Kirsten Day

Practice Areas

Real Estate

Commercial Lease Law

Real Estate Finance

Personal

JD, UC Hastings College of the Law

BA, Tufts University

Career

Kirsten Day is a Shareholder in Buchalter’s Portland office and a member of the Firm’s Real Estate practice group. Ms. Day brings over 20 years of experience to her national practice in leasing, acquisition/disposition, development and financing of regional shopping centers and other retail properties, Class A office buildings and industrial properties.

Ms. Day has ample experience as both a private attorney and as the former Vice President and General Counsel of PacTrust (Pacific Realty Associates, L.P.), which has given her both a strategic focus and first-hand knowledge of the day-to-day legal issues that her clients face. While at PacTrust, Ms. Day oversaw legal matters for a 16 million square foot national portfolio of office, retail and industrial commercial real estate. She continues to represent a variety of clients on commercial real estate matters of all types, including real estate company management responsibilities, dispute assessment, negotiating and managing regulatory environmental compliance agreements, and other legal/business questions and issues faced by real estate companies.

Professional Memberships

Ms. Day has held leadership positions in numerous Real Estate Professionals associations, including CREW Network. She has been ranked by Chambers USA, as one of “America’s Leading Real Estate Lawyers” since 2016, by “Best Lawyers” from 2019 ‑ 2024 and was most recently recognized by Connect CRE at the 2021 Women in Real Estate Awards. Furthermore, Business Today named her one of the “Top 10 influential Oregon Real Estate lawyers to watch in 2023.”