Oregon Estate Planning Lawyers

Estate Planning Law

400 SW Bond Street, 200, Bend, OR 97702

Casey Baxter is the founding attorney of Baxter Law, LLC, in Bend, Oregon, where his criminal defense work includes DUII and murder cases. Before representing defendants, he worked in the Deschutes County District Attorney’s Office as a deputy district attorney from 2012 to 2015. He tried both misdemeanors and felonies there and co-chaired a murder trial in 2013. His work in that office also extended to programs for veterans returning from combat. Baxter helped establish the county’s Veterans Treatment Court and implement its Veterans Intervention Strategy. Within the Deschutes County District Attorney’s Association, he served as treasurer/secretary in 2013–2014 and president in 2014–2015. Baxter’s own military service came after high school in Bend: he enlisted in the Marine Corps and worked as a helicopter crew chief. He later studied business management at the University of Houston, earning a BBA with summa cum laude honors in 2007. At the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law, his activities included moot court and representing low-income clients in the Criminal Representation Clinic. He received his law degree in 2010. His employment outside law included a financial-advisor position with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in 2011–2012. His private-practice history includes two periods under the Baxter Law name. A December 2024 career profile lists him as its founding attorney in 2015–2016, then as a founding partner of Baxter Harder LLC from 2016 to 2024. That profile dates his founding-attorney role at Baxter Law LLC to 2024.

Estate Planning Law

9400 SW Barnes Rd., STE 300, Portland, OR 97225

Born in Portland, Oregon, Tammi grew up mostly in Washington State. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Washington State University before going to Boston’s New England School of Law, where she received her Juris Doctorate. She then earned her LL.M., a legal Master’s degree, in estate planning, at the University of Miami Law School. Tammi is one of but a handful of few trust and estate attorneys in Oregon or Washington with this advanced degree and training. Tammi has extensive knowledge of special needs and charitable trusts, and estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes. An animal lover, Tammi also assists clients in planning for their pets. Tammi began her career in estate planning and probate & trust administration in New Mexico, where she practiced trust and estate law for six years before moving home to the Pacific Northwest. When not practicing law, Tammi and her husband enjoy the Northwest’s magnificent outdoors, and take delight in biking, hiking and watching their golden retriever swim in the vast number of lakes and rivers in the area.