Trunkenbolz | Rohr PLLC

Focus and practice areas

Trunkenbolz | Rohr PLLC works out of Spokane Valley, Washington, and takes clients from across the eastern part of the state. The firm's published practice list runs to estate planning, probate, real estate, wills, litigation, powers of attorney, business law, and guardianships. Those eight areas sit together on a single page, which makes the firm's range easy to read at a glance.

The estate planning side has the most detail behind it. The firm's own description names wills, trusts, durable powers of attorney, medical directives, and pet trusts as the documents it prepares. Pet trusts are a narrower offering than most estate planning pages mention.

Real estate work covers buying, selling, and leasing property. The firm also handles boundary disputes, easements, and quiet title actions. Those three fall on the contested side of real property law, so the firm's real estate work reaches past transactional paperwork.

Business and guardianship work

On the business side, the firm advises companies at formation, during operation, at sale, and through winding down. Guardianships appear on the practice list as well. In my opinion, guardianships pair naturally with the probate and estate planning work: both involve courts making decisions about someone's affairs, and both tend to arrive at a family's door under pressure.

How the team is built

Pamela Hazelton Rohr heads the firm. She joined in 1990 and has been there since. Her practice focuses on probate, estate planning, and real property, which lines up with three of the firm's larger listed areas.

Rohr earned her B.A. from the University of Arizona in 1984 and her JD from Gonzaga University School of Law in 1987. Gonzaga sits in Spokane, so her legal education happened in the same city where she has practiced. She was admitted in the State of Washington in 1990 and in the Federal District of Eastern Washington the same year.

Her memberships include the Washington State Bar Association and the Spokane County Bar Association, both since 1990. She also belongs to the Real Property, Probate and Trust Section. That section maps directly onto the areas she names as her focus.

The firm's origins

Jerry L. Trunkenbolz founded the firm and focused his own practice on real estate. He retired in 2003. His name stays on the door, and the real estate emphasis he brought remains one of the firm's eight listed areas.

The site does not give a consistent founding year: the home page says 1985 and the attorney profile says 1984. Either way, the firm has been in Spokane Valley for decades, and Rohr's 1990 arrival puts her tenure at more than thirty-five years as of 2026.

Where the firm works

Trunkenbolz | Rohr names five counties it serves: Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens, and Whitman. Within those counties it lists Spokane, Spokane Valley, Liberty Lake, Colville, Colfax, and Pullman as places it takes clients from.

That geography stretches well beyond the Spokane metro area. Colville sits in Stevens County to the north. Colfax and Pullman are in Whitman County to the south, with Pullman home to Washington State University. Lincoln County reaches west into wheat country.

Rural counties matter for the kind of work this firm does. Real property questions in Lincoln, Stevens, and Whitman Counties often involve farmland, timber, water access, and parcels whose boundaries were drawn a long time ago. Probate in those counties frequently means passing land between generations. The firm's combination of real property and probate practice fits that pattern.

What the record shows

The firm calls itself a boutique practice, and the size of its published attorney roster is consistent with that. One attorney profile appears on the site. The work Rohr describes covers the areas the firm promotes most heavily.

Rohr's federal admission in the Eastern District of Washington sits alongside her state admission. Both date to 1990. Federal court admission gives the firm a forum beyond Washington's superior courts, which is where probate and guardianship matters ordinarily proceed.

As a reviewer, I find the depth of continuity here worth noting. Rohr has practiced from the same firm since the year she was admitted. Her bar memberships date to that same year and remain current. A single attorney with a thirty-five year tenure at one office gives clients a clear sense of who will handle the file.

How the firm handles cost and first contact

The firm offers a free initial consultation. For estate planning, it bills at a flat fee. Flat fee billing on document-based estate work tells prospective clients the price before the work starts.

Reading the listing as a whole

The evidence trail on this firm is modest in volume and consistent in content. Practice areas appear on the practice page, in the site's structured data, and in the firm's own summary of its work. The service area appears on the home page, the contact page, and the practice pages alike.

What the site does not publish is also worth recording plainly. There are no case results, settlement figures, client counts, or third-party rankings anywhere in the research we gathered. Readers looking for those will have to ask the firm directly.

What the site does publish holds up. The credentials are checkable: a Gonzaga JD from 1987, Washington admission in 1990, memberships with the state and county bar associations, and a seat in the Real Property, Probate and Trust Section. Those are the kinds of facts a directory built on evidence can verify against public bar records.

For someone in Spokane Valley or the surrounding counties who needs a will drafted, an estate probated, a guardianship established, or a boundary dispute sorted, Trunkenbolz | Rohr handles all four. The firm has kept the same core practice mix since Rohr joined in 1990.