Parker Butte & Lane, P.C.
Changing Lives,
One Green Card At A Time ®
1336 East Burnside, Suite 200
Portland, Oregon USA 97214
503-241-1320
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Tilman
Hasche - James Lane - Richard Parker
Gretel M. Ness - Dagmar Butte - Christopher Anders
- L. Leslie Bush
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Tilman Hasche - th @ pbl.net Tilman Hasche, a shareholder of Parker, Butte and Lane, P.C., focuses his practice on family immigration, deportation / removal litigation, asylum, and complex admissibility issues. He also heads the firm's Global Immigration Practice Group. In 1994 Tilman received national recognition in the first-of-its-kind case of Matter of Oluloro, where he obtained a waiver of deportation for a client asserting that her daughters would be subjected to female genital mutilation if she were deported to her home country. A frequent speaker at CLE events and expert witness on immigration issues, he, himself, has been through the immigration process. Tilman immigrated to this country from Germany as a child and, long before he became a lawyer, handled the process for immigrating his wife, a native of Chile. Fluent in several languages, in a prior life Tilman worked overseas as a sales representative for a Fortune 500 heavy equipment manufacturer. Education Admitted
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James Lane - jll @ pbl.net
A shareholder in the firm of Parker, Butte & Lane, P.C., Jim leads the firm's immigration group and has been practicing immigration law for over 25 years. His practice focuses on Business Immigration, including Immigrant Petitions (Labor Certifications and Permanent Resident Applications) and Petitions for Non-Immigrant Workers and Investors. He also works in the area of Family Immigration, including consular processing and citizenship applications. In addition, he practices in the area of Estate Planning as well as advising small corporations. Jim has taught immigration courses in Continuing Legal Education programs and has been a regular speaker at regional and local immigration conferences. He is a former chair of the Oregon Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and has served on the AILA National Board of Directors. For several years, Jim also chaired the Department of Labor Liaison Committee for the Oregon Chapter. His law career follows 25 years as a cattle rancher in Central Oregon. Jim enjoys visiting the many areas of the world from which his clients originate. |
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Richard Parker - rjp @ pbl.net Rich has been a shareholder of Parker Butte & Lane, P.C. since 1986. He practices in the areas of business and family immigration law as well as bankruptcy. He represents clients in the wine industry for the entry of leading vintners from some of Europe's premier wine growing regions. He also assists with family immigration. He is a speaker at major bankruptcy seminars in Oregon and is a practicing member of both the Oregon and Washington Bars. Education Admitted
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Gretel M. Ness - gmn @ pbl.net
Gretel, a shareholder of the firm, has always known she wanted to specialize in immigration law. Her practice focuses on employment immigration, family immigration, and citizenship issues. She also assists clients in pro-active immigration planning be it for future sponsorship of other family members or employer compliance with employment verification rules. In addition to her background in immigration law, Gretel has the unique advantage of knowing firsthand what it is like to be an immigrant in a new country, having immigrated from the Philippines in 1985. As a former INS Asylum Officer, she has also found herself on the other side of the fence enforcing U.S. immigration laws. As an immigration attorney, Gretel is thankful that she is able to utilize her unique background to help immigrants establish new lives in America. In her leisure time, Gretel volunteers at various cultural and community based organizations and is a frequent speaker on immigration issues. She is the immediate past Chair of the Oregon Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Philippine American Chamber of Commerce of Oregon. Admitted
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Dagmar Butte - db @ pbl.net
Dagmar Butte, the newest shareholder of the firm, practices in the areas of Business and Family Immigration and Business/Corporate Law. Dagmar is Oregon's first Elected Member of the AILA Board of Governors and is a past Oregon Chapter Chair who won the Chapter's 2009 Gerald H. Robinson Excellence in Immigration Advocacy Award. She has also been selected as a Super Lawyer by her peers since 2008. This year, she chairs AILA National's USCIS Service Center Operations Committee, co-chairs the USCIS Headquarters Committee, chairs the Fundamentals/Special Programming track for the AILA 2011 Annual Conference and serves on the Committee on Doctors and Allied Healthcare Workers. In 2009, she served on the AILA Transition Task Force and the Due Process Rapid Response Team. She was also a member of President Obama's Campaign Advisory Committee on Immigration during the election and served for several years as chair of AILA National's Removal/Detention/Due Process Committee which was folded into other AILA committees in 2009. She served on specific AILA ad hoc committees and task forces that assisted ICE with the development of family detention standards, reviewed and provided suggested language for legislation in relation to various aspects of comprehensive immigration reform including EOIR reform and judicial review. She has also written regulatory comments for AILA on a variety of issues including the 2007 fee increase where she co-chaired the comment committee. Finally, she is a regular speaker and writer for AILA national and regional conferences. Admitted to practice |
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Christopher Anders - cca @ pbl.net Christopher Anders, an associate with Parker, Butte and Lane, P.C., focuses his practice on family immigration, naturalization, deportation / removal litigation, and asylum. He has presented at CLE events on topics ranging from naturalization to visas available to crime victims. He is a regular guest lecturer on asylum law at Lewis & Clark Law School. Before practicing law he worked as an immigration paralegal, taught English as a Second Language both in the U.S. and in Latin America and worked as a gourmet chef.
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L. Leslie Bush - llb @ pbl.net Of Counsel to Parker Butte & Lane, P.C., Les has been practicing law for 30 years and is involved with complementary areas to immigration law, including business, real estate, domestic relations and workers compensation. Les is a graduate of Stanford University (1971) B.A. Economics, and Lewis & Clark Northwestern School of Law (1977), and is admitted to the U.S. District Court and Oregon State Courts. Les is involved with community service, including service on the Boards of Terwilliger Plaza, Inc. and The Dougy Center. |
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