Practice Areas
Intellectual Property
With a bachelor's degree in chemistry and a broad background in emerging technologies, Mr. Pitzer is equipped to prosecute or defend a broad array of intellectual property disputes, with a particular emphasis on claims involving trade secrets and/or confidential technical information.
Antitrust
Mr. Pitzer has successfully defended multi-million dollar antitrust actions alleging conspiracies to monopolize certain sectors of the health care industry, as well as claims of international price-fixing.
Commercial Litigation
Mr. Pitzer has successfully handled countless complex commercial disputes for more than a quarter century. His cases have involved partnership breakups, real estate development disputes, shareholder rights, non-competes, confidentiality agreements, rights to technology, eminent domain, tax shelters, and climate change, to name only a few.
Construction Litigation
Mr. Pitzer has defended companies both large and small in construction cases, including defending a prominent developer against a multi-million-dollar construction defect claim, and a separate developer in a high stakes dispute with major investors.
Criminal Defense
Mr. Pitzer has represented both corporate and individual clients in criminal cases involving allegations of tax evasion, investment fraud, securities violations, theft of trade secrets and immigration crimes. Mr. Pitzer has also defended numerous traditional criminal cases, including the successful defense of cases involving first degree murder, attempted murder and armed robbery.
Environmental Litigation
Mr. Pitzer has successfully defended complex environmental cleanup actions, including Superfund cost recovery and contribution claims, reimbursement actions based on contractual and statutory indemnity, and litigation over sites contaminated with hazardous substances.
Eminent Domain
Mr. Pitzer has represented private landowners seeking to protect property from condemnation by either the government or government-sponsored development authorities, including successfully defending an Illinois landowner's $35 million property in a landmark case featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.
Pitzer Law provides top flight representation to a broad base of business clients, often in complex disputes where the very survival of the company is at stake.
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- Portland, OR 97204
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