Allison Rhodes focuses her practice in legal professional responsibility with particular emphasis on legal ethical matters, attorney disciplinary defense and lawyer mobility. She also handles complex conflict of interest and multiple representation questions, as well as attorney-client privilege matters and work product doctrine matters.

Ms. Rhodes advises individuals and entities, from solo practitioners to large firms and in-house legal departments in sophisticated professional responsibility matters for a variety of legal fields, including transaction and litigation practices. She also advises lawyers and law firms in partnership and corporate structuring, lawyer dissociation and lateral hiring. In addition, Ms. Rhodes litigates law firm dissolution, fiduciary duty matters and lawyer separations.

Ms. Rhodes also represents lawyers in white collar criminal investigations at both the state and federal levels, and has a general commercial litigation practice.
Ms. Rhodes joined Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP in December 2005. Previously she was a deputy district attorney with the Multnomah Country District Attorney’s Office, where she was assigned to the Gang Crimes Unit with liaison responsibilities with both the Portland and Gresham police departments. In May 2006 Ms. Rhodes received a commendation medal from the Portland Police Bureau for her service while in the Gang Crimes Unit. In addition, while with the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office she was cross-designated as a Special United States Attorney under the Project Safe Neighborhoods Program.

Ms. Rhodes graduated fourth in her law school class.

After completing her undergraduate study and throughout law school, Ms. Rhodes was a social service specialist with the Oregon Department of Human Services, where she was a child protective service worker and the regional specialist in cases involving the abuse of children with disabilities.

Ms. Rhodes is a member of Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (APRL), where she serves as a 2010 – 2012 member of its board of directors. Her professional memberships also include the Oregon Women Lawyers, Oregon Hispanic Bar Association and the Hispanic National Bar Association. She is fluent in Spanish.

Since 2008, Ms. Rhodes has been named annually to the Rising Stars list in the area of Professional Liability: Defense, by Oregon Super Lawyers & Rising Stars magazine. Ms. Rhodes speaks and writes on the topic of legal ethics and professional responsibility. Her publications include:

• Co-author, “Client Files and Digital Law Practices: Rethinking Old Concepts in an Era of Lawyer Mobility,” Suffolk University Law Review, Volume XLIII, Number 4, December 2010.
• Co-author, "Multiple-Client Conflicts," Chapter 9, The Ethical Oregon Lawyer, Oregon State Bar Association, 2006.
• Co-author, “"The Ends Don't Justify Illegal or Unethical Means," Los Angeles Daily Journal, June 16, 2006.
• Co-author, “Patent Opinion Firm’s Inadvertent Conflict of Interest Bars Evidence of Patent Opinion,” “The Business Suit,” a publication of the Defense Research Institute's Commercial Litigation Committee, June 2006.
• Co-author, “Are the Electronic Files on Your Computer Yours, or Your Client’s?,” American Legal Ethics Column, published by the Oregon State Bar Litigation Section, March 2006.  
• “District of Columbia Opinion Clarifies "Who is an Attorney" Within RPC 4.2,” Litigation Group of the Oregon State Bar, January 2006.

 Her presentations include:

• “Who Is a ‘Partner?’ – The Legal Implications of Titles,” Hinshaw’s annual Legal Malpractice & Risk Management Conference, Chicago, Illinois, February 2011.
• "Money – The Root of All Ethics? Fee Agreements, Fee Shifting and Settlement Considerations,” Oregon State Bar Civil Rights Section, Tigard, Oregon, October 2010.
• “Ethics,” American College of Investment Counsel (ACIC) Annual Spring Investment Forum, Chicago, Illinois, April 2010.
• “Who is the Client and Standing to Sue – Successor Entities, Affiliates and Subsidiaries,” Hinshaw’s annual Legal Malpractice & Risk Management Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 2010.
• “Law Firm Divorces, Part 2: Who Gets What (And How)?” Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (APRL), Orlando, Florida, February 2010.
• “Ethics – Attorney Mobility and Business Combinations,” American College of Investment College (ACIC), New York, New York, October 2009.
• “Nexus, Perplexus: What Are the Limits on Judicial Power to Discipline,” Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, July 2009.
• "Current Ethics Issues for In-House Counsel," Association of Corporate Counsel, Oregon Chapter, Portland, Oregon, December 2008.
• "The 2008 Ethical Reception: The Download," Hinshaw hosted CLE, Portland, Oregon, December 2008.
• "The Nuts and Bolts of Ethics In Estate Planning," Oregon State Bar CLE seminar, Portland, Oregon, November 2008.
• “Professional Responsibility and Risk Management 101,” New Lawyers Division, Oregon State Bar Association CLE seminar, Portland, Oregon, October 2008.
• “Ethical Considerations in Corporate Formation and Representation,” Oregon State Bar, Portland, Oregon, October 2008.
• “Conflicts of Interest for In-House and Outside Corporate Counsel,” Hispanic National Bar Association Annual Conference, Hollywood, California, September 2008.
• “Attorney Client Privilege and Electronic Communications From an Ethics Perspective (Use of email, discovery, etiquette.),” The American College of Investment Counsels Spring 2008 Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 2008.
• “Guess Who is Coming to Sue You?" Hinshaw’s Legal Malpractice Risk Management Conference, Chicago, Illinois, February, 2008.
• “Ethical Considerations When Representing Multiple Parties in Mediation,” Oregon Trial Lawyers Association Fall CLE Event, Portland, Oregon, December 2007.
• Judge, Moot Court Mock Trial Competition, Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, November 2007.
• “Multiple Investor Representation and Other Kamikaze Missions,” Oregon State Bar Securities Regulations Section meeting, Portland, Oregon, November 2007.
• “Practical Ethics for the Immigration Practitioner: Client Identification and Flat Fee, Earned Upon Receipt Fee Agreements,” Immigrant Law Group CLE, November 2007.
• “Ethical Considerations in Public Sector Law, American Bar Association, Public Sector and Government Law Section, Portland, Oregon, October 2007.
• “Conflicts of Interest,” Hinshaw in-house CLE presentation, Portland, Oregon, October 2007.
• “Top Three Ethical Quandaries for Corporate Counsel,” Hispanic National Bar Association Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 2007.
• “License to Kill, Ethical Issues in Corporate Investigations,” American College of Investment Counsel Fall Conference, New York, New York, October 2007.
• “Ethics of Outsourcing” and “Working With International Lawyers: Contact with Represented Parties in a Business Transaction and Conflicts of Interest Imputation,” American College of Investment Counsel Spring Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2007.
• “Ethics Update,” Portland Chapter, Association of Corporate Counsel, Portland, Oregon, December 2006.
• “Conflicts of Interest,” Washington County Bar Association CLE, Hillsboro, Oregon, November 2006.
• “Conflicts of Interest,” American Bar Foundation, First Annual Fellows Meeting, Portland, Oregon, October 2006.
• “Ethics in Employment Law,” National Business Institute’s Oregon CLE course, “Employment Law Issues,” Portland, Oregon, April 2006.

Ms. Rhodes is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Emanuel Children’s Hospital Foundation, Emanuel Hospital Foundation and the Good Samaritan Foundation, each part of Legacy Health Systems. In her capacity as a trustee, she sits on the Foundations’ finance committee.