Joseph A. Field

Joe Field is an active litigation and bankruptcy attorney who specializes in complex, multi-party cases before bankruptcy, state, and federal courts. His trial experience includes a broad range of commercial, real estate, and financial fraud cases. Joe represents plaintiffs and defendants, creditors and debtors.

For over 30 years, savvy clients and attorneys at other firms have sought out Joe for his hard work, creativity, and litigation skills.

• When Sony Electronics needed to collect a $75 million unpaid bill from an NBA team for its new arena’s Jumbotron, it hired Joe to file suit and collect.

• In the first Archdiocese bankruptcy case in the Catholic Church’s 2,000 year history, attorneys for the Archdiocese’s nine insurers’ national and local law firms selected Joe as their coordinating counsel to keep the insurers aligned in the years of ensuing bankruptcy litigation.

• When the former oil minister of the United Arab Emirates got tagged with a $63 million arbitration award against him in France, which overflowed into four years of multistate federal and state trial court and appellate court litigation against his US holding companies, his American attorneys engaged Joe to consolidate and resolve the litigation in consolidated chapter 11 bankruptcy cases.

• When Warren Buffet’s first insurance company needed to sue nine other insurers in Seattle, Berkshire Hathaway’s general counsel selected Joe for the successful state, federal, and appellate litigation that followed.

Joe has litigated on behalf of law school professors, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, American Express, ATT, a West Coast subsidiary of BlackRock, as well as select individuals and smaller businesses.

Prior to practicing law, Joe worked in the Investment Banking Division of Morgan Stanley International in London, and for Merrill Lynch Capital Markets in New York, London, and Frankfurt. His technical financial background is valuable in litigation matters involving financial fraud, distressed assets, complex debtor/creditor issues, and restructurings. His cases often involve complex financial or business issues from contract controversies or business torts that spill into bankruptcy court.

Joe is a frequent author and regular speaker on bankruptcy, litigation and collection topics. He has participated in several seminars, including: 

• Federal Bar Association Seminar on Bankruptcy for Federal Practitioners, Practicing attorney panel member with Bankruptcy Judge, US Trustee, Chapter 7 trustee and Chapter 13 trustee.

• Bankruptcy Issues in State Court Cases, presented with a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for Portland, Oregon State Court Judges

• Bankruptcy issues in State Court Cases, Loss Prevention Seminar distributed by Oregon State Bar Professional Liability Fund

• Bankruptcy issues in State Court Litigation, presented to Owen Panner Inns of Court

• Collection Strategies in Commercial Leases, The Sterling Group

• Advanced Collection Strategies, National Business Institute

• Bankruptcy Reform, National Business Institute

• Presented multiple seminars to Oregon State Bar Young Lawyer’s Division on bankruptcy issues

• Contributed to Oregon Statutory Time Limitations (multiple editions)