About Jane
Jane Paulson has won several multi-million dollar settlements and results for clients. She represents individuals and families whose lives have been changed forever by the wrongs of others. She has been listed in Best Lawyers for 20 years, since 2006.Jane had the honor of serving on the Oregon Trial Lawyer's Association ("OTLA") Board 1995-2006, was one of Oregon's two American Trial Lawyer Association Delegates 2000-2004, and was President of OTLA 2004-2005. She is an Associate in the American Board of Trial Advocates (Vice President 2014-present) and became the Oregon Chapter's first woman President in 2015-2016 and is listed in Best Lawyers in America for personal injury and medical malpractice cases.Jane was honored in 2012 by being invited to join the American College of Trial Lawyers and is one of five women in Oregon in the College. In 2012, Jane and her father, Chuck, became one of the few father-daughter teams in the College. The College is a professional society of Fellows who become members only by invitation. The College looks for lawyers who are considered by other lawyers and judges to be the best in their states or provinces, lawyers whose ethical and moral standards are the highest, and lawyers who share the intangible quality of collegiality.Jane is listed as one of the Best Lawyers in America; an Oregon Super Lawyer (Oregon Top 10), one of Oregon's Top 25 Women Super Lawyers and one of Portland's Best Lawyers in Portland Monthly magazine.She was honored in 2015 with the Oregon Women Lawyers' Betty Roberts Award which recognizes an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to promoting women in the legal profession and in the community and in 2017 was awarded the Multnomah Bar Professionalism Award.She is a member of the invitation only groups International Academy of Trial Lawyers and Summit Council.
Jane Paulson has won several multi-million dollar settlements and results for clients. She represents individuals and families whose lives have been changed forever by the wrongs of others. She has been listed in Best Lawyers for 20 years, since 2006.
Jane had the honor of serving on the Oregon Trial Lawyer's Association ("OTLA") Board 1995-2006, was one of Oregon's two American Trial Lawyer Association Delegates 2000-2004, and was President of OTLA 2004-2005. She is an Associate in the American Board of Trial Advocates (Vice President 2014-present) and became the Oregon Chapter's first woman President in 2015-2016 and is listed in Best Lawyers in America for personal injury and medical malpractice cases.
Jane was honored in 2012 by being invited to join the American College of Trial Lawyers and is one of five women in Oregon in the College. In 2012, Jane and her father, Chuck, became one of the few father-daughter teams in the College. The College is a professional society of Fellows who become members only by invitation. The College looks for lawyers who are considered by other lawyers and judges to be the best in their states or provinces, lawyers whose ethical and moral standards are the highest, and lawyers who share the intangible quality of collegiality.
Jane is listed as one of the Best Lawyers in America; an Oregon Super Lawyer (Oregon Top 10), one of Oregon's Top 25 Women Super Lawyers and one of Portland's Best Lawyers in Portland Monthly magazine.
She was honored in 2015 with the Oregon Women Lawyers' Betty Roberts Award which recognizes an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to promoting women in the legal profession and in the community and in 2017 was awarded the Multnomah Bar Professionalism Award.
She is a member of the invitation only groups International Academy of Trial Lawyers and Summit Council.
Professional Affiliations
Awards & Recognition
- Lawyer of the Year: Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs, Portland, OR (2026)
- Lawyer of the Year: Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs, Portland, OR (2024)
- Lawyer of the Year: Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs, Portland, OR (2020)
- Lawyer of the Year: Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs, Portland, OR (2018)
- Recognized: Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs
- Recognized: Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
- Practice Area: Medical Malpractice Law
- Practice Area: Personal Injury Litigation
- Special Focus: Automobile Collision
- Special Focus: Birth Trauma
- Special Focus: Brain Injury
- Special Focus: Catastrophic Injury
- Special Focus: Dental
- Special Focus: Medical Malpractice
- Special Focus: Medical Negligence
- Special Focus: Nursing Homes
- Special Focus: Personal Injury
- Special Focus: Premises Liability
- Special Focus: Product Liability
- Special Focus: Wrongful Death
- 2021 Oregon Trial Lawyer Association's Distinguished Trial Lawyer
- 2015 Oregon Women Lawyers' Betty Roberts Award (for promoting women in the legal profession and the community)
- 2008 Oregon State Bar President's Special Award of Appreciation (for outstanding leadership in promoting access to justice in Oregon)
- 2006 Oregon Trial Lawyers' Association Volunteer of the Year
- 2017 Multnomah Bar Association Professionalism Award (for highest ethical standards and exemplary conduct in the practice of law)