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Alan Thayer is a business lawyer and a founder of Innovative Law Group, a Eugene, Oregon law firm committed to reinventing the way lawyers serve business. Alan is a Pacific Northwest native. He grew up in small logging towns in Northwestern Oregon and Southwestern Washington, worked in the woods while attending college and received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics in 1981 from Oregon State University.His law school education was supplemented by the practical experience of clerking in the largest litigation department in Oregon. The combination was a success. He worked 35 to 70 hours a week, attended law school full time and graduated magna cum laude in 1985 from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College.After graduation, Alan began his career at the Hershner Hunter law firm in Eugene. At that time, they had the best broad-based business law training program in the state for new attorneys. While there, he worked on a wide variety of complex business litigation cases, including unfair competition, securities fraud, lender liability, class action, bankruptcy fraud and employment disputes.Alan soon began to apply his litigation experience to the art of forming new businesses, business transactions, preventing employee disputes and general business counsel. In 1996, he merged his practice with that of respected Eugene business attorney Mark W. Perrin to form the Perrin & Thayer business law firm.

Practices Areas

Business

Litigation

Language

English

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