On December 2, 2021 the members of the University Club of Portland elected Dean Alterman to be the Club president for 2022, the Club’s 124th year since its founding in 1898. For more than three decades the Club has progressed toward building a diverse membership drawn from leaders in Portland’s business, artistic, cultural, and social life. A thirty-year member of the Club, Dean will also be the Board’s liaison to the Club’s committee on Diversity and Inclusion.
We’re honored to announce that the 2022 edition of Best Law Firms in America has recognized Alterman Law Group as a Metropolitan Tier 1 firm in real estate law for Portland, Oregon. Best Lawyers® has also recognized Dean Alterman in the 2022 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® for Real Estate Law in Portland, Oregon, and has included Erica Menze in the 2022 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in the fields of Litigation – Real Estate and for Real Estate Law, also for Portland, Oregon.
Dean Alterman’s second book, How to Draft Easements, came out in print this month. It’s published by the Real Property, Trusts and Estates section of the American Bar Association and follows by six years his first book, How to Build a Real Estate Law Practice, also published by the ABA. The book explains the basic legal doctrines behind easements and easement agreements, describes how to draft five different types of easement agreements, and concludes by listing ten ways to misdraft an easement agreement. His goal in writing the book was to help lawyers “draft easement agreements to reduce the chance that your clients find themselves in court arguing about their rights. Litigation is a blunt and expensive tool with which to settle a dispute.”