Stafford Frey Cooper's alternative dispute resolution (ADR) group helps businesses and individuals resolve disputes and manage conflict. With a regional reputation for their arbitration and mediation services, Stafford Frey Cooper's attorneys bring a wealth of knowledge and experience in assisting parties with different perspectives and concerns come to a neutral place of agreement.
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Stafford Frey Cooper's commercial practice group advises and represents organizations of all sizes in a wide range of business issues. Our long-established commercial practice includes business organization and planning, taxation, business purchases and sales, sale of goods, sale and lease of real property, real and personal property secured transactions, land use, condominium law and consulting, and franchising.

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Stafford Frey Cooper's construction practice group represents contractors, owners, developers, designers, sureties and other construction professionals on a wide range of issues. Our group of veteran attorneys has a solid track record dealing with condominium and other construction defect claims, delay/impact claims, defense of construction-related personal injury claims, insurance issues, professional liability claims, defaults and other surety matters, contract negotiations, bid protests, and other matters.
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Stafford Frey Cooper's e-discovery group helps businesses and other lawyers successfully navigate emerging discovery issues related to electronic information. Recent court decisions and the December 2006 changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure impose obligations on both litigants and their lawyers that can lead to serious consequences for the unwary and the unprepared. With a first-rate reputation for their e-discovery work and advice, Stafford Frey Cooper's attorneys bring a wealth of knowledge to their work helping companies find their way through this sea change in discovery practice.
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The attorneys in our employment practice are leaders in the field, providing training for human resources professionals, managers and employees, and speaking at numerous employment law seminars attended by attorneys, managers, employees, and administrators. We advise corporate and government clients on a full range of employment matters, including employee relations, employment manuals, risk management, independent investigations, and terminations.
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Stafford Frey Cooper's government practice group has extensive experience representing state and local governments in a range of matters. Our attorneys are specialists in municipal liability, law enforcement liability, civil rights, employment, premises liability, insurance, and land use matters, and have helped city, county and state agencies in a variety of such cases.
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Stafford Frey Cooper's insurance practice group represents policyholders, and insurers in a range of matters, including coverage analysis, bad faith litigation, insurance defense, subrogation, insurance fraud, reinsurance, and self-insurance. Having represented both insurers and those seeking coverage, our attorneys bring to every case comprehensive understanding of the legal aspects and strategies that affect an insurance dispute, and can utilize this unique expertise to provide an efficient analysis of the issues.
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Stafford Frey Cooper is celebrating our first century of providing legal representation in federal and state courtrooms across the Northwest and across the country.

Our seasoned attorneys have expertise litigating complex cases including commercial matters, personal injury, medical negligence, civil rights, toxic torts and asbestos, construction defect, employment, product liability, admiralty and maritime, intellectual property, trust and fiduciary liability, and appeals.
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Stafford Frey Cooper's personal planning group counsels financial companies, charitable organizations, businesses, personal representatives, trustees, beneficiaries, and families as they plan for the future, receive substantial gifts, or encounter trust and estate disputes.

Our experience and knowledge runs the full gamut of personal planning services, from estate and tax planning, probate and trust litigation, advising and representing trustees and fiduciaries, to guiding charitable organizations when they receive lifetime and testamentary gifts.
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