RON HOEVET Partner ron@hoevetlaw.com
Ron Hoevet is a shareholder and founding member of the firm of Hoevet Olson, PC. For more than 30 years, Ron has defended individuals and organizations under criminal investigation or charged with crimes throughout Oregon in both state and federal court. He has defended Oregonians charged with federal offenses in Washington, Idaho, California, Nevada, Wyoming and Montana. After graduating cum laude from Duke Law School in 1975, Ron began his legal career as a federal prosecutor – first, as a trial attorney in the Criminal Section of the Tax Division in the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington D.C., and then as an Assistant United States Attorney in Portland, Oregon, his hometown.

Ron is listed in Best Lawyers of America under both White Collar and Non-White Collar Criminal Defense and Bet-the-Company Litigation, and has been in Best Lawyers for more than 25 years. Ron was named the Non-White Collar Criminal Defense Lawyer of the Year in Portland for 2012 and Lawyer of the Year for Criminal Defense: White Collar in 2014. Ron also has an AV rating with Martindale Hubbell, which is the highest rating for both ability and professional standing in the legal community, and has been named as a ‘Super Lawyer.’

For 30 years, Ron has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Oregon Halfway House, now the Northwest Regional Re-Entry Center, a 125 bed facility housing federal offenders in Portland, Oregon.

Ron is a veteran, having served in the United States Army from 1969-1972.

PER OLSON Partner per@hoevetlaw.com
Per Olson practices exclusively criminal defense in state and federal court. He takes on a wide variety of cases from misdemeanors to major felonies, including DUII, fraud and theft, violent crimes, sex crimes, white collar crimes, drug crimes, and other interstate and transnational crimes. Per has obtained multiple acquittals for his clients in state and federal court.

Per is listed in Best Lawyers of America in the categories of white collar and non-white collar criminal defense. He also appears in Oregon’s Super Lawyers in the category of criminal defense.

Per graduated magna cum laude from Willamette University in Salem, and then attended Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland where he graduated cum laude in 1993. Per served as the law clerk for Circuit Court Judge Robert W. Redding (1994-1995) and then for Oregon Supreme Court Justice George A. Van Hoomissen (1995-1997). Per joined the firm in 1998, and became a shareholder in 2005.

Per is a member of the Oregon State Bar and the Washington State Bar Association. He is also admitted to the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Tax Court, and the United States Supreme Court. Per is a member of the Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the Multnomah Bar Association. He has sat on the Pro Bono Committee of the Oregon State Bar’s New Lawyer Division and the Group Insurance Committee of the Multnomah Bar Association. He has written an amicus brief for the ACLU of Oregon, and he is a past board member of Hands On Portland, a nonprofit organization that promotes volunteering in the community.

CELIA HOWES Partner celia@hoevetlaw.com
Celia has represented people and businesses facing administrative and criminal investigations and prosecutions involving fraud, tax crimes, anti-trust law, environmental violations, sex offenses, drug crimes, violent crimes and DUII charges. Celia has tried cases to a jury in Oregon county courts and in federal court. She has handled criminal appeals before the Oregon Court of Appeals, the Oregon Supreme Court and before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She has represented professionals and businesses before licensing agencies and students before university discipline committees.

Celia earned high honors, graduating Order of the Coif, at the University of Oregon School of Law where she was a Wayne Morse Center student fellow on Race Class and the Criminal Justice System and Executive Editor of the Oregon Law Review. Celia has worked as a judicial extern at the District Court of Oregon in Eugene and as an intern in Governor Kulongoski’s office.

Celia was born in Louisiana. She graduated magna cum laude from Texas A&M University where she played for the Fightin’ Texas Aggies Division I volleyball team.

Celia has presented at continuing legal education seminars on a variety of criminal law topics.

MEGAN MCVICAR Associate megan@hoevetlaw.com
Megan McVicar is an associate at Hoevet Olson, PC. Megan began her career as a legal assistant in 2002, working on various criminal matters in state and federal court. She joined our firm as a paralegal in 2005, where she continued to provide litigation support, working extensively on cases involving complex discovery issues and providing trial assistance in both state and federal criminal cases. Realizing her unrelenting devotion to criminal defense, Megan decided to pursue her law degree at Lewis & Clark Law School. While continuing to work as a full-time paralegal at the firm, Megan earned an award for outstanding appellate brief in her first year, was a member and Articles Editor for the Lewis & Clark Law Review, and graduated cum laude.

Megan has experience working on a broad range of criminal matters, including conspiracy, tax crimes, drug offenses, sex offenses, money laundering, bank larceny, and white collar crimes, and her legal research and writing skills have been put to use in numerous criminal cases, trials and appeals.

ANN GREGORY Legal Assistant ann@hoevetlaw.com
A native of the Portland area, Ann began her career as a criminal defense legal assistant/paralegal in 1985, and has been with Hoevet Olson since 1998. Because of her many years of experience working with criminal defense attorneys, all with outstanding reputations, she is uniquely familiar with how a well-crafted criminal defense is put together. Ann is an integral part of our team, and works closely with the attorneys to ensure delivery of the most efficient and highest level of client service.

Ann assists in the overall daily operation of the firm’s practices and is available to you should you have a question about your case and one of the lawyers is not available to answer your question immediately. This is part of our promise to always be able to provide you information about your case.