Counsel built on judgment.
Over thirty years of practicing business and real estate transactional law, applied to the legal matters that quietly define a client’s future.
A practice rooted in Salem.
For more than thirty years, Michael J. Paluska has counseled the closely held businesses, property owners, and families of the Willamette Valley. He built his practice on long relationships, plain English answers, and a working knowledge of how Oregon businesses actually operate.
Counsel for your business and the property you own.
Each engagement begins the same way: with a conversation about what the client is actually trying to accomplish, before any document is drafted.
Business Law
Forming, running, protecting, and transferring closely-held Oregon companies. From choosing the right entity to selling the business years later, handled by one attorney who knows the company.
- Business Formation
- Buying & Selling a Business
- Contract Drafting & Review
- Business Succession Planning
- Corporate Minutes & Compliance
Real Estate Law
The legal work behind commercial and agricultural property across the Willamette Valley. Purchases and sales, leasing, easements and water rights, and the farm and vineyard transactions this region runs on.
- Commercial Real Estate
- Agricultural & Vineyard Real Estate
- Commercial & Farm Leasing
- Easements & Water Rights
Notes from the practice.
Practical answers to legal questions that shape your business, family, and the land that you own*.
The articles here are for general information only and are not legal advice. Reading them does not create an attorney-client relationship between you and Paluska Law. For guidance on your specific situation, please consult a licensed attorney.
Buying a business in Oregon: the legal checklist before you sign.
Everything a buyer fails to find before closing becomes the buyer's problem after it. The liens, consents, licenses, and covenants to confirm before you sign.
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Selling a business in Oregon: choosing between an asset sale and a stock sale.
Most Oregon sales are asset sales, but the right structure comes out of two meetings held before anything is signed. How a sale moves from the first meeting through closing.
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Buying a vineyard or farm in the Willamette Valley: the legal checklist before you sign.
Fences lie, water rights can expire, and farm tax deferrals follow the land. The five things to verify in writing before you sign for Willamette Valley farmland.
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Three decades, two practice areas, one firm.
Michael Paluska has practiced business and real estate transactional law in Salem for over thirty years. He represents the privately owned, small to mid-sized businesses that drive Oregon's economy: family companies, manufacturers, professional service firms, farmers, vineyard owners, and commercial real estate owners and investors.
He takes the time to listen to his clients and understand what they are trying to achieve. His experience tells him which questions to ask, and he gives advice in language a business owner can actually use.
Michael is also an Oregon Principal Real Estate Broker. He runs Paluska Real Estate and Paluska Property Management alongside the law firm, so his legal advice on farmland, vineyards, and commercial property draws on thirty years of real estate experience he brings to every real property transaction.
Three diamonds. Three businesses. One Paluska.
One mark, shared by three Oregon companies,
each run to the same standard of excellence.
Business and real estate counsel for privately owned Oregon companies.
A brokerage focused on farm, vineyard, and commercial real estate.
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Most engagements start with a thirty-minute consultation at the office, by phone, or by video.
Closed from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. for lunch.
Saturday by appointment.
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