Heather L Guthrie
Portland, OR
Licensed for 21 years
Law Degree
Awards
Primary Practice Area
Estate Planning
Language
English
About
Heather is a partner at Dunn Carney who focuses on estate planning and general business law. She is a member of the firm’s Trusts and Estates practice group and the firm’s Business Team.Heather’s estate planning practice includes developing comprehensive plans for estates of all sizes, from smaller estates of couples planning for young children to multi-million dollar estates using complex tax-planning strategies. Heather also assists clients in establishing and administering guardianships and conservatorships, and through probate and post-mortem trust administration. Her business practice focuses on financing transactions, most often representing borrowers in negotiating complex real estate loan transactions, including New Markets Tax Credit loans and HUD loans.In 2011-2014, Heather was named to the Five Star Professional List in Estate Planning in the Portland Area. She is also very active in the community working with the United Way of the Columbia-Willamette, Guide Dogs for the Blind and the Allied Professional Council for Legacy Health System. She is licensed to practice in Oregon and Washington. She can communicate reasonably well in Spanish and French.
Practices Areas
Estate Planning
Business
Language
English
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Reviews
Heather took charge of my aunt's delinquent taxes due to dementia. She stopped the eviction and brought in a tax attorney. Later, she discovered, over both of our protestations, that Gloria was intestate. She rushed an emergency will over to protect me. I had the neighbors witness it. She is a deeply caring protective lawyer. She saved my 90 year old aunt, recently deceased, and he nephew: a brilliant but impractical philosopher. I would be out on the street right now without an inheritance to support me if Heather had not taken action to protect my life. She was like a daughter to my aunt; she guided me during the seven years of home care I took care of with Gloria. Twice, the taxes and the trust, Heather Guthrie came through for us. I thank God for Heather; she watched over both of us. She is very polite yet firm in her determination to override clients' dangerous ignorance of their precarious estate situations. I cannot express to you that it is not hyperbole to say she saved an impractical fool with a mind like Immanuel Kant but no business sense of any kind. She watched over both of us like a guardian angel. You could never find a more compassionate, caring professional. She has been with me for 12 years; she helped with my mom's guardian / conservatorship, battles with mom's evil step kids, eviction and supervision of my court appointed roles. Whatever I could ever do to help her, please feel free to contact me. What a wonderful human being and an excellent lawyer.
Heather took charge of my aunt's delinquent taxes due to dementia. She stopped the eviction and brought in a tax attorney. Later, she discovered, over both of our protestations, that Gloria was intestate. She rushed an emergency will over to protect me. I had the neighbors witness it. She is a deeply caring protective lawyer. She saved my 90 year old aunt, recently deceased, and he nephew: a brilliant but impractical philosopher. I would be out on the street right now without an inheritance to support me if Heather had not taken action to protect my life. She was like a daughter to my aunt; she guided me during the seven years of home care I took care of with Gloria. Twice, the taxes and the trust, Heather Guthrie came through for us. I thank God for Heather; she watched over both of us. She is very polite yet firm in her determination to override clients' dangerous ignorance of their precarious estate situations. I cannot express to you that it is not hyperbole to say she saved an impractical fool with a mind like Immanuel Kant but no business sense of any kind. She watched over both of us like a guardian angel. You could never find a more compassionate, caring professional. She has been with me for 12 years; she helped with my mom's guardian / conservatorship, battles with mom's evil step kids, eviction and supervision of my court appointed roles. Whatever I could ever do to help her, please feel free to contact me. What a wonderful human being and an excellent lawyer.