Amber Bevacqua-Lynott is Of Counsel in the Firm’s Portland, San Diego and Seattle offices. She is the Co-Chair of the Firm’s Professional Responsibility Group and a member of the Litigation Practice Group.
Ms. Bevacqua-Lynott provides guidance and legal representation to attorneys, licensed professionals, and other business clients, including firms and in-house legal departments. Her practice centers on legal ethics, risk management, and discipline defense. She acts as outside counsel to clients in a variety of industries, providing advice and counsel on all manner of ethics issues, including conflicts, confidentiality, malpractice, risk management, and fee issues.
In addition, Ms. Bevacqua-Lynott represents lawyers, students, and other professionals in front of regulatory authorities and bar associations on licensing, admissions, reinstatement, reciprocity, character and fitness, consumer protection, unauthorized practice of law, and disciplinary matters.
Ms. Bevacqua-Lynott has more than 25 years of legal experience, including extensive civil trial experience. Prior to joining Buchalter, Ms. Bevacqua-Lynott worked in the Oregon State Bar’s Disciplinary Counsel’s Office (DCO) as an Assistant Disciplinary Counsel, where she enforced the Oregon Rules of Professional Conduct through the investigation and prosecution of alleged misconduct. During her time in DCO, Ms. Bevacqua-Lynott successfully first-chaired several dozen civil trials, and investigated or prosecuted hundreds of disciplinary matters. The last six years of her tenure with DCO, she was the Chief Assistant Disciplinary Counsel and Deputy Director of Regulatory Services, and also acted as Chief Trial Counsel.
Ms. Bevacqua-Lynott’s years of experience both in defending and prosecuting ethical violations, offers her clients a unique insight and expertise on ethics issues and professional obligations.
Intimately versed in legal ethics, Ms. Bevacqua-Lynott developed, updated, and presented Legal Ethics Best Practices, a semi-annual “ethics school” for attorneys. She also prepared and edited the annual annotations of all Bar formal proceeding dispositions, requiring that she be expertly familiar with each stipulated and adjudicated case result.
She regularly presents seminars on ethics issues, both locally and nationally, and frequently provides ethics advice to attorneys. Ms. Bevacqua has been named one of The Best Lawyers in America, for Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law in 2024-2026.
Admissions
Oregon
California
Florida
Washington
Education
Pepperdine University School of Law, J.D.
University of Redlands, B.A.
Regulatory
Licensing
Legal Ethics
Association of Disciplinary Defense Counsel Member (ADDC) (2023-present)
Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (APRL) Member (2021-present)
Washington State Bar Association, Committee on Professional Ethics (CPE) Member (2024-present)
Civics Learning Project Board Member (2023-present)
Civics Learning Project Annual Gala Co-Chair (2024-present)
Legal Citizen of the Year Committee Member (2023-2024)
Resource Development Committee Member (2023-present)
Multnomah Bar Association
Professionalism Committee Member (2022-present)
Volunteer Lawyer Project Golf Committee Member (2016-2018)
ABA Center for Professional Responsibility Member
CLE Committee Member (2017-2019)
National Organization of Bar Counsel (NOBC) Member/Presenter (2013-2019)
Policy Advisory Committee Member (2016-2019)
Social Media Use Committee Chair (2017)
Oregon State Bar Discipline System Review Committee Member
State Professional Responsibility Board OSB Staff Liaison (2014-2019)
Unlawful Practice of Law Committee OSB Staff Liaison (2001-2003)
