Jaimie Fender

Jaimie has been a practicing attorney in the Portland metro area since 2012. She joined Black Helterline LLP in 2022 after four years working at a Portland insurance defense firm focusing on construction defect and general liability defense. Prior to that, Jaimie served as the first ever volunteer prosecutor for the Washington County District Attorney’s Office; worked for a Seattle-based firm focusing on lending litigation; and worked with Stuart M. Brown, a highly regarded business and commercial Litigator. Jaimie served for many years on the Executive Committee of the Oregon State Bar (OSB) Oregon New Lawyers Division. She was selected as the 2017 Volunteer of the Year and her 5-part Continuing Legal Education series entitled “Uncommonly Discussed Veterans Issues” was named the 2017 Project of the Year. Also in 2017, Jaimie founded the King City Community Foundation, a registered 501c3 and was appointed to the City Council of King City where she served as Mayor from 2022-2024. Jaimie was the 2018 Chair of the OSB Military & Veterans Law Section. She served as a Member of the Policy Advisory Board for Washington County’s Community Development Block Grant program in 2018 and 2019. From 2019 to 2021, Jaimie served as the Co-Chair of the Multnomah Bar Association’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Ambassadors sub-committee. Jaimie is an Emerge Oregon 2021 alumnus and in 2022 served as the Chair of the Women in Law Affinity Group of the Oregon Association of Defense Counsel. In 2022, she was named by Best Lawyers’ as a ‘One to Watch’ for her outstanding professional excellence in private practice in the category of Construction Law and Insurance Law. Jaimie was selected again as a “One to Watch” in 2023 for Construction Law, Construction Litigation, and Insurance Law. In 2024, Jaimie was selected and included in "Best Lawyers" for her expertise in Commercial Litigation. In 2023, Jaimie served as the Vice-Chair for the Washington County Coordinating Committee (Washington County's land use and transportation committee) and on the Executive Board of the Metropolitan Mayor's Consortium. Though born in Eugene, Oregon and a proud University of Oregon alumnus, Jaimie worked in Paris for three years at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development before moving to London to attend law school. She is a non-practicing English barrister and worked at Standard and Poors' European Headquarters throughout law school. She is a proud mother of two boys, the enthusiastic owner of two rescued French Bulldogs, and the patient wife of another practicing attorney.

EDUCATION:

BPP Law School, London, England, Bar Vocational Course, 2008

London Metropolitan University, London, England, GDL/Common Professional Examination, 2005

University of Oregon, B.A. French (Hons.), Anthropology, 2000