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Paul Elsner
Individual Practice Areas:
- Property acquisition & real estate transactions
- Employment law
- Municipal law & governance including
police liability
- Public finance &
infrastructure financing
- Constitutional law, including civil rights
- Code enforcement and codification
- Civil forfeiture
- Litigation & administrative law
Paul C. Elsner, Partner, has over 29 years of experience as a local government attorney both as in-house counsel and as outside advisor. He has dealt with a full range of local government law topics including property acquisition, municipal finance, elections law, code enforcement and codification, liability, risk management, litigation and appellate work. He served for nearly ten years as a Deputy City Attorney for the City of Portland and another seven as Associate General Counsel for the Port of Portland before going into practice with his wife (and law partner) Pamela Beery.
Paul and Pam share their southwest Portland home with three magnificent Irish Setters, one adorable English Cocker and two cats (R.B. Ginsburg and S. P. Chase) who just barely tolerate them. Paul relishes his time with his wife, perfecting his fly-fishing casts (since he never catches anything), working on the restoration of his 1965 Austin-Healey and listening to KMHD in Portland and Canada-2 when he and Pam are at their place on Orcas Island.
paul@gov-law.com
503.226.7191 (phone)
503.226.2348 (fax)