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Oregon Lawyer Writer and Editor Assistant Director, Communications Eliza Schmidkunz Designer Mike Lee www.MikeLeeAndMe.com Photography Jack Liu Brett Patterson Kelly J. James 643alumni and friends Ian McDermott made a lot of good people University of Oregon very, very happy. School of Law Margaret L. Paris Philip H. Knight Dean You gave $1.3 million to 12 Taking Charge Jane Gordon For the first time in 122 years, Associate Dean for scholarships, the Loan Repayment Assistance Program, the Dean’s Fund, Student/Program Affairs women fill senior leadership positions at the law school and Communications Oregon Tribes Professorship, student outdoor activities, law library collections, Alumni and Development Matt Roberts the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center staffing, 14 Pulp Justice Assistant Dean Keith Aoki’s copyright comic book Rachel Johnson draws out the details of Fair Use Oregon Child Advocacy Project, class reunion gifts, Development Events Coordinator Knight Law Center artwork, and more. Denise Kimberlin 16 Beyond the Walls Administrative Assistant Preparing the next generation (541) 346-3800 of public interest environmental attorneys William W. Knight Law Center You’re glad you did it. 2 NEWS 1515 Agate Street Commencement 2006 1221 University of Oregon And best of all, there’s still time Eugene, Oregon 97403 Clifford Freeman ’76 receives Frohnmayer Award U.S.A. for your 5,128 classmates to join in! Thailand’s lawyer princess visits law school Loan Repayment Assistance Program helps juvenile court clerk Morse Professor Rick West: A new vision for museums Portland lawyers teach deal-making skills Conflict resolution master’s program welcomes new director Students win Pro Bono Challenge again! Legal Research and Writing Program in top 15 percent New life for Domestic Violence Clinic www.law.uoregon.edu ...and more. © 2006 University of Oregon

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18 TRANSITIONS 2006 Rennard Strickland and Hari Osofsky

20 C lass N otes Honor Roll Martha Walters ’77 appointed to Oregon Supreme Court Cass SkinnerLopata ’06 appointed to domestic violence council and Campaign Report Five Thomas Tongues — all Oregon lawyers Rachel Kastenberg ’06 observes UN environmental treaty meeting University of Oregon School of Law Fred Risser ’52, the nation’s longest serving state lawmaker coming to your mailbox soon. 28 partin g t h o u g h ts Student Hurricane Network typifies law student volunteers UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SCHOOL OF LAW OREGON LAWYER 2006

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Commencement Marshall Tom Lininger

Meritorious Service Award recipient Phyllis Barkhurst The family of Dana Lyons ’06 Joe Metcalfe

Pam Hardy, Krischele Hampton, and friends Coming right up… 2006 Commencement Law Class Two law professors win teaching awards, Oregon Supreme Court Justice of 2009 and domestic-violence activist honored, Portland congressman speaks This fall, the law school welcomed its 122nd entering One hundred and seventy-seven University of Oregon — the Ersted Award — one of the university’s highest class — including two law graduates celebrated three years of hard work on awards for teaching. He teaches evidence and ethics, new students who were Sunday, May 14, at the Hult Center for the Performing chairs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission, and contestants on “The Price is Arts in downtown Eugene. directs the law school’s Public Interest/Public Service Right”! United States Congressman Earl Blumenauer, a Lewis Program. Of the 178 1L’s, thirty- and Clark law school graduate, delivered the com- The faculty selected Assistant Professor Joe Metcalfe nine percent are Oregonians, mencement address. for the prized Orlando Hollis Teaching Award. He teach- forty-two percent are women, The 2006 Meritorious Service Awards were given to es criminal law and procedure and trial practice, leads and twenty percent are ethnic outgoing Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace the law school’s clinical programs, and spearheaded the The family of Joylynn Nair ’06 minorities (compared to P. Carson, a Willamette law graduate, and to Phyllis new Oregon Innocence Project, the first in the state. 13.6 percent for the UO as a Barkhurst, an Oregon Al Kim was selected whole). leader on issues of vio- by the Class of 2006 to “Applications to our lence against women. give the class speech. law school went up four The awards are given The Lancaster, California, percent, even though they by the law school each native clerked for the were down at law schools all year to recipients who Oregon Department over the country,” said Larry have made extraordinary of Justice Family Law Seno, assistant dean of contributions to legal Section; learned Muay law admissions. “As always, education and the law. Thai boxing, the Thai na- the entering class shows a The graduating class tional sport; and had his distinct personality — they elected Assistant — now first fight while he was in are strong academically, and Associate — Professor law school. they seem to be cohesive and Tom Lininger to lead the The top student was civic-minded, a group that procession as their com- Caleb William Langston, understands the importance mencement marshal. In who now clerks for Ninth of working for the good of the 2006, Lininger won the Circuit Court Senior community.” coveted Crystal Apple Judge Ted Goodwin. The family of Annette McGee ’06

  UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SCHOOL OF LAW OREGON LAWYER 2006 news

Associate Dean Jamie Moffitt talks to United Nations Ambassador Laxanachantorn Laohaphan and Royal Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol Julie Haggerty during the Thai delegation’s visit to the law school in July. Red Carpet Treatment Lawyer princess visits the law school Red carpets spangled with culture from law — that, in yellow rose petals greeted reading law, you naturally learn Royal Princess Bajrakitiyabha the culture of another nation,” Mahidol* of Thailand at every said Rowe. turn on the occasion of the first In a smaller side conversa- visit of royalty to the University tion, said Rowe, the princess “Warm and upbeat” event of Oregon in over forty years. “made clear she had not liked One of those red carpets led the Socratic method in law honors Clifford Freeman ’76 from Agate Street to the Knight school! A common idea from a The judge receives the 2006 Frohnmayer Award The Hon. Ancer Haggerty Law Center, where the princess royal princess!” shortly before his death was welcomed in a formal re- The princess was visiting as ceiving line by local judges and part of the celebration of her Multnomah County Circuit Court three degrees from the University of law school faculty and staff on grandfather’s 60th anniversary Judge Clifford Freeman was honored Oregon, in economics, education, and Saturday, July 15. on the throne. She donated by 225 Oregon judges, attorneys, and law. A circuit court judge since 1996, The princess, who holds 1,700 books to the UO library. friends from his 1976 law class at the he was in at the beginning of Portland’s two law degrees from Cornell One is a rare volume of nine- Frohnmayer Award banquet held last Community Courts and presided over University and is interested in teenth century photographs tak- April 21 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in them from 1998 until 2002. During his becoming a judge, took time out en by King Chulalongkorn with Portland. career, he defended the poor and men- from her official state visit to his handwritten comments. Freeman, who had been seriously tally ill; developed education policy for meet privately with law faculty. The revered Chulalongkorn ill, managed to attend the banquet and the state; advocated for minority-owned, Law professor Suzanne (1853–1910), the princess’ great hear colleagues sing his praises. He died women-owned, and small business; Rowe, who attended the recep- great grandfather, abolished August 21 at age 62 from complications and advanced the welfare of Oregon tion, said they talked about slavery, founded the country’s of cancer. youth. He was a member of many local, trends in legal education, first university, and introduced “Judge Freeman was just home from state, and national boards and commis- nuances of Thai and American Siam to the West while protect- Joyce Benjamin ’74 the hospital and quite nervous about sions. At the time of his death, he was legal systems, and how culture ing it from colonization. the event,” said event organizer Colleen Oregon’s only African-American state influences law. “The princess * POT Cha RA-GIT TEE-YA PA, McKillip. “But the mood was warm and judge. said it is impossible to separate MA-hee-DOAN upbeat, and he was overcome by emo- Each year, the UO law alumni as- tion. The Oregon bench lost a great deal sociation selects a Frohnmayer Award when they lost Clifford.” recipient whose public service brings Oregon Child Advocacy Project His high school classmate and college honor to the school. Past recipients Duncan Campbell ’73 shares a moment with 2005-6 Campbell roommate Ancer Haggerty, Chief Judge include University of Oregon President Fellows Tehan Wittemyer ’06 and Molly Allen ’06. Campbell for the District of Oregon, spoke at the Dave Frohnmayer, Oregon Attorney funded the project in 2005. It gives law students the chance to banquet, as did Haggerty’s wife, Julie. General Hardy Myers, Ninth Circuit work with lawyers and policymakers on complicated cases in Joyce Benjamin ’74 of Eugene, a law Court of Appeals Senior Judge Alfred which the child’s interests have fallen between the cracks. classmate of Freeman’s who retired from “Ted” Goodwin, and Lare Aschenbrenner, “Nobody says they’re against children,” says law professor Leslie the Oregon Department of Education, Oregon’s first public defender. Harris, the project director. “But it’s easy for children’s needs to and Multnomah District Attorney The 2007 Frohnmayer Award ban- get lost in complex cases because parents’ lawyers are obviously Michael Schrunk ’67 also spoke. quet takes place in Portland on Friday, advocating for what those parents want, which may not be Freeman, a native of Portland, earned April 13. Michael Schrunk ’67 consistent with what the child needs and wants.”

  UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SCHOOL OF LAW OREGON LAWYER 2006 news Out of the Mists: Native Americans today 2006-7 Morse Professor is the founding director of the National Museum of the American Indian

Morse Professor Rick West is the governmental issues. West is

P ortlan d T ri M et courtesy P hoto founding director of the National the 26th occupant of the Wayne Museum of the American Indian, Morse Chair of Law and Politics the newest museum on the and is co-teaching a class with Washington Mall. His approach to law professor Rennard Strickland museums puts Indians squarely in on “Native American Cultural the present day, not “shrouded in Rights and Intellectual Property.” mists.” In September, he was a fea- “The museum is about living tured guest at a UO symposium, cultures,” West said in a 2005 “Preserving Our Past, Telling interview in American Indian Our Stories,” about the troubled Portland: Representing Oregon Small Business Quarterly. “[We] assumed from the history of museums and native Entrepreneurs, lawyers with small business clients gather at annual business and law conference very beginning that we were talk- peoples. ing about an immense time span… He was joined by Seattle The law school’s 2006 Business Innovation and Law Bender, who directs the law school’s Portland Program. from the far distant past, through architect Johnpaul Jones and au- conference focused on small and start-up businesses Panel topics included family business issues, the present, and into the future. thor and policy advocate Susan and brought together business leaders and owners, employment law and appropriate dispute resolution, There are thirty to forty million Shown Harjo. Jones, a UO gradu- attorneys, and law professors in common pursuit of capitalization, and professional responsibility pitfalls Indigenous people in this hemi- ate, was the lead design consul- improving Oregon’s business climate. for Oregon lawyers representing small business. sphere. The museum had to be tant for the new museum build- The November 10 event, “Representing Oregon The conference was co-sponsored by Oregon about them too, not just our ances- ing. Harjo has helped develop key on “Native America in the 21st Small Business,” was organized by Professor Steve Community Credit Union. tors or ancient cultural patrimony.” Indian law, including the Native Century: Out of the Mists and West is a citizen of the American Graves Protection and Beyond Myth,” where he explored Cheyenne and Repatriation Act. the complexity, breadth, and depth Defending the Defenseless Arapaho Tribes of Learn More She was the lead of the Native American cultural LRAP makes it easier for law graduate to start a career helping kids Oklahoma and a party in the long- experience from before European peace chief of the morsechair.uoregon.edu running trademark contact to the present. By Ed Dorsch to the law school’s Loan Repayment Southern Cheyenne. litigation against These activities are part of the “When I come home, I tell my fiancé a Assistance Program. He is also an attorney who has the Washington Redskins football second year of the Morse Center’s lot of sad stories,” says Laura Sadowski Coos Bay public defender Stacey Kay devoted his professional life to team. two-year theme on “Indigenous ’05. Like the three-year-old who moved Lowe ’03 and Sadowski received the first working with American Indians On October 3, West delivered Peoples: National Policy and into a foster home, then started keeping two LRAP loans last year. on cultural, educational, legal, and a public lecture at the law school International Human Rights.” a cache of food in his room because he When Sadowski got the news about just couldn’t believe that he would get the LRAP award, “it was like a huge bur- regular meals. Or the children at the den had been lifted from my shoulders. sidewalk in front of their home, trying Regardless of how much I was going to Northwest Tribal Water Rights Conference to open cans of soup by pounding them make this year, I would be able to start Top Interior Department official Michael Bogert on the curb. When you’re a lawyer making a small dent in a very large pile speaks on “Sovereignty, Certainty, and Opportunity” helping kids, heartbreak is part of the of debt.” That pile is $60,000 — a typi- territory. cal amount for law school graduates and Michael Bogert, counselor Assistant Professor “For some of these kids it is very very an even greater burden for those who to Secretary of the Interior Adell Amos, direc- scary every day of their lives, and they pursue public interest law. Dirk Kempthorne, dis- tor of the law school’s know nothing differ- “I think a lot of cussed Kempthorne’s vi- Environmental and ent,” says Sadowski, Find out if you qualify for people have every sion for tribal water rights Natural Resources Law who works as a law loan repayment assistance good intention to go settlements in the West Program, said “We are clerk in Lane County into public interest at a two-day conference thrilled to hear from one of Juvenile Court. “As law.uoregon.edu/lrap work,” Sadowski held at the law school on the new secretary’s leading hard as it is to put says. They went October 26 and 27. advisors and to connect that away at the end of the day, I sleep into law school thinking, ‘This is what Disputes over the allocation of water blanket the Washington, D.C., decision makers with local leaders in better at night knowing I’m at least part I want to do, this is the kind of lawyer I western landscape. In various basins, the Secretary of the Northwest,” of the solution.” want to be.’ They come out and they re- the Interior has initiated a process for negotiated settle- The conference was sponsored by the environmental Being part of the solution is now a alize the reality of it. If they are going to ment. These negotiated settlements have enormous law and dispute resolution centers at the law school in Laura Sadowski ’05 and Lane County little easier for UO law graduates who be that lawyer they want to be, it’s going implications for tribal people, water users, fish stocks, addition to the conference founder, the Center for Water Circuit Court Judge Kip Leonard work in public interest jobs, thanks to be hard to pay all their bills.” hydropower generation, and environmental quality. Advocacy.

  UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SCHOOL OF LAW OREGON LAWYER 2006 news Biz Law Business law program emphasizes entrepreneurship and deal-making skills The law school’s new Portland. This semester, business law website the topic is mergers and lists our strengths right acquisitions. Business upfront, starting with law professor Rob Illig, entrepreneurship and who developed the con- deal-making skills — in- cept, teaches the aca- cluding our experimental demic course. Attorneys transactional practice Tom Tongue ’99 and Dave laboratory. Kopilak ’94 teach the The lab introduces laboratory portion — both business law students to are with Schwabe, the process Williamson and Wyatt in 2005-6 PRO BONO BOARD: (L to R) Megan Thompson ’08; Dan Peterson ’06; Carey Mougey ’06; Jane Steckbeck, Pro Bono of doing a Portland. Program Director; Michele Buck-Romero ’07; Jennifer Geiger ’07; Ryan Kahler ’07; Wally Hicks ’08; Cassie Kellogg ’08. Learn More deal and the “These labs give law.uoregon.edu/biz relationships Rob Illig teaches mergers and acquisitions and private equity students the experi- among the and venture capital. ence of taking each step We did it again! various parts. They draft, on their own,” says Law students win 2006 Oregon State Bar Pro Bono Challenge negotiate, and close a Illig, “along with some simulated contract — one “Last summer, I worked on cross- coaching beforehand with 10,552 volunteer hours based on a successful border transactions in New York, and feedback afterwards. Law students spearheaded Oregon’s first law school pro contribute their legal skills continues to astound me.” real-world deal. Washington, D.C., and Bangkok Much of the learning, in bono program in 1996, and since the Oregon State Bar Steckbeck accepted the 2006 award on April 6 in The law school is for an international law firm. I even fact, will arise from their first offered its Pro Bono Challenge to law students five Portland. University President Dave Frohnmayer gave partnering with a number attended a closing in London! My mistakes!” years ago, we’ve aced the competition. the keynote at the awards cer- of Oregon firms for this internship succeeded because our Next semester, the In 2006, UO law students did it again with 10,552 emony, which also honors all new two-part course. A business law program gave me laboratory topic is real logged volunteer hours on behalf of the poor and legally of the Oregon lawyers and law We’re good law professor teaches a firm understanding of the legal estate. Future transac- underserved. firms who contributed a total at what we do doctrine and legal theory issues involved and taught me to tional practice labs may The law school’s three top individual contribu- of more than 86,000 pro bono in Eugene, while business think like a transactional attorney.” include employment law, tors were students Dennis Borges ’07, who donated hours this year. • Top ranked environmental law attorneys teach practical Chumbhot “Arm” Plangtrakul, complex CEO agreements, 411 hours to the Natural Resources Division of the Pro bono projects include • Top ranked dispute resolution skills in the one-credit Class of 2007 prenuptial agreements, U.S. Department of Justice in Washington D.C.; Sara the UO site of the Volunteer • Top ranked legal research and writing labs, which take place in and employment law. Reisman ’06, 400 hours to the Oregon Court of Appeals; Income Tax Assistance pro- National rankings per USNWR: and Justin Hepworth ’06, 400 hours to the U.S. attorney’s gram, offering tax preparation ENR 6, ADR 13 (tie) and LRW 26 office in Las Vegas. help for low and moderate ADR “Each year, students start new projects, join exist- income community members. This year, law students Conflict resolution master’s degree program welcomes new director ing organizations, and donate hundreds of hours, all joined forces with business students. The project is while balancing their full-time class schedules,” said completely student run and the only freestanding VITA The law school’s Appropriate Pro Bono program director Jane Steckbeck. “This is the site in Oregon. Dispute Resolution Center wel- essence of pro bono and public service. Their passion to See related story on law students and hurricane relief page 28. comes Tim Hicks, the first director of the new interdisciplinary mas- ter’s degree program. He has been in private practice since 1993 and LRW is Tops has mediated hundreds of cases in Legal Research and Writing ranked in top 15 percent California and British Columbia, including family, workplace, and Our legal research and writing attention and personal feedback; multiparty public disputes. program has achieved national dis- we teach research, writing, and Hicks worked with CONCUR, tinction and is considered one of advocacy a California natural resources the top programs in the West. This skills as dispute resolution firm, on a year the magazine rankings put us they are Learn More number of major cases, and comfortably among the top fifteen practiced law.uoregon.edu/org/lrw/ with the California Center for Public entering class of master’s degree stu- percent — No. 26 out of all 193 in the Dispute Resolution on water manage- dents, whose interests range from public ABA-approved law schools. real world. Plus, our LRW teach- ment negotiations in Yolo County. He health, real estate development, and “We’re strong, and that strength ers have lots of experience through holds an M.A. in conflict public safety, to higher is due to many factors,” said law clerkships and practice with law resolution from Antioch Learn More education, law, and the professor Suzanne Rowe, who di- firms and public interest organiza- University. law.uoregon.edu/org/adr/ social reconstruction of LRW professor Rebekah Hanley with rects the program. “Our classes are tions. Many intend to make teach- Tim Hicks Hicks greeted a strong Lebanon. law student David Blasher ’07 small; we give lots of individual ing their career.”

  UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SCHOOL OF LAW news $250,000 federal grant saves law school’s Domestic Violence Clinic The Lane County Domestic Womenspace and Sexual Assault Violence Clinic, which had Support Services. It is part of been teetering on the edge of the local Stop Violence Against closure this year, received good Women Project. news on September 15 with the The clinic has received fed- announcement of a $250,000 eral grants since it was founded Dave Frohnmayer 2002 federal grant. The funds give the eight years ago. The new grant The Hon. Alfred “Ted” Goodwin 2003 clinic some breathing room, said will make up half of the clinic law professor Merle Weiner, one budget. Hardy Myers 2004 of the founders of the clinic. The rest must be raised “Because of our domestic through other grants and private Lare Aschenbrenner 2005 violence clinic, many abuse vic- donations. The Hon. Clifford Freeman 2006 tims in this county can get free The U.S. Department of legal help when they need it,” Justice’s Legal Assistance to said Weiner. “This grant secures Victims grant program awarded the clinic until at least 2008 and the funding again this year, but allows us time to raise funds this warned that continued help is service desperately needs for the not guaranteed. long term.” In a 2003 study published Since 1999, the clinic has in Contemporary Economic provided legal services to low- Policy journal, researchers found income victims of domestic The legal clinic is a collabora- that in counties where battered violence and their children. tion of the University of Oregon women can easily find legal help Third-year UO law students, two School of Law, Lane County Legal for protective orders, custody, supervising attorneys, and several Aid and Advocacy Center, and two divorce, child support, and public advocates represent more than Eugene/Springfield nonprofits: assistance, there is a “significant, 400 clients each year who seek negative effect” on the overall inci- physical protection, child custody, Learn More dence of domestic violence. exclusive use of their residence, law.uoregon.edu/org/dv/ See related story on page 22: and emergency support. Cass SkinnerLopata ’06 Nominations Tell us about the graduate, faculty member, or friend you think docket should receive the next Frohnmayer Award. The award recog- January-May Friday, February 2 March 1-4 Friday, April 13 nizes those whose public service brings honor to the school. The EXHIBIT O’CONNELL PUBLIC INTEREST PORTLAND BANQUET Photography by Eugene CONFERENCE ENVIRONMENTAL 2007 Frohnmayer Award achievements of the winning nominee will be celebrated on artist Gary Tepfer in the Knight Law Center. LAW CONFERENCE banquet sponsored by April 13 at the 2007 Frohnmayer Award Banquet in Portland. law school’s second floor Keynote speeches by Twenty-fifth anniversary the UO Law Alumni gallery. INFO: devetri@ Richard Painter, White celebration at the Knight Association. INFO: (541) law.uoregon.edu House associate counsel Law Center: Connecting 346-3970 How to submit your nomination and chief ethics advisor Corridors for the People: Friday, January 26 to President Bush, and The Next 25 Years. INFO: Saturday, May 12 Email your nomination to Rachel Johnson at [email protected]. SYMPOSIUM by Robert Bennett, [email protected], COMMENCEMENT At a Crossroads: In former attorney for or pielc.org Ceremonies will be held Please include your name and address, your class year, and a Search of Sustainable President Clinton. INFO: at the Hult Center on daytime phone. Include the nominee’s name and address, his or Solutions in the Klamath [email protected]. April 6-7 SATURDAY this year, her relationship to the law school, and a brief statement about Room 175. Journal of edu OREGON CHILD followed by a reception Sponsored by the Environmental Law ADVOCACY PROJECT at the Hilton Hotel and why you believe that person should receive the 2007 Frohnmayer University of Oregon and Litigation. INFO: CONFERENCE Conference Center. Award for Public Service. Include news articles, letters, or other [email protected], Nurturing Teens Aging INFO: mbarker@law. School of Law or law.uoregon.edu/org/ Out of State Programs uoregon.edu, or supporting material if you like. You may also send your nomination jell/klamath.php Knight Law Center. law.uoregon.edu/ by mail to Frohnmayer Award, Alumni Relations, School of Law, ALUMNI law.uoregon.edu/org/ students/ child/events.php commencement.php 1221 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97401-1221 ASSOCIATION

10 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SCHOOL OF LAW OREGON LAWYER 2006 2006 Miss, Mrs. or Ms.? Barbara Aldave broke the law school’s gender barrier in 1970

Legal academic pioneer Barbara were the first women anywhere to be admitted to Phi Aldave says, “In my opinion, the big- Delta Phi, the international legal fraternity, whose mem- gest change in the UO law school in bership has included Theodore Roosevelt and William the last 35 years — both in terms of Rehnquist. visibility and in terms of importance Their induction into Chase Inn at the University of — is the presence of women in sub- Oregon was spearheaded by law student Jack Minan ’72, stantial numbers on the faculty, in the then the head of the local group and now a law profes- student body, and now, of course, in sor at University of San Diego. It caused such a row that the administration.” their chapter was expelled by the national fraternity. In 1970, Aldave was hired as the UO School of Law’s “Jack got us back in the next year,” Aldave said, “and first woman faculty member (and the lowest paid, she now Jody and I are recognized as the first ‘sisters’ of remembers). She was only the third woman to teach PDP.” corporate law at an accredited U.S. law school, and the Aldave left the UO for Berkeley’s Boalt Hall in first or second to teach securities regulation. 1973 and returned to Oregon in 2000 after a distin- “Here I was the one and only, and there weren’t guished career. She is the Loran L. Stewart Professor of many women in my classes either, that’s for sure!” Business Law and the director of the Center for Law and Aldave said. Entrepreneurship. –Stories by Eliza Schmidkunz Professor Emeritus Gene Scoles, then dean of the law school, sweetened the offer when he asked if she wanted the job. He called Aldave at Johnson, Johnson, and Harrang, the Eugene law firm where she worked, and began by saying “the new Law Center would have a women’s re- stroom! Any woman who matric- ulated at [Fenton Hall] had to use a restroom in a nearby building,” Aldave said. One of the most contro- versial issues at the time was whether the few women students had the right to be addressed as “Ms.” instead of “Miss” or “Mrs.” “The woman who pressed the issue was regarded by most of my L to R: Jamie Moffitt, Margie Paris, Susan Gary, Jane Gordon colleagues as a real kook,” Aldave said. AN HISTORIC FIRST: Women lead the law school Aldave notes that she and Jody 1970 For the first time in 122 years, women fill senior leadership positions Stahancyk ’73, then a law student NEW LAW FACULTY 1970: (L to R) Peter Swan, Fred Merrill, Barbara Aldave, Joe Grodin, and and now a Portland attorney, George Dawson When criminal law expert Margaret L. “Margie” Paris Associate Dean and Professor Susan Gary teaches was named dean, Oregon became one of the few — if trusts and estates, estate planning and nonprofit orga- CLASS OF 1970: Five women not the only — law schools whose senior leadership is nizations. As reporter for the Uniform Management graduated with the class: Jane all women. of Institutional Funds Act, she drafts legislation that Schaible Edwards (Portland, Reporting to Paris are three associate deans: Susan guides investment decision making for universities and Oregon), Carolyn P. Kelly (O’Brien, Gary, academics; Jane Gordon, student and program af- large charitable institutions. Shafner, Stuart, Kelly & Morris; fairs; and Jamie Moffitt, finance and operations. In addition to student affairs and communica- Groton, Connecticut), Emily Lynn Paris said, “My days have been full learning the tions responsibilities, Associate Dean Jane Gordon Knupp (sole practitioner, Hillsboro, ropes, and reading and thinking broadly about legal and teaches the Mediation Clinic, directs the law school’s Oregon), Sandra Watts (Lakeview, higher education. I am intellectually stimulated in a Appropriate Dispute Resolution Center, and cofounded Oregon), and Donna C. Willard- way that I didn’t think possible in a deanship.” our new interdisciplinary master’s degree program in Jones (sole practitioner; Anchorage, Margie Paris has been teaching criminal law, criminal dispute resolution. Alaska, and former ABA secretary). procedure, and appellate advocacy at the law school Associate Dean Jamie Moffitt previously worked as Can you identity your classmates? since 1992. Earlier, she practiced with Cotsirilos, a consultant with McKinsey & Company. She has also Let us know! Stephenson, Tighe & Streicker in her hometown of held several senior management positions with small Chicago. technology companies.

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school’s fourth floor, hand-drawing Akiko and her friends. It was a labor Pulp of love. “I fell in love with Marvel comics when I was 7 or 8 years old. I went to the drugstore and found Spiderman and Fantastic Four, and I was hooked Justice forever,” he said in an April 24 Keith Aoki’s copyright comic book Register- Guard article. “We could have written a dry, boring legal ar- draws out the details of Fair Use ticle, but we wanted something that would reach other types of people.” The medium in this case makes the serious message behind it easier to swallow. Akiko speaks for the Bound by Law creators when she says artists like herself need to understand the law: “Remember, the copyright system allows you to protect your work, but also has important limitations that allow you to create in the first place. FAIR Law professor Keith Aoki is a serious USE — USE IT OR LOSE IT!” academic. And seriously worried that Thankfully, the authors did documentary filmmakers, screenwrit- not include footnotes in their ers, and producers are hamstrung by comic book — but they are avail- hyper-aggressive copyright holders. able upon request. Bound by Law Filmmakers are increasingly being is available free in a number of forced to pay for such ambient stage digital versions — plain html, 8 or business as a street musician singing 16 MB PDF, and virtual magazine “Pretty Woman” or a barfly looking format. Download them at www. blearily at “The Simpsons.” law.duke.edu/cspd/comics. (Or, Luckily, Aoki is also a cartoonist if you’re addicted to the look and — so he decided to fight back using feel of oldtime comix, you can pay a more popular medium than the $5.95 and get a 66-page print ver- average law journal article. sion from Amazon.com.) Enter his new superheroine, –Eliza Schmidkunz Akiko: “By day a filmmaker, by night she fought for fair use.” Akiko is introduced in Bound by Law, possibly the first comic book on the topic. Aoki worked with the creative team of James Boyle, a Duke law professor, and lawyer Jennifer Jenkins, director of the Duke Center for the Creative Commons. They have put together “An indispensable guide for the perplexed a short and snappy guide for (ain’t we all!) in this postmodern information age — documentary filmmakers with the help of a Rockefeller Grant. and all in easy-to-read comics format, a stunt The trio want to reinvigorate far more difficult than you’d think!” the idea of “fair use” — balancing (I hereby relinquish all copyright to this blurb.) the rights of copyright own- art spiegelman ers and the public’s access to Pulitzer Prize winner and comicreator of information. Maus: A Survivor’s Tail and In the Shadow of No Towers Aoki spent most of last summer in a carrel on the law

COMING NEXT SUMMER! The Sequel: THEFT! A History of Music 14 A new Keith Aoki comic book 15 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SCHOOL OF LAW Richard Hildreth OREGON LAWYER 2006

Lower Klamath River Nez Perce official Rebecca Miles with Mary Wood ENR alumni reception

Rennard Strickland fireside chat

Adell Amos and Heather Brinton ’96

Public Service Day

Svitlana Kravchenko at Crater Lake

PIELC tribal reception , in Many Nations Longhouse Aaron Isherwood ’94 Beyond the Walls Mike McCloskey ’61, and Laura Hoen ’97 3,000 attend Land Air Water conference, moot court teams goes national, faculty goes global, new advanced degree approved, John Bonine new director succeeds in building a center The Environmental and Natural Resources Law program Three Sierra Club leaders attended the annual recep- law firm, and now teaches two classes at the law school, been described as “the next likely ‘bible’ of the field.” has officially become a center, a university-wide recog- tion held for ENR alumni at the conference. Former ex- will serve as interim director. Richard Hildreth, who has teleconferenced his coastal nition of stature and capacity. ecutive director Mike McCloskey ’61, whose memoir In and ocean law courses to marine resources management Assistant Professor Adell Amos, who has just fin- The Thick of It about his life in the Sierra Club had just Testing Our Skills students at Oregon State University since the 1970s, ished her first year as director, said, “We’re building on been published, received the David Brower Lifetime Last February, law students Austin Williams ’07, Patricia continues his interdisciplinary work on international a thirty-year legacy in which our faculty has gone far Achievement Award. Aaron Isherwood ’94 now heads Bradwell ’06, and Lindsay Krey ’06, coached by Pete ocean policy. beyond these walls to affect law and policy all over the the litigation department the at the Sierra Club’s Frost ’94, advanced with eight other teams out of a field John Bonine continues his focus on international world. We all find it exciting and energizing.” San Francisco office. Laura Hoehn ’97 of Bozeman, of sixty-nine to the national semifinals of the top-rated networking for environmental lawyers, with United A sampling of this year’s achievements: Montana, serves as the club’s general counsel. They Environmental Law Moot Court Competition at Pace Nations meetings in Europe and assistance to a Filipino are typical of so many of our ENR alumni, who find Law School in White Plains, New York. They tested lawyer who received death threats for his work. The Place to Be themselves “in the thick of it” wherever environmental their skills in appellate brief writing and oral advocacy Hari Osofsky, an expert in international and envi- Several years ago, Outside Magazine called the Public issues arise. on an actual environmental citizen suit. ronmental justice issues, joined the law faculty this Interest Environmental Law Conference the place to go year. Her book on adjudicating climate change will be for environmental networking. Three thousand partici- International Attraction Global Influence published by Cambridge University Press in 2007 pants tell us it’s still true — that’s how many showed The law school’s first master of laws program, an LL.M. Far beyond law school walls, the faculty continues to ENR Program Manager Heather Brinton ’96 said, “Our up at the March 2006 event, “Towards A Global Public in environmental and natural resources law, was ap- make a global impact on environmental law. Mary Wood expanded curriculum, the environmental clinic, moot Trust,” held at the Knight Law Center. Eighty students proved this year and will accept its first students in fall spent her sabbatical year in Idaho, working on a major court, new externships — we are preparing the next from Land Air Water, the 24-year-old student group that 2007. Svitlana Kravchenko, who taught law in Ukraine natural resources law book with three coauthors. Cases generation of public interest environmental attorneys organizes the conference, participated this year. for 25 years, founded the country’s first public interest and Materials on Natural Resources Law has already right here.” –Eliza Schmidkunz

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transitions

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Hari Osofsky The law school’s newest faculty member teaches, writes, and advocates on international legal problems Assistant Professor Hari Osofsky, our newest faculty You wear two hats — environmental law, and member, is a prolific author on international legal international trade and investment law. How do issues. She inspires students with her work as lead you combine the two? counsel on a Second Circuit amicus brief in Sahu There are many opportunities to explore the potentials v. Union Carbide, as well as her assistance with for cooperative relationships between businesses and Earthjustice’s annual submissions to the U.N. Human environmental protection efforts. For example, I am one Rights Commission on environmental rights, and with of the organizers of an exciting symposium scheduled the Inuit Circumpolar Conference’s petition to the Inter- for fall 2007. It will be the first collaboration between Rennard Strickland American Commission on Human Rights. the UO law and business schools and the Center for Forty books and forty years of teaching In addition to many articles, she is the coeditor of Asian and Pacific Studies. We will compare U.S. and a new book on climate change litigation, due out from Chinese environmental protection, with a focus on op- Law professor Rennard Strickland knows everything from his fortieth book, Grandfather Was a Good Witch: Cambridge University Press in 2007. Oregon Lawyer portunities for synergy between environment and busi- about movies and tells wonderful stories. For that Growing Up Cherokee, and tributes by Wilma Mankiller, asked her about her recent scholarship and her ap- ness. Our Chinese partner is Chang Jiwen at the Chinese alone, he deserves honor and glory. the first woman chief of the Cherokees, andChad proach to teaching. Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Law. But that’s not all you need to know about the law Smith, current principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of professor and former dean. He is a legal historian of Oklahoma. How do you prepare your students What are you working on now? Osage and Cherokee heritage who has helped resolve a Called “Celebrating Forty,” it commemorated his for law practice? Much of my recent and ongoing scholarship focuses number of significant Indian law cases. entire career, the publication of his fortieth book, and I helped a law school in China start its first clinical on the litigation over climate change that is happen- He pioneered the introduction of Indian law into the his fortieth year of teaching. legal education program — that experience convinced ing in state and federal courts, as well as international mainstream law curriculum. Books are the subject of one of Strickland’s many me of the importance of active learning. In every class tribunals. I just published an article that explores the He is frequently cited for his work in 1982 as the stories. At the beginning of time, he said, Indians were session, even in large lecture classes, I do break-out ses- geography of that litigation as a tool for thinking about revision editor of Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian given a choice of weapons, the book or the bow. sions in which students have to apply the materials of how it could be part of the broader law and policy ef- Law, the bible of the field. After a while, they chose the bow because it protect- the day to real-world problems. fort to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. I am in the He weaves Indian culture and tradition into aca- ed against enemies and provided food from the hunt. So For example, in my International Law class, when process of writing a companion article that explores the demic works and rituals in a seamless way. His students the white man was left with the book. we study use of force, students simulate the interna- implications of this geography for international legal have called him the “rock star of federal Indian law.” Much time and many troubles later, Native peoples tional law debate in the United Nations over the use of theory, with an eye towards figuring out a better way to And now the rock star intends to retire — 2005-6 was realized the power of the book, and it became a primary force in Iraq. regulate cross-cutting problems like climate change. his last year as a full-time professor of law. weapon in their arsenal of survival. Indians now talk I also have taught an Environmental Justice course, This month [November] I am guest blogging on Strickland’s friends, colleagues, and fellow Native about their intellectual tools in battlefield terms: the which is a hybrid between a seminar and a clinic. As Opinio Juris (www.opiniojuris.org). It focuses on com- American activists honored him at an April 14 CLE sym- “test-tube warrior,” the “briefcase warrior.” my students learned about the issues, they assisted mentary and debates on international law and politics. posium at the law school, “From the Warrior Viewpoint: “In all of these battles,” Strickland said, “the book Earthjustice in preparing its annual submission to the I’m looking forward to it, as I think the pre- and post- The Next Generation of Indian Law and Policy.” is a central weapon. It is a privilege for me to be part of U.N. Human Rights Commission on environmental election period will be a particularly interesting time to The evening gala includes a reading by Strickland making available this arsenal of ideas.” rights. be part of the dialogue.

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Steve Blackhurst ’73 repre- Oregon-Columbia chapter’s under the guise of social sents businesses in commer- Ross B. Hammond Award. conscience.” He argues that CLASS NOTES cial disputes at Ater Wynne, This honor is bestowed wrongful criminal convic- LLP, in Portland. He was in- each year to a construction tions are not as common as cluded in the Chambers USA industry leader in Oregon popularly supposed in this America’s Leading Lawyers for outstanding service to article and many others in Martha Walters ’77 for Business 2006 Client’s the Northwest construction the national media. Marquis First woman to lead national law reform organization Guide in the general com- industry in the field of labor blogs at http://joshmarquis. named to Oregon Supreme Court mercial litigation practice relations. blogspot.com. area. The publication ranks Business law professor Rob Stanley Cram ’78 cofounded Daniel Nye ’80 has been ap- On October 9, Martha tenacious leader in a distinguished na- top law firms and top attor- Illig with Jerry Gauche, after the Eugene firm of Cram, pointed senior lawyer for Lee Walters ’77 was tional law reform organization, the National neys based on the results of Gauche’s visit to the Center for Harder, Wells and Baron in the Saudi Arabia associates sworn in as Oregon’s Conference of Commissioners on Uniform in-depth client and attorney Law and Entrepreneurship in 1980. He is retiring after 25 of London-based Trowers & newest Supreme Court State Laws (NCCUSL) and a member of the interviews. September. years of practice. Hamlins. He will be based justice. Governor Ted American Law Institute (ALI). Mark Johnson ’73 of Johnson, John McGuigan ’79 of at the Law Office of Hassan Kulongoski appointed She is chair of the executive committee of for National Oilwell Varco Renshaw & Lechman- Black Helterline, LLP Massani in Jeddah. her to serve the NCCUSL, which drafts legislation to promote (NOV), a Forbes Platinum Su (Portland), serves as (Portland), chairs the board Roger Saydack ’80 is the remainder of the term uniformity in state law. Walters is the first 400 company based in Oregon’s new state del- of the La Salle High School for his book, Sailing Into new regional vice president of Associate Justice woman chosen for this position in the organi- Houston, Texas. egate to the American Educational Foundation. the Abyss: A True Story of legal affairs and business William R. “Bill” zation’s 115 year history. She has served as Bar Association. Johnson Roland W. Johnson ’74 of McGuigan, a 1972 gradu- of Extreme Heroism on transactions for the Oregon Riggs ’68, who re- one of Oregon’s four delegates since 1992. will chair the delegation Kirby Johnson & Slater, ate of the private Portland the High Seas. These an- Region of PeaceHealth. The signed September 30. This year, Walters said that one of the and speak for Oregon on relocated to 200 West Main college preparatory school, nual awards honor the best Catholic health system has Walters will be the first woman to serve on most urgent drafting projects has been an the ABA’s nominating Street, Enterprise, Oregon joined the board in 2003. American maritime story of 4,525 employees, two hospi- the court since Sue Leeson resigned in 2003. emergency volunteer health care licensing act. committee. 97828. The firm continues to McGuigan also chairs the the year. The book is now tals, and two physician prac- She is the founder and president of Walters Last year, a number of health care workers Jody Stahancyk ’73 of provide comprehensive legal business and corporate prac- out in paperback. tice groups in Lane County. Chanti and Zennache, a Eugene firm special- from other parts of the country who respond- Stahancyk, Kent, Johnson services centering on real es- tice sections of his firm. Paul R. Hribernick ’80, He will provide legal coun- izing in employment, civil rights, and family law. ed to the Hurricane Katrina emergency were and Hook, shared the 2005 tate, probate, civil litigation, a partner with Black sel in property development, Dean Margie Paris said, “Martha is an ex- turned back because their licenses were not Patricia A. Vallerand ’79 is Large Business of the Year and municipal law. Helterline (Portland), con- construction projects, joint traordinary lawyer and will be an extraordinary valid in other states. expanding her dispute reso- award for Oregon and Rodney E. Lewis Jr. ’74 tributed to the Immigration ventures, business transac- Supreme Court justice. She is known across “We completed the act in one year — ev- of lution practice to include Southwest Washington with Practice Toolbox, released tions, and contracts, as well the state for her tireless devotion to justice. eryone was in a big hurry to do something,” Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP, evaluation and in-house partner Ronald Johnson ’76. in December 2005 by the as other areas of health care We are so proud to claim her as one of ours!” Walters said. “We are one entity that actually was appointed partner-in- investigation in addition to The Better Business Bureau American Immigration law. To the public, Walters is a personally mod- managed to complete an important, concrete charge (PIC) of the Portland mediation, arbitration, and gives the award for integrity, Lawyers Association. est and professionally tenacious civil rights fix by the first anniversary of the disaster.” office. Lewis previously facilitation services. Her H. Thomas Andersen ’81 customer service, innova- litigator who has made a career helping the “The conference is really helping to pre- served in this position from website is www.ormediate. Joshua Marquis ’80, district is associate of counsel to tive business practices, and little guy — including, most famously, disabled serve our republican system of government!” 1995-2002. com. attorney for Oregon’s Clatsop Garrett, Hemann, Robertson, community involvement. professional golfer Casey Martin. She re- she said. James K. Coons ’76 and Dana M. Weinstein ’79 has County, wrote “The Innocent Jennings, Comstock and Stahancyk also spoke on ceived the Oregon Trial Lawyers public justice Her Supreme Court term expires in January Douglas M. DuPriest ’77. opened her new office at 725 and the Shammed,” an op- Trethewy in Salem, Oregon. “How to Avoid the Pitfalls award in 1998. 2009. She will be eligible for election to the Their firm, Hutchinson, Country Club Road, Eugene, ed piece in the New York His practice centers on of Divorce” on KATU’s Behind the scenes, Walters is an equally court in 2008. Cox, Coons, DuPriest, Orr & Oregon. Her practice centers Times (January 26, 2006): the defense of employers program, AM Northwest, Sherlock, P.C., was selected “The words ‘innocent’ and and insurers in workers’ . on family and juvenile law. last January 25 She was for the third year as one of ‘exonerated’ carry tremen- compensation and employ- also a presenter in the 2006 the 100 Best Places to Work dous emotional and political ment law cases. Before that, centers on commercial and for some Miller Nash at- T H E E I g h TIES T H E F I F TIES Women of Strength–Women in Oregon in 2006 by Oregon weight. But these terms have he spent 19 years as trial real estate litigation, and torneys. The correct affilia- in Transition Conference in Business magazine. been tortured beyond recog- counsel and special assistant William R. Kirby ’59 re- handling mediation and ar- tions are: Peter Richter ’71, ◆ William R. Benedetto ’80 Portland last January. nition — not just by defense attorney general with SAIF tired last December after bitration of disputes within Commercial Litigation; David Ronald Johnson ’76 of received the 2006 U.S. ◆ Jerry N. Gauche ’74 lawyers, but by the dis- Corporation. Anderson was 43 years of practice with those fields. Culpepper ’74, Tax Law; Stahancyk, Kent, Johnson Maritime Literature Award is the new chairman of and Hook, has been pro- seminators of entertainment also a litigator in Burlington, Kirby Johnson and Slater in Stephen A. Hutchinson ’67. Jonathon Goodling ’79, Real the board of directors of moted to managing partner Vermont, and the litigation Enterprise, Oregon. His firm, Hutchinson, Cox, Estate Law. Lanzhou LS – National in Prineville. The Prineville partner in a business and Coons, DuPriest, Orr & Albert E. Radcliffe ’72, Oilwell Petroleum office centers on family law, corporate law firm in Eugene. Sherlock, P.C., was selected chief bankruptcy judge Tell us! T H E S I X T I E S Engineering Co.(LS-NOW), divorce, child custody, assis- Susan K. (Suzy) Driver ’81 for the third year as one of of the District of Oregon, Submit class notes online at one of the largest Western tance with real estate trans- has joined fellow alum- John Kneeland ’66 of the 100 Best Places to Work served as chair of the Ninth http://www.law.uoregon.edu/alumni/classnotes.php joint ventures in Gansu actions, wills, and trusts. nus Craig Dorsay ’78 as of Portland, Oregon, retired in Oregon in 2006 by Oregon Circuit Conference of Chief Province, China. The 50-year You may also submit via email to Denise Kimberlin counsel with The Interior last April after 30 years with Business magazine. Bankruptcy Judges last year. Charles R. Schrader ’77 of JV will manufacture and ex- ([email protected]) in the law school’s alumni and Board of Indian Appeals in Shilo Inns. During that time he also Jordan Schrader, a construc- port drilling equipment for development office. Please include your class year, your city, Portland. They specialize in served as an observer on tion and labor law attorney Carlton W. Hodges ’67 T H E S E V ENTIES the upstream oil and gas in- and your state or country in the news item. the practice of Indian law the Ninth Circuit Judicial dustry (exploration, produc- and shareholder in the relocated his offices to 2330 Or you may mail your submission to: CLASS NOTES, and related cases. Driver Council, the executive com- tion and basic processing). Portland law firm, is the PacWest Center, 1211 S.W. CORRECTION: Our winter/ Alumni and Development office, School of Law, practiced Indian law and wa- Fifth Avenue, Portland, spring 2006 issue contained mittee of the Ninth Circuit. Gauche is senior vice-presi- recipient of the Association of General Contractor (AGC) 1221 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1221 ter law with the Navajo Tribe Oregon 97204. His practice practice affiliation errors dent of sales and marketing and the U.S. Department

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ship recognize him as a lead- ing practitioner in the field Family Values of family law. Cass SkinnerLopata ’06 blends family, career, Jeffrey A. Johnson ’82 is and fight against domestic violence executive vice president and general counsel with Cass SkinnerLopata ’06 clerks for Lane Wilson Construction, a Circuit Court Judge Charles “Chuck” high-voltage electrical Carlson ’79 — a job she loves. In June, she construction company based was appointed to a three-year term on the in Canby, Oregon, with of- Governor’s Council on Domestic Violence fices in Washington, Utah, well as Northwest commer- City of Angels Monica Makin ’93 is assis- — an additional service that dovetails perfectly cial vessel interests, a large tant vice president of asset California, and Arizona. He Alumni meet with Dean Margie Paris and Assistant Dean Merv with her clerkship, her law school experience, tanker operator, and numer- management for Homestead formerly was a partner with Loya in Los Angeles last March. Left photo: Megan Hamilton ’00, and her personal history. ous marine underwriters. Capital, a Portland, Oregon, Cosgrave Vergeer Kester. David Moore ’04, Tom Malayil ’97, Michael Hamilton ’99. “Our vision is to keep all Oregonians Markovich has tried over 100 nonprofit syndicator invest- John B. Thorsness ’82 has Center photo: After lunch, Michael Chan ’02 gave Paris a tour of safe from domestic violence and make cases through verdict, and ing in affordable housing joined the Anchorage, his firm, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton.Right photo: Eli sure they have the resources to stay safe,” he has won over 90 percent in nine Western states. The Alaska, firm of Clapp, Morgenstern ’97, Suzanne McCormick ’97, Kristy Palmquist SkinnerLopata said. “We meet in Salem and of the cases that he has tried. company forms investment Peterson and Stowers, now ’00, Maggie Thompson ’04. in communities around the state — this month, See http://superlawyers. partnerships with major known as Clapp, Peterson, it’s John Day. I am still in awe of the fact that com/index.php corporations to fund quality VanFlein, Tiemessen and Though Gary Carl ’86 retired area of intellectual property. Governor Kulongoski appointed me, and that I Jill Gelineau ’85, a sharehold- multi-family housing. Makin Thorsness, LLC. He will con- from private practice in DeJong is a litigator empha- have a seat at this table!” er with Schwabe, Williamson makes sure that the proper- tinue to focus on the defense Eugene in 2005, he will be sizing IP and complex busi- The council coordinates a community, & Wyatt (Portland), was ties comply with federal of product liability litigation. keeping busy. Carl has been ness litigation. He is a share- county and statewide response to the growing appointed to Oregon’s Task Low Income Housing Tax appointed by Governor holder in the Portland firm, crisis of domestic violence. It was created by Jay Manning ’83, director Force on Land Use Planning. Credit (LIHTC) regulations. Ted Kulongoski to serve Stoll Stoll Berne Lokting and the Judicial Department in 1994, as the state of the Washington State The task force — called the Makin served as vice chair as Oakridge Justice of the Schlachter became increasingly concerned that a large Department of Ecology, has “Big Look” — consists of of the Oregon State Housing Cass SkinnerLopata ’06 with her husband, Peace. He will replace fellow number of criminal offenses stemmed from developed a new site on the ten members, knowledgable Rebecca Hiers ’90 wrote an Council for four years. Andy SkinnerLopata ’03, their children, and alumnus Charles Navarro ’93, domestic violence — 95 percent directed ecology department web pag- about planning issues, who article for the Rutgers Law Charles Navarro ’93 resigned her grandmother Marcia Skinner. who resigned in September against women — and that it was a strong es. The user-friendly “Earth will chart the future of the Review exploring the rapid as Oakridge Justice of the 2005. contributor to family homelessness, lost help someone who desperately needed it, was Day 2006” connects to Earth state’s 30-year old land use development of mediation Peace in September 2005. work time, addiction, poor maternal and child beyond description,” SkinnerLopata said. Day events and volunteer planning system. Gelineau Hugh Duvall ’88 of Clark law and examines potential Fellow alumnus Gary Carl ’86 health, and other social ills. Her work at the clinic fed naturally into her opportunities, plus infor- is a litigator who represents & Duvall has been elected procedural and content- was appointed by Governor Cass SkinnerLopata knows the territory clerkship with Judge Carlson. mation about Washington landowners in condemnation vice president of the Oregon based exceptions to me- Ted Kulongoski to succeed — she left an abusive husband when she was “I see the good, the bad and the ugly of business practices, conserva- and land use disputes. She Criminal Defense Lawyers diation confidentiality. The Navarro as Oakridge’s Justice pregnant with her Lane County at- tion tips, and teacher and represented the Dolan family Association for 2006-2007. article can be found at 57 of the Peace. third child. At law torneys and their student resources. www.ecy. in the Dolan v. City of Tigard Doug MacCourt ’88 of Ater Rutgers L. Rev. 531 (2005). wa.gov/earthday. Kurt E. Scheuerman ’93 is school, she was a Give to something clients. I learn what trial following its remand Wynne, LLP, was included Linda Kessel ’90 has been ap- vice president and general fierce advocate for that works! to do and what Bert Markovich ’83 of from the U.S. Supreme in the environmental prac- pointed as a senior assistant counsel of DDi Corporation, women and children. not to do, which is Schwabe, Williamson & Court. tice area in Chambers USA attorney general in the labor The Domestic Violence Clinic a Nasdaq-listed manufactur- Her favorite part great preparation for Wyatt in Seattle, was recent- Dennis Gerl ’85 of Johnson, America’s Leading Lawyers and employment section of er of printed circuit boards of law school was • helps 400 abuse victims each year. practice.” ly named a “Super Lawyer” Clifton, Larson & Schaller in for Business 2006 Client’s the general counsel division in Anaheim, California. working with the • trains lawyers who make a difference. During by Washington Law & Eugene, has withdrawn as of Guide. The publication ranks with the Oregon Department Domestic Violence law school, Politics magazine, described top law firms and top attor- of Justice. Contribute online at counsel. The firm expressed Clinic, in which ad- SkinnerLopata as a “local version of Mad neys based on the results of law.uoregon.edu/org/dv/tenreasons.php its sincere appreciation for William H. Sherlock ’90. vanced law students married law magazine and Harvard Law in-depth client and attorney or call (541) 346-3800 the years of practice, profes- His firm, Hutchinson, Cox, work directly with alumnus and local Review.” The magazine sur- sional services and camara- interviews. Coons, DuPriest, Orr & abuse victims and attorney Andy veys approximately 16,000 derie he has contributed. Sherlock, was selected for Class Notes represent them in contested protective-order SkinnerLopata ’03 (formerly Andy Lopata). active Washington lawyers T H E N I N E T I E S the third year as one of the hearings. He adopted her three children in 2005, and to determine appropriate Herb Harry ’85 has been ap- on the web pointed as a senior assis- 100 Best Places to Work in “Meeting with clients, learning how to the couple welcomed a new baby just before candidates. Only the top CORRECTION: Our winter/ Oregon in 2006 by Oregon www.uoregonlaw.com advocate for them in court, and have my work Cass graduated last spring. five percent of Washington tant attorney general in the human services section of spring 2006 issue erroneous- Business magazine. Go to our new alumni web portal to lawyers receive this distinc- ly stated that Timothy DeJong the general counsel division Nicholas W. van Aelstyn ’90 • Submit and read class notes tion. Markovich represents ’91 was listed in Chambers of the Interior. She also teams working to resolve the Jeffrey S. Matthews ’81 with the Oregon Department has moved his law practice • Register for reunions and events manufacturers in product USA: America’s Leading represented the Secretary of reserved water rights claims of Yates, Matthews and of Justice. Herb will primar- to Beveridge & Diamond • Search for classmates liability litigation, includ- Lawyers for Business (2005- the Interior in hydropower of the Nez Perce Tribe in Associates (Portland, ily manage the DHS cases (San Francisco), a national • Post and view photos ing DuPont, Bayer, Wyeth, 2006). Actually, he was licensing proceedings, Idaho and the Lummi Tribe Oregon) was admitted to for Jackson, Josephine, and firm focused on domestic • Sign up for your free email account Nacco Materials, and Volvo. recognized by the Portland water rights adjudications, in Washington. the American Academy of Douglas counties. and international environ- He also represents insurance Business Journal as one of Questions? 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22 23 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SCHOOL OF LAW OREGON LAWYER 2006 class notes ployment, and class action Patrick A. Lynd ’98 is an asso- technology companies to domestic relations, es- Caroline R. Guest ’94 is a litigation. ciate with Hershner Hunter help them grow and attract tate planning, and Social shareholder at Schwabe, Tasheaya (Warren) Ellison ’97 in Eugene. He is also on the funding. Security disability law. Williamson & Wyatt in is director corporate counsel board of the Lane County B. Scott Whipple ’98, of Maggie Finnerty ’99 will Portland. Before that, she for Prudential Financial in Bar Association. Schwabe, Williamson & oversee Lewis and Clark Law was a shareholder and head Newark, New Jersey. She Karrie McIntyre ’98 joins Wyatt’s Portland office, has School’s new downtown of the labor and employment handles the tax planning fellow alumna Laura Parrish been promoted as attorney Portland Small Business group at Harrang Long Gary for Prudential Financial ’76 of the Collaborative Law to shareholders. His practice Legal Clinic as a clinical Rudnick. Her practice cen- and all of its worldwide Center as of counsel attor- centers on securities, busi- professor. It will provide ters on defending public and subsidiaries with respect ney. McIntyre clerked for ness, employment, and tort transactional legal services to private employers in state to domestic, international, Lane County Circuit Judge litigation. He is also a new small and emerging business- and federal employment and financial product tax Mary Ann Bearden. For member of Honorary Alumni es in the metropolitan area. litigation. issues. Previously, she was Todd Johnston ’99 is a part- David King ’94 is associate attorney/advisor in the IRS ner with Hershner Hunter general counsel with Craig Office of the Chief Counsel Rachel Kastenberg ’06 in Eugene. Johnston joined Realty Group, a real estate in Washington, D.C. spent three days at the Hershner Hunter in January acquisition and development Allyson S. Krueger ’96 joined United Nations European 2005 and specializes in com- company in Newport Beach, Hitt Hiller Monfils Williams, headquarters in Geneva, mercial litigation. California. He will continue Switzerland, last March a Portland firm. Her prac- Lance A. LeFever ’99 of to live in Newport Beach, as a public observer at The Lawyer Gene tice centers on employ- Thorp, Purdy, Jewett, Urness and his practice will con- the Aarhus Convention ment litigation, including & Wilkinson has become a Five Thomas Tongues — all of them Oregon Lawyers tinue to focus on developer- Compliance Committee cases involving race, gender, shareholder with the firm. In 1859, teenager Thomas side real estate financing and meeting. The convention Thomas Tongue UO ’65 age, disability and injured LeFever has been with the Tongue emigrated from England land sale and development treaty, inspired in part Thomas H. Tongue III named his worker discrimination, com- firm since October of 2000 to Washington County, Oregon, transactions. by the 1986 Chernobyl first-born Thomas Healy Tongue, plex wage claims, wrongful and specializes in civil and became a lawyer. In 1896 nuclear disaster, gives thereby eliminating any more David W. Smiley ’95 an- discharge, non-competition litigation. he was elected to Congress as numbers. The first Tongue with nounces the opening of his agreements, and trade secret individuals the right to a Republican and was subse- a real middle name graduated new law office in Bend. obligations. bring environmental cases T H E T W O quently re-elected three times. for appeal, to hold govern- from the University of Oregon in Smiley centers his practice Bruce Aitken ’96 is internal He fought hard in the long ments accountable, and to play a significant role in promot- T H O U SANDS 1965, and from Wisconsin Law on business, corporate, tax, audit manager for the Greater campaign to make Crater Lake ing sustainable development. It has been ratified by most School in 1968. He is a fellow elder law, and complex Asia area for Intel China Ltd. a national park, introducing bills countries in Europe and Central Asia. Brandon Bittner ’00 is a and a regent of the American estate planning. Aitken addresses concerns in 1898, 1899, and 1901, and “I was pleasantly surprised to see the committee mem- shareholder in the Lake College of Trial Lawyers, and a Shelley Webb ’95 has over ethics in emerging persevering until it became the bers listening intently and responding directly to the public,” Oswego, Oregon, firm of former president of the Oregon joined the San Diego City markets, internal audit activ- country’s fifth national park in said Kastenberg. “At points, public comments resulted in Bittner and Hahs. He advises Family Law: Kathryn Ann Association of Defense Counsel. Attorney’s office in the ity, Intel’s S-OX testing, and 1902. changes to the agenda or reignited discussion.” clients in estate planning Watts, Thomas Healy He continues trial work at Dunn Family Justice Center’s do- some internal investigations. Both his sons also became She focused on international environmental law in and business related matters. Tongue, Jason Tongue, Carney Allen Higgins & Tongue mestic violence unit. He is based in the Beijing lawyers. The younger brother, law school and now works on environmental side agree- Peter D. Ellingson ’00 and Thomas M. Tongue. in Portland, and has served as Kerry Center. Thomas Tongue Jr., finished law a president of the Multnomah Matthew Johnson ’96 has ments and trade-capacity building projects for the Office joined Johnson, Renshaw & school in 1903. When his father became a County Bar and the OADC. opened a new law office in Kamala Shugar ’96 works of Environmental Policy at the U.S. Department of State in Lechman-Su (Portland) as an congressman, he was told that gentlemen Eugene. He focuses on ten- with the Oregon Department Washington, D.C. associate. ant/landlord, collections, of Justice. She is in charge have middle initials, so he started using the Thomas Tongue JD MBA ’99 Misty Johnson ’00 joined employment issues, personal of the Eugene and Salem middle initial “H” because he thought it looked Thomas Healy Tongue’s two children, Thomas Dunn, Carney, Allen, Higgins injury, and general civil Human Services Section six years she prosecuted Club of St. Andrew Nativity good between two “T”s. Michael Tongue and Kathryn Ann Watts, & Tongue (Portland) as an as- matters. attorneys advising child wel- hundreds of felony assign- School, a private school for both became lawyers. Watts clerked for U.S. sociate in the real estate and Thomas Tongue UO ’34, JD ’37 fare for central and south- ments, from complex fraud low-income middle school Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens Michael R. O’Connor ’97, land use group. Her prac- Thomas H. Tongue III entered the University western Oregon. investigations to vehicular children, and is a member of and now teaches at Northwestern University a shareholder in Garvey tice includes commercial of Oregon in 1930 and did very, very well. homicides and elder abuse the “Second Chairs,” a group School of Law in Chicago. Thomas Michael Schubert Barer, is presi- Matt Longtin ’97 has opened leases, real estate sales, and Dean Wayne Morse promised him that if he cases in the Lane County of Portland trial attorneys. Tongue earned an economics degree from dent of the Oregon Club a law firm in Eugene, management. also did well in law school, he would get him a Vanderbilt University and a concurrent of Portland, a booster club Matthew D. Longtin, LLC. District Attorney’s office. As Carnet Williams ’98 is the Mark A. Manning ’00 is a fellowship after he finished. True to his word, JD/MBA from UO Law in 1999. He practices for UO athletics. In March, He centers his practice on a contract attorney she will CEO of a “social commerce” shareholder with Harder, Morse performed. He obtained a Yale Sterling business law at Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt O’Connor was elected to the family law and state and continue to prosecute for the startup called ChipIn. ChipIn Wells, Baron and Manning. Fellowship that permitted Thomas to get a in Portland. This semester, he is teaching our Cascade AIDS Project board federal criminal defense. City of Eugene. Her practice is an online tool that enables The western Oregon firm J.S.D. (Doctor of the Science of Law). Tongue first transactional practice lab on mergers and of directors and was selected will center on domestic rela- people to collect money Joshua A. Clark ’98 is a part- emphasizes bankruptcy, then went to work in the Labor Department for acquisitions. by the Portland Business tions law and litigation. for events, fundraisers, and “that man’s government,” as his father referred ner with Gleaves Swearingen social service disability, and Thanks to Thomas Healy Tongue and the Journal as one of the city’s Rachel Ogdie ’98 is the new group gifts. Williams was to Roosevelt, where he argued several cases Potter & Scott in Eugene. worker’s compensation. Multnomah Bar Association. This story was “Forty Under 40,” an an- Clark has been with the firm executive director for the formerly executive director in the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1969 he was Sharnel K. Mesirow ’00 has adapted from an article he wrote for the January nual award given to up and since 1998. His practice Honolulu business accel- of Honolulu firm HiBeam. appointed by Governor Tom McCall to the 2006 Multnomah Bar Association newsletter. joined the Portland fam- coming business leaders. He centers on real estate, busi- erator HiBeam. Founded in Amy J. Cross ’99 has opened Oregon Supreme Court, where he served until After publication, Thomas Ryan Tongue was ily law firm of Gevurtz specializes in business, em- ness law, and commercial 2000, HiBeam mentors and a law office in Canby, 1982. welcomed as the sixth-generation Thomas Tongue. Menashe. Mesirow’s prac- transactions. advises early-stage Hawaii Oregon. She will focus on tice centers on dissolution,

24 25 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SCHOOL OF LAW OREGON LAWYER 2006 class notes injury and wrongful death fectionately known as “bull- a campaigner for social Margarita Molina ’02 is as- litigation involving mesothe- dog” due to her high energy, justice and this country’s sociate general counsel at lioma, benzene, beryllium, straight-talking personality. longest-serving U.S. attorney, Fred Risser ’52 (D-Madison, WI) the Portland Development lead, manganese, asbestos, She is survived by her hus- Kim Ellis ’99, Merv Loya and working under five presi- Longest serving state lawmaker in the U.S. Commission. Molina helps and other toxic substances. band Don Williams, her par- George Stephanopoulos ’90 dents from 1961 to 1982. low-income people buy Dave Huhs ’06 is an attorney ents Bill and June Duhaime, He dedicated the rest of his Out of Wisconsin’s 33 state When I first started, there homes and works on some of with Curran Mendoza in sister Sally Stambaugh, career to the advancement of senators, Fred Risser gets were no laws against smok- the largest real estate projects Kent, Washington. brother James Duhaime, and mediation. He was the first first pick — first choice of ing — you could smoke at in Portland. After law school their families. chair of the Oregon Dispute Clayton A. Jones ’06 has office in the minority party, any age,” Risser recalled. Molina clerked for an Oregon Resolution commission and moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, Thomas C. Howser ’61 died and even where he parks his “I introduced a bill to limit Court of Appeals judge and a fellow in the International where he is an associate with July 22, 2006, in Ashland. car at the Capitol. But Risser smoking for kids under 16. worked in real estate law at a Academy of Mediators. Dorsey & Whitney LLP. He was a former Oregon has earned it, serving his 49th In committee it only got one large Portland firm. State Bar president and ABA He is survived by his wife, Peter Rinaldi and year in the state Legislature. vote — my vote.” Katelyn Booth Randall ’02 House of Delegates member Muriel Deutsch Lezak, three Aoife Cox Rinaldi ’02 At 78, he is both Wisconsin’s Born May 5, 1927, Risser of Portland has joined and a partner in the firm of children, and seven grand- and the United States’ longest-serving state grew up on a farm two miles west of down- the Metropolitan Public Thomas C. Howser P.C. (pre- children. Remembrances to lawmaker, in office for almost one-third of town Madison. Following in the footsteps of Defender (MPD) and will be viously Cottle & Howser). the Lawyer’s Campaign for Madison’s history. his great-grandfather, grandfather, and father, working in the Multnomah He was also the pro-tem Equal Justice. Over his years in office — twenty of which Risser’s tenure in the Legislature marks the County office. municipal judge in Ashland, Nicole Lynn Richardson ’04 included the position as President of the fourth successive Risser generation. Lane Tsuchiyama ’02 is Oregon, from 1974 to 1978. died of an accidental gunshot Senate — Risser (D-Madison), has passed “I knew from the time I was old enough a staff attorney at the Howser is survived by his on April 25, 2006, in Grand hundreds of bills, championing a plethora to know there was a Legislature that I was ◆ Department of Commerce Annette McGee ’06 wife Val, son Mark, and Junction, Colorado. She be- of issues ranging from contraceptives to an going to be involved,” Risser said. “I was born and Consumer Affairs in was honored to welcome daughters Laura, Kate, and Danielle Lordi ’07 gan her career as a Colorado overhaul of the criminal code. with a political spoon in my mouth. It may be Hawaii. Tsuchiyama will be her grandmother, Mary Jen and their families. and Judd Sneirson assistant state public A stalwart supporter of tobacco control, genetic.” representing the interest of Anderson, to the U.S. from Donald Smith Kelley ’50 defender, handling misde- Risser has always pushed for strong public From a May 4, 2006, story by Dana Hamilton in consumers before the Hawaii Liberia in time for McGee’s died April 10, 2006, in meanors and juvenile cases health standards. the Daily Cardinal, the independent University of Public Utility Commission. graduation. Mary Anderson Roseburg after a long battle in the district court in Grand “It was my bill that brought [that] about. Wisconsin campus newspaper. sheltered refugees during her Junction. Shortly before her Geoffrey K. Cooper ’03 with Parkinson’s disease. He country’s civil war. With the death, she was promoted and has joined Schwegman, opened his first law practice current semblance of peace in Sutherlin, Oregon, and won a “not guilty” verdict in child custody, modification Reena Advani, an associate law, statewide mortgage fore- Lundbert, Woessner & Kluth and a new president in the then worked for the Douglas her first felony trial. She is of child support orders, and producer on the foreign desk closures, and commercial of Minneapolis, Minnesota, country, Anderson felt safe County District Attorney’s survived by her parents and name changes. She is an with National Public Radio. contracts. as an associate, specializing leaving Liberia to immigrate office before opening another stepparents; Guy and Katie elected member of the House in the prosecution of patents Anna Joyce ’01 is an as- James (Jim) A. Underwood to a new land at age 79. law practice in Roseburg in Denise Graves ’98 Richardson of Jefferson, of Delegates for the Oregon in the pharmaceutical, sistant attorney general in ’01 has joined Cox & Chris Walther ’06 of Las 1953. He finished his law Iowa, and Nancy Richardson State Bar and assists with chemical, and biotech fields. the appellate division with Associates LLC in Eugene. Vegas completed a full-time practice with Luoma, Kelley, and Charles Krogmeier the Sri Lanka Tsunami Relief Micheal M. Reeder ’03 has the Oregon Department of Underwood centers his externship at Knowledge Wolke and Mays in 1987. of Ankeny, Iowa; and by Fund. joined Arnold, Gallagher, Justice. practice on major felony Learning Corporation (KLC) He is survived by his wife her grandmother, Pauline Saydack, Percell, Roberts Ina Zucker ’00 has returned Benjamin M. Kearney ’01 has defense, as well as real estate last summer and has joined Mary Elizabeth, daughters Richardson of Jefferson, & Potter in Eugene as an to Oregon and is clerking for joined his father, Michael P. transactions, foreclosure, Lionel Sawyer & Collins, the Adrienne Kelley and Sara Iowa, and their families. associate. Reeder focuses U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Kearney, in his Eugene prac- and litigation matters. He largest private law firm in Cassidy, son Paul Kelley, and Wayne A. Williamson on land use, real estate, and Papak in Portland. Zucker tice, and they have renamed will also be assisting the firm Nevada. their families died in Portland, Oregon, previously worked in North in expanding its state and municipal law. Steve Miller ’03 the firm Kearney & Kearney. Robert Burns Kerr ’52, 79, on February 28, 2006. A Carolina for the Southern federal civil litigation and Melissa Verhaag ’03 has and Joe Torregrossa ’06 Ben Kearney has spent the I n M emoriam died March 1, 2006, in retired partner of Schwabe, Environmental Law Center. appellate practice. accepted a position with last four years on active Portland. He was an assistant Williamson and Wyatt, he the Sacramento, California, Michael Arnold ’01, of duty as an attorney in the Elizabeth Ballard ’02 of Mary Irene Duhaime ’91, district attorney and district was a tough and effective office of Stoel Rives LLP. Arnold Law Office, LLC, in Army’s Office of the General Hermiston, Oregon, was 51, died February 4, 2006, judge in Klamath Falls, then litigator with a diverse civil Eugene, was appointed to Counsel, primarily respon- elected Morrow County Shawn M. Dickey ’04 has in Medford. She graduated an assistant Oregon attorney practice. He was elected to the Creswell, Oregon, school sible for negotiating inter- District Attorney in the May opened a new law office in from the UO in 1976, became general in Salem. He moved the American College of Trial board. He will serve through national contracts, intellec- primary. Ballard will take Lake Oswego, Oregon. Ashland’s first female patrol to Vancouver, Washington Lawyers, who designated June 2007 and seek election tual property law, and small office in 2007. Jessica King ’05 has joined officer in 1979, and was pro- in the late 1980s, where him Oregon’s distinguished in the May 2007 primary. business issues. His practice moted to detective in 1982. trial lawyer of 1992. He is Camilla Johnston ’02 is now Luvaas Cobb in Eugene. he worked for the state of John Lucas ’04 will center on business law, To further her career in law survived by his wife Lois, Ajay Bhatt ’01 has taken a the assistant attorney general Martha Pellegrino ’05 is Washington. He is survived and Siobhan Garde ’04 real estate transactions, and enforcement, she enrolled in daughter Ann Williamson, legal position at the U.S. in the human services sec- a lobbyist for the City of by his sister Joyce L. Veggen. estate planning. law school and, after gradua- sons Sam and John, and their Department of Homeland tion of the general counsel Portland. Sidney “Sid” I. Lezak, 81, tion in 1991, went to work in families — all of Portland. Security in Washington, D.C. Sia Rezvani ’01 and Melanie division with the Oregon the dean of mediation in Joshua Reed ’05 is with the Jackson County District Remembrances to the UO Bhatt focuses on immigra- B. Rezvani ’01 have opened Department of Justice. Oregon, died in Portland Paul, Hanley & Harley in Attorney’s office. She was af- School of Law. tion cases involving alleged Rezvani Law Office in Camilla will manage DHS on April 25, 2006. He was human rights persecutors. Gresham, Oregon. Their cases in Lane, Coos, and Berkeley, California. It is a plaintiff’s firm with exper- He is also pleased to an- practice centers on property Curry counties. Ducks in the Apple nounce his engagement to disputes, landlord-tenant tise in complex personal Assistant Dean Merv Loya and law professors John Lucas ’04 Andrea Coles Bjerre and Judd Sneirson visited New York City and Andrea Coles-Bjerre 26 alumni last June at the Divine Bar in midtown Manhattan. 27 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SCHOOL OF LAW partin g t h o u g h ts Pro Bono and the Public Good Student Hurricane Network typifies law student volunteers For the fifth year in a row, UO law 2006 Pro Bono Awards students were recognized by the Oregon Keynote by Suzanne Chanti ’88 State Bar for contributing more pro bono “Collectively you have contributed over hours than students at any other law 10,500 hours of services for the public school in the state. In these photos, UO good… Let me translate it for you. It law members of the Student Hurricane would take a single lawyer, billing 40 Network are shown offering legal help hours a week — which means working to Hurricane Rita victims in Beaumont, about 10 hours per day for more than five Texas. Eleven students spent spring years — to provide what you have given break in Texas, Florida, and Louisiana. in a single year… Tonight celebrate the Several continue to work on litigation, good work you have done, but much lobbying, and legislation related to hur- more than that, celebrate all the good ricane relief. work you have yet to do.”

▲ Adam Guenther ’08 helps a client with emergency paperwork.

One of many injured, ill, and displaced hurricane victims.

D ean ’ s A dvisory C ouncil

Dick Alexander ’69 Jim Carter ’76 Kirk Johansen ’74 Paul Nelson ’74 Nicholas Rockefeller Stoel Rives LLP Nike, Inc. Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt Duane Morris LLP Office of Nicholas Rockefeller ▲ Hurricane Rita hit Portland, Oregon Beaverton, Oregon Portland, Oregon San Francisco, California Santa Monica, California Beaumont, Texas, in Kelly Hertig Allen Don Corson ’85 Chris Kent ’85 Howard Ollis ’72 Robert A. Sacks ’74 Springfield, Oregon The Don Corson Law Firm Kent & Johnson LLP Eugene, Oregon Portland, Oregon September 2005. Eugene, Oregon Portland, Oregon Howard Arnett ’77 Carol A. Pratt ’98 Dick Shaw ’62 Karnopp Petersen LLP John Crawford ’73 Thomas Landye Preston Gates & Ellis, LLP Higgs, Fletcher & Mack LLP Will Macke ’08 at the Bend, Oregon Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt Landye Bennett Blumstein LLP Portland, Oregon San Diego, California Portland, Oregon Portland, Oregon Beaumont FEMA office. Jeffrey Beaver ’85 Laura E. Rackner ’84 The Hon. Vicki Toyohara ’80 Graham & Dunn Deirdre Dawson ’86 Richard Meeker ’74 Gearing Rackner Engel LLP Seattle, Washington ▼ Seattle, Washington Cassidy, Shimko & Dawson, PC Willamette Week Portland, Oregon Lone Star Legal Aid San Francisco, California Portland, Oregon William Wiley ’75 attorney David Craig with Ed Belsheim, Jr. ’78 Peter Richter ’71 Lake Oswego, Oregon InfoSpace Inc Katherine Gurun ’75 Hardy Myers ’64 Miller Nash LLP Adam Guenther ’08 and Bellevue, Washington JAMS - The Resolution Experts Oregon Attorney General Portland, Oregon Maryann Yelnosky ’86 New York, New York Salem, Oregon Bullard Smith Jernstedt Wilson Will Macke during spring The Hon. David Brewer ’77 Rohn Roberts ’79 Portland, Oregon break 2006. Oregon Court of Appeals Robert Holland ’52 Steve L. Naito ’80 Arnold, Gallagher, Saydack, Percell, Salem, Oregon Orange, California Tarlow Naito & Summers, LLP Roberts & Potter Ex officio Portland, Oregon Eugene, Oregon Mustafa Kashuhai ’96 President, Law School Alumni Association

▲ Will Macke inspects ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD damage with legal aid’s David Craig and client. President M embers Jim Egan ’85 Grethe Larson ’75 Summer Saad ’00 Mustafa Kasubhai ’96 Kryger, Alexander, Egan, Elmer & Hewlett-Packard Company Jordan Schrader PC Emergency help was Oregon Workers’ Compensation Board Emilio Bandiero ’90 Carlson Vancouver, Washington Portland, Oregon Salem, Oregon Attorney at Law Albany, Oregon slow in coming — but by Eugene, Oregon Joshua Marquis ’80 The Hon. Vice President Kurt Hansen ’84 Clatsop County District Attorney David Schuman ’84 spring 2006, many Heather Decker ’96 Allyn E. Brown ’69 Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt Astoria, Oregon Court of Appeals Texans were starting Attorney at Law Brown Tarlow & Bridges Portland, Oregon Salem, Oregon Portland, Oregon Newberg, Oregon The Hon. Lorenzo Mejia ’86 over. The Hon. Jackson County Circuit Court Judge E x o f f icio Treasurer Brooke Burns ’00 Donald W. Hull ’70 Medford, Oregon Dave Coffman ’97 Black Helterline LLP Hood River County Circuit Court Judge Emilia Gardner ’07 Coffman Legal, PLLC Portland, Oregon Hood River, Oregon Michael R. O’Connor ’97 UO Law Student Bar Association Seattle, Washington Garvey Schubert Barer President Myles Conway ’88 Linda Kessel ’90 Portland, Oregon Past President Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt Oregon Department of Justice The Hon. Thomas Hart ’86 Bend, Oregon Eugene, Oregon Lynne Rennick ’97 Attorney at Law Marion County Circuit Court Judge James Dole ’89 Salem, Oregon Allyson Krueger ’96 Eugene, Oregon Cauble, Dole, & Sorenson, Hitt, Hiller, Monfils & Williams, LLP Attorneys at Law Portland, Oregon 28 Grants Pass, Oregon Nonprofit Organization U.S. Postage PAID Eugene, OR Permit No. 63 1221 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1221

A Royal Visit

Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol of Thailand, who holds two law degrees from Cornell, greets members of the Eugene, Oregon, Thai community in the Morse Commons last July. More about the royal visit inside …