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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 assists a number of tax-exempt organizations and donors, helping to form charitable entities and advising them with respect to ongoing administration.

Ms. Bock’s practice focuses on high net worth individuals and their unique issues, working with her clients to achieve their planning goals across many disciplines through coordination with their advisors and other legal professionals.

Before joining Buchalter, Ms. Bock worked as a partner in another Portland firm and as an attorney with firms in Eugene, Cincinnati, Charlotte, and Philadelphia. Now, Ms. Bock practices across the Pacific Northwest helping clients in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and across state lines.

Admissions

  • Oregon
  • Idaho
  • Washington
  • 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, Member
  • Estate Planning & Administration Section of the Oregon Bar, Former Member of Executive Committee
  • 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
  • Washington 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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