Although Conde has been a practicing lawyer for 45 years (20 years in Austin, 15 years in Portland, and most recently in Ashland), he was also for many years, from 1993 to 2011, the regular monthly wine columnist and regular wine critic for many magazines and newspapers, including Portland Monthly, Seattle Met, Northwest Palate, the Austin Chronicle, and the Austin American-Statesman. In 2004, he was one of three national James Beard Award nominees as America's Best Magazine Wine Writer. He is an avid golfer, wilderness hiker, fly fisherman, kayaker, rafter, and international traveler. See his wife's travel blog at geezeronthego.blog.

​​​Law Office of Conde Cox​​

"The Federal Commercial Law & Bankruptcy Law Guru"

​THE FOLLOWING IS A REPRESENTATIVE LISTING OF MR. COX'S CURRENT AND RECENT CLIENTS

(In federal Bankruptcy Courts and in federal District Courts)


  • DELL FINANCE (A DIVISION OF DELL COMPUTER, AUSTIN), as $5.5mm creditor of failed ISP
  • FOUNDATION OF HUMAN UNDERSTANDING (GRANTS PASS, OREGON), as $25mm creditor of Talk Radio Network
  • OREGON STATE BAR PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY FUND, as consulting and testifying expert witness on bankruptcy law
  • CANFOR PULP (A DIVISION OF CANFOR FOREST PRODUCTS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA), $2mm creditor of West Linn Paper
  • AMERICOLD LOGISTICS (ATLANTA, AMERICA'S LARGEST PUBLICLY TRADED REIT), as $1mm creditor of Norpac Foods
  • HERSCHEL SUPPLY (BRITISH COLUMBIA), $1.5mm creditor of Apple distributor Dr. Bott
  • ZAYO GROUP (DENVER), $500k creditor of failed ISP
  • KENYON INTERNATIONAL (HOUSTON), creditor of failed airline
  • K-M MANAGEMENT (MONTANA), as landlord of retail Ch 11 Debtors
  • AMERIFLEX ENGINEERING (MEDFORD), as Reorganized Debtor, in statutory subordination adversary proceeding, in appellate defense of claim disallowance, and in reciprocal attorneys' fee recovery litigation against former insider whose claim was disallowed
  • SOLESERIOUSS LLC, Defendant in voidable transaction litigation arising from Receivership of Zadeh Kicks LLC
  • Individuals in need of reliable valuable sophisticated asset protection planning, including spouses of owners/guarantors of large contingent business liabilities

​​​​​MR. COX REPRESENTS BUSINESSES AND THEIR OWNERS IN DISPUTES OVER COMMERCIAL TRANSACTION LIABILITY, INCLUDING DISPUTES OVER THE VALIDITY OF VALUABLE ASSET TRANSFERS.  HIS CLIENTS ARE SOMETIMES CREDITORS SEEKING TO BE PAID AND TO FACILITATE PAYMENT BY RECOVERY OF TRANSFERRED ASSETS, AND SOMETIMES HIS CLIENTS ARE DEBTOR COMPANIES OR INNOCENT/WRONGLY-SUED COMPANIES THAT ARE SEEKING TO PROTECT THEIR ASSETS FROM IMPROPER CLAIMS ASSERTED AGAINST THEM


MR. COX HAS BEEN NAMED AS THE 2025 OREGON LAWYER OF THE YEAR BY HIS PEERS WHO ARE LISTED IN THE BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA DIRECTORY, IN THE FIELD OF BANKRUPTCY, CREDITOR-DEBTOR RIGHTS, INSOLVENCY & REORGANIZATION


HE HAS BEEN NAMED FOR OVER A DECADE BY HIS PEERS IN THE THOMSON-REUTERS DIRECTORY AS AN OREGON SUPERLAWYER IN THE FIELD OF BUSINESS BANKRUPTCY


MR. COX HAS HELD FOR 40 YEARS THE MARTINDALE-HUBBELL "AV" RATING FROM OTHER LAWYERS AND JUDGES.  AN "AV" RATING IS THE HIGHEST PEER REVIEW RATING, WHICH CERTIFIES THE VERY HIGHEST LEVEL OF COMPETENCE AND ETHICS FOR A LAWYER

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