Alex Van Rysselberghe

Alex Van Rysselberghe is an Associate at Stoel Rives LLP in Portland who litigates class actions, securities disputes, employment matters, and other complex commercial cases. His practice includes Commercial Litigation, Class Action Defense, Litigation, and Securities Litigation & Enforcement. He handles different stages of litigation and draws on prior state and federal judicial clerkships to prepare written advocacy for judges, juries, and other decision-makers.

Van Rysselberghe earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Minnesota School of Law, where he served as Managing Editor and Staff Member of the Minnesota Law Review. He also earned a B.Music in Music Performance, magna cum laude, from St. Olaf College. His legal education and clerkship experience developed the research, analysis, and writing skills that now support his work in sophisticated commercial and regulatory disputes.

Van Rysselberghe has represented clients in contract, corporate, employment, securities, and class action matters. His experience includes claims involving Medicaid reimbursement rates, investor disputes, disability discrimination, professional conduct investigations, tuition-refund class actions, and consumer class actions. Before joining Stoel Rives, he clerked for a federal district judge and for a justice of the Oregon Supreme Court and Oregon Court of Appeals, giving him extensive exposure to trial and appellate decision-making.

Alex Van Rysselberghe has been included in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America for Commercial Litigation and serves on the Oregon State Bar Securities Regulation Section Executive Committee. His professional and civic work includes legal-education and access-to-justice activities. He combines litigation experience with appellate insight, helping clients address fact-intensive disputes, regulatory issues, and complex procedural questions while maintaining a strong focus on written advocacy and practical case strategy.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Stoel Rives LLP
• Member, Oregon State Bar
• Former Associate Representative, Campaign for Equal Justice
• Mock Trial Volunteer Case Writer and Judge, Classroom Law Project
• Executive Committee Member, OSB Securities Regulation Section (2023-Present)
• Former Coach, Dougherty County High School Mock Trial Team (Georgia) (2019-2020)
• Former Coach, Riverdale High School Mock Trial Team (Oregon) (2017-2019)
• Board Member, Third Angle New Music

Licensed State

• Oregon

Education

• University of Minnesota School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD) Magna Cum Laude
• St. Olaf College
  B. Music Magna Cum Laude

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