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Salem, Oregon · Willamette Valley
Serving Salem and the Willamette Valley.
Paluska Law provides business and real estate transactional counsel to clients in Salem, Keizer, Marion County, and Polk County, and throughout the Willamette Valley, from its office at 1820 Commercial Street S.E. in Salem. Most matters are handled by phone, email, and electronically signed documents, so distance rarely decides whether the firm can help.
Home base: Salem, Keizer, and the two-county core
Salem is where the practice began in 1999 and where it remains. From the Commercial Street office, Michael Paluska represents the closely held businesses, property owners, and farm families of Oregon’s capital city, from Business Formation and Corporate Minutes to Commercial Leases and property sales. Keizer businesses along the River Road corridor work with the firm on the same footing; the office is minutes away.
Marion County and Polk County together form the core service area. Marion County brings food processors, nurseries, and some of the most productive farmland in the state. Polk County brings vineyard country in the Eola-Amity Hills and the farm and timber ground west of the river. Michael was raised on a Willamette Valley family farm and has spent more than thirty years handling the transactions this ground produces.
The wine country north: McMinnville, Newberg, and Sherwood
McMinnville sits at the heart of Yamhill County wine country, and vineyard purchases, farm leases, and the business entities behind them are regular work for the firm. Newberg and the Chehalem Valley raise the same questions of water rights, easements, and land use that Michael handles across the valley. Sherwood, on the service area’s northern edge, is home to businesses that come to the firm for formation, contract, and succession work.
The mid-valley south: Corvallis, Albany, Lebanon, and Sweet Home
Corvallis pairs a university economy with the farm country around it, and its business owners engage the firm for entity formation, Buy-Sell Agreements, and commercial property transactions. Albany’s manufacturing and agricultural base generates the same needs, along with Commercial Leases and business sales. Farther up the Santiam, Lebanon and Sweet Home carry Linn County’s timber and farming heritage, and owners there work with the firm by phone and email as easily as a Salem client does.
Polk County west: Dallas, Independence, Monmouth, Rickreall, and Falls City
Dallas, the Polk County seat, and the riverfront communities of Independence and Monmouth are short drives from the office, and their business owners, landlords, and farm families are longtime parts of the practice’s territory. Rickreall sits at the crossroads of Polk County farm country. Falls City, in the Coast Range foothills, is timber and rural acreage ground where boundary, easement, and access questions matter.
Marion County east: Stayton, Silverton, Woodburn, Sublimity, and their neighbors
Stayton and Sublimity anchor the farm and manufacturing communities southeast of Salem. Silverton’s farm country runs to the edge of the Cascade foothills. Woodburn sits in the French Prairie, some of the oldest continuously farmed land in Oregon, surrounded by the nursery operations the firm knows well. Aumsville and Turner, minutes from Salem, are farm communities where property and business questions come to the firm regularly. Mt. Angel’s hop ground and Gervais’s French Prairie farmland raise the agricultural transaction work at the center of the practice. Hubbard and Donald, in north Marion County’s farm belt, and Aurora, with its national historic district, round out the corridor. Brooks, just north of Salem, is agricultural services country at the firm’s doorstep.
The Santiam Canyon and the northern edge
Jefferson, on the Santiam River, sits in Oregon’s mint-growing country. Mehama, Lyons, and Mill City carry the Santiam Canyon’s timber history and its ongoing rebuilding, and property owners there face title, boundary, and land use questions the firm handles from Salem. On the far northern edge, Tualatin and Tigard business owners engage the firm where a Salem-based transactional attorney fits the matter.
How engagements work across the valley
Most of the firm’s contract and transaction work travels by phone, email, and electronically signed PDF through DocuSign, so a client in Sweet Home or McMinnville works with Michael much the way a client across the street does. Michael likes to hold the first meeting in person whenever possible, and some engagements are built around the Salem office by design: Business Formation runs from the planning meeting with your CPA through the formation meeting where the documents are signed. Farm and vineyard transactions sometimes call for walking the ground, and Michael does.
Answers
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to come to Salem to work with Paluska Law?
No. Michael does love to hold the first meeting in person whenever it is possible, and clients are always welcome at the Commercial Street office. From there, most engagements run by phone, email, and electronic signature.
Does Michael handle farm and vineyard purchases outside Marion and Polk counties?
Yes. Agricultural transactions across the Willamette Valley, including Yamhill, Benton, and Linn counties, are core work for the firm.
Can Paluska Law form an LLC for a business located anywhere in Oregon?
Yes. Oregon entity formation is filed with the Oregon Secretary of State regardless of where in the state the business operates. Formation is one of the firm’s in-person services: the planning meeting with your CPA and the formation meeting where the documents are signed happen at the Salem office, and clients travel in from across the valley for them.
Which counties does the firm serve most often?
Marion and Polk counties are home ground, with regular work in Yamhill, Benton, and Linn counties.
What if my community is not named on this page?
Name it in your first call. The communities above reflect where the firm’s work most often lands, not a boundary.
* This page is general information about the communities Paluska Law serves, not legal advice, and it does not create an attorney-client relationship. For advice about your specific situation, speak with a licensed Oregon attorney.
Counsel for the whole valley, rooted in Salem.
