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Laura Craska Cooper
Partner
Bend, Oregon 97702
t 541.693.0061
f 541.617.8824
vcard“Our clients appreciate that we understand and embrace their business goals. It is personally satisfying to provide practical guidance on legal issues that helps move their projects from vision to reality.”
Laura Craska Cooper is a partner in Ball Janik LLP’s Bend, Oregon office and has practiced real estate, business and land use law since 1991. She has significant experience structuring real estate and corporate transactions, assisting lenders and borrowers in real property-secured commercial loan transactions, and obtaining development permits and land use entitlements. She has special experience in large-scale residential developments, and has worked on several of Central Oregon’s premiere destination resorts. Most recently, she has provided counsel to developers and HOAs on partially completed projects, and has assisted banks and other investors with the sale or acquisition of non-performing real estate-secured notes and with the leasing, acquisition and sales of distressed properties. Ms. Cooper also practices construction law, regularly negotiating construction and design contracts and advising clients on the full range of legal issues affecting construction projects.
“Our clients appreciate that we understand and embrace their business goals. It is personally satisfying to provide practical guidance on legal issues that helps move their projects from vision to reality.”
Laura Craska Cooper is a partner in Ball Janik LLP’s Bend, Oregon office and has practiced real estate, business and land use law since 1991. She has significant experience structuring real estate and corporate transactions, assisting lenders and borrowers in real property-secured commercial loan transactions, and obtaining development permits and land use entitlements. She has special experience in large-scale residential developments, and has worked on several of Central Oregon’s premiere destination resorts. Most recently, she has provided counsel to developers and HOAs on partially completed projects, and has assisted banks and other investors with the sale or acquisition of non-performing real estate-secured notes and with the leasing, acquisition and sales of distressed properties. Ms. Cooper also practices construction law, regularly negotiating construction and design contracts and advising clients on the full range of legal issues affecting construction projects.
Prior to joining Ball Janik in 1999, Ms. Cooper practiced with the real estate group of a prominent California-based firm in San Francisco and Tokyo. She is a former law clerk to the Hon. Charles E. Wiggins of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Ms. Cooper is a Board Member of the Central Oregon Community College Board of Directors, representing Zone 2, which primarily covers Crook County. She is the Chair of the Board of Commissioners for Housing Works, the assumed business name of the Central Oregon Regional Housing Authority. Ms. Cooper is Secretary/Treasurer of the Prineville Hospital Foundation and serves on the Board of Directors. Additionally, she is Treasurer of Oregon Women Lawyers, and serves as a board member. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Real Estate and Land Use Section of the Oregon State Bar. Ms. Cooper is also Secretary of the Oregon State University/Cascades Board of Advisors.
Ms. Cooper is a former president of the Deschutes County Bar Association and has provided pro-bono legal counsel to numerous non-profit, charitable organizations throughout Central Oregon.