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The firm of Lane Powell is among Seattle's oldest and largest law firms, a municipal leader, and a firm synonymous with the legal tradition of the Pacific Northwest. It stands among all of the companies that are listed as based in the greater Seattle area and the Pacific Northwest region.

The Seattle office of Lane Powell traces its roots back to 1889, when John Powell arrived in Seattle to practice law with the firm of Stratton, Lewis & Gilman.

The Portland office of Lane Powell traces its history in a direct line to 1875, the year William D. Fenton was admitted to the Oregon Bar and began practicing law.

No history of the Pacific Northwest is complete without inclusion of this landmark firm for more than 130 years. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Searchwriter (talk • contribs) 04:25, 20 Jun 2007 (UTC)

That's all fine and good. However, you'll still need to provide verifiable secondary sources that meet Wikipedia's notability criteria for corporations. I'm sure you understand the need for policies to be applied in all cases. Also, please excuse me if I'm incorrect, but something about your tone makes me suspect you might want to review Wikipedia's policy on possible conflicts of interest. Thanks! --Iknowyourider (t c) 04:27, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Appreciate the due diligence, but a profile of Lane Powell, the Pacific Northwest's largest law firm brandished with the blanket assertion that it is patently self-promotion or blatant advertising overlooks the historical narrative of the entry, or consideration of the subject matter on its merits. Indeed, contemporary legal firms, such as Perkins Coie, Davis Wright Tremaine and several other leading firms referenced in Wikipedia, who are of either of lesser size, stature or age, have not been subjected to such scrutiny. Why rule out this Northwest landmark institution? Searchwriter 04:40, 20 June 2007 (UTC) comment relocated here from User talk:Iknowyourider diff

You haven't been ruled out by any means. Create an article that provides verifiable sources (even just one!) and sounds like it was written from a neutral point of view. If the firm is as well-known as you say, I doubt you'll have any trouble finding sources. Also, if you want to reply, do so here -- this page is on my watchlist, so I'll see any reply you make. Iknowyourider (t c) 04:49, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for the delays - new version is up, I hope this one's properly formatted. Thank you for your feedback. Searchwriter (talk • contribs) 11:22, 19 Sept 2007 (UTC)

Question. I want to add a history section about our firm. Can I post something here that I would like posted on the actual page? It is somewhat the same as the history page on Lane Powell.com but reworded so it isn't entirely the same and copyrighted. (LPWik97203 (talk) 16:16, 8 June 2016 (UTC))

Please see your Talk page - we are almost done there, and you will get your answer there too. Jytdog (talk) 16:38, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

Hi, I had a quick question. So I did some researcher and unfortunately there is not much alone about our firm history. However, I went through the library and found some books on our history. Is it possible to site a source using a book, or does it all have to be online? This information was from the 1890's-1980's etc. so the use of computer was a little out of the question :) (206.169.157.238 (talk) 16:30, 10 June 2016 (UTC))

What I mean by not much history, I meant that we don't have much online about our history, but have several books on them! Sorry for the mix-up. (206.169.157.238 (talk) 16:31, 10 June 2016 (UTC)) — Preceding unsigned comment added by LPWik97203 (talk • contribs)

Requests

I was looking to add this to the awards and recognition Lane Powell has been Named as "One of the Top Patent law firms" in Washington by the IAM Patent 1000 (2016) (LPWik97203 (talk) 20:35, 9 June 2016 (UTC))

References

 Done BMK (talk) 21:56, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! (LPWik97203 (talk) 22:24, 9 June 2016 (UTC))

Books

Hi, I had a quick question. So I did some researcher and unfortunately there is not much alone about our firm history. However, I went through the library and found some books on our history. Is it possible to site a source using a book, or does it all have to be online? This information was from the 1890's-1980's etc. so the use of computer was a little out of the question :) (206.169.157.238 (talk) 16:30, 10 June 2016 (UTC))

What I mean by not much history, I meant that we don't have much online about our history, but have several books on them! Sorry for the mix-up. (206.169.157.238 (talk) 16:31, 10 June 2016 (UTC))

books are good, as long as it is an actual book with an ISBN and not some internal documentation. Jytdog (talk) 16:41, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

Ballotpedia

Hi, I was wondering if I could use https://ballotpedia.org/Main_Page when citing a source? (LPWik97203 (talk) 16:27, 22 June 2016 (UTC))

An interesting question. Although the site does not say it's a user-contriubution site, and has a staff of "60+ professionals", it certainly has the look-and-feel of one, which would make it ineligible. I'm going to ask the question at the Reliable Sources Noticeboard and see what they say, so you might want to look at the thread I'll start there, at WP:RSN. BMK (talk) 16:42, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

Actually, I didn't start a new thread, just checked old threads about the site, and the answer seems to be "it depends". That is, if you're planning on using it in an article about a living person, it's probably not reliable enough to use as a source within the article, although it might be OK to include it as an External Link. If you were going to use it for this article, I would think that would apply also. Perhaps you might start a discussion on WP:RSN saying exactly what you planned on using Ballotpedia for and see what they say. BMK (talk) 16:50, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the reply, I just posted my request on there. The intention for using this source was to give credibility that the lawyers who left the Firm for positions on the Bench, actually worked at Lane Powell. (LPWik97203 (talk) 17:07, 22 June 2016 (UTC))

Proposed content v1

I wanted to see if you could review this section for me and see if it is up to Wiki's standards. I don't want this posted yet, but rather have you check it first and make sure it can be posted.

Over the years, the following lawyers were apart of Lane Powell, but have since left the firm, accepting positions on the Bench;

The Honorable Erik Price, Thurston County Superior Court https://ballotpedia.org/Erik_D._Price

The Honorable Janice Ellis, Snohomish County Superior Court http://snohomishcountywa.gov/directory.aspx?EID=527

The Honorable James Robart, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington http://www.wawd.uscourts.gov/judges/robart-bio

The Honorable Christopher Marshall, Multnomah County Circuit Court https://ballotpedia.org/Christopher_J._Marshall

The Honorable Mark Rindner, Anchorage Superior Court https://ballotpedia.org/Mark_Rindner

The Honorable Suzanne M. Barnett, Chief Copyright Royalty Judge, United States Copyright Royalty Board http://copyrightalliance.org/2012/04/in-case-you-missed-it-suzanne-barnett-named-head-of-the-copyright-royalty-board-2#.V2rG8LgrJaQ

The Honorable Thomas S. Zilly, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1345&dat=19871203&id=C-oTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3voDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5764,507258&hl=en

The Honorable Brian K. Clark, Anchorage District Court https://ballotpedia.org/Brian_K._Clark

The Honorable Richard W. Postma, Jr., Anchorage District Court https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_W._Postma,_Jr.

The Honorable William Beeks, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington http://www.intelius.com/people/William-Beeks/0c2q74p2q7j#work https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/William_Trulock_Beeks

(LPWik97203 (talk) 22:14, 22 June 2016 (UTC))

I'm not certain that this list really has anything to do with Lane Powell at all. I assume that the point you're making is something on the order of "look what good people work at Lane Powell, because all these former LP lawyers are now judges," but I'm rather of the opinion that the judgeships reflect more on the quality of the individuals than it does on the quality of the firm. Further, we don't know anything about the processes that made these people judges - some judges are elected, some are appointed. If, hypothetically, a bunch of former LP lawyers were appointed to, let's say, Federal judgeships during a Democratic administration because the firm is strongly connected to the Democratic Party, that doesn't really reflect on the quality of the firm. On the other hand, if many lawyers leave LP because it's an awful place to work (hypothetically, of course) and rather then put out their own shingle they run for election as judges, that, too, doesn't say much good about the quality of the law firm. Finally, we don't know if this number of people becoming judges is high or low for a law firm of the size and territorial extent of LP, so there's no way to evaluate a bald list comparatively.

For all these reasons, I would say that the list should not be added to the article, but I'm certainly open to counter-arguments. BMK (talk) 22:22, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

I'm sure he has this page on his watchlist, but just in case, I'm pinging @Jytdog: to get his opinion. BMK (talk) 22:25, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

I see what you are saying and here’s my counter to it. The point of this list is to illustrate that through the experience and knowledge of law gained at Lane Powell, these individuals were able to move on to become judges. These individuals worked hard from law school, to their internship/preliminary jobs, to a position with this firm. All that combined, put these individuals in a good position to become a judge.

These positions are located with the Pacific Northwest, where Lane Powell is primarily located. This essentially helped propel them, as they had already planted the seed, by their exceptional work at this law firm. (It is not an assumption that they did an exceptional job because of their positon now as a judge)

A firm is only as strong as its staff, and its important to highlight them in this section. (The awards section does a good job of giving a macro recognition of the firm, but this section specifically highlights the internal, micro recognition. The firm itself had a significant impact on helping these individuals reach their potential and likewise, the work these individuals produced, helped build up the firm in an influential and positive way. Its a two way street :) (LPWik97203 (talk) 22:44, 22 June 2016 (UTC))

Yes, I do see and understand your point, I'm just not certain that I find it convincing enough to include the list. Let's see what others think. BMK (talk) 22:53, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

I don't like these kinds of lists either for the reason that BMK stated. Great content would be important cases in which the firm was involved where some article talks about interesting/innovative/important things did, that are encyclopedia worthy. Jytdog (talk) 23:17, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

Totally understand. So if I can compile a list of important cases that the individuals were on, would that push it to be on the page? The only problem I see with that, is that the references for showing they were apart of big cases, would come directly from Lane Powell. I'm not sure if it would be a credible source after that. What do you think? (LPWik97203 (talk) 23:39, 22 June 2016 (UTC))

Surely if they were significant cases, there would be media coverage of them. Use the LP archives to get the case names, and then use the case names to go Google searches and see what comes up. BMK (talk) 23:51, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

BMK nailed it. You see LP that is how the policies and fit together so nicely. If you find a case that has been written about by an independent source published somewhere reliable (like a law journal or for patent law a blog like Patently O where the author notes this cool thing the firm did, that can come in. Not press releases or the like. If you find something in an independent, reliable source and generate neutral content from it, that content will generally stick. Jytdog (talk) 00:08, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

Sounds good, thanks for this source of info, I really appreciate it. I will see what I can come up with! (LPWik97203 (talk) 15:10, 23 June 2016 (UTC))

Proposed content v2

I wanted to get your opinion on another piece. I wrote up the history of the firm and wanted to see if it looked good and would be able to be posted when the time comes. (Just looking to see if I could post it in the future)

Established in 1875, Lane Powell’s history predominantly comes from the Portland and Seattle offices.

Portland:

Lane Powell’s Portland history dates back to 1875. William D. Fenton Leeson, Fred. "Building Legal Institutions." Rose City Justice: A Legal History of Portland, Oregon. Portland, Or.: Oregon Historical Society, Published in Cooperation with the Oregon State Bar, 1998. 56-57. Print. was admitted to the Oregon Bar and began practicing law, as a partner at McCain and Fenton. After years of practice with the law firm, Mr. Fenton, chose to become a judge. Fenton donated his extensive home library to the University of Oregon, who in turn, built Fenton Hall, a building named after him for his work in the area of Law. http://library.uoregon.edu/architecture/oregon/fenton.html https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/William_D._Fenton_House

In 1918, Mr. Fenton passed away. McCain and Fenton was renamed to Hampson and Nelson Leeson, Fred. "The Progressive Era." Rose City Justice: A Legal History of Portland, Oregon. Portland, Or.: Oregon Historical Society, Published in Cooperation with the Oregon State Bar, 1998. 98-99. Print. ,and moved to the Pacific Building in Portland. From 1918-1990, the firm went through several name changes Buan, Carolyn M. "The Early History of Lane Powell Spears Lubersky." Oral History Notes (n.d.): 6. Print. In 1944, the Firm was renamed Hampson, Koerner, Young, and Sweet. Buan, Carolyn M. "The Early History of Lane Powell Spears Lubersky." Oral History Notes (n.d.): 6. Print. In 1946, Frank Sparks and George Campbell joined the firm, but had no immediate impact on the new name change in 1948; Koerner, Young, Sweet and McColloch. Buan, Carolyn M. "The Early History of Lane Powell Spears Lubersky." Oral History Notes (n.d.): 6. Print.

From 1948-1949, John Bledsoe http://obits.oregonlive.com/obituaries/oregon/obituary.aspx?pid=152508617 , Herbert Anderson and Oglesby Young joined the firm. They came in time to see the newest name change; Koerner, Young, McColloch Leeson, Fred. "Post-War Growth." Rose City Justice: A Legal History of Portland, Oregon. Portland, Or.: Oregon Historical Society, Published in Cooperation with the Oregon State Bar, 1998. 142-143. Print. , and Dezendorf http://obits.oregonlive.com/obituaries/oregon/obituary.aspx?pid=152508617 , Dezendorf, and Spears. In 1969, William Lubersky was named a naming partner in the firm, changing the name to McColloch http://obits.oregonlive.com/obituaries/oregon/obituary.aspx?pid=152508617 , Dezendorf, Spears and Lubersky. In 1972, Campbell was named a naming partner too, changing the name to Dezendorf, Spears, Lubersky, and Campbell.

In 1979, John Bledsoe Buan, Carolyn M. "The Early History of Lane Powell Spears Lubersky." Oral History Notes (n.d.): 6. Print joined as a naming partner, changing the firms name to Spears, Lubersky, Campbell and Bledsoe Buan, Carolyn M. "The Early History of Lane Powell Spears Lubersky." Oral History Notes (n.d.): 6. Print. Four years later, Anderson and Young were also added to the naming partner group, renaming the firm Spears, Lubersky, Campbell, Bledsoe Buan, Carolyn M. "The Early History of Lane Powell Spears Lubersky." Oral History Notes (n.d.): 6. Print. , Anderson and Young. In 1988, the firm was renamed to Spears, Lubersky, Bledsoe, Anderson, Young and Hilliard. Leeson, Fred. "Toward a New Century." Rose City Justice: A Legal History of Portland, Oregon. Portland, Or.: Oregon Historical Society, Published in Cooperation with the Oregon State Bar, 1998. 224-25. Print.

In 1990, Spears, Lubersky, Bledsoe, Anderson, Young and Hilliard agreed to merge with Seattle based law firm Cohen and Kaplan http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/print-edition/2010/12/03/lane-powell-roberts-kaplan-join-forces.html . They named the merged law firm Lane Powell Spears Lubersky LLP. Leeson, Fred. "Toward a New Century." Rose City Justice: A Legal History of Portland, Oregon. Portland, Or.: Oregon Historical Society, Published in Cooperation with the Oregon State Bar, 1998. 224-25. Print. This led to the departure from the Pacific Building in 1999 and in 2005, the firm chose to rename itself as just Lane Powell PC.

Seattle:

The Seattle office of Lane Powell PC traces its history way back to 1889 http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1667 when William A. Peters of Pennsylvania joined Strudwick, Peters & Collins. http://www.vault.com/company-profiles/law/lane-powell-pc/company-overview.aspx In 1891, the firm changed to Strudwick, Peters & Van Wyck. https://books.google.com/books?id=dTBHAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA287&lpg=RA1-PA287&dq=strudwick+peters+van+wyck&source=bl&ots=DOtdXCN-tG&sig=ehFxokWWqckr0DPSmeaz4uVAsx0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj6rqqWnavNAhXBMSYKHSkADiQQ6AEIIjAC#v=onepage&q=strudwick%20peters%20van%20wyck&f=false , https://books.google.com/books?id=mkhFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA263&lpg=PA263&dq=strudwick+peters+van+wyck&source=bl&ots=9YRNkrQ4WZ&sig=O-M17nTt6DJuBcjH4zGjUJNaMhE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj6rqqWnavNAhXBMSYKHSkADiQQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=strudwick%20peters%20van%20wyck&f=false In 1893, Van Wyck decided to leave for San Francisco, changing the name of the firm to Strudwick & Peters until 1900. John H. Powell Leeson, Fred. "Building Legal Institutions." Rose City Justice: A Legal History of Portland, Oregon. Portland, Or.: Oregon Historical Society, Published in Cooperation with the Oregon State Bar, 1998. 56-57. Print. arrived in Seattle in 1889, and practiced in the firm of Stratton, Lewis & Gilman https://books.google.com/books?id=jlByWYlr0toC&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10&dq=stratton+lewis+gilman&source=bl&ots=Wy57S34Mxf&sig=YfpLJ12BJKdoq3Tqwvzoatt_KSE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjg1rPmnavNAhXCZCYKHc08CzEQ6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=stratton%20lewis%20gilman&f=false In 1900, William and John entered into a partnership under the name Peters & Powell, located in the Dexter Horton Building.

In 1929, W. Bryon Lane Leeson, Fred. "Building Legal Institutions." Rose City Justice: A Legal History of Portland, Oregon. Portland, Or.: Oregon Historical Society, Published in Cooperation with the Oregon State Bar, 1998. 56-57. Print. was brought in as an associate to the newly named firm, Peters, Powell, Evans & McLaren https://casetext.com/draft/v70a2wFhaT2hkuuBbEFWDQ?ref=documents%2Fmccarthy-v-ruddock This same year Mr. Peters passed away, and in 1930, Mr. Powell also passed away. In 1935, the firm changed its name to Evans & McLaren. The firm also welcomed George V. Powell, John Powell’s son, this same year. In 1939, the firm changed its name to Evans, McLaren & Lane. George Powell became a naming partner in 1946, changing the name to Evans, McLaren, Lane & Powell.

In 1948, William T. Becks, an admiralty specialist, joined the firm as a naming partner and the firm was changed to Evans, McLaren, Lane, Powell & Becks. Gordon Moss joined the firm in 1959, and in 1961 William Becks left the firm to accept an appointment as United States District Judge. The firm changed to Evans, McLaren, Lane, Powell & Moss. In 1966, Pendleton Miller and Wilbur J. Lawrence joined the firm as naming partners, changing the firm to Lane, Powell, Moss & Miller http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1064407.html http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/litigation_news/lane-powell-moss-miller.authcheckdam.pdf . In 1979, the firm expanded to Anchorage, Alaska Ragsdale, Rose. "Law Firm Makes Critical Legal Connection." AKWA Connection, Exploring Alaska-Washington Connection (n.d.): 34-35. Petroleum News. 28 Aug. 2011. Web. by merging with Ruskin, Barker & Hicks. http://law.justia.com/cases/alaska/supreme-court/1982/6441-1.html In 1986, an office in Mt. Vernon, Washington was also opened. Cohen and Kaplan, a firm of four attorneys specializing in business, probate and estate planning, and commercial litigation, merged with Lane, Powell, Moss & Miller in 1987 http://www.liquisearch.com/lane_powell/firm_history The following year two more offices were opened; one in Olympia, Washington and the other in London.

The name Lane Powell Spears Lubersky resulted from the merger in 1990 with the Portland-based firm of Spears Lubersky Bledsoe Anderson Young & Hilliard Leeson, Fred. "Toward a New Century." Rose City Justice: A Legal History of Portland, Oregon. Portland, Or.: Oregon Historical Society, Published in Cooperation with the Oregon State Bar, 1998. 224-25. Print. In 2005, the firm changed its name to Lane Powell PC.

(LPWik97203 (talk) 16:18, 23 June 2016 (UTC))

Proposed content v2 comments by BMK

OK, here's what you wrote, edited and translated into Wikitext. This took a while to do, so giuve me a chance to catch my breath and then I'll comment on it.

BMK (talk) 17:15, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

History

Established in 1875, Lane Powell originated primarily from law firms in Portland and Seattle.

Portland

Lane Powell’s Portland history dates back to 1875. William D. Fenton was admitted to the Oregon Bar and began practicing law as a partner at McCain and Fenton. After years of practice with the law firm, Mr. Fenton, chose to become a judge. Fenton donated his extensive home library to the University of Oregon, who in turn, built Fenton Hall, a building named after him for his work in the area of Law. http://library.uoregon.edu/architecture/oregon/fenton.html https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/William_D._Fenton_House In 1918, Fenton died, and McCain and Fenton was renamed to Hampson and Nelson, and moved to the Pacific Building in Portland. From 1918 to 1990, the firm went through several name changes. In 1944, the firm was renamed Hampson, Koerner, Young, and Sweet. In 1946, Frank Sparks and George Campbell joined the firm, but had no immediate impact on the new name change in 1948, to Koerner, Young, Sweet and McColloch.

From 1948 to 1949, John Bledsoe, Herbert Anderson and Oglesby Young joined the firm in time to see the newest name change to Koerner, Young, McColloch, and Dezendorf.

The following year, 1951, William Lubersky joined the firm. In 1965, the firm underwent another name change to McColloch, Dezendorf, and Spears. In 1969, William Lubersky was made a named partner in the firm, changing the name to McColloch, Dezendorf, Spears and Lubersky. In 1972, Campbell was made a named partner as well, changing the firm's name to Dezendorf, Spears, Lubersky, and Campbell.

In 1979, John Bledsoe joined as a naming partner, with the firm's name altered to Spears, Lubersky, Campbell and Bledsoe. Four years later, Anderson and Young were also added, renaming the firm Spears, Lubersky, Campbell, Bledsoe, Anderson and Young. In 1988, the firm was renamed to Spears, Lubersky, Bledsoe, Anderson, Young and Hilliard.

In 1990, Spears, Lubersky, Bledsoe, Anderson, Young and Hilliard agreed to merge with the Seattle-based law firm Cohen and Kaplan. The merged law firm was named Lane Powell Spears Lubersky LLP. This led to the firm's departure from the Pacific Building in 1999. In 2005, the firm chose to rename itself Lane Powell PC.

Seattle

The Seattle office of Lane Powell PC traces its history way back to 1889 when William A. Peters of Pennsylvania joined Strudwick, Peters & Collins. In 1891, the firm changed its name to Strudwick, Peters & Van Wyck.

In 1893, Van Wyck decided to leave for San Francisco, changing the name of the firm to Strudwick & Peters until 1900. John H. Powell arrived in Seattle in 1889, and practiced in the firm of Stratton, Lewis & Gilman.

In 1900, Peters and Powell entered into a partnership under the name Peters & Powell, located in the Dexter Horton Building.

In 1929, W. Bryon Lane was brought in as an associate to the newly named firm, Peters, Powell, Evans & McLaren. That same year Peters died, and in 1930, Powell also died. In 1935, the firm changed its name to Evans & McLaren. The firm also added George V. Powell, John Powell’s son, that year. In 1939, the firm changed its name to Evans, McLaren & Lane. George Powell became a named partner in 1946, changing the firm's name to Evans, McLaren, Lane & Powell.

In 1948, William T. Becks, an admiralty specialist, joined the firm as a named partner and the firm was changed to Evans, McLaren, Lane, Powell & Becks. Gordon Moss joined the firm in 1959, and in 1961 William Becks left the firm to accept an appointment as United States District Judge. The firm changed to Evans, McLaren, Lane, Powell & Moss. In 1966, Pendleton Miller and Wilbur J. Lawrence joined the firm as naming partners, changing the firm to Lane, Powell, Moss & Miller

In 1979, the firm expanded to Anchorage, Alaska by merging with Ruskin, Barker & Hicks. In 1986, an office in Mt. Vernon, Washington was also opened. Cohen and Kaplan, a firm of four attorneys specializing in business, probate and estate planning, and commercial litigation, merged with Lane, Powell, Moss & Miller in 1987. The following year two more offices were opened, one in Olympia, Washington and the other in London.

The name Lane Powell Spears Lubersky resulted from the merger in 1990 with the Portland-based firm of Spears Lubersky Bledsoe Anderson Young & Hilliard In 2005, the firm changed its name to Lane Powell PC.

References

Comments on Proposed content v2

Let's get the technical stuff out of the way:

• References should follow the information they're supporting, not precede it.
• References are formed by starting with the <ref> tag, then putting in the reference, ending it with the </ref> tag. You were putting both tags together, as in "<ref></ref>"
• References should, as much as possible, provide as much information as is available: author, date of publication, name of article or book, publisher or periodical, page numbers. You out in quite a few of what we call "bare URLs" which I had to fill out
• References as much as possible should all be in the same format
• References come after punctuation, not before it. i.e. "Blah blah blah comma reference" and not "Blah blah blah reference comma"
• Use only last names, except for reason of disambiguation. Do not use "Mr." - or "Mrs.", "Miss" or "Ms" for that matter
• The same reference can be used multiple times by giveng it a name, and then referring to the name the next time. So the first use, instead of <ref>, you use <ref name=building> and then end the reference as usual with </ref>. Then, the next time you want to use the same reference, just use <ref name=building /> but do not use the ending tag, the "/" inside the ref name tag is the equivalent of that.

Now as to the content:

I'm afraid all of this really adds up to nothing interesting or encyclopedic. It's all much more geared towards a history of the firm for internal or PR use, and nothing that will interest out readers. True, most of it (not all) is sourced, but simply being sourced is no guarantee that information is appropriate for our encyclopedia. This stuff is sort of like the "begats" in the Bible, interesting to Biblical scholars, but eye-glazing to everyone else.

In other words, if I came across a section like this, I would quite possibly delete it, although the fact that it was sourced would make me think twice (or more) about doing so.

Now, about the fact that not everything is sourced. A citation from a source should explicitly support the information it is connected to. In a number of cases, you provided a source which showed the existence of a law firm of the name you specified, but without any corroborating information. So, a law firm's name on a court document shows that a firm of that name exists, but it does nothing to show that that name came about because so-and-so joined such-and-such a firm and it was renamed to this-and-that - so, in fact, nothing about the statement you made is supported, except the existence of the law firm of that name.

Finally, it looks like at least one of your sources, the one by Baun, is an internal document. Since we don't have access to it, we cannot verify that information, which we are required to be able to do.

I'm sorry that your hard work (and, frankly, mine) doesn't really add up to something that can be added to the article. Of course, others may differ in their opinion about that. Best, BMK (talk) 17:35, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

I've removed the stuff I did to help you, as you plain don't deserve it. @Jytdog: is a patient soul, and I'm sure he'll be glad to assist you, but I don't appreciate doing difficult shit I don't have to do in order to help a newbie with a COI and getting unwarranted whining complaints about it on my talk page. Screw that, I'm outta here. As I said on my talk page, if I see you editing the article directly, I will revert it and report you to admins for COI editing. BMK (talk) 18:55, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

You have been told once not to remove other people's comments from talk pages, and yet you went ahead and did it again. Do not touch my comment again, ofr I will report your behavior to an admin. Your removal violated WP:TPO. BMK (talk) 22:17, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

• Note, in the same dif I am making this comment, I restored BMK's helpful reformatting work and comments, with BMK's permission, obtained here Jytdog (talk) 03:31, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

Proposed content v3

I was wondering if you could take a look at this. I revised it down from a previous draft I sent, and narrowed the references better. i am not sure if I did it right, so if I did it wrong I apologize in advance. This is apart of the missing history section in the page. I dont want it posted yet, just want to know if it would be approved for posting. Thank you for your time.

Lane Powell’s Portland history dates back to 1875. William D. Fenton was admitted to the Oregon Bar and began practicing law, as a partner at McCain and Fenton. After years of practice with the law firm, Fenton, chose to become a judge. In 1918, Fenton passed away. This led McCain and Fenton to be renamed Hampson and Nelson , and move to the Pacific Building in Portland. The firm stayed in this building from 1918-1990.

In 1944, the Firm was renamed Hampson, Koerner, Young and Sweet. In 1946, Frank Sparks and George Campbell joined the firm, but had no immediate impact on the new name change in 1948; Koerner, Young, Sweet and McColloch. In 1951, William Lubersky joined the firm, and by 1969, William Lubersky was named a naming partner in the firm, changing the name to McColloch, Dezendorf, Spears and Lubersky.

In 1979, John Bledsoe joined as a naming partner, changing the firms name to Spears, Lubersky, Campbell and Bledsoe. Four years later, Anderson and Young were also added to the naming partner group, renaming the firm Spears, Lubersky, Campbell, Bledsoe, Anderson and Young. In 1988, the firm was renamed to Spears, Lubersky, Bledsoe, Anderson, Young and Hilliard.

In 1990, Spears, Lubersky, Bledsoe, Anderson, Young and Hilliard agreed to merge with Seattle based law firm Cohen and Kaplan. They named the merged law firm Lane Powell Spears Lubersky LLP. This led to the departure from the Pacific Building in 1999 and in 2005, the firm chose to rename itself as just Lane Powell PC.

References

(LPWik97203 (talk) 22:08, 23 June 2016 (UTC))

When you cite a book, please provide complete citation including the ISBN. For this book it is Fred Leeson. Rose City Justice: A Legal History of Portland, Oregon Paperback – July, 2000 Oregon Historical Society Press; 1st edition (July 2000) ISBN 9780875952697

You'll notice that the Wikipedia software converts the ISBN into a link that you can take to all kinds of places; this helps immensely in finding copies with which to verify content.

Also please don't use bare URLs, but instead fully format links. See WP:BAREURL.

In some ways this is very good in that it is neutrally written, no puffery. Thanks for that. But as BMK noted, there is nothing really of encyclopedic interest. It may be useful as the bones in which you can then add stories about important or interesting (in the sense of people can learn from it) things the firm did. Maybe that is your intention. Jytdog (talk) 03:59, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the reply. Yes that is my intention, to just provide a background on both the firm and the people that have made up this firm. (LPWik97203 (talk) 15:17, 24 June 2016 (UTC))

Also for the broken link I formatted it like this

Original: http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/print-edition/2010/12/03/lane-powell-roberts-kaplan-join-forces.html

New: Cheney, Cathy. "Lane Powell, Roberts Kaplan Join Forces." Widgets RSS. Portland Business Journal, 03 Dec. 2010. Web. 24 June 2016.

Is that acceptable? (LPWik97203 (talk) 15:36, 24 June 2016 (UTC))

This is a newspaper article. The key facts about it are: 1) name of the reporter; 2) name of the article: 3) name of the newpaper: 4) date it was published. That is the information someone would need to find it if the link ever breaks, or they are reading this in print. The date you accessed the article is clutter as is the Widgets RSS thing; newspaper articles don't change with time. (websites do, and it is for changeable things like a website that the access date is important). You also seem to have the name of the reporter wrong (Cheney is credited for the picture). I would format this manually as follows.

Andy Giegerich for the Portland Business Journal. Dec 3, 2010 "Lane Powell, Roberts Kaplan join forces"

If you want to autoformat it, in the editing window there is a header that has a "Cite" function with a pulldown menu and one of the options there is "cite news" - if you fill out those four fields the wikipedia software will format the ref for you. Jytdog (talk) 19:10, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

Notability

This article needs further RS citing to establish notability of the subject. I tagged the article accordingly. K.e.coffman (talk) 23:44, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

If you believe the firm is not notable, take it to AfD. Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:08, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Capital Consultants involvement

Is this firm the same as Lane Powell Spears Lubersky, which was involved with the collapse of Capital Consultants? If so this should be mentioned in the article, as it was widely reported at the time. Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 21:17, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

yes, same firm, shortened name. BMK (talk) 04:32, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

Update Content

Hello community,

I am a vice president with Nyhus Communications and Lane Powell is one of our clients. We believe that, per Wikipedia’s guidelines, this page merits a few changes. I would like to offer edits to this article to reflect updated information with citations from notable, secondary sources. Due to the conflict of interest that can often arise from situations such as this, I want to first create a conversation around the status of this page with the community. Please reach out with questions and/or comments for me. Thank you! Talking1200 (talk) 20:50, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Hi all – I have not received any notices or responses discouraging me to pursue the next steps about updating this page. I am looking to upload content early this week. Please reach out if you have any questions. Thanks. Talking1200 (talk) 21:20, 6 May 2019 (UTC)