Margaret H. Leek Leiberan

Margaret H. Leek Leiberan is a Harvard Law Graduate who has had an AV peer review rated (highest possible rating for legal ability and ethical standards), and has done hundreds of appeals to the Oregon appeals courts. She is also admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. Ms. Leiberan has handled appeals in virtually every area of the law except criminal law. Her past cases include business and real property disputes, personal injury cases, divorces with complex custody, visitation, support and property issues, medical and legal malpractice and many other areas of civil and administrative law.

No one can guarantee the result of an appeal. However, with Ms. Leiberan as your attorney, her experience and skills will guarantee that the appellate courts understand all of your facts and that a powerful written and legal argument is made for your case.

Representative Opinions of the Oregon Court of Appeals and Oregon Supreme Court in Cases in Which Margaret H. Leek Leiberan Was the Attorney (in alphabetical order):

• Berry and Berry - Modification of child support to include cost of child’s education as part of calculation
• Briggs v. Lamvik (2011) - Dispute between brother and sister over brother’s claim to sole ownership of father’s bank account and real property after father’s death
• Cat Champion Corporation v. Primrose - Established authority of court to enter limited protective order that allowed permanent placement of cats in safe homes after criminal animal abuse charge was dropped because owner was incompetent to stand trial
• Connelly and Connelly - Reversal of trial court order and return of custody of teenage boys to mother holding no substantial change of circumstances
• D&L Excavating and Trucking v. Eden Gate Inc. - Contract dispute involving clean-up of toxic chemicals from leaking gasoline tank
• Foster v. Gibbons - Boundary dispute which resulted in reversal of trial court and awarded disputed land to client
• Goddard v. Farmers Insurance Company - Action for damages against insurance company for excess judgment entered against its insured after company refused to settle within policy limits
• Jensen v. Bevard - Representing mother in successfully overturning trial court award of custody of child to grandmother
• Jensen v. Bevard (on reconsideration) - Granted reconsideration to provide instructions to guide transition of custody back to mother
• Kim v. Park - Reversing trial court’s grant of strict foreclosure of land sale contract
• McArthur and Paradis - Held parenting time should be modified to accommodate religious beliefs in Sabbath of custodial parent
• Muresan v. Philadelphia Romanian Pentecostal Church - Slander and invasion of privacy case
• Olesberg and Olesberg - Increased spousal support, added permanent maintenance support, and awarded wife share of husband’s inheritance
• Owens Koenig and Koenig - Division of IRAs and pensions in divorce of long-term marriage
• Roe v. Doe - Interpret settlement agreement to not include “gag order” which would have prohibited client from informing media as to the facts and cause of her injury
• Turudic v. Stephens and Susan Estates Homeowners Association - Dispute with homeowners association over right to keep cougar in zoo quality cage on property and neighbor’s retaliatory placement of outhouse visible from picture window
• Willis v. Winters, Supreme Court, Amicus for ACLU (2011) - Supreme Court, Amicus for ACLU - Right of holder of legal medical marijuana license to obtain concealed handgun permit