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Susan Bock is a Partner in the Firm’s Portland office and a member of the Corporate practice group. Ms. Bock’s practice includes advising clients in the areas of income, estate, and gift taxes, counseling trustees and beneficiaries, charitable planning, international estate planning and trust administration, and working with families and closely held businesses to achieve business succession planning and the creation of small family businesses.

Ms. Bock has successfully represented numerous clients before the IRS and United States Tax Court regarding the valuation of closely held business interests. She also represents tax-exempt organizations, including the Oregon Recovery High School Initiative and Harmony Academy, the first high school in Oregon for students in recovery from alcohol and drug addiction disorder.

Before joining Buchalter, Ms. Bock was an associate and counsel with several law firms in Eugene, Oregon; Cincinnati, Ohio; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Admissions

  • U.S. Tax Court

Education

  • Duke University School of Law, J.D. and LL.M., Order of the Coif
  • Bryn Mawr College, A.B., Russian, magna cum laude

  • Included in The Best Lawyers in America® (Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law, Trusts and Estates), 2022 – Present

  • Estate Planning & Administration Section of the Oregon Bar, Executive Committee, past member
  • Estate Planning & Administration Section of the Oregon Bar Newsletter, Co-Editor
  • Estate Planning Council of Portland, Board Member
  • Oregon Bar Association, Member
  • Idaho State Bar Association, Member

  • Bryn Mawr Club of Portland, President
  • Bryn Mawr College Alumnae Association Executive Board, Past Member
  • Oregon Recovery High School Initiative, Past Board Member and Secretary
  • Harmony Academy, Founding and Past Board Member and Secretary
  • Portland Duke Alumni Association, Past Board Member
  • Legal Aid Services of Oregon Elder Law Clinic, Volunteer
  • Catholic Charities (Refugee Resettlement and Guardianship Clinics), Volunteer

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