 As of 2014, it was the twelfth largest law firm in Portland.The firm was founded in 1990 as Ater Wynne Hewitt Dodson & Skerritt, LLP by Ron Saxton, Steve Wynne, Jonathan Ater, and others.It was created out of a split of firm Lindsay Hart Neil & Weigler, with Ater Wynne retaining 30 partners shortly after the larger firm's Boise office switched to become an office of Davis Wright Tremaine.