’s, Victoria’s litigation experience has steadily grown into a practice almost entirely focused on fiduciary litigation for individual trustees, corporate trustees, beneficiaries, and personal representatives, including trust and estate litigation, will contests, trust disputes, undue influence, capacity cases, claims of fiduciary breach, financial elder abuse cases, petitioning for court instructions, and contested guardianship and conservatorship cases. Her trust and estate litigation experience includes: a two month long will contest/intentional interference with prospective inheritance bench and jury trial; numerous multi-million dollar trust disputes; writing for and lecturing at national and state legal seminars pertaining to trusts and estates since 2001; committee involvement with Oregon’s Uniform Trust Code adoption representing a litigator’s perspective on UTC issues; hotly disputed contested protective proceedings going up to the Court of Appeals; jury trial for a financial elder abuse case, with an appeal pending; challenging mediations and complicated fiduciary settlements; and she is a frequent law blogger regarding fiduciary litigation for Samuel Yoelin Kantor’s successful wealthlawblog.com.
Victoria is a board member for Housecall Providers, Inc., a non-profit medical practice dedicated to delivering, coordinating and advocating for the quality medical care that homebound older adults need to experience healthful lives in their own homes. Housecall Providers grew from Executive Medical Director Benneth Husted, D.O.’s commitment to making housecalls, and in 2007, Housecall Providers made 9,444 home visits in the Portland area. As of February 2009, Housecall Providers was providing primary medical care for over 960 medically needy homebound individuals, with an average age of 82. For more information on their services or to make a donation, visit www.housecallproviders.org