William Brewer
Hershner Hunter, LLP
Bill grew up in Virginia and moved to Oregon in 1968 to attend Willamette University. After a short career in journalism, he graduated from the Northwestern School of Law in 1985 and immediately joined Hershner Hunter. He became a partner in 1990.
Bill served on the Executive Committee of the Oregon State Bar Estate Planning and Administration Section for nine years. He regularly writes for publications designed to educate other lawyers on estate planning, probate, and trust administration issues, and is a frequent speaker on estate and asset protection planning. He is a member and past president of the Eugene Estate Planning Council, and is active in the Eugene-Springfield Tax Association.
Bill is a Fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), and has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America and in Oregon Super Lawyers, a publication of Law & Politics.
Bill also maintains an office in Florence, Oregon.
- Lewis & Clark Law School
- J.D. | Law
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- Honors: Magna Cum Laude
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- Willamette University
- B.A. | American Studies
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- Partner
- Hershner Hunter, LLP
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- Listed in Best Lawyers in America. Listed in Oregon Superlawyers. Fellow, the American College of Trust and Estate Lawyers (ACTEC).
- Community Property in Oregon -- Advising Couples Transitioning from a Community Property State to Oregon
- Eugene Springfield Tax Association
- Estate Planning for the Closely Held Business Owner
- Advising Small Businesses, a treatise published by Clark Boardman
- Oregon Recent Developments
- Portland Estate Planning Seminar
- Planning for the Elective Share
- Oregon State Bar Newsletter
- When the Fiduciary Wears Two Hats, to Whom Does One Account?
- Oregon State Bar Newsletter
- Estate Planning Lawyer of the Year for 2012 in Eugene, Oregon
- Best Lawyers
- Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, has named William D. Brewer as the "Eugene Best Lawyers Trusts and Estates Lawyer of the Year" for 2012. After more than a quarter of a century in publication, Best Lawyers is designating "Lawyers of the Year" in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is being honored as the "Lawyer of the Year." The lawyers being honored as "Lawyers of the Year" have received particularly high ratings in our surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.
- Oregon State Bar # 851602
- Member
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- American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC)
- Fellow
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- Eugene Estate Planning Council
- Member, Former President
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- Eugene Springfield Tax Association
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- Oregon
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- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship Estate Administration, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Website
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