Associate Attorney

March 1, 2024

Associate Attorney Tomasi Bragar DuBay PC is a 5-lawyer, dynamic law firm in downtown Portland, with a strong commitment to providing excellent services to our financial institution, business, and land use clients, while enjoying a balanced life in the Pacific Northwest.  We seek an associate attorney with at least three (3) years of experience to complement our multiple practice areas…

Land Use and Real Estate Legal Assistant

March 1, 2024

Land Use and Real Estate Legal Assistant Tomasi Bragar DuBay is a fun and congenial women-owned law firm in Portland, Oregon. We have an immediate opening for a smart and extremely detail-oriented individual to be the primary staff member working in a land use and real estate practice.  This position entails all land use submittals to local governments, courts, and…

CORPORATE TRANSPARENCY ACT: REPORTING REQUIREMENTS TAKE EFFECT JANUARY 1, 2024

December 15, 2023

CORPORATE TRANSPARENCY ACT: REPORTING REQUIREMENTS TAKE EFFECT JANUARY 1, 2024 Reporting required by the Corporate Transparency Act will take effect on January 1, 2024.  Most small companies will have new reporting requirements with respect to certain owners and management.  This article provides a quick overview of the new reporting requirements. WHAT IS THE CORPORATE TRANSPARENCY ACT? In 2021 Congress enacted…

2024 Best Lawyers in America®

August 17, 2023

Tomasi Bragar DuBay is pleased to announce our 2024 Best Lawyers in America®! Jennifer Bragar has been recognized for her expertise in Land Use and Zoning Law and Christine Nicholas has been recognized for her expertise in the Corporate Governance Law and Real Estate Law fields.

Jennifer Bragar and Tomasi Bragar DuBay’s land use team recognized for advising Bay Area First Step on purchase of state surplus land

July 17, 2023

Executive Director Steve Sanden pointed out, “We leaned heavily on our attorney Jennifer Bragar who has represented us in land use and real estate matters for years. Her personal dedication to affordable housing advocacy meant we were able to quickly react to the state’s surplus property announcement and move through the process seamlessly.” Read the full coverage here: Bay Area…

Endless Possibilities: A Redevelopment Primer

June 8, 2022

Click here to read a reprint of the GP Solo Magazine Article by Jennifer Bragar about redevelopment law. ©2022. Published in GP Solo Magazine, May/June 2022, by the American Bar Association. Reproduced with permission. All rights reserved.

Public Meetings in a Pandemic

May 7, 2020

As part of the American Planning Association’s 2020 virtual conference – NPC20 @Home, Jennifer Bragar presented on California, Oregon, and Washington’s responses to the pandemic in relation to public meetings, public participation, and land use hearings. In connection with the presentation, Jennifer wrote the “The West Coast’s Flexible Approach to the Open Meeting Laws in a Pandemic” available here. The…

Meeting in the Middle

March 19, 2019

Jennifer Bragar was recently published in the January 2019 edition of the American Planning Association magazine. You can find a PDF copy of the article here.

Tomasi Bragar DuBay Sponsors Housing Land Advocates Conference

January 24, 2018

Tomasi Bragar DuBay (TSB) is pleased to sponsor the 2018 Housing Land Advocates Conference, “Strategies for Housing Planning, Policy and Finance: City, Region, State” on February 9, 2018. As a result of TSB’s contribution, ten scholarship recipients will be able to attend the conference and gain valuable tools to ensure local land use decision making results in land available for…

Recent Developments in Comprehensive Planning Law

January 12, 2018

Jennifer Bragar an Ed Sullivan co-authored the annual comprehensive plan update for the American Bar Association’s State and Local Government Law Section. The most recent update was just published by the Urban Lawyer and you can read about it here. Urban Lawyer, Vol. 49, No. 3 Summer 2017. The article undertakes an annual survey of state and federal cases dealing with…