Our Team

Scott Howard

Partner, Co-Founder

Scott Howard and Lucy Kivel are the founding members of Kivel & Howard LLP, a Portland-based law firm. Kivel & Howard provide legal services to closely held businesses, to families in need of proactive estate planning, wills, trusts and probate management.

In addition to his primary role of guiding the overall direction of the firm, Mr. Howard conducts on-line educational presentations on estates and trusts for clients and members of the Legal Shield program. 

His expertise in estate planning and governance is also well known and respected throughout the entire Oregon non-profit community. This has led to his service on multiple Boards of a diverse group of 501c3 organizations in Education, Arts and Culture, youth sports, and from Oregon History to health care.

In addition to his work within the Portland philanthropic community, Mr. Howard is an active participant in a national printer’s group and continues to learn and practice the art of type-set printing and typography while also collecting rare books that used unique printing processes.

He is an alumnus of Occidental College and of Whittier College School of Law.

He was admitted to the California State Bar in 1978 and to the Oregon State bar in 1979.

Devin Flynn

Partner

Devin has a broad base of life experiences which has helped his practice on many occasions. In his teens and into his early 20’s he worked in commercial and residential construction, then helped design and build full suspension mountain bikes, and then worked in sales management. After getting married and deciding to start a family, he decided to change things up and pursue his interests in the legal profession. He entered law school shortly after his first child started walking.

Devin’s professional focus these days is primarily on personal injury matters. He worked cases both on the defense side and plaintiff side—this days almost all of his clients are injured parties. He has handled matters that involve automobile accidents, semi-truck accidents, pedestrians, cyclists, wrongful death, slip and fall incidents, and premises liability matters. He has helped multiple clients obtains results well over a million dollars but many cases are dismissively termed minor impact soft tissue (MIST) claims. Devin and his team have accumulated decades of experience representing injured parties to obtain reasonable and appropriate compensation for the harm done to them and their families.

These days when not helping clients he and his wife can be found rooting on their 4 children in their athletic endeavors and other activities. In the past he completed the Arizona Ironman, a full length 140.6 mile triathlon. Now that his kids are a older he has returned to this activity again.

Michael McCaslin

Partner

Michael McCaslin is a 35 year plus practitioner of law in Oregon. He specializes in family law and residential construction defect cases.

Michael also has  served on the board of the River View Cemetery Funeral Home and on the Board of Advisors for the University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences for the past thirty years and is a past president of the University Club.

Matthew Maline

Supervising Attorney

Matt practices a wide range of law, with an emphasis on landlord-tenant, real estate, and business matters. He also manages the firm’s small business program. Originally licensed in New York, Matt developed extensive appellate experience as an Honors Associate at the New York City Housing Authority. He carried this over to his private practice, where he represented dozens of low-income housing providers, tenant groups, and churches in complex real estate transactions and high stakes litigation.

Prior to becoming a lawyer, Matt pursued his interest in theater by working for several Broadway production companies. Show tunes continue to top his annual Spotify list of most listened to genres. He now lives in downtown Portland, where even pre-pandemic he was baffled by the almost complete absence of people after 5:00 pm.

Greg Woods

Attorney

Greg Woods is an attorney licensed in Oregon and Washington. For over 10 years, Greg has supported clients in their business needs as they navigate a myriad of business licensing, regulation, compliance, and contract requirements. He has experience in working with clients to draft and review contracts, resolve disputes between business partners, and counsel managers on their legal matters. Greg began his legal career at the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, has practiced complex commercial litigation at a large firm, and served as Corporate Counsel for a publicly-held bio-technology start-up company. He enjoys developing pragmatic solutions to various business-related matters.

   Prior to joining Kivel & Howard, Greg worked as a Financial Analyst at Prudential Financial and DuCharme, McMillen & Associates. He is a graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Business and George Mason University School of Law. There he earned a concentration in Corporate & Securities law.

   In his free time, Greg enjoys spending time with his wife, Jessica, and their two sons. They can frequently be found skiing, hiking, touring local wineries, or cheering on the Timbers.

 

Kristen McEvoy

Attorney

Kristen McEvoy grew up in Charleston, South Carolina before moving to Portland, Oregon in 2017 to attend law school.

 Prior to becoming an attorney, Kristen served as an airman in the United States Air Force. She subsequently graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Pennsylvania State University in 2016. Then, Kristen attended law school at Lewis & Clark Law School, where she served on the law review.

 Kristen has experience in immigration and criminal matters.

 Currently, Kristen is a member of the Multnomah Bar Association.

Ian Wallace

Attorney

Ian is an enthusiastic and grateful practitioner of the wide range of legal topics he faces every day in his work with LegalShield members.   Before arriving at Kivel and Howard LLP, Ian focused his legal career on debtor/creditor and consumer finance and protection matters – specifically maintaining his own busy consumer bankruptcy practice for many years.  His experience and expertise in bankruptcy law has helped many hundreds of individuals and families find much needed relief from their seemingly insurmountable financial difficulties.  Ian has served on the executive committees of both the Debtor/Creditor and Consumer Sections of the Oregon State Bar and helped plan and present at a variety of lawyer education seminars over the years.    

Ian Wallace has lived and practiced law in Portland since graduating from Lewis & Clark Law School in 2000.  Before settling in Oregon for his legal career, he received his undergraduate degree at the University of California, Davis, and then participated in the Peace Corps program in Senegal, West Africa.  Now an old-timer in the Portland community, he still loves the fascinating and fun food and music scene of Portland but ends up spending most of his non-working time these days tending to his dog/cats and watching in awe as his beautiful and smart daughter grows up.   He could also stand to exercise a bit more.

Andrew H. P. Yuan

Attorney

The Firm is pleased to announce that Andrew H. P. Yuan has joined Kivel & Howard as an attorney within the Legal Shield Program.

Andrew has extensive crossover skills in several areas of law, including Drafting Wills & Trusts, Elder Law matters, and conducting Advanced Legal Research on issues that will benefit the members and clients who come to us for help with their legal needs. Andrew’s educational background includes earning his Juris Doctor (JD) degree from Willamette University School of Law in Salem, OR while also studying at Washington State University, in Pullman, WA.

He has completed extensive international travels to study Children’s Rights in Vietnam and in Paris, where his skills in evaluation and assessment were strengthened through personal interactions with local agencies and government programs. Andrew is an avid runner, enjoys hot-air ballooning, and is planning for more trips abroad and stateside ‘as a traveler, not as a tourist’.

Sarah Griffith

Attorney

Kivel & Howard welcomes Sarah Griffith to the Firm as we continue to build the estate planning, trusts, and wills programs for our clients.  Sarah comes to us from Willamette University College of Law, from which she earned her Juris Doctorate in May of 2025.  While at Willamette, she was an active Student Attorney specializing in strategies to help clients with estate planning and drafting essential documents such as wills, trusts, advanced directives, and durable power of attorneys that were tailored to specific client needs.
 
In addition to her law degree, Sarah also has traveled internationally to support efforts involving Children’s Rights and in 2023 she earned her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Willamette University. 
 
Sarah also has multiple years of experience managing government-required licensing applications for startup companies housed in over 30 states to ensure compliance in business practices and tax laws. 

Michael A. Flickner

Attorney

Mark J. Coleman

Attorney