Bend, OR

Tom D’Amore

An attorney for more than 30 years and a former CPA, Tom D’Amore founded D’Amore Law Group in 1994. He is licensed in Oregon, Washington, and California. He is actively engaged in the plaintiff’s trial bar, serving as a national Board of Governor, past Executive Committee member, and past Budget and Audit Chair of the American Association for Justice (AAJ). He is also Past President of the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association and an Eagle member of the Washington State Association for Justice (WSAJ). Tom's practice focuses on catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, spinal cord injury, brain injury, class actions, insurance company bad faith, complex business litigation, and banking fraud. He is board-certified with the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys (ATAA) and the National Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA) as a civil trial lawyer and in trucking injury law. He has authored several articles and chapters in legal publications and is committed to community service.

Tim Williams

Tim Williams is the managing partner and lead litigator at Dwyer Williams Cherkoss, known for taking more personal injury cases to trial than most others in Oregon. He is dedicated to holding individuals and corporations accountable and has won tens of millions for clients since 2003. Tim holds leadership positions in the Oregon State Bar, Oregon Trial Lawyers Association (President 2020-2021), American Association for Justice, and other civic organizations. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court.

Gabriel S. Galanda

Gabe is an Indigenous rights attorney and the managing lawyer at Galanda Broadman. His practice focuses on complex, multi-party litigation and crisis management, representing Indigenous nations, businesses and citizens. He has been named to Best Lawyers in America in the fields of Native American Law and Gaming Law from 2007 to 2026, and dubbed a Super Lawyer by his peers from 2013 to 2025. Gabe is skilled at defending Indigenous nations and business against legal attack by governmental or private parties, as well advocating for the human rights of Indigenous American citizens. He advocates against tribal disenrollment and citizenship rights violations, as well as other domestic Indigenous human rights abuse, including law enforcement violence. He also assists Indigenous clients with transactions and strategy related to various economic diversification initiatives. The American Bar Association awarded Gabe the Spirit of Excellence Award in 2022 and named him a Difference Maker in 2012. The Washington State Bar Association honored him with the Excellence in Diversity Award for his "significant contribution to diversity in the legal profession" in 2014. For his staunch disenrollment advocacy, the University Arizona College of Law awarded him the Professional Achievement Award, and Western Washington University named him a Distinguished Alumnus, in 2018. The University Arizona College of Law also named Gabe its 2022-23 Alumnus of the Year. Indian Country Today honored Gabe as one of “five people are rocking the world with their forward thinking, innovation and commitment to social justice” in 2013, and as one of "Fifty Faces of Indian Country" in 2017. In 2009, the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development honored him as Native American 40 Under 40. He has also received the Native Justice Award from the Northwest Indian Bar Association. Gabe writes frequently about Tribal Treaty and sovereignty rights and Indigenous human rights issues, having been published over 100 times in such other national periodicals as National Law Journal, Business Law Today, and Gaming Law Review & Economics. Most notably, he co-authored a law review article titled, “Curing the Tribal Disenrollment Epidemic: In Search of a Remedy,” which published by Arizona Law Review in 2015. He also often lectures about Indigenous human rights issues at universities and law schools, having talked at Harvard University and Yale, Cornell, Berkeley, Arizona, and Kansas law schools. Since 2023, Gabe has published a series of scholarly essays about existential challenges facing Indigenous peoples: In the Spirit of Vine Deloria, Jr.: Indigenous Kinship Renewal and Relational Sovereignty; The Federal Indian Blood Quantum Fiction; Durability and Duress: Inter-Tribal Kinship and Indian Gaming Capitalism; Into The Void: Indigenous American Civil Rights; The Original Peoples Deserve Freedom. His anti-disenrollment advocacy and scholarship have been included in several books, including David and Shelly Wilkinses’ “Dismembered” (2017); David Treuer’s “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee” (2019); Carrie Schuettpelz’s “The Indian Card” (2024); and Dina Gilio-Whitaker's "Who Gets to Be Indian?” and Joseph Lee’s “Nothing More of this Land” (2025). Gabe is a frequent media commentator as well, having been interviewed and quoted by mainstream and international news outlets such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Guardian, and Le Monde. In his "spare" time, Gabe founded and now operates Huy, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing religious, cultural and other rehabilitative opportunities for Indigenous prisoners. Serving as Chairman of the Huy Board of Advisors, he has lead the organization’s amicus curiae efforts before the U.S. Supreme Court and federal and state appellate courts across the country as well as the group’s human rights advocacy efforts before the United Nations. Gabe belongs to the Round Valley Indian Tribes of California, descending from the Nomlaki and Concow Peoples.

Jason Short

Jason Short is an accomplished trial lawyer with extensive experience as a Deputy District Attorney and in private practice, handling over 6,000 cases including DUIIs, misdemeanors, felonies, and Measure 11 cases. He is recognized as one of 'The National Trial Lawyers: Top 100 Criminal Defense Trial Lawyers' for 2014, 2015, and 2016, and is also a certified pistol instructor and gun rights restoration attorney.

Amy Bruning

Amy Bruning joined D’Amore Law Group in 2018 as an attorney, advocating for those harmed by negligence. She has diverse legal experience in employment, housing, education, and civil rights. Amy is admitted to practice law in all Oregon state and federal courts, as well as the Ninth Circuit. She is an active member of the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association, serving on various committees and receiving the 2025 New Lawyer of the Year award. She is also a member of the Oregon Justice Resource Center’s Amicus Committee and serves on the Oregon State Bar’s Uniform Civil Jury Instruction Committee. She has been recognized as a Super Lawyers Rising Star (2023-2025), a Best Lawyers One to Watch (2020-2025), and a National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 (2020-2024). Nationally, she is a member of the American Association for Justice and Injury Board. She earned her law degree from the University of Michigan and her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Pomona College.

Gary R. Johnson

Gary R. Johnson has been practicing as a personal injury lawyer since 1994. He started out as a defense attorney, representing major insurance and Fortune 100 companies. He then turned to advocating for those who were injured through no fault of their own. He has tried and won numerous cases in the state and federal courts, and has argued cases before the State Court of Appeals. He has held a bar license in Oregon since 1993, Washington since 1996, and Arizona since 2022, and is licensed to practice before the US District Court and the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

John Gilroy

John Gilroy is a founding partner of Gilroy Napoli Short, LLC. Before starting the firm, he served as a Deputy District Attorney at the Washington County District Attorney’s Office, prosecuting a wide range of criminal cases. His experience as a prosecutor provided him with valuable insight into the criminal justice system, allowing him to effectively defend clients facing criminal charges, DUI, and personal injury claims. John has been recognized for his legal skill and dedication, earning a nomination as an Oregon Super Lawyer for the past five consecutive years. In 2014, he was also selected as a member of The National Trial Lawyers: Top 100 Trial Lawyers.