About Bryan
Bryan Boender began a professional life that moves easily between military service and courtroom work. He served as an Airborne Infantry squad leader and paratrooper in the U.S. Army in 2004, later joining the Oregon Army National Guard as a JAG certified law clerk and assistant operations sergeant in 2009. Those early years set a practical tone. He brings that practicality to litigation and defense work.
He completed his undergraduate degree at Seattle University in 1998, earning a B.A. in political science. He returned to study public policy and received an M.S. from Rutgers University in 2000. He then earned his J.D. from the University of Oregon School of Law in 2012. The sequence reflects a steady movement toward law and public service rather than a single straight path.
While still in law school and immediately after, Boender took positions that exposed him to courtroom procedure and client work. In 2010 he worked as a court certified law clerk for Public Defender Services of Lane County, and he held a law clerk position with the Oregon School Boards Association that same year. In 2012 he formed Boender Litigation, LLC, an early step into private practice. He spent time as an associate at Arnold Law in 2015 and in 2016 joined Boender & Payment Lawyers, where he has continued his practice.
Boender is admitted to practice in Oregon, before the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. Those admissions allow him to handle cases at multiple levels of the federal system as well as state courts. His courtroom experience spans criminal defense and civil litigation matters.
Professional affiliations have been a consistent part of his career. He holds life membership in the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers since 2015 and in the Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association since 2012. He is also a member of the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association. Those memberships reflect a practice that intersects trial work and criminal defense advocacy.
Colleagues and clients see a lawyer who brings military discipline and varied clerkship experience to everyday case work. He has worked in public defender offices, in private litigation shops and in his own firms. He now practices at Boender & Payment, Lawyers, where he handles criminal defense and civil litigation matters.
He maintains a practice that concentrates on criminal defense and related civil litigation matters.
