ADVOCATE Lewis & Clark Law School

Fall 2008 TheADVOCATE Lewis & Clark Law School

Law School Hosts Federal Judicial Center Conference Featuring Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy

Inside: Animal Law Moot Court Victories China Study Abroad Program Contents

Board of Visitors James Richardson ’76 Features 2008-09 Jordan Schnitzer ’76 Law School Hosts a Professor Thomas Ambrose ’75 J. Mack Shively ’79 John Bates Henry Skade ’77 Gathering of Luminaries ...... 2 Matthew Bergman ’89 Nancy Tauman ’78 Animal Law Evolves ...... 6 Bowen Blair Jr.’80 Jeffrey Teitel ’73 A Lawyer’s Journey ...... 13 Brian Booth Mark Tratos ’79 Keeping Up a Tradition Monte Bricker Professor Michelle Travis of Moot Court Victories ...... 16 Thomas Brown ’80 Isao Tom Tsuruta ’89 Commencement ...... 18 Hon. Alexander Bryner Steven Wildish ’85 David Case Michael Williams Honor Roll of Donors ...... insert Jonathan Cole ’76 Lawrence Wilson ’75 Pioneering Women Lawyers...... 26 Bruce Crocker ’76 Russell Winner Learning in China ...... 29 Jeff Curtis ’86 Tributes to Retiring Faculty ...... 30 Stephen Doherty ’84 Alumni Board of Directors Luis Dorn ’94 2008-09 Departments Professor Henry Drummonds Thomas Bittner ’89, Vice President Barnes Ellis William Brunner ’53 Law School News ...... 23 David Ernst ’85 Hon. Ronald Cinniger ’73 Faculty and Staff News ...... 41 M. Carr Ferguson Adam Cornell ’01 Class Notes ...... 45 Paul Fortino Gilion Dumas ’92 In Memoriam ...... 48 Hon. Julie Frantz ’75 Dennis Elliott ’74 Chris Fulmer ’09 Jeannette Fisher-Kouadi ’96 Hon. Susan Graber Adina Flynn ’96 Edwin Harnden Steve Hammond ’01 Christie Helmer ’74 Heather Hippsley ’84 Robert Hirshon Craig Jacobson ’95 Volume 28, Number 1, Fall 2008 The Advocate Steven Hopp ’75 John Kodachi ’92 Matthew Huarte ’93 Krista Koehl ’99 Lewis & Clark Law School James Hubler ’72 Hon. Marilyn Litzenberger ’88 10015 S.W. Terwilliger Blvd. Portland, Oregon 97219-7799 Judith Johansen ’83 Donna Maddux ’02 Phone 503-768-6600 Senator Elizabeth Johnson ’77 Richard Maizels ’66, President Susan Kornfield Connie McKelvey ’83 The Advocate is published for alumni, Jeffrey Lewis ’89 Hon. Keith Meisenheimer ’76 faculty, staff, and friends of Lewis & Clark Law School. Letters and articles are wel- Henry Lorenzen ’76 Christopher Neuman ’98 comed; submissions are subject to editing. Richard Maizels ’66 Elizabeth Newell ’06 President: Thomas J. Hochstettler Charles Markley ’75 Kathryn Root ’84 Dean: Robert H. Klonoff Leodis Matthews ’73 Heather Self ’01 Writing: Elizabeth A. Davis ’93 Alan Merkle ’82 Steven Shropshire ’94 Editing: Joseph Becker, Janna Clark, Matthew Murray ’75 Michelle Slater ’95 Deanna Oothoudt Pamela Rossano Myers ’74 Rob Roy Smith ’00 Design: Reynolds Wulf Inc., Hon. Diarmuid O’Scannlain Tracy Sullivan ’00 Robert Reynolds, Letha Wulf Philip Pillsbury ’76 Trinh Tran ’03 On the cover: Retired Supreme Court Justice Hon. Robert Redding Sandra Day O’Connor, Dean Klonoff, and Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy

It’s a wonderful feeling: I’ve finished my first year as dean of this great institution, and we ended on an incredible high note. U.S. Representative John Lewis, a civil rights giant, presented a moving and inspirational speech at our commencement ceremony. He urged our graduates to do as he did: to “get in the way” and make a difference. His courage during the struggles of the 1960s led to monumental progress, including major civil rights laws enacted during the Johnson administration. Lewis credited lawyers in the civil rights movement with making a huge difference, and he urged each of our graduates to give back in the form of public and community service. I can’t remember federal court system), we hosted one of the most important a more captivating oration. You can read excerpts from Lewis’ legal conferences ever held by any law school. Speakers address on pages 19-20 of this issue. included Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, Retired Justice With the help of our fantastic faculty, staff, alumni, and Sandra Day O’Connor, former acting solicitor general Walter students, we accomplished much to be proud of this past year. Dellinger, and Dean Irwin Chemerinsky. Numerous other Our fund-raising total for the fiscal year was more than 80 prominent judges, academics, and practitioners participated. percent higher than last year. Our alumni participation rate Read more on pages 2-5 of this issue. We just completed a increased, and we achieved 100-percent participation from robust alumni weekend that featured major speakers, including our tenure-track faculty, alumni board, and active members Billy Martin, the go-to lawyer for prominent athletes and of our Board of Visitors. We launched a major fund-raising other public figures. Our 2009 Higgins Visitor will be Roberta effort to establish an endowed faculty position in honor of Romano from Yale Law School. She is one of the country’s federal judge Robert E. Jones ’53, and we raised considerable leading experts in corporate law. grant money for our Small Business Legal Clinic and our Of course, despite our successes, challenges remain. The Community Development Law Project. capacity of our law school facilities is stretched very thin, and We also gained in the U.S. News & World Report rankings: we will need to raise funds to address our space issues. We also Our overall ranking increased nine places, putting us ahead need to look for opportunities to support endowed chairs in of our two sister law schools, the University of Oregon and environmental law and other areas. We need to raise more Willamette University. Our Environmental Law Program again money as well for our annual fund, for scholarships, and for ranked first, and we were ranked 22nd in intellectual property program needs that cannot be satisfied through our operating and 18th in legal writing. budget. In short, fund-raising will be an important priority We obtained a major gift for our Animal Law Program during the next year. and made two important hires: Pam Frasch, a leading scholar, In addition, we have several faculty vacancies to fill. I have casebook author, and animal rights advocate, is the new execu- put together a superb appointments committee, chaired by tive director of the program and Kathy Hessler, a nationally Professor Craig Johnston ’85, to lead this effort. known clinical law professor from Case Western University, In March 2009, we will receive our accreditation site visit is director of the Animal Law Clinic. We have entered into an by the American Bar Association. We are already well under- important collaboration with the Animal Legal Defense Fund. way in planning that important visit, which occurs every seven These developments put us in a position to maintain the top years, but much work remains to be done over the next several animal law program in the nation. Read more on pages 6-12 months. I have asked Professor Brian Blum to head this crucial of this issue. Also in the hiring arena, we promoted Melissa effort. Powers, from our Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center On a personal note, while I have met many alumni from (PEAC) clinic, to the tenure-track faculty. across the country, I have many more of you to meet, both here There were other great aspects to the year as well. Together and abroad. So, I’m planning a number of trips next year. I also with the University of Missouri at Kansas City, we completed want to spend more time getting better acquainted with our our first summer program in China at Peking University. Four- wonderful faculty and staff. I have made many close friends this teen of our student participated. We had two outstanding Hig- year, but there are many others I am anxious to know better. gins Visitors: Sam Issacharoff and Cynthia Estlund of New York Finally, I want to make an important point: While we are University. Martha Minow from Harvard delivered our first a school on the move, I am deeply committed to preserving annual Martin Luther King Jr. memorial lecture. We had excit- the culture that makes us unique. This is a wonderful, caring ing business law and intellectual property programs. We created institution, and together we will move on to greater heights three new research-scholar positions that are now filled by without ever changing our essential character. Professors Bill Funk, Jennifer Johnson, and Lydia Loren. And three members of our faculty were admitted to the prestigious American Law Institute: Bill Funk, Jennifer Johnson, and Craig Johnston. These are only a sample of why the Law School is an exciting place these days. On September 18 and 19, in honor of the Federal Robert H. Klonoff Judicial Center (the research and education arm of the Dean and Professor of Law

1 Law School Hosts a Gathering of Luminaries by Dan Sadowsky

“The Supreme Court is in town!”—Bil Elsinger ’10

arely do a federal agency, an association of private And rarely, too, had such a star-studded constellation lawyers, and an academic institution join together of federal judges, lawyers, and scholars appeared on Palatine Rto organize a conference. Hill. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy gave the Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor keynote address on Friday, and the panels and presentations would know, and she brought this to everyone’s attention featured some of the country’s most prominent federal in her opening address at just such a remarkable event: judges and legal scholars. These included Dean Erwin the combined 40th anniversary celebration of the Federal Chemerinsky of the University of California at Irvine Judicial Center and annual meeting of the American School of Law and Duke Law School’s Walter Dellinger, Academy of Appellate Lawyers, held Thursday, September a former acting U.S. solicitor general. 18, through Friday, September 19, at Lewis & Clark “It was a wonderful gathering, and an unusual one,” Law School. said Chuck Arberg, assistant division director for Judges and Attorneys Programs in the FJC’s Education Division.

2 “Justice Kennedy did not simply lecture, but engaged our class with questions and really wanted to hear our answers. My class is small—only 11 students—and this made our interactions with him very individualized.” —Jenny Butler ’09

Clockwise from top: Justice Kennedy teaching in Professor Steve Johansen’s class. ■ Justice O’Connor’s question-and-answer session filled the Student Lounge to overflowing. ■ Members of the Law School faculty and Lewis & Clark administration with the judges, justices, and scholars attending the FJC conference.

As the research and education agency of the federal for John Robert Brown, chief judge of the U.S. Fifth Circuit judicial system, the FJC sponsors conferences each year Court of Appeals in New Orleans. to orient and educate federal judges and court employees. As the Honorable Barbara J. Rothstein, a U.S. district “But in this case,” Arberg explained, “we had an audience judge for the Western District of Washington and current of judges, lawyers, AAAL members, and students. And director of the FJC, noted in her remarks, it was Klonoff’s typically if we have a program attended by Supreme Court idea to commemorate the FJC’s four decades of service. justices, it’s one held in Washington, D.C. So to have As a member of the AAAL—an exclusive group of the two justices there was a great achievement.” nation’s most distinguished appellate advocates—Klonoff The FJC was established by Congress in 1967 and had learned that the annual fall meeting of the organization has since provided an immeasurable contribution to the would take place in Portland. He volunteered to host nation’s federal court system, says Lewis & Clark Law the AAAL’s gathering, and introduced the idea of asking School Dean Robert Klonoff. His own introduction to the FJC if they’d be interested in simultaneously celebrat- the agency came nearly 30 years ago, when he was a clerk ing their anniversary.

3 “This was an amazing experience, particularly since I’m taking Constitutional Law II this semester. We are truly fortunate to have had such distinguished visitors interact with us on such a personal level.” —Gabby Richard ’11 Clockwise from top: Justice Kennedy in the classroom. ■ Kennedy listens to a student question. ■ Judge Lee Rosenthal speaks to the conference attendees. ■ Walter Dellinger, former acting U.S. solicitor general, addresses the conference.

The ensuing discussions culminated in September’s Each justice held question-and-answer sessions with stu- conference, which attracted approximately 300 attendees, dents, and Justice Kennedy met with faculty for more than including about 40 judges, to Lewis & Clark. Panels, an hour and taught classes. Initially scheduled to teach two several of which were moderated by the Law School’s classes—legal ethics and comparative constitutional law— Henry J. Casey Professor of Law Ed Brunet and Professor Kennedy approached Klonoff on Thursday morning and Paula Abrams, focused on the impact of science and tech- asked to teach another. Klonoff thus added wills and trusts nology on the law, balancing national security and indi- to Kennedy’s course load. vidual liberties in a time of terrorism, and the public’s “They were both so generous with their time,” Klonoff perception of the federal courts. Highlights of these said. “Dozens of students have told me how much the visit panels will be published in an upcoming issue of the meant to them.” Lewis & Clark Law Review. More than one significant piece of news was announced During the events, both faculty and students gained during a reception at the Portland Art Museum on Thursday remarkable access to Justices O’Connor and Kennedy: evening. First, Klonoff told the crowd that Justice Kennedy

4 A special evening at the Portland Art Museum.

Clockwise from top left: Harold Schnitzer and Jordan Schnitzer ’76. ■ Mark Tratos ’79. ■ Tom Sand ’77, Robert Newell, and David Ernst ’85. ■ Hon. Robert E. Jones ’53. ■ Justice Kennedy addresses students during the question-and-answer session in the Student Lounge. ■ Monte Bricker, Heidi Fouser, Dean Klonoff, Hon. Lee Rosenthal, and Cathryn Majeran.

“Justice Kennedy was frank, open, humorous, and inspiring. He answered difficult questions about his experience as a justice, jurisprudential philosophy, and the direction of American democracy. I walked out of his discussion refreshed, rejuvenated, and excited about law school.” —Matt Dowling ’09

had agreed to add his name to an annual Supreme Court Those sessions, which were open to students, included panels lecture to be held at the Law School. The cachet of the with Paul J. De Muniz, Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice, Anthony M. Kennedy Lecture on the Supreme Court and the two advocates who argued the Exxon Valdez case should ensure a top-drawer speaker and prominent atten- before the U.S. Supreme Court: Walter Dellinger and dees, Klonoff says. “We believe it will become something Stanford’s Jeffrey Fisher. It was the best-attended AAAL people will look forward to every year.” event ever outside of Washington, D.C., according to Klonoff. Also announced that night: An endowed professorship Such a successful event should be a boon to the Law in honor of Robert E. Jones ’53, U.S. district court judge School for years to come, Klonoff says, providing advan- in Oregon and one of the state’s most distinguished jurists. tages such as better job opportunities for students and an Jones, a former adjunct professor at the Law School, was enhanced ability to attract top-name speakers. “With this on hand for the tribute and gave remarks. event, we demonstrated our academic and organizational The FJC portion of the conference wrapped up Friday, excellence to some of the most influential representatives but the AAAL meeting continued into Saturday morning. of our nation’s legal community.” ■

5 6 Animal Law Evolves New funding, new programs, new faculty, and a larger staff take Lewis & Clark Law School’s nationally recognized Animal Law Program to the next level. by Bobbie Hasselbring

“Helmsley leaves $12 million to dog.” supporter of the Animal Law Program. “Local woman accused of hoarding We must fight against “We’ve been the school most involved animals.” “Tainted pet food results in in animal law before this new growth hundreds of deaths and dozens of law- the spirit of unconscious and we’re certainly going to be the suits.” “Athlete charged in dog fighting.” cruelty with which biggest one after this growth.” “Divorcing couple in pet custody battle.” we treat the animals. The steady expansion of Lewis & These and dozens of other headlines Clark’s Animal Law Program over the tell the story: Animal law is one of the Animals suffer as much years has followed the progression in fastest-growing areas in the legal profes- as we do. True humanity people’s attitudes about animals. “Many sion today. And Lewis & Clark Law does not allow us years ago when we first got involved in School, long a leader in the field of animal law, no one really knew what it animal law, has launched bold new to impose such sufferings was,” says Janice Weis, associate dean initiatives to make its new Center for on them. and director of the Environmental Law Animal Law Studies the top program —Albert Schweitzer, and Natural Resources Program at Lewis in the country. The Philosophy of Civilization & Clark. “It sounded marginal, contro- With the Animal Legal Defense versial. But that’s changed as people’s Fund (ALDF), the oldest nonprofit perception of animals has changed. animal law organization in the country, Pamela Alexander, director of the Now, we let animals sleep on our beds; Lewis & Clark Law School is poised to Animal Law Program of ALDF, is equally we bring them on vacations. People dramatically expand and develop its excited about this first-of-its-kind collab- relate to legal efforts to protect animals Animal Law Program. This move not oration. “This partnership will allow and they no longer have giggles about only creates the sole comprehensive Lewis & Clark to develop a world-class, animal law. It’s a legitimate legal field animal law program in the nation, but groundbreaking animal law program,” of study.” also will have a profound effect on the says Alexander, “and make the Center evolution of animal protection laws and for Animal Law Studies a really excep- New Energy of animal law as a field. tional choice for law students and The new association with ALDF enables “The collaboration with ALDF is scholars to study and develop the field Lewis & Clark to be the first law school about synergy,” says Lewis & Clark Law of animal law. We envision bringing in the country to offer an animal law School Dean Bob Klonoff. “I’m very together top minds in the growing com- program with a full-time executive direc- proud of having this well-regarded organ- munity of professionals and students tor, a full-time clinical professor, and a ization working with us. ALDF brings in animal law.” full-time program assistant. “At Lewis expertise, skill, stature, and a value & Clark, you’re going to get the best system that is going to enhance the Law A Long Tradition in Animal Law animal law education available anywhere School and the field of animal law.” For the past 16 years, Lewis & Clark in the world,” says executive director has been at the forefront of this emerging Pamela Frasch, who will lead the pro- legal field. The school was the first to gram’s expansion. “You’re going to be It is just like man’s have a student chapter of the Animal Legal Defense Fund (SALDF), one of vanity and impertinence the first to offer an animal law course, Founded in 2008, the Center for Animal to call an animal dumb the first to publish an animal law jour- Law Studies at Lewis & Clark is the new home for the animal law programs because it is dumb nal, the first to convene an annual international conference on animal law, the and activities of Lewis & Clark Law to his dull perceptions. first to develop an animal law clinic, School. The center collaborates with the national nonprofit Animal Legal Defense —Mark Twain with full-time faculty, the first to create an animal law moot court, and the first Fund to educate and support law students to create a national animal law center. and legal professionals in the rapidly Left: Kathy Hessler, professor and director of “You won’t find any other school developing field of animal law through the Animal Law Clinic, and Pamela Frasch, that has the breadth or depth of animal classes, conferences, scholarship, executive director of the Center for Animal law activity both locally and nationally,” and clinical opportunities. Law Studies. says Professor of Law Bill Funk, an early 7 Animal Law Evolves

challenged and you’re going to come Clark, there is a feeling that all questions out thinking differently and be ready The indifference, are appropriate to ask and think about to change the world.” and ponder,” he says. “You can raise a The increased staffing will allow the callousness, and contempt point that’s outside of the norm and you school to expand its course offerings, that so many people won’t be rebuffed. In fact, it’ll be thor- and may in the future make it possible exhibit toward animals oughly explored.” for Lewis & Clark to offer a certificate Law student Alexis Curry Fox ’09 in animal law and/or an LL.M. degree. is evil first because came to Lewis & Clark because of the “The Animal Law Program is nested in it results in great school’s animal law offerings and has our nationally recognized Environmental suffering in animals, participated in SALDF, the Animal Law Law Program,” explains Associate Dean Review, the Animal Law Conference, Weis. “Currently, you can earn an envi- and second because and the Moot Court Competition. She ronmental law certificate or an environ- it results in an incalculably also took second place in the Animal mental law certificate with a specialty in great impoverishment Law Closing Argument competition at animal law. It’s only one step away from Harvard. Currently, Fox is in an extern- being able to earn a certificate in animal of the human spirit. ship program with Nancy Perry ’95 at the law or an LL.M. degree in animal law.” —Ashley Montague Humane Society of the United States in Increasingly, the emphasis of the Washington, D.C. She says she’s excited program is on scholarship. The new ex- that the program is growing. “My deci- ecutive director, Pamela Frasch, formerly “This is the only animal law clinic of its sion to go to Lewis & Clark was based general counsel for the Animal Legal kind in the country,” says Hessler. “We on the Animal Law Program’s excellent Defense Fund in Portland and a Lewis don’t want to squander the opportunity. reputation,” says Curry Fox. “I’m thrilled & Clark Law School adjunct professor We want to have far-reaching impact.” our program is growing. If you are inter- for the past 10 years, is the coauthor of One of the goals of the expanded ested in animal law, try to get into Lewis the subject’s premier casebook, Animal program is to hire a top scholar in animal & Clark. Not only will you receive an Law: Cases and Materials. One of her du- law. “We’re looking to endow a chair in incredible, unique education in animal ties will be to expand and develop ani- animal law,” says Dean Klonoff. “No law law, you will also learn from leaders in mal law course offerings. school has a high-level, nationally recog- the field.” ■ “Pam will be teaching our mainline nized scholar with an endowed chair animal law course. Not only has she in this field. It would put that person done a lot of litigating, she’s also a and the Law School at the forefront of First in Animal Law scholar in her own right,” says Lewis & national scholarship in animal law.” Thanks to the efforts of students and a Clark Law Professor Michael Blumm, Two things that won’t change in handful of dedicated faculty members, another early supporter of the Animal the Animal Law Program: rigorous legal Lewis & Clark Law School has the distinc- Law Program and the first Animal Law preparation and an openness to differing tion of many “firsts” in animal law. Review advisor. “She’s the right person perspectives. “We work really hard to Here are a few: to lead the program and ensure that educate our students to be lawyers rather students who come here for animal law than activists,” says Associate Dean First Student Animal Legal Defense get all the exposure they can.” Weis. “While students may feel passion- Fund (SALDF) chapter The Animal Law Clinic will be ately about animals, while they may First international animal law taught by an internationally recognized choose to be vegan as a life philosophy, conference clinical expert. “Kathy Hessler will lead we educate them that something has First animal law journal the clinic, which is a big deal,” says Pro- to be illegal to have a foot in the legal First animal law clinic with full-time fessor Funk. “She’ll be teaching full-time world. faculty at the clinic, which is different for us, “In addition, we make sure all the and she’s not just any full-time person. sides are brought up in the classroom. First animal law moot court She’s also an experienced professor from We try to explore all the perspectives, First animal law mock trial, closing Case Western University.” not just the one most students agree argument, and legislative and lobbying Hessler plans to focus the clinic’s with. If you don’t have practice listening competitions efforts on national cases that have the to a diversity of perspectives and articu- First summer animal law program potential to shape laws affecting animals. lating your views with people who First animal law program with a feel differently than you do, you’re full-time administrator, clinical faculty, ill prepared to be a good lawyer.” and support staff The squirrel that Geordie Duckler ’87, a Portland you kill in jest, attorney who practices animal law exclu- First collaboration with the Animal sively, says that characteristic openness Legal Defense Fund to create a dies in earnest. was something he appreciated when he comprehensive animal law program of international stature —Henry David Thoreau attended Lewis & Clark and it serves him well in his practice. “At Lewis & 8 Pamela Frasch: She also started teaching Lewis & Clark’s Kathy Hessler: Powerful Animal Defender animal law course. Both students and faculty fell Clinical Expert in love with her enthusiasm and her knowledge. Pamela Frasch, the new executive director of Kathy Hessler can’t stop smiling. “I’ve known Pam since she started teaching here That’s because her new position as professor Lewis & Clark’s Center for Animal Law Stud- 10 years ago and could see right away the dy- and director of Lewis & Clark’s Animal Law ies and former litigator and general counsel namism she brings to the classroom,” says Jan- Clinic brings together her two greatest interests, for the Animal Legal Defense Fund, has seen ice Weis, associate dean of environmental law. clinical teaching and animal rights. it all when it comes to people’s inhumane “She was able to legitimize animal law. People “This is the only in-house clinical animal treatment of animals. wanted to take her class because they heard she law program in the country,” says the 44-year- “I’ve worked on many serious animal cruelty was interesting and a really good teacher.” old Hessler. “It’s the opportunity to bring my cases and people often ask how I can handle Teaching at the Law School made Frasch clinical teaching and my passion for animal law looking at pictures of microwaved cats or dogs painfully aware that there was no casebook in together. It’s something I couldn’t pass up.” beaten to death by angry boyfriends,” says animal law. In 2000, she coauthored Animal Hessler, who earned her J.D. at William & Frasch. “I tell them that I focus on the legal Law: Cases and Materials, the premier casebook issues. Otherwise, the horrific facts would be in animal law. Now in its third edition, Frasch’s Mary and her LL.M. at Georgetown, and who paralyzing and I wouldn’t be able to do my job.” casebook has become the standard text for cut her legal teeth working for the poor at Legal It was both the legal challenges and her animal law courses across the country. Services of Northern Virginia, is nationally known emotional ties to animals that originally brought Earlier this year, the Animal Law Center’s for her breadth of experience teaching in clinical Frasch to animal law. “I’ve always loved animals, Laura Ireland Moore ’01 stepped down from her settings. She’s taught in law clinics at Case but when I went to school at William Mitchell position as executive director. Shortly thereafter, Western Reserve University School of Law, College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, animal ALDF approached the Law School with a gener- Cornell University Law School, the University law, as a field of independent study or practice, ous offer to collaborate in creating a world-class of Dayton School of Law, and Capital University did not exist. I never had the opportunity to take center for animal law studies. Frasch, with Law School in Columbus, and she was a clinical an animal law course, but I read a lot of litera- her broad litigation and teaching background, teaching fellow at Georgetown University Law ture on animal protection and animal law seemed the obvious choice for executive Center. Her teaching has covered a wide range philosophy and became deeply interested in director of the Center for Animal Law Studies— of legal areas, including banking, consumer law, the subject both intellectually and viscerally.” a conclusion roundly confirmed by an exhaustive housing, public benefits, and domestic violence. While working as a labor and employment national search. She is currently the chair of the Clinical Legal attorney for a large firm in San Francisco, “Pam is incredible and we’re lucky to have Education Section of the American Association Frasch put her concern for animals to good her,” says Law School Dean Bob Klonoff. “She’s of Law Schools and the chair-elect of the Animal use and started doing pro bono work for the written the only casebook in this area of law and Law Section. Humane Society. Soon, she learned about a she’s a nationally recognized expert in the field. “Kathy is one of the top clinical faculty Bay Area–based organization called the Animal She’s proven herself with students and with our members in the country, and not just in animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), and it seemed a staff and faculty. No matter how good someone law,” says Bob Klonoff, dean of Lewis & Clark perfect fit. She volunteered her time handling looks on paper, you never know how good the Law School. “Her reputation is extraordinary.” criminal cases for ALDF, something that was chemistry and the fit are until they get here. In Hessler’s opinion, law clinics provide the a first for the organization. With Pam we already knew we had a great fit.” all-important hands-on experience students Frasch and her husband decided to move to Frasch is equally excited about the potential need to become good lawyers. “When I left law the Northwest 15 years ago, but she continued for creating the top animal law studies program school, I wasn’t prepared to practice law,” she her pro bono work with ALDF while in private in the country. “This is an exciting time to be admits. “I found that students interning at my practice at Stoel Rives. In 1996, ALDF offered involved in animal law because there’s an oppor- Legal Services office were completely unpre- her a staff position and asked her to open the tunity for students to become national leaders pared to practice law, too. For the past 16 years, Portland office. She developed the organization’s and have a profound impact on the development my professional focus has been on bridging criminal justice program, worked on hundreds of of the field,” she says. “Lewis & Clark has been the gap between law school and law practice cases, developed precedent-setting anti-cruelty a leader in animal law for 16 years, and now we through clinical teaching.” statutes, and eventually became general counsel have the opportunity to take it to the next level. The difference between clinical work and for ALDF. I’m excited to be part of that.” classroom work, Hessler explains, is that students in a clinical setting deal with indetermi- nacy, facts that are not finite and fixed. “If we want to prepare law students to be active, engaged, intelligent, and creative lawyers, we need them to know how to work with mobile facts, not just with facts that are set,” she says.

9 Animal Law Evolves

“The clinical setting is a laboratory, a real law It’s not just a question of how the law should firm in a law school with educational and law resolve a particular question, but also of how the firm support. Students are able to practice law law should develop. It’s a wonderful opportunity for the first time with real cases, and with the to give students basic skills and help them faculty as their safety net.” define their role as professional lawyers able Hessler’s other focus, what she calls her to shape the law.” “substantive passion,” is animal law. She started One of the first thorny issues Hessler plans working as an animal activist back in the mid- for the clinic to tackle is animal testing. A recent 1980s, becoming a vegan and participating in National Academy of Sciences study critiqued hunt protests and similar actions. Eventually, she the current state of the industry and made some became a public interest lawyer, teaching and sweeping recommendations. Hessler wants lecturing about animal law on the side. Hessler students to grapple with the issues involved in also began student animal law and animal law implementing those recommendations. “What bar organizations, and joined the board of the legal, systemic, and structural changes have Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF). to occur for those recommendations to be Moving from activist to teacher changed implemented and what would be the implica- Hessler’s perspective. “Activist work comes with tions?” she asks. an agenda,” she says. “When I stepped out of The plan is to conduct legal research, pro- that and into the academy, it forced me to move duce a white paper, hold symposia around the to a higher level of thinking about systems, country with legal and scientific experts, and about effective methods for engaging in legal perhaps even testify before Congress. The clinic Handzel grew up in a family of lawyers— work. It gave me some distance from the activist might possibly use litigation to test whether cur- and on an organic beef farm. “Animals were, of mentality. In the academy I’m not saying what rent legislation could achieve some of the NAS course, very important to us,” she says. “I grew the outcome must be. Instead, I’m saying we study’s recommendations. It’s a big project that up with that Midwestern relationship with ani- need to engage in the dialogue, explore the could take two or three years. “During this time, mals and animal husbandry. However, over the questions, and see where it takes us. we’ll evolve as a clinic,” Hessler says. “It’ll give years, I shifted from a farming perspective “For a long time, I was doing all of this ani- us an opportunity to think about how we can to caring more about animal rights and mal work on top of my regular teaching,” she carve out time for students to do smaller cases animal welfare.” says. “My clinical teaching and my animal law for more direct skill-building as well as partici- In her new position at the Center for Animal interests were running on concurrent streams. pate in law reform. We want a nice mix of both Law Studies, Handzel says she’ll be “helping Now they’re coming together.” types of cases so there’s balance. We want stu- develop the program and grow it, contacting While the Animal Law Clinic at Lewis & dents to be able to manage the work and have donors, and getting our name out there.” She Clark has been operating since 2006, there are an excellent educational experience.” has already been working on a new website. plans to make it bigger and even better. “There’s Handzel says she, her three rescued dogs, an infusion of energy and talent that’s going to Laura Handzel: and a cat are settling nicely into their new home allow us to expand our Animal Law Clinic, the Passionate About Animal Law in southeast Portland, a quick seven-mile bike place where our students defend real animal ride from campus. And she says she can’t wait Laura Handzel is the Center for Animal Law law cases, and Kathy Hessler will lead that for law students to begin experiencing the Studies’ program assistant, the all-around talent effort,” says Janice Weis, associate dean and changes in the Animal Law Program. “The po- who makes sure everything in the Animal Law director of the Environmental Law and Natural tential here at Lewis & Clark is huge,” she says. Program runs smoothly. Sometimes that means Resources Program. “We’re going to be at the forefront of the move- providing clerical support, but her range extends Hessler says the Animal Law Clinic will take ment and instrumental in shaping where animal far beyond that. Handzel holds a J.D. from the on law reform cases that will have an impact law goes next.” University of Wisconsin, and brings to the job reaching far beyond the Portland community. experience working both in law firms and in “We have the resources to develop and explore grassroots animal protection agencies. questions relating to animal law,” she explains. “Animal law work is something I feel “We work in an emerging field of legal study. really passionate about,” says the 30-year- We can engage students in thinking about good old Handzel. “I’ve always been interested in answers to problems without being limited by using my law degree in policy and academics. the narrowness of an individual client’s goals. When this job came up, it looked like the perfect combination.”

10 Lewis &Clark’s Pioneers of Animal Law

Historically, the Law School’s Animal wonder if I was the only crazy person Law Program has been the product of out there. I didn’t know anyone else student drive and initiative. It was stu- who was concerned about these things.” dents who first identified animal law as It was at Wellesley College that Perry a substantive and emerging field that first met others who cared about animal deserved attention. They collaborated welfare. “I started to understand animal with the Animal Legal Defense Fund protection as a social movement,” she (ALDF) to create the first student ALDF says. Once conservative in her politics chapter. It was students who demanded and against government regulation, more scholarship in the form of the Ani- she delved into the political process sur- mal Law review and the annual Animal rounding the issue. “I realized I wanted Law Conference. It was students, too, to spend my life protecting animals.” who pressed for a clinic, summer pro- Starting law school at Lewis & Clark, gram, and moot court competitions so Perry again found fellow students who that they could gain practical experience. were interested in animal welfare. “At And it was students who thought there the time, the term ‘animal law’ wasn’t should be a center that would bring to- being used widely,” she says. “We knew an area that could be brought into gether animal law resources for scholars, we all cared about animals, but we mainline courses and attract lots of students, and practitioners. weren’t sure if there was a body of law scholarship,” says Blumm. “Based on Over the past 16 years, a number of out there that would hang together.” Nancy’s excellent presentation, the students have lent a hand shaping the Perry contacted the Animal Legal faculty approved the journal.” Animal Law Program. However, two stu- Defense Fund and told them a small Today, Animal Law is a mainline jour- dents in particular—Nancy Perry ’95 and group wanted to affiliate and form a stu- nal that boasts a solid subscriber base. Laura Ireland Moore ’01—were visionary dent chapter. She met with a cautious It attracts articles by noted scholars and pioneers without whom there certainly reply. “They told me that student groups practitioners in the field of animal law would be no nationally recognized start up and then go away,” she recalls. and beyond, including U.S. Secretary Animal Law Program at Lewis & Clark “I knew in order to be successful we’d of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, U.S. Repre- Law School. have to plan for the group to survive sentative Earl Blumenauer, U.S. Senator beyond my generation. We created Mark Hatfield, primatologist and etholo- Nancy Perry ’95: bylaws, recruited more students, and gist Jane Goodall, Professor Laurence Tribe, and animal law authority Steven Passionate Advocate came up with a plan to grow the group that included holding a conference Wise, among others. From its precarious For Nancy Perry, the journey of a lifetime on animal law.” beginnings, Animal Law has grown into began with a chicken. Both the student ALDF (SALDF) a respected authority on animal law issues In an undergraduate film class, Perry chapter and the conference were a suc- that has been cited by numerous state saw a movie that followed the mechanized cess. Perry also instinctively knew that courts, the U.S. Supreme Court, and and often brutal trip chickens take in a scholars, students, and practitioners even international courts. slaughterhouse, from being hung upside needed a place to present and discuss Today, Nancy Perry is still a passion- down on a conveyor belt to being neatly ideas about this emerging field of law. ate advocate for animals. She is currently packaged for sale. She, Matt Howard ’94, and Ben Allen ’94 the vice president for government affairs “I was in my first year in college approached Lewis & Clark Law Professor at the Humane Society of the United and went home crying,” she says. “When Michael Blumm with the idea of creating States in Washington, D.C., where she I told my mother we’d watched chickens a journal dedicated to animal law. With oversees state and federal lobbying efforts being slaughtered, she said, ‘Ah…oh… assistance from Blumm, Perry led the for animal protection. She credits her we’re having chicken for dinner.’” charge and presented their case before experiences at the Law School for paving It was a defining moment for Perry. the Law School faculty. Again, she met the way for her and for the animals. Up until then, she’d been completely with a cool response. “My experience at Lewis & Clark re- unaware of the realities facing many ani- “It’s fair to say the faculty wasn’t ally prepared me for what I do,” she says. mals throughout the world. “I realized very receptive,” says Blumm. “They raised “My legal training has been tremendously there was a problem out there and that a lot of questions about the nature of the important. I learned about how agencies I was part of the problem,” she recalls. journal and whether it would reflect work, how rules and regulations are “It was the beginning of a journey in well on the Law School.” created, and the critical importance of thinking about my personal choices. Undaunted, Perry convinced litigation. It’s so gratifying to see how I immediately stopped eating meat except ALDF to provide financial support Lewis & Clark is embracing and develop- for fish, and eventually gave that up, too. for the journal and the following spring ing animal law at a time when the rest Perhaps more important, I started to she went back to the faculty. “Nancy of the legal community is just waking did a terrific job of explaining the field up to this important area of law.” of animal law and showing that it was

11 Pioneers of Animal Law

It wasn’t easy. Over the next seven years, Ireland Moore attracted additional funding and added and expanded programs. She began teaching an animal law clinical internship seminar in the spring of 2002. In 2006 it grew into the Animal Law Clinic, where students could get hands-on experience. She developed a website for students and practitioners, complete with extensive resources that included links to organizations, career guides, reading and writing guides, and a database of current job opportunities. She started the National Animal Advo- cacy Competitions, including appellate moot court, closing argument, mock trial, and legislative drafting and lobbying events. “We tried to raise the profile of animal law and build a model animal law program that will help students become Laura Ireland Moore ’01: ence expenses, hoping their fund-raising effective legal advocates for animals in Inspired Entrepreneur efforts would earn enough to cover the courtrooms and in the halls of Congress,” costs. Ireland Moore thought the Animal she says. Animals have always been important Law Program could be bigger and better. to Laura Ireland Moore. Everyone, including current Lewis “The great thing about Lewis & Clark & Clark Law School Dean Bob Klonoff, “I’ve been an animal advocate almost is that they really listen to students,” my whole life,” she says. “I became vege- is impressed with Ireland Moore’s dedica- she says. As her graduation approached, tion and perseverance. “Laura came in tarian in junior high, and a vegan in high Ireland Moore began having conversa- school. I started my high school’s animal as an entrepreneur and created this tions with various faculty members and whole thing from scratch,” says Klonoff. rights club. I was drawn to law school as with then Law School Dean James a way to combine my personal ethics “She had the moral support of the school, Huffman about her ideas for expanding but no funding. She had to raise her with my career.” the program. It was Lewis & Clark’s reputation as own money—and she put together a “I was inspired by what [Lewis & program that’s earned national attention a leader in environmental law and the Clark Professor of Law] Doug Beloof fact that it hosted an annual conference and respect.” created with the National Crime Victim In 2007, Ireland Moore and her and published Animal Law that con- Law Institute and wanted to develop vinced Ireland Moore to attend the husband, Drew Ireland Moore ’04, had a a similar center for animal law at the daughter. Drew, who is also an attorney, Law School. school,” she says. Dean Huffman, who Before long, she found herself feeling recently was offered an opportunity in Ireland Moore says was incredibly sup- Newport the couple felt they couldn’t stifled by the many statuary laws that portive, offered her a salary of $1,000 make up environmental law. In contrast, refuse. They moved to the coast and are a month and told her she had six months enjoying small-town life. animal law felt wide open. “Animal law to make something happen. was—and still is—a new area and the Ireland Moore admits it was difficult Ireland Moore established the National to leave a program she’d built up largely law isn’t firmly established,” Ireland Center for Animal Law as a nonprofit Moore says. “I like coming up with inno- with her own blood, sweat, and tears. organization housed at the Law School. However, the change also brought a new vative ideas and creative applications of She brought together leaders in animal the law. I also like being involved in opportunity. Ireland Moore recently law to form its board of directors. launched a private law firm, Gibbons & establishing laws that directly affect and Initially, she was given only a card improve the lives of animals.” Ireland, with friend and fellow alumna table, a phone, and a computer. With her Holly Gibbons ’04. Ireland Moore quickly became own money, she put together a brochure involved in Animal Law, the SALDF As founder and chair of the Oregon for the organization and sent it out to State Bar Association’s new Animal Law chapter, and the Animal Law Confer- potential funders. The money began ence. At the time, the Animal Law Pro- Section, Ireland Moore intends to stay to trickle in. actively involved in animal law. She and gram was still entirely student-run. The Her first major fund-raising success was annual conference, for example, was put law partner Gibbons agree, “Animal law a $10,000 grant from the Shared Earth will always be part of our practice.” ■ on by the SALDF chapter on a meager Foundation to support the annual confer- budget of $750. Often, students used ence. “I naively thought, ‘This fund-rais- their own credit cards to pay for confer- ing is easy. I’ll just write grant proposals,’” she says, laughing at the memory.

12 A Lawyer’s Journey by David Spicer ’80

Even as I turn to a new career in the non- probably rip us to shreds. She was a big David Spicer ’80 (right) during a profit sector, I feel a lot of gratitude for confidence booster. trip to Africa. the legal career that I launched at Lewis I sat down very slowly. I digested & Clark. After enjoying classes with pro- what was in store for me over the next to work with eight different law offices fessors like Doug Newell, Don Large, and 72 hours and saw my fledging career as a and represent clients in more than 25 Barb Safriet, I managed to have a few Perry Mason-style attorney hurtling off a areas of law. And no, I never got the boot. interesting and unusual adventures prac- cliff. To start off, Perkins had a five-page Two of those eight law offices were ticing law. For example, I may qualify as brief submitted and wanted to see mine firms I helped start or develop in Seattle. having the shortest ever first law job immediately. I barely knew what the This work exposed me to what it’s like to after graduation. Consumer Protection Act was about, be an entrepreneur and partially own a My law journey began in Seattle, much less how to write a brief. “Is it too firm, including the experiences of devel- where I moved immediately after earning late to go back to that insurance defense oping a successful business and managing my J.D. That first job was with an insur- law firm?” I wondered. employees. Some parts of this work were ance defense law firm. By the fourth day, I felt under the gun, but I had taken exciting. Other parts, like figuring out I couldn’t stand the work or my boss and a trial practice course with Judge Robert how to pay overhead costs, were less decided to quit rather than hang in for a Jones and at least had some idea what a enjoyable. There were times I did not year or so for the money. I remember courtroom looked like. I met my clients, get paid, but at least we always met the thinking as I walked out the door, “This learned the facts and the law, wrote a rest of our payroll. is the end of my legal career. No one will brief, and retained an expert for the case. At present, I manage a solo law hire me now.” Miracle of miracles, we actually won, practice out of my home basement to Strolling to downtown’s Pike Place much to the chagrin of the Perkins attor- supplement my income. However, truth Market, I noted a sign for the Cameron ney, who hated the idea of losing to a be told, I have had only one client this Law Clinic. I immediately liked the idea miserable law clinic lawyer. My clients last year. I attribute the slim volume to of representing low-income clients, so were awarded a whopping $2,500 in lack of signage and not my reputation. I dropped in. I had a new job just a few damages and $1,000 for attorney fees. As I have wound down my legal days later. On my first day, a paralegal My legal career was launched, and I felt work, I have recognized that I loved the gave me several cases, telling me to focus pretty good. challenges of my law practice. I am prob- on one in particular against General That trial helped inspire me to take ably proudest that I represented a very Motors. It was a consumer dispute that some risks in my professional career and diverse client base—probably more than involved a breach of warranty claim do some dreaming. I decided to become 65 percent of my practices’ clients during for a car, and it was going to trial in a bit of a “country lawyer” because I the last seven years have been African three days. She added that Perkins Coie, wanted to practice many different kinds American or Hispanic. And since I did the largest law firm in the Northwest, of law, including trial work. During 27 over 80 percent of my work as contingent represented General Motors and would years of practice, I have been privileged and pro bono practice, I know I provided

13 So if I loved my law practice, why would I ever leave? Well, 10 years ago, during the fall of 1998, I unwittingly began a journey that would take me to a new career.

representation to many, many clients who about the most desperate for water is made too many trips to Ethiopia, Central otherwise would have been denied access sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Ethiopia, America, and Mexico, and had seen too to the law and the courtroom. Sudan, Eritrea, Kenya, and Somalia. much extreme poverty and despair to So if I loved my law practice, why I have traveled to Ethiopia three different continue to rationalize the inequity of it. would I ever leave? Well, 10 years ago, times over the last five years, meeting I decided I needed to make a pivotal during the fall of 1998, I unwittingly mothers and children who walk up to decision on whether I was going to stay began a journey that would take me to 12 miles every day to fetch water. I have in my relatively lucrative and secure legal a new career. At the time, I had a friend observed how these people strain from career, or take the plunge and commit my working in Rwanda, which was still the weight of carrying water containers life to taking on some of these challenges. recovering from the horrific violence on their backs, going up and down hills I decided to try a new adventure. between the Hutus and Tutsis. He brought and valleys and spending up to seven So shortly after coming back from my the country’s situation to my attention hours each day on this chore. It has second trip to Ethiopia in October 2004, through stories about the extreme poverty struck a chord deep within me to see I told my wife, Marti, and my law part- of the people and about their critical how these Ethiopian villagers have to ners that I was going to leave our law need for water. I decided to help by fund- eke out their existence. firm and look for an opportunity to begin ing a water project for a very poor school As a result of these trips, back in the a second career in the nonprofit sector and small town. spring of 2004, two other Rotarians and addressing the global water crisis in the To do this, I enlisted help from my I started to raise awareness and funding developing world. My wife was very sup- fellow members of Rotary International, for water projects in the most desperate portive, although she knew it would a global service organization with more areas of Ethiopia. We have now raised mean a significant change in my salary. than 1.2 million members worldwide. over $500,000, and have been working My law partners were surprised and ini- With a few other Rotarians, I helped raise with Ethiopian Rotarians to coordinate tially tried to talk me out of it. But over $40,000 and obtained a matching grant the development of water systems for time they became very accommodating from Rotary International. Within a year, 42 different villages. This summer, these and we ended our relationship amicably the project was completed with a well projects will be completed and more than in May 2005. Later that month, I set up and water tanks. More than 2,500 people 100,000 people and an estimated 40,000 my own law practice out of my home were benefiting from having clean water, livestock will be the beneficiaries. and started work as a solo practitioner. and the water system continues to work The people of sub-Saharan Africa I discovered Agros International a to this day. are not the only ones wanting for easily little more than a year later. Agros This experience galvanized my inter- accessible clean water. In fact, over 1.2 (www.agros.org) is a nonprofit founded est in water projects throughout the de- billion people in the developing world do in Seattle in 1984 that works with veloping world. I decided to become not have access to clean water. Lawyers extremely poor families and villages in more involved and learned that one of are trained to rationalize almost any- Central America and Mexico. Agros the poorest areas on the planet and just thing, but I reached a point where I had extends loans for the purchase of farm-

14 This September, the World Bank awarded Agros funds in recognition of its special role in alleviating extreme poverty for families in the developing world.

land to rural families and then works staff, working in the field with our fami- with them on developing sustainable lies. In many instances, these individuals agricultural practices. are blown away by the experience they As part of our economic model, in have, the stories they hear, and the addition to land ownership, we partner children and adults they meet. These with families to develop water systems experiences are often transformative for drinking water and irrigation, build for the prospective donor and change housing and infrastructure like roads and their worldview. Many decide they want David Spicer and fellow volunteer community centers, and provide enter- to be involved with Agros and share Lee Gothshall-Maxon in Nicaragua. prise loans (similar to micro-credit loans) their resources. that allow women and men to take out Over the last few years, I have had September, the World Bank awarded small loans to start small cottage indus- quite the baptism of experience traveling Agros funds in recognition of its special tries for additional income. Ultimately, to meet families in Ethiopia, Kenya, role in alleviating extreme poverty for our goal is to help these families achieve Nigeria, India, Bangladesh, Guatemala, families in the developing world. long-term economic sustainability. The Mexico, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. Yes, I loved the law and appreciated families pay back loans for the land, I have been deeply humbled by what I the privileges and income that my law housing, and irrigation, as well as the have seen and experienced. I have gone practice generated. However, I have no enterprise loans, and develop great pride back to see villages in Central America regrets. I wake up every morning grateful of ownership. Very importantly, both the and Mexico where families now own to be doing this work with Agros. I feel wife and husband have their names on land and have great pride. The women incredibly lucky to have made this profes- the land title. are raising cattle or goats. The children sional transition into global development The work I do at Agros allows me are healthier because they drink clean and believe that I am putting my gifts to wear several hats. While I have done water. There is a health clinic in the and talents to their highest and best use. some legal work, such as reviewing con- village. The homes are now more solidly What I love about Agros and this new tracts, the majority of my work is in dif- built. And their land looks remarkable career is that I work in an organization ferent areas. I meet with people from the with harvests of mangoes, bananas, committed to real change that is sustain- business, public, academic, and nonprofit pineapples, tomatoes, peppers, corn, able one family and one village at a time. sectors. I speak before many groups like beans, and peas. It is a remarkable trans- And if any of you ever want to take Rotary Clubs, schools, and churches. formation and all this has evolved in just a risk and come on a trip with me to And, of course, I raise money. One of a few short years. Our efforts have been Central America or Mexico, just call or my favorite roles is to help lead groups so successful that we are engaging in a send me an e-mail. But watch out. The of prospective major donors down to new strategy to do this kind of work in experience might ruin you for life. You Central America and Mexico and have Africa and Asia in the next few years. It just might find that you want to start them see Agros, including our native will be made easier by the fact that this an adventure like mine. ■

15 Keeping Up a Tradition of Moot Court Victories by Professor Craig Johnston ’85

This year’s environmental team, which consisted of third-year students Bethany Cotton, Liz Crosson, and Diana Fedoroff, triumphed over 69 other teams at Pace, including Boston College, Thomas M. Cooley, University of California Hastings, Washington University in St. Louis, Georgetown, and the University of Hawaii. In the finals, we had our least favorite position in the three-party problem, the EPA. Fedoroff and Cotton were our advocates. They shined, leading the judges to declare our team the victors. The four-judge panel in the finals included Judge Robert S. Smith of the New York Court of Appeals, Judge Stefan R. Underhill of the U.S. District Court in Connecticut, Judge Anna L. Wolgast of the EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board, and Judge Susan L. Biro, the EPA’s chief administrative law judge. Our victorious animal law team also consisted of third-year students,in this case Lauren Goldberg and Erin Smith. This team triumphed over 16 other teams, with wins over the University of Washington and the University of Detroit in the semifinals and finals, respectively. Additionally, Smith was honored as the best oralist at the competition. This is third consecutive year in which one of our team members has won that honor. This year’s teams were coached by Professors Don Large, Craig Johnston, and Allison LaPlante during the fall semester. During the spring semester, Johnston and LaPlante served as the lead coaches for the environmental and animal law Our 2007-08 championship Pace and Harvard teams: Erin Smith, teams, respectively. Lauren Goldberg, Liz Crosson, Bethany Cotton, and Diana Federoff. The vast majority of the credit for these victories goes to the students themselves. Given our teams’ successes in Our environmental and animal law moot court prior years, this year’s advocates knew they had big shoes program had its best year ever in 2007-08, with to fill. Instead of being daunted by the high expectations, our teams winning both the National Environmen- however, both teams drew inspiration from their tal Law Moot Court competition at Pace Law predecessors’ efforts. School and the Animal Law Moot Court at Additional credit goes to the many faculty, alumni, and others who judged one or more of our practice rounds, Harvard Law School. This is the fifth time we including Paula Abrams, Dan Mensher, Melissa Powers, have won the Pace competition, and the second Bill Funk, Susan Mandiberg, Dean Klonoff, Jan Neuman, year in a row that we have won at Harvard. Joe Miller, Steve Johansen, John Parry, Jeff Jones, Julie Weis, Paul Conable, Stephen Feldman, Chris Len, and Peggy Crane (of Perkins Coie). Their differing perspectives and areas of expertise were crucial to showing our team members how wide-ranging the questions could be in any oral argument. Special thanks go to Judges Susan P. Graber and Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the Ninth Circuit, who took time out of their incredibly busy schedules to judge the environmental team’s final practice round. And finally, credit must go to all of the former participants on our environmental and animal law teams. As mentioned above, this is the fifth time that we have won the Pace competition—only one other school has ever won it even twice. It was is the second consecutive time that we have won at Harvard. Additionally, it is the 10th time that we have had the honor of at least making it to the finals at Pace. All of the members of our teams have set a standard of excellence that will inspire those to come.

16 Championships at Pace Nancy Perry ’95 is vice president 1994 Jenifer Johnston, Nancy Perry, and Scott Shapiro of government affairs for the Humane 1995 Jenifer Johnston, Leah Christensen Lively, Society of the United States. She and Nancy Perry oversees lobbying efforts in state 2002 Allison LaPlante, Tanya Sanerib, and Tyson Smith legislatures and Congress, and directs 2004 Dave Jones-Landry, Isa Lester, and Kristin Ruether grassroots activities nationwide. 2008 Bethany Cotton, Liz Crosson, and Diana Federoff She also lobbies directly for federal animal protection legislation. Championships at Harvard 2007 Liz Crosson and Diana Federoff 2008 Lauren Goldberg and Erin Smith

Finalists at Pace (top 3) 1992 Mike Halloran, Stephanie Parent, and Vickie Thimmesch Paul Conable ’97 is a partner at 1997 Paul Conable, Ken Larish, and Julie Weis Tonkon Torp in Portland. He has 1998 Chris Panoff, K.C. Schefski, and Peter Scott a wide-ranging commercial litigation 2001 Allison LaPlante, Melissa Powers, and Tanya Sanerib practice and has represented companies, 2007 Dan Mensher, Jamie Saul, and Ellen Trescott directors, and officers in securities class actions, derivative actions, Semifinalists at Pace (top 9) investigative actions, fiduciary duty, 1993 Scott Ames, Edie Matulka, and Sam Rauch and real estate matters. 1996 Ken Larish, Dana Messenger, and Julie Weis 2006 Dawn Dickman, Tami Santelli, and Dan Mensher

Quarterfinalists at Pace (top 27) 1991 Melissa Estes, Barry Needleman, and Paul Seby 1999 Wendi Hammond, Mike Newhouse, and K.C. Schefski 2000 Wendi Hammond, Mike Newhouse, and Melissa Powers Tyson Smith ’03 is an associate in 2003 Lance Day, Chris Len, and Tyson Smith Winston Strawn’s San Francisco office. He concentrates his practice in the area Where Are They Now? of nuclear energy regulation, represent- Our environmental and animal law moot court program has ing and providing advice to clients been a breeding ground for outstanding lawyers and advocates. regarding compliance with the regula- Detailing all of their exploits would take many pages. Melissa tions of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Powers just became our most recent tenure-track hire here at Commission issued under the Atomic Lewis & Clark. Nancy Perry is the vice president for govern- Energy Act and National Environmen- ment affairs at the Humane Society of the United States. tal Policy Act. He has been involved Others, such as Paul Conable (Tonkon Torp), Leah Lively in numerous NRC licensing, compli- (Lane Powell), Scott Shapiro (Downey Brand), Tyson Smith ance, and enforcement matters in both (Winston Strawn), and Ellen Trescott (Downey Brand) are the administrative and judicial contexts. either partners or associates with major law firms. Still others, such as K.C. Schefski (EPA), Sam Rauch (National Oceanic Tonya Sanerib ’02 is a partner at and Atmospheric Administration), and Dawn Dickman Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal, a public (USDA) have leadership positions with federal agencies. interest law firm in Washington, D.C. We have also generated an extraordinary number of She specializes in federal and state court environmental and animal law advocates. Some, like Tanya litigation on issues including wildlife Sanerib of Meyer Glitzenstein and Allison LaPlante and and animal protection, the environment, Dan Mensher of Lewis & Clark’s Pacific Environmental safe energy, open government laws Advocacy Center, work for public interest law firms. Many (FOIA), constitutional rights and others work for environmental or animal law groups. These civil liberties, and ballot initiatives include Liz Crosson (Environment Now), Chris Len (Klamath- and referenda. Siskiyou Wildlands Center), Kristin Ruether (Advocates for the West), Tami Santelli (Humane Society of the United States), Jamie Saul (Midwest Environmental Advocates), and Sarah Uhlemann (Humane Society of the United States). ■

17 Clockwise from top: Graduates Chris Camanllo, Molly Allison, Rose Alappat, and Dan Buri. ■ Jeana Wines and Ebil Matsutaro. ■ Keith Vidos and Kasia Rutledge. ■ L.L.M. graduates Katia Metan, Kathryn Kempton, and Alice Garett. ■ Tegan Schlatter, Kristin Seewald, and Michael Schmidt. ■ Student speaker Christine Totten.

John R. Kroger Honored With Leo Levenson Award The graduating class awarded the 2008 Leo Levenson Award for Teaching Excellence to John R. Kroger, associate professor of law. Kroger joined the Law School faculty in 2002. Prior to teaching at Lewis & Clark, he worked as a federal prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney’s office in New York, prosecuting the Mafia, drug kingpins, and corrupt public officials. He also served as a trial attorney on the U.S. Justice Department’s Enron Task Force. Kroger earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Yale University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. Prior to going to college, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps. This is the third time Kroger has been selected for the Levenson Award. Leo Levenson (1903-81) was a distinguished attorney and member of the Oregon State Bar for 56 years. He was also a highly respected instructor at the Law School for many years. The award in his name is presented annually to a faculty member selected by the graduating class. Kroger previously won the award in 2004 and 2007.

18 Commencement 2008

More than 200 graduates received their J.D. and LL.M. degrees on May 24. U.S. Representative John John Lewis

Lewis delivered the commencement John Lewis has represented address. Excerpts from his com- Georgia’s Fifth Congressional ments are reprinted below. District in the U.S. House of Dean Klonoff, members of the Board of Representatives since Novem- Directors and the Board of Visitors, dis- ber 1986. One of the most tinguished faculty, guests, parents, family, prominent leaders in the civil and friends, and to the class of 2008, I am rights movement, he played a honored and delighted to be with you on key role in the struggle to end this very important occasion. To each segregation. He is recognized and every one of you receiving a diploma by colleagues on both sides of today—congratulations. Because you have completed this assignment in your the aisle for his dedication to protecting human rights, life, you can now recognize the value of securing civil liberties, and upholding the highest ethical standards. dreaming dreams and seeing them real- The son of sharecroppers, Lewis grew up on his family’s farm and attended segre- ized. This is a great day. This is your day. gated public schools in Pike County, Alabama. He was inspired by the Montgomery Enjoy it! bus boycott and the words of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., which he heard Take a long, deep breath and take it on radio broadcasts, to commit himself to the civil rights movement. While a college all in. student, Lewis organized sit-in demonstrations at segregated lunch counters in But tomorrow you must be prepared Nashville, and in 1961 he volunteered to participate in the Freedom Rides. He was to roll up your sleeves, because the world repeatedly beaten by angry mobs and arrested for challenging Jim Crow segregation. is waiting for talented men and women By 1963—the year he turned 23—Lewis was a nationally recognized leader. He to lead it to a better place. was named the chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), The world is waiting for you, for your leadership, for your vision to help build which Lewis helped form. He was also an architect of and a keynote speaker at the an all-inclusive world community based historic march on Washington in August 1963. on simple justice, an all-encompassing In 1964, Lewis coordinated SNCC efforts to organize voter registration drives and community that values the dignity and community action programs in Mississippi. On March 7 of the following year, he and the worth of every individual—what I Hosea Williams led over 600 peaceful protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in like to call the Beloved Community. Selma, Alabama, intending to march to Montgomery to draw attention to the need Consider those two words: beloved for voting rights in the state. The marchers were attacked by state and local police community. Beloved means not hateful, wielding billy clubs, tear gas, and bull whips in a brutal confrontation that became not violent, not uncaring, not unkind. known as “Bloody Sunday.” Lewis and many of the marchers suffered extensive And community means not separated, not injuries. News broadcasts and photographs documenting the events shocked the polarized, not locked in struggle. nation and helped to hasten the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The most pressing challenge in our society today is defined by the methods we Lewis became associate director of the Field Foundation in 1966 and participated use to defend the dignity of humankind. in the Southern Regional Council’s voter registration programs. He went on to But too often we are focused on accumu- become the director of the Voter Education Project (VEP). Under his leadership, lating the trappings of a comfortable the VEP added nearly four million minorities to the nation’s voter rolls. life—the big house, some new clothes, In 1977, Lewis was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to direct more than and a shiny, new car. 250,000 volunteers of ACTION, the federal volunteer agency. He was elected to But, if you want a better, more just, the Atlanta city council in 1981, advocating for ethics in government and neighbor- more fair society, then you have to get hood preservation. Five years later he was elected to his current office. in the way. You cannot wait for someone Lewis holds a B.A. in religion and philosophy from Fisk University and is a else to create change. graduate of the American Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the recipient of You cannot wait for Congress to numerous national and international awards, including the Martin Luther King Jr. do it. You cannot wait for corporate America to do it. You cannot wait for Non-Violent Peace Prize and the John F. Kennedy “Profile in Courage” Award for your state legislators to do it. Through lifetime achievement. your own efforts, through your own With Michael D’Orso, Lewis wrote an autobiography, Walking With the Wind: actions, through your own creativityand A Memoir of the Movement, in 1998. vision, you have to do it. You must make our society a better place.

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I grew up on a farm in a little town sacrificed before you. Some of them gave We studied Emerson, Thoreau, and outside Troy, Alabama. My parents were a little blood. Some of them gave their other great thinkers. We studied what sharecroppers. As a young child, I tasted very lives for this democracy. You must do Gandhi attempted to do in South Africa the bitter fruits of racism, and I didn’t your part. You have to find a way to get and what he accomplished in India. like it. in the way. We studied the work of Martin Luther I saw those signs that said “white I have always had a profound respect King Jr. in Montgomery. men,” “colored men,” “white women,” and appreciation for lawyers. The first And we really believed that if we “colored women,” “white waiting,” and lawyer that I ever met was a man named practiced the discipline of nonviolence, “colored waiting.” Fred Gray. He was the lawyer for not just as an idea, but as a way of life, I used to ask my mother, my father, Dr. King, the lawyer for Rosa Parks. He that we could change things in America. and my grandparents, my great-grandpar- represented us during the Freedom Rides We really believed that we were build- ents, “Why segregation? Why racial and the protests in Selma, in Birming- ing the Beloved Community. And discrimination?” ham, and Montgomery. When we went to through our action, we brought about And they would say, “That’s the way jail for sitting down and sitting in, it was a nonviolent revolution under the rule of it is. Don’t get in trouble. Don’t get in the members of the bar who came to our law, a revolution of values, a revolution the way.” rescue. We were arrested on trumped-up of ideas. But one day I heard the voice of charges, but we were obeying the law. All across America the signs that said Martin Luther King Jr. on an old radio, We were accused of disturbing the peace, “white” and “colored” came down. Today and it sounded like he was talking but we were peaceful, nonviolent protest- you will not see them unless you visit a directly to me. ers. Through passive resistance, we were museum or see them in a book. Those of He talked about another generation testing a system of unjust rules and inhu- you graduating today could not imagine of students, another generation of young mane treatment. We were calling upon being arrested just for sitting next to people who decided to boycott segregated humankind to hear the voice of a higher another human being on a public bus. public transportation in Montgomery, law and listen to the insistence of a That’s the way it was only 50 years ago. Alabama. He described the determined, higher power. We have come a long way, but we still nonviolent action of a disciplined people. Our lawyers gripped the conscience have a distance to go before we lay down He talked about young people and of a nation. They challenged it to cast the burden of hatred, of violence, of race those not so young, people just like you aside the burden of legalized racism and and class. There is still a need to change and me, ordinary people with extraordi- segregation and follow a more excellent the social, economic, political, and reli- nary vision who decided to take a stand way. If it hadn’t been for the lawyers— gious structures around us. There is still for what they believed. At that moment, the members of the bar and the members a need to build the Beloved Community. I knew that I could strike a blow against of the bench—I don’t know where I For those of us in the movement, we segregation and racial discrimination. would be today. learned early that our struggle was not for I decided to get in the way. If it had not been for Constance Baker a month, a season, or a year, but the strug- I decided to get in trouble. But it was Motley, Thurgood Marshall, Fred Gray, gle of a lifetime. That is what it takes to good trouble; it was necessary trouble. Jack Greenberg, and so many others who build the Beloved Community…. Sometimes I wonder why young people took the struggle out of the streets and My friends, the storms may come. today are so quiet. I don’t think the stu- brought it into the courtroom, I don’t The winds may blow. The thunder may dents in my generation would accept know where you and I and this nation roll. The lightning may flash. And the what we take today. would be today. rain may beat down…[but] we must not Whatever it is you care about— They turned the violence of injustice give up; we must not give in; we must not whether it’s the never-ending war in Iraq, into the way of peaceful change, and they give out. The journey through life is diffi- saving this little planet we call Earth, or helped us to convince a nation that it cult, but it is more meaningful when it is restoring the rights of victims of Hurri- had to make peace with itself. They fueled by a vision, a dream, a determina- cane Katrina—you have to find your pas- decided to get in the way. tion to make life better for someone sion and make your contribution. You As participants in the civil rights other than yourself. must be maladjusted to the problems and movement, we didn’t have a website, we You have the power to change the conditions of today. You have to get off didn’t have cell phones, we didn’t have social, political, and economic structures the sidelines and get in the way. iPods, we didn’t even have a fax machine. around you. You have the power to lead. You just have to get in the way and But we had ourselves, and we put our Just find a way to get in the way and make your voices heard. You have an bodies on the line to make a difference make your voices heard. ■ obligation, a mission, and a mandate in our society. We didn’t just wake up from all of those men and women who one day and decide to march on Wash- ington or from Selma to Montgomery. We studied.

20 2008 Graduates

Juris Doctorate Joseph DeBin Elizabeth Kafel1 Jedediah Peterson Florence Weinberg Harold Acevedo Felicia DeMita Thomas Karnes Ryan Phillips Brittany West Sarah Adams1 Nico Domenico De Paoli1 Alisa Kaseweter Theodore Piteo Lisa Widawsky Rose Alappat Lindsey Detweiler Melanie Kebler Joseph Pitt1 Alice Williamson Michael Albers William Diep Kevin Kerr1 Andra Popa Jeana Wines Molly Allison Jonathan Donehower Caroline Kincaid Arundel Pritchett1 Darin Wisehart1 Karin Andreen Joshua Dorothy2 Justin Kirk Marla Quick Alan Wood2 Kristin Armstrong Shannon Douglass Matthew Kirkpatrick Amanda Reinders Dylan Woodbury2 Sarah Baeckler Ryan Drake Marissa Korbel Elizabeth Richards Jennifer Woodhouse Jeffrey Balsz John Dudrey Katherine Korman Anya Ronshaugen Brycen Woodley David Banks1 Richard Dyer Sarah Koteen Kasia Rutledge1 Britt-Marie Wright1 Neil Banman Richard Ebert Jr.1 Miles Kowalski1 Jay Sayles Morgan Wyenn Amy Barber2 Jessica Elliott2 Matthew Kress Austin Saylor Masayuki Yamaguchi Kate Barcalow Per Enfield Anthony Kuchulis Shadrack Scheirman2 Ashley Yorra Chad Barker Nichole Enriquez Manasi Kumar Tegan Schlatter Linda Barrera Julie Falender April Kusters Michael Schmidt Master of Laws Suzanne Becker Misty Fedoroff Alison Laird Steven Seal Environmental and Michelle Beers Kailei Feeney Kerry Lear Kristin Seewald2 Natural Resources Law Jeffrey Belcher Erin Fitzgerald Colin Lebens Adam Segovia2 Esteban Roberto Falconi1 Natasha Bellis James Flint II1 Jeannie Lee Alexander Sergejev Alice Elizabeth Garrett Adam Berkowitz Jennifer Forbes2 Linda Lee Jessica Shoup Renee J. Gift2 Ashley Berman1 Joseph Foss Lisa Lenherr Hilary Showers Sandra Lei Hirotsu Timothy Berry Joseph Furia Case Lewis Clayton Slominski Kathryn Lois Kempton Donald Bourassa Zachary Gardenhire Douglas Lindgren Erin Smith Stephanie Lynn Lindsay Vadim Bourenin Daryl Garner1 Becky Lizama Michelle Smith Katia Metan2 Patrick Boyd Daniel Garrison Jonathan Malsin Colleen Snell Amanda M. Michael2 Deneil Bragg Stephen Gingell Matthew Marler Margo Snow Kalyani Robbins Brook-Marie Brisson Garrett Goda Charles Marr II Jonathan Spare2 Troy Anthony Tureau2 Elizabeth Brodeen Lauren Goldberg Jacob Martinez Jessica Spiegel Mary Lenore Warr2 Christine Buckley Samuel Gomberg Michael Massa2 Jeffrey Staples Daniel Buri Kara Govro Ebil Matsutaro Micah Steinhilb 1 December 2007 graduate. Charles Burrell Jason Gray Andrew McCartor Graham St. Michel 2 Student had not completed Jacqueline Cabrera2 Christina Gregg Kara McClurg Christopher Storz requirements for graduation by commencement date. Christopher Camarillo John Grothaus Blair McCrory Katherine Strong Krisztian Carrasco1 Michael Guerrero2 Timothy McCune Adam Sweet Andrea Carrillo2 Gavin Guffey Megan McGill Jeff Tapia2 Tresa Cavanaugh Damien Hall Jamie McNeill Joelle Tavan Yoonhee Chang1 Leslie Hall Sarah Melton Jeffrey Teichert Special Ceremony Jeanice Chieng Ryan Hamilton Jayne Mershon Nidhi Thakar Recognizes Matthew Christen2 Michael Hammer Jeffrey Miller David Theriault Peir Chu Sarah Harlos Jeffrey Mohrmann Loren Thompson Children of Alicia Cobb Sara Hart Nathaniel Monsour Adrian Tilley Graduates Denise Coderre Christopher Hayes Michael Montag Christie Totten The Law School honored Jeff Comstock Jarrod Hays Alexander Morey Gregory Touchton more than 40 children of Zachary Cooper Shan Hemphill Erica Naito-Campbell Peter Tovey1 recent graduates at a cere- David Copeland Tommy Henson II Douglas Nelson Ann Trader mony in Gordon H. Smith Stephanie Corey Anna Hertzman Raife Neuman Mitchell Turker Hall following commence- Bethany Cotton Aren Hinely Amber Norling Andrew Veter1 ment. The children received Sara Cotton Erika Holsman Naeem Nulwala2 Keith Vidos1 a certificate and a gift Jesse Cowell Tracy Hooper Brian O’Bannon Tyler Volm certificate to the Oregon Elizabeth Crosson David Hydes Colin Olivers Joanna Wagner Museum of Science and William Crowley Rebecca Johansen Tyler Orlowski Lucas Wagner Industry in appreciation Daad Dabbagh Michael Johnson Lisa Packard2 Khalid Wahab for the special contributions Matthew Jones1 Wendy Packard2 Laura Wanlass they made while their David Jordan Christopher Parta1 Matthew Washchuk family members attended Leslie Joyner2 William Patterson Rakeem Washington law school. Tate Justesen Julie Payne Tobin1 Douglas Watson Sarah Petersen

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Cornelius Honor Society Induction Twenty-seven graduates were inducted into the Cornelius Honor Society on May 23 during a special reception held at Frank Manor House. Members of each graduating class are selected for the society on the basis of superior scholarship, leadership, and contributions to the Law School community. 2008 Members Sarah Baeckler Natasha Bellis Brook Brisson Elizabeth Brodeen Bethany Cotton Jesse Cowell Elizabeth Crosson John Dudrey Julie Falender Misty Fedorhoff Lauren Goldberg Sam Gomberg Rebecca Johansen Kathryn Kempton Anthony Kuchulis Manasi Kumar April Kusters Jeannie Lee Jeffrey Miller Raife Neuman Colin Olivers Erin Smith Micah Steinhilb Katherine Strong Christine Totten Lisa Widawsky Morgan Wyenn

Clockwise from top: Manasi Kumar ’08 (center) and her family. ■ Shirley Johansen, Rebecca Johansen ’08, and Professor Steve Johansen ’87. ■ Former U.S. Representative Elizabeth Furse with commencement speaker U.S. Representative John Lewis and Dean Robert Klonoff. ■ Graham St. Michel ’08 (right) and his family. ■ Marissa Korbel ’08 (center) with her parents. ■ Micah Steinhilb ’08 (center), Tyler Volm ’08 (second from right), and their families. ■ Professor Jan Neuman and her son, Raife Neuman ’08. 22 Law School News

Stephanie Parent ’92 is a solo Stars of Environmental practitioner in Portland, where she provides legal and litigation counsel to environmental organizations Law Honored regarding federal environmental laws, including the Endangered Each year, the Law School’s environmental and natural Species Act, National Forest Man- resources law faculty selects up to three alumni to receive agement Act, and the Freedom the Distinguished Environmental Law Graduate award for of Information Act. Parent previ- outstanding contributions to the environmental or natural ously was a staff attorney for resources law or policy fields. The honorees for 2008 are Pacific Environmental Advocacy George Jugovic Jr. ’83, David Mann ’91, and Stephanie Parent Center, where she provided legal ’92. The awards were presented at a September 25 event and litigation counsel to environmental organizations concern- that featured a lecture by the 2008 Natural Resources Law ing many federal laws, including the Federal Land Management Institute Distinguished Visitor, Chris Schroeder. Also at the and Policy Act, the Taylor Grazing Act, the Wild and Scenic event, the Law School’s Environmental Alumni Association Rivers Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the presented the Williamson Award to Liz Crosson ’08. Clean Water Act. She has also served as an adjunct professor at the Law School. George Jugovic Jr. ’83 is senior counsel Liz Crosson ’08 is manager of for the Department Environment Now’s program to of Environmental Pro- eliminate pollution and prevent tection in Pittsburgh. degradation of California’s coastal He joined the South- ecosystems. While at Lewis & west Regional Office Clark, she gained environmental in September 2007 experience at the Pacific Environ- and is responsible for mental Advocacy Center, where handling complex she assisted on statewide water enforcement litigation and air quality issues. Crosson in the areas of mining, water protection, hazardous waste, and was also a member of the 2008 wetlands resources. Jugovic previously was senior counsel and champion Pace University Environmental Moot Court chair of law staff at Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future, a non- Competition team. profit that advocates on energy and environmental matters. As chair, he supervised and coordinated the work of staff Chris Schroeder is members, provided in-house counsel, and managed litigation the Law School’s 21st in energy and environmental law cases. Jugovic is also an Annual Natural adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Resources Law Institute Distinguished Visitor. David Mann ’91 is a partner at He is the Charles Gendler & Mann in Seattle. His prac- S. Murphy Professor tice emphasizes environmental, land of Law, professor of use, property, and civil rights litigation public policy studies, and appeals on behalf of citizen groups, and director of the Program in Public Law at Duke University small businesses, small governments, School of Law. Schroeder’s publications include an environ- and individual property owners. Mann mental law casebook, Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, is the president of the board of trustees and Policy. He has served as acting assistant attorney general for the Northwest Fund for the Envi- in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice, ronment, a foundation that provides where he was responsible for legal advice to executive branch grants to environmental organizations. He has also served agencies on a broad range of issues. Schroeder has also served as president of the board and a legal committee member for as chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee. He the Washington Environmental Council. Mann previously received his J.D. in 1974 from Boalt Hall at the University served as president of the Marymoor Velodrome Association, of California at Berkeley, where he was editor in chief of which is responsible for operations of the oldest operating the California Law Review. arena for track cycling in the Northwest.

23 Students Build on a Tradition of Public Service

Second-year student Hallison Putnam volunteered with the Northwest Environ- 2007-08 Andrea Kopecky 2007-08 Community mental Defense Center (NEDC), started in 1969 by Law School students, Pro Bono Marissa Korbel Service Honors professors, and alumni. Molly Allison ’08 worked as a mentor at Rosemary Honors Award Erica Maharg** Award Recipients Recipients Anderson High School’s Portland Opportunities Industrialization Center, volun- Jacob Martinez* David Allen teering through a program created by Roberta Phillip ’06 and supported by Sergio Barron Patrick McAtee Leslie Baze Molly Allison* the Black Law Student and Minority Law Student Associations. Putnam and Megan McGill Ginger Beck Allison are just two of the many Law School students who each contributed Leila Behnampour Gilbert Mears** Shannon Beutel Lori Ann Burd** 30 or more hours to pro bono or community service efforts last year. During Kristen Monsell** Amanda Burke the 2007-08 school year alone, students donated a total of nearly 9,000 Mark Billingsley Doug Nelson** Suzanne Bostrom Laura Cadiz hours to this work. Rachel O’Neal Felicia Chapman In April, the Law School recognized these students at the annual Pro Bono Stephanie Bowman Fabiana Ochoa LoriAnn Burd Micheline D’Angelis** and Community Service Honors Awards Lunch. At the event, Oregon State Elizabeth Oshel Risa Davis Senator Suzanne Bonamici spoke to the recipients about her own history of Jake Bush** Wendy Packard John Caldwell** Brett Hartl service to the public and how that service and her legal education prepared Paula Padilla Lin Hendler her to be a state representative. Andrea Carrillo* Joshua Pond Katie Carson** Melissa Jones The students honored at the celebration are part of a long and successful Joanna Posey Crystal Chase Marissa Korbel** tradition of public service at the Law School. Lewis & Clark has marked student Hallison Putnam** Neal Clark Christopher Ling** commitments to pro bono work for the last 10 years, and this is the seventh John Schlosser Meg Clark-Kilcoyne Erica Maharag** year the school has recognized student commitments to community service. Taylor Smith Ryan Couch** Mary Jo Markle Jane Steadman** Ebil Matsutaro** Oregon State Senator Risa Davis Becky Straus** Rachel O’Neal Suzanne Bonamici Christopher Dawson Sage Teton Sarah Petersen* and Bill Penn ’02, public Brook Detterman** Leslie Thompson Joanna Posey interest law coordinator. Hane Eastwood Clarke Thurmon Hallison Putnam** Katherine Edwards Adrian Tilley** Johannes Epke** Stephen Raher Peter Tovey Julien Roohani Allison Eshel Heather Vaughn Sarah Freeman Rachele Selvig** Carey Whitehead** John Sturm Jason Gray Carson Whitehead Erica Hartman Adrian Tilley Diana Wiener Rosengard** Rakeem Washington* Tarah Heinzen Alice Williamson** Amy Heverly Jeana Wines Adelia Hwang * Third award Shannon Wood** ** Second award Emily Jackson Meredith Younghein Mackenzie Keith Tara Zuardo Lauren Kemp** Elizabeth Zultolski Jessica King** 24 Law School News Upcoming Speakers and Conferences

Martin Luther King Jr. Speaker Distinguished Intellectual Climate Change Conference Property Visitor Gerald Torres, Greening the Grid: Building a Legal University of Pierre Leval, U.S. Framework for Carbon Neutrality Minnesota Law Court of Appeals April 23-24 School for the Second Join leading scholars, practitioners, January 20 Circuit February 10 and decision makers for a stimulating Gerald Torres, and informative program on the role Bryant Smith Pierre Leval has of renewable energy in reducing climate Chair in Law at served as a judge change. Speakers will discuss current the University of on the U.S. Court legal frameworks for resources such as Texas Law School, of Appeals for the wind, wave, and solar energy, and evalu- is a leading figure in critical race theory. Second Circuit ate the options for paving the way to He is also an expert in agricultural and since 1993. From 1977 to 1993, he was a increased use of these resources. environmental law. Prior to joining the judge on the U.S. District Court for the faculty of the University of Texas in Southern District of New York. At the 1993, he taught at the University of Min- trial level, Leval has presided over many Alumni nesota Law School. Torres has served as important lawsuits involving fundamen- Calendar of Events for 2009 deputy assistant attorney general for the tal intellectual property issues. As an Environmental and Natural Resources appellate judge he has authored several Division of the U.S. Department of Jus- significant opinions in the field, includ- January______tice in Washington, D.C., and as counsel ing American Geophysical Union v. 7 San Francisco Alumni/Admissions Reception to then–U.S. Attorney General Janet Texaco, CCC Information Services v. 8 Los Angeles Alumni/Admissions Reception Maclean Hunter Market Reports, Boosey Reno. He has been a frequent instructor 9 San Diego Alumni Reception in Lewis & Clark’s Indian Law Program. & Hawkes Music Publishers v. Walt Disney Company, and Register.com v. 14 Portland Alumni/Admissions Reception Judaic Studies: Pursuing Verio. Leval also wrote the influential 29 Portland Alumni/Admissions Reception article “Toward a Fair Use Standard,” Nazi War Criminals February______A Lecture by 103 Harvard Law Review 1105 (1990). Eli M. Rosenbaum 3 Hawaii Alumni Reception January 22 Higgins Distinguished Visitor 10 Portland Recent Graduates Gathering in Residence at Andina Eli Rosenbaum is the longest-serving Roberta Romano, 24-25 Bar Exam Hospitality Room prosecutor and Yale Law School March______investigator of March 9-19 Nazi criminals in Roberta Romano 3 Eugene Environmental Alumni Reception history, having is the Oscar M. 14 PILP Auction and Alumni Reception worked on these Ruebhausen Pro- 19 RiverPlace Hotel Alumni/Admissions cases at the U.S. Department of Justice fessor of Law and Reception and Law School Preview for more than 20 years. A graduate of director of the the Wharton School of the University Center for the April______of Pennsylvania and of Harvard Law Study of Corporate 1 Harpole Reception and Awards Presentation School, he has served since 1994 as direc- Law at Yale Law School. She is a fellow 7 Chicago Alumni Reception tor of the Criminal Division’s Office of of the American Academy of Arts and Special Investigations (OSI), which Sciences, a research associate of the 23 Medford and Ashland Alumni Reception investigates and prosecutes participants National Bureau for Economic Research, 28 Seattle Alumni Gathering in post-World War II crimes of genocide, a fellow of the European Corporate Gov- extrajudicial killing, and torture commit- ernance Institute, and a past president May______ted abroad under color of foreign law, of the American Law and Economics 22 Cornelius Honor Society Induction as well as WWII-era Nazi criminals. Association. Her research has focused on and Reunion This lecture is presented in collabora- state competition for corporate charters, 23 Commencement tion with the Harold Schnitzer Family the political economy of takeover regula- 27 Alumni Board Meeting Program in Judaic Studies at Portland tion, shareholder litigation, institutional State University and with generous investor activism in corporate gover- support from Jordan Schnitzer ’76. nance, and the regulation of financial Dates are subject to change. Please check the instruments and securities markets. alumni website for the latest information.

25 Bump ’37 and Meyers ’64: Pioneering Women Lawyers

If you come to the Law School and wander around the top Ellen Bump ’37 two floors of the Legal Research Center, you will see old by Elizabeth Brodeen ’08 photographs of graduating classes. The earliest is from 1891, Ellen Bump developed an when the Law School was part of the University of Oregon. early passion for learning. There is a gap in time until the next photo, which is of the She was born Ellen Arnold, class of 1904. Although records indicate there was one woman in 1914, the middle child in each of the classes of 1896, 1897, 1899, and 1904, the first of an English mother and photo with a female face in it is of the class of 1911. Of the minister father. Her mother 45 graduates shown, only one is a woman. read to her and her two Up until the 1965 merger with Lewis & Clark College, sisters frequently, in part women remained a small minority in the Law School’s student to entertain a sibling who body. Many graduating classes had none at all. When women had been immobilized by were among the students, they usually constituted less than polio. By the time they five percent of the class. began their formal educa- The Law School today is a very different place, genderwise. tion in Forest Grove public Statistics for recent classes show that 50 percent of the stu- schools, all three children could read on their own. dents are women. Occasionally, they constitute the majority. Bump graduated from high school with dreams of continu- While women law graduates continue to struggle for gender ing her education by studying music at the college level. equality in the practice of law, it seems clear that many of Her father had other ideas. Citing the family’s lack of money, today’s issues are different, and often more subtle, than the her father instead sent Bump to the Northwestern School hurdles facing those women who pioneered access to the of Commerce to learn secretarial skills so she could get a job. legal profession. “I thought the world had fallen in,” she says. She had no To better understand those early hurdles—and to appreci- desire to be a secretary, but she dutifully went and graduated ate the gumption and perseverance of the women who con- after a year. quered them—the Women’s Law Caucus has undertaken an Bump’s family lived across the street from a judge. The oral history project to capture the stories of Northwestern judge’s brother-in-law, a solo practitioner in Forest Grove who alumnae. The essays that follow relate high points of the first had a typical “country law” practice advising banks, farmers, two conversations that have taken place, with Ellen Bump ’37 and other individuals with mostly civil work, offered Bump a (one of six women in a class of 39) and Lillian Meyers ’64 job as a secretary. The attorney was often out, and when Bump (the sole woman in a class of 32). Each alumna was visited in found herself alone in the office without anything to occupy her home by one or more law students. The conversations her time, she read the advance sheets that came in the mail. were videotaped and will remain in the Law School archives. These consisted of recent court opinions, many of which piqued As you will read, these women are a true source of inspira- her curiosity. Whenever she found a case that was interesting, tion for current women students (and professors). It is our she looked up related cases in the law books at the office. hope that more alumnae from earlier years will participate After Bump had been a secretary for about a year, the attor- and tell their stories. Those who are interested in doing so ney she worked for said, “Why don’t you go to law school?” may contact me. Bump had never before thought about being a lawyer. –Professor Susan Mandiberg ([email protected], Without a bachelor’s degree, she was certain she would not be 503-768-6172) allowed into law school. Still, the attorney encouraged her to talk to John Gantenbein, the registrar at Northwestern School of Law. “With fear and trepidation,” she remembers, Bump got on a Greyhound bus and rode to downtown Portland. It was during the Depression. As it happened, Gantenbein was in great need of students. “Come and register,” he told Bump. “As long as you can make the grades, you are welcome here.” This time, she did not discuss school with her father. Instead, she told him she was going. Bump continued as a secretary in the Forest Grove law office, taking nightly trips on the Greyhound to Portland. On top of the rigors of juggling law school with her work, she faced other challenges. On her first day of law school, Gantenbein showed Bump to class. Leading her into a large room full of strangers, he pointed out an empty seat. Bump greeted the man in the next seat. He simply nodded his head

26 at her. Undeterred, she introduced herself and asked Lillian Meyers ’64 if she could sit there. He just shrugged his shoulders. by Rachel O’Neal ’10 Bump went to school early the next day so she wouldn’t The last stretch of the have to repeat the experience. This time, she found an ally in drive through the woods to another woman from the class. They decided to sit together Lillian Meyers’ house is and eventually became great friends. lined by towering trees and Bump was one of six women to graduate with the class of ferns. Far from the urban 1937, and the only one who passed the bar. A male classmate landscape of Portland, her told her the reason she passed was because Bump was a non- home’s surroundings are smoker and had not been distracted by cigarettes and smoking pleasantly rustic. A breaks. Bump, who had moved from Forest Grove |to down- wooden sign with green town Portland to study 12 hours a day for the bar, replied, inset letters hangs from the “Well, thank you. I don’t know if that is a compliment or not.” carport: “Lillian Meyers, She says today, “I always figured I passed the bar because I Attorney at Law.” A deck studied hard.” wraps around two sides of For the next two years, Bump was a juvenile court worker. her home, offering a view of a swift and expansive river. The These were the hardest years of her life. “I bled for those chil- interior of the house is warm and inviting: all wood and win- dren,” she says. Many of the children Bump dealt with were dows, with no carpet, paint, or wallpaper to speak of. The abused or neglected. Some were violent: A teenage girl once home stands as a symbol of both professional success and tran- threatened Bump with a knife. In addition to her formal job quil country living, two things Meyers managed to combine duties, Bump often took in children who were caught in the throughout her long career. middle of their parents’ disputes. There was no formal foster One of eight children, Meyers was hardworking and care program at the time, so taking care of children in the legal ambitious from an early age. Not long after she was born, system fell to generous people like Bump. Because of Bump’s her family relocated from Idaho to Burns. She held numerous gender and age, police and judges did not hesitate to call her. jobs while a high school student, working for the Weather Bump went on to become a lawyer at the firm where she Bureau, an insurance company, the courthouse, the hospital, had been a secretary. She married Kenneth Bump, the son of and a local newspaper. On her high school graduation card, she the attorney who first suggested she go to law school. At first announced that she wanted to be a lawyer. it was difficult for people who had known her as a secretary to Meyers worked first as a secretary for a lawyer in Gresham. trust her with their legal work. If they said they would rather She then obtained a position as a legal secretary for a law firm have her father-in-law do the work, she would say that was in downtown Portland, where she continued to work for 10 fine. However, she was usually the one who ended up doing years while raising her family. Trying to support five children, the work—her father-in-law just signed off on it. she realized she would need to increase her income. When the When Bump started, she was the only woman lawyer in senior partner at the firm asked her when she was going to Washington County. She recalls many situations in which male start law school, she applied. lawyers were rude to her, but her solution was to simply carry Meyers was the only woman in her law school class. on with her work. Occasionally, she would politely put an espe- At the time, most of the Law School’s professors were practic- cially impertinent colleague in his place. At one bar meeting, a ing attorneys or judges and tuition cost $330 per year. Legal man offered to get her a drink. When she replied that she did education focused heavily on practical skills; Meyers had the not drink, the man said he would get her a 7-Up so that she opportunity to type a procedural portfolio during her first year would have a drink in her hand and “look like” the men. of law school. “No, thank you,” she replied. “I don’t care if I look like you.” She does not recall any discrimination, describing her After several years of practicing law and 10 years of mar- classmates and professors as “very supportive.” For her, what riage, Bump gave birth to a son, Daniel. She and her husband was more difficult was balancing work, school, and family. hired a nanny, which allowed Bump to focus on her career. Meyers remembers her experience of being a mother during Looking back, she says the most rewarding part of her job law school as “pretty tough.” At that time, she was commuting was working with her elderly clients, many of whom had few from her property in Boring to Portland and back each day, family left and thus relied greatly on Bump. Her career was not arriving home until 11:30 p.m. Her mother and sisters and marked by her great desire to help others. Although she was far an occasional babysitter would watch her children while she outnumbered by men in the legal field, she did not let that stop was working or at class. “I studied when I could, in 15-minute her from doing what she loved. Bump acted with grace and intervals sometimes,” she says. “I was awfully tired.” During respect towards others throughout her professional life, even if that was not the way others treated her. Her conduct as a lawyer, and as a person, made her life a success that women and men alike can admire. 27 Pioneering Women Lawyers

the day, she continued to work for the same two-person firm remembers that once, when she was working in downtown where she had been for the 10 years prior to starting law Portland, opposing counsel told her to tell her senior partner school, dealing with trusts, domestic relations, probate, con- that he would not work with a woman. She also recalls that tracts, and general law. She also worked as a secretary in the one of the younger associates hired after her would often state legislature for the 1963 session. In 1964, when Meyers fail to introduce her to other attorneys who visited the office. graduated, her commencement announcement referring to However, all in all, Meyers remembers her colleagues as her as “one mother” among 33 other graduates. helpful and supportive of her. She even remembers receiving After graduation, Meyers was hired as the first female a phone call from a colleague proudly letting her know that attorney at the small firm where she worked. An article about his firm had hired a woman attorney in his office. her in a local periodical dated December 25, 1964, read, Meyers became very well respected in the legal community “Housewife, Steno, and Now a Lawyer: Lillian Meyers, a pretty during her career. She was selected to be on a committee whose redhead sometimes taken for the older sister of her five chil- task was to evaluate some of the legal aid offices in the West dren, traded the typewriter of a legal stenographer for the law and recommend whether they should be refunded. She was books of an attorney this week.” In five years, Meyers became also once asked to select the recipient of the Legal Secretary a partner at her firm. While her firm had a reputation as a of the Year award. In 1969, one of the judges of the probate “cause” law firm that represented clients who could not afford department asked that she be appointed to a committee that to be represented or had unique cases—often labor unions or would revise the probate laws to make them simpler and to people who worked for them—Meyers’ practice specialized better control what attorneys were charging. Meyers wrote primarily in wills and trusts. She also did her share of pro bono a chapter of the CLE on intestate succession, creating all criminal defense in her career, which she found very rewarding. the well-organized charts that are still in use today. Many years after Meyers left the firm, her daughter received a Since retiring from her legal practice, Meyers has been letter from Meyers’ senior partner, Harlow Lennon, two weeks enjoying the fruits of her labor, visiting with family and before his death at age 93, that read, “I always had a strong traveling the world. She has five children, six stepchildren, suspicion that Lillian knew as much or more about the law five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. After a than Don or me.” long, successful career in the law, she is amazingly vibrant. After having made partner, Meyers eventually decided When asked how she has managed to stay so healthy after to open her own firm. In her solo practice, she handled wills, so many years, she credits her peaceful lifestyle in the trusts, probate, contracts, adoptions, and “most everything” Oregon woods. ■ except a lot of trial work. When the traffic to and from Port- land worsened, she finally relocated to Clackamas, the site of her current home, from her residence in the country. She enjoyed her ability to set her own hours, work closer to home, and adapt her schedule to get away for a three-day weekend here and there. After 16 years in Clackamas, she moved her office to her home, where she continued to practice for another eight years. “There was a lot of discrimination at that time,” Meyers remembers, and she knew other women who were marginalized in one way or another. She says, however, that she was fortunate and recalls only a few times when she was treated differently in her profession because she was a woman. She

28 Learning in China by Emma Berman ’10

Editor’s Note: Fourteen Lewis & Clark Law School students studied Chinese law and culture this May in Beijing at Peiking University (Beida). The overseas study program was a partnership between the Law School and the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law. Taught by English-speaking Beida professors, students learned about Chinese history and politics as well as Chinese contract law, criminal law and procedure, and other basic aspects of the legal system.

On May 9, I handed in the last final of my first year of law school. The next morning, I boarded a plane with several other newly minted second- and third-year students from Lewis & Clark, Professor Susan Mandiberg, and 36 students from other Professor Mandiberg and the program’s Lewis & Clark student participants U.S. law schools. All of us were heading to Peking University and friends. Back row, left to right: Sara Johnson, Ula Janik ’07, Aaron for a three-week course in Chinese law. Johnson ’09, Leif Palmer-Burns ’10, Robert Insley ’10, Casey Cox ’09, For a country with thousands of years of history, China has Mandiberg, Duncan Hwang ’07, and Malcolm Begay ’09. Front row, left a legal system that is strikingly young. During the 20th century, to right: Rob Erickson ’10, Abby Miller ’09, Sean Sirrine ’09, David Gaskill revolution ended both the imperial rule and law, which were ’09, Emma Berman ’10, John Sturm ’10, and Mark Billingsley ’10. based on the Tang Code from 624 C.E. The new system of law formed more slowly than a new system of government. So although China’s current legal system was theoretically established by a new constitution in 1954, in truth it dates back only to 1979 and the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, when after years of turmoil, the law was finally reinstated. At fewer than 30 years old, China’s legal system faces a number of challenges, the biggest of which is trying to compete with and change the country’s traditions. On the books, China’s laws seem both modern and comprehensive. The Marriage Law of 1980, for example, rejected a tradition in which a wife was subject to her husband by codifying the equality of husband and wife. But old ways of thinking are hard to change, and in reality, the key to practicing law in China is to know both the written While in China, Professor Susan Mandiberg had the opportunity to dine with and unwritten rules. Duncan Hwang ’07 and Ula Janik ’07, who alumni and friends. Back row, left to right: Yanni Yang ’97, Robert Insley ’10, work in the Beijing office of King & Wood, explained to us over Hu Zaichi ’95, Rob Erickson ’09, and Xing Xiusong. Front row, left to right: dinner one night that guanxi—the behind-the-scenes politicking Professor Chen Yunsheng, Mandiberg, Jun Ge ’95, and Ai Hong ’97. and bribery that greases the wheels of so many interactions in China—is still alive and well. Enforcement is also a major problem. For example, under tradition from which the trial procedures had been borrowed? China’s current intellectual property laws, it is up to the copy- Could such delays also happen in routine cases in the United right or patent holder to enforce his or her rights. To truly enjoy States? If learning about another country’s legal system is meant the protections granted under the law, he or she must bring to stimulate reflection about one’s own, this experience certainly an individual suit to the People’s Court. did the trick! Perhaps because its creation was so recent, the general prin- For all our academic study—we spent most mornings in a ciples of China’s legal system seem very similar to ours in the four-hour class—we did far more than hear lectures and read United States. The developers of China’s current legal system about China’s legal system. In the afternoons and on weekends picked what they liked best from both common law and civil we went on cultural trips to places like the Forbidden City, law systems. As a result, the legal concepts are often the same the Summer Palace, and the Great Wall. During the evenings as those in Western countries. we roamed the city, getting lost in the hutongs—neighborhoods However, once you look beyond the general principles, Chinese made up of narrow, twisting alleyways and traditional Chinese law can be extremely alien. I only truly appreciated this after homes dating back hundreds of years. For our meals we played observing a criminal case at the Haidian District Court. For a culinary Russian roulette, choosing a restaurant, pointing person raised on Law & Order and other U.S. courtroom dramas, at whatever looked promising on the menu, and then hoping a Chinese trial was a completely new experience. There was no for the best. We learned a remarkable amount about the back-and-forth between the prosecutor and the defense attorney. Chinese legal system by experiencing the culture that shapes Instead, the judge took center stage and interrogated the defen- China’s laws. dant directly, relegating the prosecutor to the role of evidence Like the country itself, China’s legal system is undergoing handler. I was even more surprised to learn that in a simple case an intense and rapid change. The system is adapting to China’s with no special investigative needs, the defendant had been in economic growth and its emergence as a significant figure on custody for seven months before his case came before the court. the global political stage. Having the opportunity to learn Seeing the trial left me with many questions. Were these about China from within this incredible country was an differences unique to China, or did they reflect the civil-law amazing part of my legal education. ■

29 heritage. You’ve got to love that about Thanks for this marvelous country of ours. Only it could produce a Frenchman by lineage Everything and surname with an English middle name. Centuries of conflict are united in Art’s name. Maybe that’s why, like the Art LaFrance, Don Large, French and English who met at Agincourt, Art never turns away from fighting for and Ron Lansing Retire what he believes in. Well, actually, there was at least one exception, one time when I witnessed This year the Law School says good- Art engage in a little conflict avoidance. bye to three of its long-cherished About 6 p.m. one evening many years faculty members. Professors Art ago, I was using the typewriter (the what?) LaFrance, Don Large, and Ron A Tribute to at the clerical station outside my office. Lansing all retired after decades Jim Dorsey, who worked for Art as our Art LaFrance director of development, was standing of service to the Law School and by Jim Huffman in my office doorway visiting. Art came the legal community. The following along and joined in the conversation. stories pay tribute to the accom- A few minutes later we heard a certain plishments and contributions of Arthur Birmingham LaFrance joined faculty member coming toward us. With- these men during their careers here. the Law School faculty in 1982 as dean. out hesitation, Art jumped—in his three- He has been stirring the pot ever since, piece suit—under the desk at which I was We wish them all the best as they and I have no doubt that he will continue working and sat with his knees to his move to the next exciting stage to do so in his state of semiretirement. chin in total silence. As the faculty mem- of their lives. All-out full and serious retirement is ber rounded the corner, I could see that not in the LaFrance genes. his wife and children were with him, The thing about Art is he has opinions. and the children’s line of sight was just at Usually they are well-considered opinions, desk level. The faculty member asked if and sometimes they are controversial. we had seen Art. Dorsey, the coward, But he does not keep them to himself. slipped into my office and closed the door During my 13 years as dean, Art shared in response. Somehow I maintained my his opinions with me frequently. Some- demeanor, glanced at Art sweating under times I agreed, sometimes not. In either the desk, and said, “Nope, haven’t seen case, Art turned back to his own affairs, him.” Certain conflict was avoided. neither pouting if I disagreed nor celebrat- But that behavior was the exception. ing if I went his way. He had his say, made As a rule, Art doesn’t shy from conversa- his case, and moved on. tion—friendly or confrontational. For a Art is a believer in the adversarial couple of decades, Art and I have met pursuit of truth. He practiced it as a for breakfast every now and then—always lawyer, modeled it as a teacher, and lived at what I call the Frenchie place on it with his colleagues and associates. I sus- Macadam. I don’t think I have ever pect, but don’t know, that his family also known the name of the place, but the experienced something of Art’s forthright dinner menu looks French. It was at the and passionate approach to making the Frenchie place that Art shared his advice most of life. On our faculty, no shrinking and pled his cause while I held the not- violet is he. so-vast powers of the dean, but mostly I’ve always liked Art’s middle name, we just talked about our families, outdoor Birmingham. Sounds like Alabama in my adventures, and our ambitions for the provincial way of thinking, but to most Law School. it’s probably a reminder of England. Hold Usually these breakfast outings came at it. Art is French Canadian, at least by Art’s initiative. He does that sort of thing. He invites people, particularly new people,

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to join him for breakfast or lunch or to a Early in his career, Art was a leading professors before the U.S. Supreme party at his house—usually a party to national expert in the then-fledgling field Court in support of Oregon’s physician- which students are also invited. He of poverty law. His first casebook was on assisted death statute. He has served as offers to host visitors to the Law School, that subject. Art’s bona fides had been the executive director of the Pacific not just for a brief chat, but for a day of firmly established by his successful repre- Northwest Center on Health, Law, and touring the Oregon countryside. He sentation of the appellants in Boddie v. Policy, and volunteers twice monthly organizes wine country bike outings for Connecticut in the U.S. Supreme Court. with Legal Services of Oregon, providing whomever wants to come along. He is Later, he taught criminal law and proce- legal services to indigent seniors on the a busy guy, but he always has time for oth- dure and published two casebooks on that Oregon Coast. ers. He may be a little tight when it comes subject. Over the last decade and more, On the Law School website Art to cash, but when it comes to the far Art has written and taught about health describes himself as an avid cyclist, a scarcer resource of time, he is among the law and bioethics. His bioethics casebook, mediocre tennis player, and an ineffectual most generous people I have known. now in its second edition, is a leader in fly fisherman. I once biked with Art (and I remember well when Art came to that field. Art has also published nearly Dan and Laurie Rohlf) around Mount us as dean. In those days before e-mail, 20 academic articles and chapters and Hood in a single day—an ambitious outing faculty opinions were often shared via has numerous publications intended conceived by Art and made all the more printed memos circulated to everyone on for practitioners. challenging by our having to keep up with the faculty. Seldom were the matters of Art has been a determined and persua- the Rohlfs on their seemingly jet-powered much consequence, but none of us were sive advocate for faculty scholarship. He tandem. I did play tennis with Art (and about to have a new dean from distant recognizes that we faculty members hold Bill Funk and Bernie Vail) a couple of Maine throwing his weight around in our positions of great privilege, and these posi- times. By my standards, he was better tight, utopian community. I contributed tions come with the responsibility to con- than mediocre, but I suspect Bill (the self- my share of such memos, one of which tribute to our profession and discipline as described best tennis player on the law assailed Art for unilaterally deciding to well as to our students. He has also been a faculty) would agree with Art’s assessment. move the faculty mailboxes from the copy strong advocate for clinical legal educa- As for the fishing, I have no personal room on the third floor to the faculty tion, which is not surprising given his life- knowledge, but I suspect the animal rights lounge on the ground floor. To make mat- long commitment to a successful marriage folks appreciate that Art’s casts yield noth- ters worse, he also had a television of education and practice. ing, as they have appreciated his longtime installed in the faculty lounge. He appar- Indeed, Art has never stopped being support of the animal law journal here at ently failed to understand that the faculty a practitioner of the law during his lengthy the Law School. ran the place, in all matters great and career in the legal academy. While he has Art is also the still-doting and small, and we were used to getting our served as an active member of the Associa- devoted father of three adult children mail in the copy room. And what sort of tion of American Law Schools and as an and a grandfather who does not, and never faculty would condone a television in the accreditor for the American Bar Associa- will, act his age. At a recent retirement midst of all of the intensely intellectual tion, he has also been active in continuing gathering, Art’s daughter Jeanie spoke discussions over lunch? The interesting legal education and law practice. He has movingly about how her father had thing was—purely by coincidence, I’m served as a lecturer at the American Law inspired her to a life of public service. sure—that the faculty started coming to Institute, American Bar Association, and She said she was lucky. We, too, have the faculty lounge every day, and during American Society of Law, Medicine, and been lucky to have such a man on our the World Series many started spending Ethics health law conferences. He has faculty, and I count myself fortunate extended periods of time there. been active with the Oregon State Bar, to be his friend. Art came to the Law School from the especially the Health Law Section, where University of Maine faculty. Before that, he has served on the legislative committee he served on the law faculty of Arizona and as an editor of the Oregon Health Law State University. He spent a year as a Manual. Art has been pro bono counsel in visiting scholar with the Legal Aid Society numerous public interest cases concerning of Hawaii. He has been a visiting professor health-care issues, including the multistate at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, tobacco settlement, public hospital merg- Murdoch University in Australia, Houston ers, and Blue Cross for-profit conversions. University, and the University of Canter- Recently he authored and filed an amicus bury in New Zealand. A year ago he brief on behalf of two dozen health law was the George Rudolph distinguished scholar at the University of Wyoming. He kept a bike at the Laramie airport for local transportation.

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Don and one of his dachshunds, retired the best poker player on the faculty. This Canadian champion Rave. is not a title that we bestow lightly. There are several of us on the faculty who pride yes, he did have the citation right and, yes, ourselves on our poker-playing skill. And it did stand for exactly the proposition for we might argue about who is the second which he referred to it. best among us. But Don is simply the best. But it isn’t just his intellect that made More than 15 years of results speak for Don a great teacher. He was also a great themselves. friend to students. While he would push My strongest connection with Don has them in class, they could sense that he was been through environmental moot court. rooting for them at the same time. And his Don was running the program and coaching friendships with students extended outside the national team when I joined the faculty the classroom. In his younger days, he ran in 1991. He was already taking it very seri- many thousands of miles with students on ously—and having some corresponding suc- the trails of Tryon. Don had an inventive cess. It was just one more natural outlet name for every route he charted through for his competitive spirit. Happily, when I those woods. This is a tradition that he joined the faculty he immediately made me passed on to those who have followed in his an equal partner in the enterprise. He may wake. Don often viewed his runs as occa- have thought that I could give him a run sions for storytelling. On many days, the for his money on the competitiveness scale. stories would involve the law—maybe the Before we knew it, we had created some- backstory of some classic case or the details thing even more positive. We had more Don Large of some crazy land use dispute he had heard success, and more and better students by Craig Johnston ’85 about. On others, they might be about started to sign up. Those who did sign up either his beloved Orioles or, if he was feel- started to work harder, too. And best of all, ing particularly nostalgic, his boyhood as the faculty as a whole began to buy in, with It is with great affection that I write this a diehard fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers. many of our colleagues willingly giving up testimonial honoring Don Large, who Beyond running, Don also had regular Fri- precious time to prepare for and then judge enters a stage of semiretirement this fall. day afternoon game sessions with students practice rounds. Thus, we were able to sub- Don joined the faculty in 1977, having in his office. Sometimes it was Dungeons ject our students, time and again, to the previously taught at the University of and Dragons; other times it was fantasy administrative law expertise of Bill Funk, Wisconsin and Vanderbilt. He has served baseball; occasionally, it was chess. What- the federal courts expertise of Susan here with grace ever since. ever. Generations of students took advan- Mandiberg, and the general appellate-advo- Don is first and foremost an outstanding tage of the open door Don provided to cacy expertise of such stalwarts as Lydia classroom teacher. His primary teaching those who shared his zest for light-hearted Loren, John Kroger, and Joe Miller. On areas included property, property transac- competition. top of all of this, an ever-growing list of tions, land use, and conflicts. He also Don’s scholarship was mostly focused moot court alums has chipped in, eager to taught oil and gas law, minerals and mining in the property and land use areas. He inflict some of the pain they suffered on law, and other courses when needed. While wrote several significant articles on impart some of the wisdom they learned I didn’t have the pleasure of taking any of “takings” doctrine. Sometimes, though, to the next generation of moot courters. his most frequently taught classes, he did he strayed further afield. The parent of a Don and I must have judged hundreds teach the one and only environmental law deaf child, Don wrote an influential article of moot court rounds together. And the course that I took in my two years here as on the legal issues relating to the education thing is, he can probably remember most a student. It was the fall of 1983, and Don of deaf children. He also cowrote the of them. If he judged a round that I missed, was subbing for Mike Blumm, who was off memorably titled piece “Proving That the I could always count on his stopping by doing research at Boalt Hall, as I recall. Strength of the British Navy Depends on with a blow-by-blow description of who did I remember that during the previous spring the Number of Old Maids in England: or did not handle various questions well, or I had asked the leaders of the environmen- A Comparison of Scientific Proof With who came up with what creative argument. tal law caucus what they thought it would Legal Proof.” During the feedback portion of each round, be like to take environmental law from Don’s creativity came out in many Don was always supportive, leavening Don. One of them, Doug Morrison ’84, other ways. He was famous for his exams, whatever criticisms other judges may have told me, “I would take any course that which never fit the old “Seller sells Black- offered with multiple dollops of praise. man teaches.” Those were wise words. acre to Buyer” pattern. Instead, his students Over time, Don and I developed a bit of Not surprisingly, the course turned out were often taken on interplanetary romps a “good cop/bad cop” routine. There was to be terrific. in which colorfully named characters would never any doubt about which role I would As a teacher, Don dazzled his students get into disputes over imaginary weapons have to play. with his ability to cite cases. Someone that would put George Lucas to shame. Best of all, Don consistently made moot would bring up some tangential point, Even more legendary were Don’s faculty- court both challenging and fun for both the and Don would tell them to go read such- meeting minutes from the early to mid- students and his fellow coaches. It has been and-such a case, providing the full citation 1980s. Who would think that someone a pleasure working with him all these years. from memory, and telling them what it said. could turn faculty minutes into an art form? Don assures me that he will stick with moot Students would then go to the library to Don did it. Rumor has it that publishers court at least one more year. My hope is verify that, yes, there was such a case and, were clamoring for the distribution rights. that his competitive nature will dictate It is also worth pointing out that for that he stays involved long after that. many years Don has been, by acclamation,

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met. Thankfully, Ron loves history and we His courage to pursue his own scholarly are richer for it. path has made it easier for others to go their own ways. Loving to Teach It ought to be obvious. Teachers should Questioning Everything love to teach. Sadly, at some schools, pub- What are we testing on our exams? How lishing a particular kind of article in one of should we evaluate our students? What a very few “elite” journals is vastly more are the right criteria for admission to law important. Some professors (I won’t call school? Should we distinguish full profes- them teachers) seek lighter and lighter sors from associates or assistants? If they loads, and often the prestige of an academic all teach, what’s the difference? chair is measured in part by how little the In faculty or committee meetings, at holder actually appears in a classroom. retreats or just in the faculty lounge, Ron Our school is not like that. Many peo- is always questioning what we do and how ple deserve some credit, but Ron is near the we do it. At times his questions can drive top of my list. He loves to teach. Ron is me crazy. However, sometimes a decision creative and funny but also serious and delayed or reconsidered is a better decision. demanding. He dedicated his novel to his Always we need to be open to reflection own teachers. When I started on the fac- and change. ulty, Ron was already a student favorite. Ron rebels against hierarchies and He provided positive reinforcement for my systems. If something doesn’t make sense initial classroom efforts and inspiration to to him, he challenges it. A “that’s the way Thanks, Ron succeed as he had. everyone does it” sort of argument rarely Ron is the only faculty member to have impresses Ron. by Doug Newell participated in hiring each of the others. Law should make sense, and so should It is not an accident that we have so many law school. Ron has always kept us thinking about the reasons for our collective actions. There has never been a law school at Lewis fine teachers. & Clark without Ron Lansing. Ron is the Choosing Your Own Unique Making Things Fun only current faculty member to have taught Scholarly Path Ron is a good guy. When it’s time to relax, at the downtown night school or in the tem- Our faculty has produced casebooks, student he is someone fun to have around. You can porary quarters on the undergraduate campus study guides, legal history books, CLE chap- never take any recreation too seriously if that housed the Law School after the merger ters, legislation, and many other publica- Ron is involved. When the choice of poker but before the 1970 opening of our present tions in addition to traditional law review games is his, players end up holding one campus. When I joined the faculty in 1971, articles. The diversity is extraordinary. In card on their forehead so that only the Ron was already the senior member in years the opinion of some outsiders, we should other players can see it. When I hiked with of service at the school. From the beginning focus more on publishing articles in presti- Ron years ago, it was never some manic and through the years, Ron has played an gious journals. Fortunately, in my view, we race to the top. Instead, Ron and I would important part in the success of the Law have allowed faculty members greater free- meander along enjoying the scenery, laugh- School. I never thanked him until now. dom to pursue their own interests. In many ing and talking while his dog, Thumbs, So, thank you, Ron, for many things, but ways, Ron set the standard and liberated sniffed everything along the path. these contributions in particular: the rest of us by writing what he loved to Some of my favorite memories are of Preserving the History of the Law School write and by writing it so well. the faculty (and assorted ringers) softball In the display case in Wood Hall there is a Ron wrote a novel, Skylarks & Lecterns, team that used to play in the Attorneys short history of the Law School before 1970 about a law school. It is touching and Summer League. There were a couple of with photos and text. The text was written funny, and, in my opinion, reveals more law firm teams full of ex-jocks that acted by Ron. Caricatures of all the faculty mem- of the truth about law school than either as if it were the World Series. There were bers of the past 40 years or so line a hallway The Paper Chase or One L. He has also writ- no weak spots in their lineups. Not so for in the Legal Research Center. The carica- ten two delightful legal histories. They are us. Led by Ron, the slowest slow-pitch soft- tures were all drawn by Ron. A history of not pompous tomes setting out grand social ball pitcher who ever played, we fielded the Law School is currently being written— theories. They are beautifully researched the most wonderfully diverse team in the by Ron, of course. and written stories about interesting char- league. Ron was normally our oldest player, In these ways and in speeches, articles, acters and events. though in one game my uncle who was vis- and even perhaps in his novel about a fic- The preamble to Ron’s novel states: iting played for us. I think Curt Huffman (Jim’s son) was only 12 or 13 when he first tional law school, Ron has chronicled the “Behind every rule of law there are played for us. We snuck in students and events, stories, and people of this school. stories—stories of people—human staff to fill out our ragtag roster. We rarely Without Ron’s penchant for digging anthology of which the rule is mere won, but we had a lot of fun, and Ron was through musty records and his delight in reflection. If you remember nothing at the center of all of it. collecting stories, much of who we were else, I beg you to remember this: the Life is short. Fun is good. Thanks, Ron. and are would have been lost. story becomes the law; the law does There is both comfort and hope in not become the story.” A Final Thought knowing that others have gone this way be- A good man, a fun and funny one, a story- Ron has embraced storytelling as an fore. Because of Ron, our new students and teller, a rebel, always a teacher. We’ll miss art form. His stories illuminate the law faculty are more aware of the sacrifices Ron—a lot. made, obstacles overcome, and challenges and entertain the reader at the same time.

33 Sing a song of sixpence, College of Law, I saw segue—the A pocketful of rye. approach of business. It was my turn Forty-two and more years, to be cordial while at the same time Baked in a pie! nudging the bait. “How’s the law school doing these days?” When the pie is opened, “That’s why I’m calling, Ron.” The years begin to sing. [Aha! The gist.] Is that not a dainty dish Northwestern was a night law To set before the kings? school in downtown Portland on the second and third floors of the Giesy “Mr. Lansing, Judge Gantenbein Building, just a few blocks from my on line four.” office. The school first opened its I pushed a button. “Hello, your classes in 1884. The Gantenbein honor, what can I do for you?” family had privately owned or oper- “Hi, Ron. How are you?” ated the school for scores of years and A Song of Sixpence “Fine, Judge. And you?” through two world wars, the Korean by Ron Lansing “How’s the family?” War, and now the Vietnam War. “All well, Judge.” Surely he was “Ron, you may recall stopping Illustration by Mark Morrell ’77 not calling about my well-being or by my chambers last year and asking that of my wife, Jewel, and our 9-, 6-, me about part-time teaching at and 5-year-olds; but it was typical of the school.” this soft-spoken, extremely gracious I took my feet off the desk and sat man—the late John Flint Ganten- forward. “Yes, I remember. You said at bein. Then too, just as the appetizer the time there were no openings.” must precede dessert, so cordiality “Well, there is a spot now. Are readies the table for business. you interested?” “How goes your practice of law?” I looked around the office and he wanted to know. saw no place to hide my enthusiasm. “Outstanding, sir. I’m a partner I must have said, “Yes, of course.” now in the firm—the managing “As you no doubt know, attorney partner.” Phil Levin died suddenly on a back- “Well, congratulations. Say hello packing trip. He taught the course in to Paul and Don for me. They’re Code Pleading. The spot is vacant. graduates of our law school you know, Do you want it?” and were among that surge of war What first struck me was the veterans under the G.I. Bill who honor to serve on the distinguished, enrolled in 1946.” part-time faculty of that venerable He was referring to the late Paul school. Indeed, it was an extreme Bailey and the late Don Swink in compliment just to be asked. No sell- the law firm of Bailey Swink Haas ing was necessary; nevertheless the Seagraves and Lansing. When he judge seasoned the pitch with flat- touched on the Northwestern tery. “You studied under Dean Seward Reese; and, as you know, he is the only book author of Oregon’s code pleading form of civil procedure. He recommended you.”

34 Somewhere between “gratifica- in chief of a law review, law clerk to a for me to enter. I jumped at the tion” and “exaltation” was the right chief justice of a supreme court, and chance and never looked back. The word to describe the joy overtaking other songs of sixpence baked in a law school moved to the Lewis & me. But, faking nonchalance, I pie—a dainty dish to be set before Clark campus where its first full-time adopted a business mien and posed future kings. faculty of four professors and a three queries, all of which exposed But something happened in that dean included me. my hidden acceptance: “How much first year of engagement. At its end What is it that prompts one to of my time is taken? How much is I was ready to be wed. No longer was leave a law partnership and lawyerly my pay? When do I start?” it prestige that compelled me; nor practice to set upon education hori- Code Pleading would be taught was it money, needless to say. I had zons? Certainly not the trappings of two nights each week from 9 to 10 entered into a faculty heritage of money, nor the vanities of honor, p.m. for two semesters. At the end giants: supreme court justices, trial nor the hustlings of ambition. What of each semester there would be an judges, senators, legislators, commis- dainty dish is it that inspires those exam to prepare and grade for about sioners, senior law practitioners, who teach? It’s something like choos- 50 students. There would be no district attorneys, and Bar officers— ing a bride. A quest for fulfillment. required attendance at faculty meet- frontier leaders who had graced the What suits us. What makes us whole. ings, convocations, or graduations. Oregon landscape for over eight Partnering with life-work. The only other demand on time decades and who would continue to So, at the top of the list on my would be for classroom preparations, do so. And I had been and would resume pie, I set before my readers, which “is entirely up to you and, of be exposed to students who were be you queens or kings, this song course, to the trust already placed in doctors, police officers, fire fighters, of sixpence: you by asking you to take the task.” union leaders, business executives, “Four decades of law teaching— As for pay, I would receive $550 physical scientists, politicians, artists, one-third the life of this venerable per semester plus $1 for each exam high school teachers, professors, law school and over one-half of my paper graded—about $1,200 for carpenters, legislative advisors, own life.” one full academic year. homemakers, and men and women It’s the song I sing most, not so As for starting time, the offer was in all walks of life who saw law as an much for what I may have given, on a very short leash. School would offering for change or for betterment but rather in thanks for what I got. begin in just three weeks. The judge in their lives. Graduates were and By the way, that Code Pleading needed an answer within two days. would be governors, ambassadors, course in my first year at a lectern Unofficially my answer took two congressmen, mayors, military lead- was dropped from the curriculum seconds. It was made official when ers, trial and business lawyers, entre- in September 1967. Code Pleading I signed a contract letter on Septem- preneurs, members at every judicial retired 41 years ago. Its last teacher ber 9, 1966—over 42 years ago. rank, and pioneers in racial, gender, has taken another 42 years to Part-time teaching was a small environmental, and other just causes. do the same. ■ beginning, and I had meant for it to It was humbling and challenging to be no more than that—a temporary be in the shadows, among the ghosts, voyage for the resume. Bio-building is and at the futures of all such royal part of the paper chase that occupies cadre, aspirants, and alumni. the ambitions of the young. A law That first year of teaching was like school faculty membership would a key unlocking goals that I had not look good on the list along with a foreseen or planned. Epiphany grew cum laude doctorate degree, editor when the school made its own career change in a merger with Lewis & Clark College. A door was opened

35 This year’s auction directors are second- and third-year law students whose commitment to public interest causesThis year’s began auction well beforedirectors they are entered law school. second- and third-year law students Suzanne Bostrom ’10 grew up whose commitment to public interest in Sherman Oaks, California, and causes began well before they entered attended New York University. Before law school she worked with the Alaskalaw school. Conservation Alliance and Alaska Conservation Voters, focusing on Suzanne Bostrom ’10 grew up enacting renewable energy legislation and protecting clean water for salmon.in Sherman While Oaks,at Lewis California, & Clark, and Bostrom has done pro bono work for the Oregon League of Conservation Voters andattended Clackamas New Women’s York University. Services. Before This summer,law school Bostrom she worked worked with as the Alaska Save the Date! a PILPConservation stipend recipient Alliance for Trusteesand Alaska for Alaska.Conservation Voters, focusing on PILP Auction 2009 enactingJessie King renewable ’09 grew energy up in legislation Hong andKong protecting and attended clean Georgetown water for salmon. Univer- The 19th annual Public Interest Law Project Auction will be held at the Law sity’s WhileSchool at of Lewis Foreign & Clark, Service. Bostrom Prior tohas law School on Saturday, March 14, 2009. Recent graduates and established professionals school,done she pro worked bono forwork for the Oregon alike will attend to bid on items, reconnect with friends and faculty, and meet U.S. RepresentativeLeague of Conservation David Wu; Voters San and current students. We would be honored to have you and your guests join us. FranciscoClackamas Baykeeper, Women’s which Services. focuses One of the largest student-run organizations at the Law School, PILP awards on enhancingThis summer, the San Bostrom Francisco worked Bay’s as water stipends to students who will work for local, national, and international public quality;a PILPand SeaWeb’sstipend recipient Marine forPhotobank. Trustees Dur- interest organizations that could not otherwise afford to hire law clerks. In total, ing herfor first Alaska. year of PILP has provided over 230 stipends to 112 organizations, for projects ranging law school,Jessie King didKing pro ’09 bono grew work up in from assisting low-income populations in need of legal services to protecting for theHong Northwest Kong and Environmental attended Georgetown Oregon’s clean water. DefenseUniversity’s Center. She School also ofserved Foreign Service. Through last year’s auction, PILP raised $93,000 and funded 18 summer stipends. as thePrior PILP to board’s law school, alumni she faculty worked for Visit law.lclark.edu/org/pilp to see a sample of the items that will be auctioned liaisonU.S. for Representative2007-08. David Wu; San at this year’s event. You can also bid on auction items available exclusively online. FranciscoElizabeth Baykeeper, Oshel ’10 whichgrew upfocuses in Alumni have played an integral role in the auction’s success since the event’s New Hampshireon enhancing and the attended San Francisco Mount Holyoke Bay’s inception. Whether or not you are able to attend, your financial support or contribution of an auction item would be greatly appreciated. All donations are tax- College.water Prior quality; to law and school, SeaWeb’s Marine deductible. You can make a financial gift by visiting our website, or by mailing she workedPhotobank. in a collective During her bakery first year in Berkeley, of or delivering your check to our office at 10015 S.W. Terwilliger Blvd., Portland, California,law school, where Kingshe developed did pro bono her work interest Oregon 97219. If you would like to donate an item to the auction, we can arrange in fosteringfor the healthy, Northwest sustainable Environmental communities. to have a PILP board member or volunteer pick up your donation. WhileDefense at Center. She also served If you have any questions about the donation process or would like to know Lewisas & theClark, PILP Oshel board’s has alumnidone pro faculty bono work more about the kinds of items donated in the past, please contact this year’s auction at theliaison Community for 2007-08. Alliance of directors, Suzanne Bostrom, Jessie King, and Elizabeth Oshel. They can be reached Tenants andElizabeth the Community Oshel ’10 Developmentgrew up in Law at 503-768-6782 or [email protected]. Center.New She Hampshire also worked and attended Mount for theHolyoke Multnomah College. County Prior Office to law of school, Legal Aid Servicesshe ofworked Oregon in as a collective bakery in Be a Champion for PILP! a PILPBerkeley, stipend recipient.California, where she devel- Make an immediate difference by donating $5,000 to sponsor a full stipend, oped her interest in fostering healthy, or $2,500 to fund a half stipend. Your generosity will have a direct impact sustainable communities. While at on public interest law. You can make this gift in honor of an alumnus or alumna, Lewis & Clark, Oshel has done pro bono family member, or mentor. work at the Community Alliance of Tenants and the Community Develop- ment Law Center. She also worked for the Multnomah County Office of Legal Aid Services of Oregon as a PILP stipend recipient.

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Alumni PROFILE Scholarship for High School Students Honors Roberta Phillip ’06 Being a high school science teacher was a defining experience for Roberta Phillip. It gave her first-hand knowledge of the need for effective and impas- sioned advocates for youth. After three years in the classroom, she decided to pursue a J.D. in the hopes of creating policy and programs geared toward youth development. In addition to creating the POIC Mentor Program while at the Law School, Phillip also volunteered with Sisters in Action for Power as a tutor and mentor. She received the Joyce Harpole Scholarship and the Oregon Chapter of the National Bar Association Scholarship. Upon graduation, Phillip was inducted into the Cornelius Honor Society. Phillip’s current position as director of programs and agency relations for the National Crittenton Foundation In February, the members of the Lewis Roberta Phillip ’06 (center) with her POIC mentees unites her passion for youth advocacy & Clark’s Black Law Students Association LaTasha Carter (left) and Brieanna Lundy. Carter and her commitment to social change. (BLSA) surprised Roberta Phillip with graduated in June and is the recipient of one of The National Crittenton Foundation pro- a tribute that still brings a smile to her inaugural Roberta Phillip scholarships. vides aid to at-risk and system-involved face: the creation of a post–high school girls, young women, and their families. Currently, there are Crittenton agencies education scholarship in her name, to be ships with positive adult role models,” providing a variety of youth services awarded to high school students who says Phillip. “My hope is that these in more than 20 states. Phillip works participate in the mentor program she at-risk students will look to us, see them- independently and with agencies to started in 2004. selves, and as a result, dream bigger and create and evaluate programs, and The program pairs Law School stu- achieve more than they otherwise to provide support for implementing dents with students who attend Rosemary thought possible.” new programs. Anderson Alternative High School’s The POIC Mentor Program today Phillip also serves on the boards Portland Opportunity and Industrializa- involves middle and high school students of the Pangaea Project, a 10-month tion Center (POIC) in North Portland. in one-on-one and group mentoring. leadership program geared toward For most of the high school students, Program volunteers come from the providing at-risk youth with a global POIC is a last-ditch attempt to avoid community and from the Law School’s perspective on social justice issues, dropping out. minority law student associations. and of the Oregon Minority Lawyers The mentor program began when To launch the scholarship in Phillip’s Association, a group that provides Phillip, who served as president of Lewis honor, the BLSA membership hosted a support to minority attorneys and & Clark’s BLSA from 2004 to 2005, was special reception at the Law School on students. She believes strongly in teaching a class at POIC. She asked other April 26. More than 120 guests, includ- the power of the individual to effect law students if they would like to get ing the inaugural high school student change, and strives to be a living involved in mentoring. To her surprise, recipients of the scholarship, were in testament to that philosophy. more than 20 showed up for the program attendance. “I enjoyed seeing the stu- orientation in September 2004, and 13 dents out of their self-imposed con- completed the application process to straints, enjoying a lovely event,” become volunteer mentors. Phillip says. “I believe strongly that at-risk youth To learn more about the POIC Mentor and students of color in general benefit Program, including how to become involved significantly from establishing relation- as a mentor, contact Phillip at roberta@ TheNationalCrittentonFoundation.org.

37 Law School News Department Updates 2007-08

Admissions Office sector; this includes many prospective stu- Martha Minow, the Distinguished Honors In recent years, many law schools, including dents who are attracted to Lewis & Clark’s dinner in November, 17 alumni receptions Lewis & Clark, experienced a decline in public interest offerings. Therefore, there from Honolulu to D.C., and a garden party the number of applications they receive. is a great need for scholarships, loan repay- honoring women graduates from 1936 to That trend changed for us with the fall ment assistance funding, and other creative 1972, an alumni reception with the Minor- 2007 application season, which produced means of financing. ity Law Students Association, an alumni an 11 percent increase in applications over The current state of affairs makes us that reception prior to the PILP Auction, and the previous year. much more grateful for, and reliant on, a Holiday Appreciation Reception at the I am excited to report that the increase alumni assistance in recruiting top students Governor Hotel to thank our volunteers in applications to Lewis & Clark continues. to the Law School. We are extremely for their efforts. In fact, we received the largest number pleased to have some fantastic alumni and The commitment of the Alumni Board of applications in the history of the Law student volunteers who help us do this and of Directors to the Law School was evident School—over 2,800—for fall 2008’s enter- we are always in need of their participation. this year through its donation of time, energy, ing class! We lead Northwest law schools Alumni can get involved in our Outreach and funds. The board met three times dur- with the largest increase in applications this Campaign by writing letters or e-mails to ing the 2007-08 academic year, and every year. Furthermore, data provided by the newly admitted students and sharing their board member made a gift to the school. Law School Admissions Counsel shows that experiences as law students. They may also After researching alumni nominations, while on average the increase in applica- sign up with our Alumni Network and vol- the Alumni Board of Directors’ Distin- tions to law schools across the nation is unteer to be available to prospective stu- guished Honors Committee named Chris very slight (about 3 percent), the increase dents researching Lewis & Clark. Another Helmer ’74 the Distinguished Graduate, at Lewis & Clark is closer to 13 percent. way to support our efforts is to volunteer as John and Susan Bates the Distinguished It is extremely difficult to determine exactly a judge in our annual Minority Mock Trial Honorary Graduates, and Trune Tu ’00 what has accounted for this surge in appli- Competition, which gives socioeconomi- as the Rising Star. The board’s Scholarship cations, but we believe it is partly due to cally disadvantaged high school and junior Committee combed through the 13 submis- creative outreach efforts we implemented high students in the Portland area positive sions it received and selected Risa Davis last year and growing interest in the exposure to the legal field. We encourage ’10 as the recipient of the Alumni Board strength of Lewis & Clark programs, which all alumni to consider getting involved by of Directors Scholarship. The Reunion are becoming more and more popular and volunteering and spreading the good word Weekend Committee assisted in the devel- visible outside our region. We expect to see about Lewis & Clark Law School! opment and implementation of activities further increases in law school applications I also would like to take this opportunity on Alumni Weekend. as colleges and universities that are experi- to thank those of you who helped us in all The Joyce Ann Harpole Awards Recep- encing a surge in undergraduate enrollment of our admissions goals this past year. tion was held April 2 at the Oregon Histori- graduate larger classes in the next few years. Whether you attended an admissions recep- cal Society. Laurie Bender ’88 received We are especially proud of the fact that tion or law school fair, became a member of the Attorney award and Patrick Foran ’09 we were able to increase the ethnic diver- the Alumni Network, wrote letters to ad- received the Harpole Scholarship. Oregon sity of the Law School by bringing in one of mitted students, helped with the mock trial, Supreme Court Justice Robert Durham the most diverse classes on record. Twenty- or offered your perspective about your expe- was the guest speaker. two percent of the fall 2007 entering class rience at Lewis & Clark Law School, we are Delivering information more efficiently were self-identified students of color. We also truly grateful! is a key part of increased outreach. Increas- received a significant increase in the number Any alumni who are interested in partic- ingly, the Alumni Office is using electronic of minority applicants to the Law School for ipating in our outreach efforts should con- communications to inform alumni of events fall 2008. We continue to be the most ethni- tact the Office of Admissions at lawadmss@ and receptions. By decreasing the number cally diverse law school in the state. lclark.edu or 800-303-4860. of direct mailings (printed invitations), While the increase in applications over- –Shannon Burns, Assistant Dean for we are also reducing our use of paper, which all is very good for the Law School, there is Admissions fits well with the sustainability mission some sobering news. The nation’s economic of the Law School. As of this year, Dean downturn has affected every aspect of our Alumni Relations Klonoff is sending e-newsletters to all lives, and higher education is no exception. During the 2007-08 academic year, the Of- contactable alumni. You can now shop for As college and law school tuitions continue fice of Alumni Relations worked closely Lewis & Clark Law School apparel online to rise, we foresee greater financial difficul- with Dean Bob Klonoff to introduce him to at our new Alumni E-Store, www. ties for students who wish to attend law the Law School alumni community, and cudaapparel.com/LCLS.php, and alumni school. Complicating matters is the fact continued to provide opportunities for can join the Law School alumni group on that many private educational lenders are alumni and supporters of Lewis & Clark LinkedIn, an online networking site that going under, pulling out of the student Law School to stay engaged through various helps people find inside connections to lending market, or tightening the require- activities. Our office also offered network- jobs, industry experts, and business partners. ments for students to secure loans. Unfortu- ing opportunities and hosted alumni recep- Alumni event invitations are online, nately, this means that some students will tions locally and across the United States. accompanied by an online response form. decide to forego law school, not because Alumni Relations hosted an array of Remember, too, that the entire Advocate is they do not want to take out loans, but events this past year. These included the available online, and our Alumni News because they cannot qualify for the amount Bar Exam Hospitality Room in July and Blog, located at lawlib.lclark.edu/ they need. Particularly affected are those February, several class reunions during blog/alumni, is a great source for all wishing to practice in the public interest Alumni Weekend, the inaugural Martin the latest alumni news. Luther King Jr. presentation by speaker

38 Alumni involvement and participation ment ceremonies, including those for the and $7,500 from the KeyBank Foundation. continues to grow. The upcoming year will College of Arts and Sciences and the Grad- The Collins Foundation awarded the Law provide additional outreach, alumni events, uate School of Education and Counseling. School $180,000 over three years to expand and special events. We look forward to an- Visit lawlib.lclark.edu/podcast/index.php to Lewis & Clark’s Community other exciting year of interaction with the hear and see the multitude of archived Law Development Law Center practicum. many alumni and friends of Lewis & Clark School events. This fall, we are also unveil- Business Law Programs offers law stu- Law School. ing a new system that records and synchro- dents four different opportunities to hone –Robin Jerke, Director of Alumni Relations nizes the audio and video with what is their skills in business transactional law: projected in the classroom. The Small Business Legal Clinic begins Boley Law Library As always, check our website at its third year this fall with the addition of a The Paul L. Boley Law Library completed lawlib.lclark.edu for Law Library news, new clinical law professor, Lewis Goldfarb. another year of growth and service to the breaking legal news, research tips, lists of Goldfarb is a former corporate counsel at students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the recent acquisitions, research links, guides, Honda America and a business owner, and Law School. While the Law Library is and more. he will be teaching the SBLC classroom adding new databases as more materials –Tami Gierloff, Assistant Dean for Library component as well as supervising law stu- become available in digital format, we also Services dent interns at the SBLC. Students will continue to acquire books and new collec- continue to work with small businesses on tions. The 2007-08 academic year ended Business Law Programs all manner of business transactions. with a volume count of 528,877. We sub- The 2007-08 academic year was another The Community Development Law scribe to over 55 databases, including the banner year for Business Law Programs. In Center (CDLC) practicum will expand to most recent purchase of the LexisNexis October 2007, the Law School hosted two semesters next year thanks to increased Congressional Hearings Retrospective, a the 13th annual Fall Business Law Forum, funding received from the Collins Founda- full-text database of U.S. Congressional Nonobviousness: The Shape of Things to tion. The CDLC engages students in a wide Hearings covering 1824 to 2003. Come. The event featured leading scholars variety of corporate nonprofit work includ- This year, the Law Library established from law, economics, and psychology for an ing employment, tax, environmental, and a special collection in honor of the late unprecedented interdisciplinary look at land use planning legal issues. Doreen Margolin ’81. The Doreen Mar- patent law’s nonobviousness doctrine. Also The clinical internship seminars in cor- golin Law in Popular Culture Collection that October, we held the Family Business porate counsel/intellectual property teach includes law-related fiction, biography, and Institute, an invitation-only event cospon- students the role of a corporate counsel and nonfiction works written by and about sored by the global law firm Holland & how to draft myriad documents. Students lawyers. Materials in the collection, which Knight. Featuring nationally renowned then spend 10 hours each week in the features both books and DVDs, will be speakers, the daylong conference engaged offices of local corporations and organiza- available for circulation to the Law School participants in a variety of discussions on tions such as Adidas America, Oregon community and alumni. Local author intergenerational business governance and Health & Science University Technology Phillip Margolin, Doreen’s husband, transition. Transfer Office, Port of Portland, and donated his impressive body of work and The Small Business Legal Clinic cele- Hollywood Video. secured donations from many of his fellow brated its second year with a reception and The Center for Technology, Entrepre- authors. These materials include signed bestowed its first outstanding Pro Bono neurship, and Law continues to be the only editions of novels by Steve Martini, Scott Attorney Award on Darius Hartwell ’00 seminar of its type in the country. The Turow, John Grisham, William Bernhardt, of Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt, one of classroom component includes M.B.A. and Lisa Scottoline. The collection is sup- the SBLC’s sponsor firms. students from Portland State University ported and funded by financial gifts as well The Business Law Roundtable, a series and now from the University of Portland, as by gifts in kind of books and other media. of three sessions led by Professors Brian as well. In the practicum, law students are The Law Library has a professional and Blum and Ed Brunet, engaged students, paired with attorney mentors to work on long-serving staff of 19. Library Director leading lawyers, and community leaders, projects related technology companies with and Professor Peter Nycum, Assistant including State Treasurer Randall Edwards. high growth potential. Director for Technical Services Kathy This year’s series was Corporate Sharehold- –Lisa LeSage ’85, Associate Dean for Business Faust, and Assistant Director for Reader ers in 2008: New Roles, New Rules? Law Programs Services Lynn Williams celebrate 30 or In April, Graeme B. Dinwoodie, an more years of service to the Law Library internationally known expert in intellectual Career Services in 2008. Seven of our librarians have law property law and director of the Program in Career Services continues to develop new degrees and three are Law School alumni. Intellectual Property Law at Chicago-Kent programs and services to enhance our stu- Additionally, three members of our current College of Law, was the 2008 Distinguished dents’ and graduates’ career opportunities. staff are working on master’s degrees in IP Visitor. Professor Robert Miller ’91 and This year we were very fortunate to have library and information science. Associate Dean for Business Law Programs Bill Penn ’02 join our office as our Public Professor Nycum launched the Sir Lisa LeSage ’85 organized a groundbreaking Interest Law Coordinator. Penn brings an Edward Coke Society this past year, which national conference, Indigenous Economic incredible wealth of talent and has already was founded to stimulate an interest in legal Development: Sustainability, Culture, and been enhancing our strong public interest history through educational presentations, Business. The conference drew more than programs, including our Pro Bono and collegial discourse, and informative libation 70 participants and leading scholars from Community Service Honors Programs and tasting. The society will also provide a around the country. The annual Business the Loan Repayment Assistance Program. source of funding for the acquisition of Law Luncheon celebrated the programs’ He also is looking at new technologies that additional volumes for the Peter S. Nycum successes of the year and honored Jeff can enhance the office’s services. Rare Book Room. The society meets four Curtis ’86 as the distinguished business Throughout the year, we offered our times a year, and membership is $500. Please law graduate. usual programs and services, including the contact Nycum for more information. In 2008 alone, Business Law Programs ever-popular mentor programs, specialized The Law Library’s electronic informa- has received approximately $500,000 from first-year programs, more than 80 career tion services department continues to ex- successful grant requests to support its clini- colloquia and events, and our Breakfast pand its services. This year, in addition to cal programs. In February, the Small Busi- With Judges. We also served again as the the very popular videocasts and podcasts ness Legal Clinic received a $224,000 grant primary planner of the Northwest Public of Law School events, the staff of the EIS for three years from the M. J. Murdock Service Career Fair, which was held in both department was able to facilitate the live Charitable Trust. The SBLC also received Seattle and Portland. The fair gives stu- broadcast of all Lewis & Clark commence- $80,000 from the City of Portland in June dents an opportunity to meet with public 39 Law School News Department Updates 2007-08

interest and public service employers from Williamson, the founder of the Environ- J.D./LL.M. program in environmental law. our region and across the country. mental Law Program. The 2007 recipient This program will allow interested Lewis The national hiring picture is a bit was Jamie Saul ’07. & Clark law students to obtain both degrees bleaker than it has been over the past cou- During the course of the 2007-08 aca- in three and a half years. Students will be ple of years and Portland continues to be demic year, the Environmental and Natural able to take advantage of this new program a challenging entry-level market, but our Resources Law Program coordinated a num- in 2009. graduates have been doing well in securing ber of symposia, conferences, and events. Stephanie Parent ’92, managing attor- employment. In 2007, we had a total of 223 As the prequel to an important Federal ney for the Pacific Environmental Advocacy graduates, of which 214 reported they were Energy Regulatory Commission workshop Center, opened her own practice in Decem- actively seeking work. Nine months after on licensing pilot ocean energy projects, ber. PEAC hosted a farewell party to honor graduation, 207 (96.7 percent) reported Lewis & Clark cosponsored an ocean energy her many significant accomplishments. they had secured employment and two symposium in October focusing on the We welcomed Tom Buchele, formerly the reported they were enrolled in full-time legal and policy aspects of this new energy director of the environmental law clinic at degree programs. source. Expert speakers included FERC the University of Pittsburg, as PEAC’s new This year, I again had the opportunity to Commissioner Phil Moeller, Thomas managing attorney. Melissa Powers ’01, visit our alumni and employers around the Jensen ’83, Kevin Banister, Jack Sterne a PEAC clinician, became the newest mem- country and throughout Oregon. As a result ’94, and Allen Alley of Oregon Governor ber of the environmental faculty at the Law of those visits, I have received many job Ted Kulongoski’s office. U.S. Representa- School this fall. Dan Mensher ’07 is our announcements and offers to assist our stu- tives Earl Blumenauer ’76, Darlene new PEAC clinician. dents and graduates. For that, I am very Hooley, and Greg Walden appeared via Laura Ireland Moore ’01, founder and grateful. Not surprisingly, making connec- videolink. Podcasts of the symposium are director of the National Center for Animal tions is still the best way for our students available at law.lclark.edu/dept/elaw. Law, is now focusing on new opportunities and graduates to find great opportunities. The environmental program again closer to her new home base of Newport. We hope you will continue to be supportive hosted its annual three-day environmental She was honored at a reception in August by sending us job announcements and men- seminar for federal judges in October. A for her dedication to and success in building toring or meeting with our students and record number of judges (49) attended the one of the first animal law programs in the new graduates. Many thanks and best program for presentations from Professors country, as well as for her important contri- wishes for the coming year. Mike Blumm, Susan Mandiberg, Craig butions to the growing and significant field –Libby Davis ’93, Assistant Dean for Career Johnston ’85, Bill Funk, Dan Rohlf, and of animal law. Services and Alumni Relations Associate Dean Janice Weis. The program In early 2008, the Animal Legal Defense also hosted its annual workshops for U.S. Fund announced its intent to donate close Environmental and Natural Forest Service personnel on the Endangered to $900,000 to the Law School to support Resources Law Program Species Act. Led by Professor Dan Rohlf, and enhance the Animal Law Program. In October 2007, the Environmental and these programs provide foundational infor- The gift has allowed the Law School to hire Natural Resources Law Program welcomed mation on the ESA and related laws. Work- a director and program assistant for the its 20th annual Natural Resources Law shops were held on campus and in Key program and a director for the Animal Law Institute Distinguished Visitor, Lisa Heinz- West, Florida. Clinic, as well as enhance its scholarship erling, professor of law at Georgetown Uni- Law students representing Student and conference offerings. versity Law Center. Heinzerling spent three Advocates for Business and Environmental –Janice Weis, Associate Dean for Environmen- days on the Law School campus visiting Responsibility (SABER) helped organize tal and Natural Resources Law Program classes, meeting with students, and leading Going Green: Advising Clients in the New an LL.M. seminar. Her visit included a lec- World of Sustainability, a full-day CLE held Department of Legal Analysis ture to the Law School community titled in April at the Oregon Convention Center. and Writing “Climate Change in the Supreme Court,” Speakers discussed funding sources and The Department of Legal Analysis and in which she detailed her experience as strategies for financing green initiatives, sus- Writing held a legal writing seminar CLE counsel for the Commonwealth of Massa- tainable business practices, the ins and outs in April. Guest Mark Herrmann, author of chusetts in its successful U.S. Supreme of green-claims advertising, legal aspects of The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law, Court case, Massachusetts v. EPA, address- green building, subsidies and tax incentives, spoke to practicing attorneys about ways of ing the regulation of greenhouse gases. the unsettled permitting environment for improving their legal writing skills. Other Prior to Heinzerling’s lecture, the Law green building, carbon offsets, and the latest CLE sessions addressed various writing top- School honored three environmental law developments in renewable energy. ics including organization, ethics, contract alumni as Distinguished Environmental Focus the Nation, a nationwide event drafting, and correspondence. The Portland Law Graduates. They were Chuck Barlow designed to bring attention to global cli- law firm partners who made up the panel— LL.M. ’95, assistant general counsel with mate change issues, was held in January. Steve Blackhurst of Ater Wynne, Paul Entergy Services in Jackson, Mississippi; The Law School participated in a day of Conable of Tonkon Torp, Randy Foster of Robin Craig ’96, professor at Florida State events organized by clinical faculty Melissa Stoel Rives, Margaret Kushner of Stoel University College of Law; and James Powers ’01, Erica Thorson ’05, and Rives, and Lisa Rackner of McDowell & Martin ’81, executive director of the Col- Aubrey Baldwin ’05 that included speakers Rackner—were available for discussion orado Department of Public Health and on a variety of climate change topics as a with attendees. Environment. The faculty also presented well as a viewing of the movie Who Killed the Environmental Alumni Association’s the Electric Car? Williamson Award, which is named in In January, the Law School received honor of Lewis & Clark law professor Bill ABA approval to launch a new joint

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Professor Doug Beloof ’81 has been appointed an inaugural member of the Dan Mensher ’07 joined the Pacific five-member crime victims advisory group Environmental Advocacy Center in to the Federal Sentencing Commission. In April as a clinical professor and staff August, Beloof made a presentation at the Parents of Murdered Children’s national attorney. His work focuses on water conference, held in Irvine, California, on quality and hazardous waste remediation. the most recent developments in victims’ Mensher received an M.S. in geography rights law. He was also the keynote speaker from the University of Wisconsin, where at the national conference of the Associa- he studied issues of water quality, resource tion of Government Attorneys in Capital management, and subsistence economies Litigation, held in San Francisco in August. in Alaska and Africa. After earning his In January 2009, Beloof will present at the Law School’s Spring Symposium, which J.D. at Lewis & Clark, he clerked for will focus on the Giles v. California, the Judge Rick Haselton at the Oregon most recent case decided by the U.S. Court of Appeals. During his free time, Supreme Court regarding the confronta- Mensher enjoys bicycle racing, cooking, tion clause of the Sixth Amendment. Giles and running. involved the historic forfeiture by wrongdo- ing exception to the confrontation clause. The 4-2-3 split among the justices indicates that Giles will not be the last word on this confrontation clause exception, and the symposium will feature many of the top minds involved in the debate. Hosted by Law Preemption and Unleashing the Beloof, the presenters will include Thomas Washington, provided tips on teaching te- States.” In October, Drummonds spoke at Davies (University of Tennessee), Jeffrey dious subjects; in the other, Bogdanski the annual meeting of the Oregon State Fisher (Stanford University), Richard shared his experiences as a blogger. His Bar Labor and Employment Law Section Friedman (University of Michigan), Robert blog, www.bojack.org, has made a mark on on “Issues Facing Employment and Labor Kry (firm of Baker Botts), Tom Lininger Portland’s media and political scenes. Bog- Law Attorneys in a Global Economy.” (University of Oregon), Robert Mosteller danski also served as an election-night com- mentator on KGW-TV for the May primary. (Duke University), and Deborah Maggie Finnerty, executive director and Tuerkheimer (University of Maine). Ed Brunet, Henry J. Casey Professor of Law, clinical professor of law at the Law School’s Small Business Legal Clinic, attended the Professor Michael Blumm’s article “Norton has coauthored a second article with Profes- Small Business Clinical Conference in v. SUWA and the Unraveling of Federal sor Jennifer Johnson. “Critiquing Arbitra- Detroit in April. At the conference, Land Planning,” coauthored with Sherry tion of Shareholder Claims” will appear as Finnerty participated in a panel titled Bosse ’07, was published in 18 Duke Envi- the lead article in the fall issue of the Secu- “Transactional Clinic Office Procedures.” ronmental Law and Policy Forum 105 (2007). rities Regulation Law Journal. In May, Finnerty attended the Association This fall, Blumm is teaching a seminar on Professor Henry Drummonds delivered of American Law Schools Conference on public trust law in collaboration with Mary his annual lecture on causation in toxic Clinical Legal Education in Tucson, Ari- Wood, a University of Oregon law profes- tort cases to a class of medical and school zona, and facilitated the Community Devel- sor, with whom he is coauthoring a treatise of public health students at the Oregon opment Working Group discussions. She on public trust law. Health & Science University in May. also presented at the Emory Law School’s In June, Drummonds spoke at New York Professor Jack Bogdanski’s latest article, conference Teaching Drafting and Transac- University School of Law’s 61st Annual “The ‘Quid’ and the ‘Quo’: Valuing Firm tional Skills: The Basics and Beyond. Her Conference on Labor, presenting his paper Goodwill and Executive Perks,” appeared presentation focused on using pedagogical “Cross-Border Employment Contracts, in the national journal Estate Planning in techniques for incorporating transactional Choice of Law, Choice of Forum, and the June. Bogdanski continues to serve as editor skills training in a variety of settings. in chief of the journal Valuation Strategies Enforcement of Cross-Border Judgments in Professor Bill Funk’s article “Public Partici- and writes two supplements a year for his the European Union.” That paper was also pation and Transparency in Administrative treatise Federal Tax Valuation. He led the published in September in the proceedings Law: Three Examples as an Object Lesson,” Law School’s 14th annual volunteer income of the conference. Drummonds also pub- which he presented at the biennial Admin- tax assistance program in the spring. He lished a comment on “Products Liability, istrative Law Forum in May in Montpellier, also spoke twice at the annual meeting of Preemption, and the U.S. Supreme Court” France, will be published along with the the American Association of Law Libraries. in the Oregon State Bar’s Products Liability other papers at the conference in the In one session, he and another tax law pro- Section summer 2008 newsletter. He spent Administrative Law Review. Funk sent the fessor, Sam Donaldson of the University of parts of the summer traveling in Europe and working on his forthcoming article manuscript for the third edition of his “Reforming Labor Law by Reforming Labor Examples and Explanations: Administrative Law to the publisher this summer. His new

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ference in Indianapolis in July. In August, Carma Corcoran has joined the Johansen spoke about the basics of legal Law School as the director of the reasoning in the common law system at the Indian Law Program. Previously, she Istanbul Legal Skills Conference in Turkey. was the director of the volunteer pro- Professor Steve Kanter published his article gram at Raphael House of Portland “Bong Hits 4 Jesus as a Cautionary Tale of and a program manager at Big Brothers Two Cities,” 12 Lewis & Clark Law Review Big Sisters, where she led the diversity 61 (2008). Kanter was on sabbatical spring and training committees as well as semester 2008 and spent time in Mexico, France, Hawaii, and parts of the continen- outreach to targeted populations tal United States. He also served as a such as children of the incarcerated volunteer campaigner for the Barack and minorities. Obama presidential campaign in Ohio, Corcoran has a bachelor’s degree Pennsylvania, and Oregon. in communication with a concentration Dean Robert Klonoff and his three coon conflict resolution and cross-cultural reporters presented the latest version of their communication. She holds a master’s class action project, Principles of the Law of degree in public administration with Aggregate Litigation, to the full body of the a focus on organizational administration American Law Institute in May. Klonoff’s and cultural competency. chapter focuses on class action settlements. An enrolled member of the Chippewa-Cree tribe, Corcoran comes from a His coauthored West Thomson Federal family dedicated to education, service, and social justice issues. She is on the boards Appellate Practice and Procedure in a Nutshell of the Mount Hood Kiwanis Camp, which serves the disabled, and of the High was recently released. An article he coau- Hopes Charity, which assists victims of domestic violence. She is also an elder for thored on class actions and the Internet the Red Lodge Transition Services project, which serves Native American women has been accepted for publication by the incarcerated at Coffee Creek. University of Pittsburgh Law Review. This summer he spoke at an international class action conference in Florence, Italy; a conference of 150 state appellate judges; a constitutional law casebook, Introduction to International Law, to be published by Oxford Practicing Law Institute conference on class American Constitutional Structure, was pub- University Press in 2009. Grant is also actions; and the Southeastern Association lished this summer. In May, Funk attended preparing a chapter on the enforcement of Law Schools Annual Meeting. All of the annual meeting of the American Law mechanism in the U.N. Convention on the his speeches were on current issues in the Institute, to which he was elected last year. Rights of the Child and cowriting a chapter settlement of class actions. In July, he attended the Southeastern Asso- with Professor Elaine Sutherland on inter- ciation of Law Schools annual meeting, national instruments as sources of Scottish Associate Dean Lisa LeSage ’85 attended where he was on a panel titled Teaching child law for the third edition of Children’s the first annual ABA Business Law Sec- Constitutional Law in the 21st Century. Rights in Scotland, to be published by tion’s Global Law Conference in Frankfurt, At that conference, he also was the mentor W. Green in 2009. Germany, in May. for a new professor from the University of Professor Steve Johansen ’87 presented Professor Susan Mandiberg joined 14 Lewis Baltimore who was presenting a paper, and the paper “Was Colonel Sanders a Terrorist? & Clark students in Beijing for two weeks he helped organize the reception on behalf The Ethics of Storytelling in Litigation” of their three-week summer program at of Lewis & Clark Law School and Hofstra at the biennial Legal Writing Institute Con- Peking University. Mandiberg explored Law School, the newest members of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools. Also in July, Funk attended a workshop on preemption for congressional staff in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Center Tom Buchele joined the Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center in January for Progressive Reform, of which he is a member scholar. as managing attorney. He leads PEAC’s land management and natural resource practice, which includes mining and oil and gas issues, in his role as senior coor- Assistant Professor Tomás Gómez- dinator of environmental initiatives. Previously, Buchele was director of the Arostegui attended the 2008 Privacy Law environmental law clinic at University of Pittsburgh for seven years; staff attor- Scholars Conference in Washington, D.C., ney at the Environmental Law & Policy Center of the Midwest; and a partner in June. in the Chicago office of the Jenner & Block law firm, where he focused on Professor John Grant is presently working complex commercial and natural resources litigation. He is a graduate of Illinois with Craig Barker of Sussex Law School Wesleyan University and the University of Illinois College of Law. When not (England) on the material for the third protecting public lands and leading PEAC, Buchele enjoys gardening, baking, edition of the Encyclopedic Dictionary of canning, hiking, and exploring tidepools up and down the Oregon coast.

42 other potential opportunities for the Law School to become more involved in legal education and other legal developments in China. While in Beijing, Mandiberg had the opportunity to meet with several alumni of the Law School: Hu Zaichi ’95, a partner at King & Wood; Ai Hong ’97, a partner at ZY Partners; Jun Ge ’95, managing director at Intel China; Yanni Yang Melissa Powers ’01 ’97, manager, tax, KPMG Huazhen; and Named to Full-Time Duncan Hwang ’07 and Ula Janik ’07, who Faculty Position are working at King & Wood. She also met with Chen Yunsheng of the Law After five successful years with School of Beijing Normal University, who the Law School’s Pacific Envi- was a visiting scholar at Lewis & Clark in ronmental Advocacy Center the mid-1990s. (PEAC), Melissa Powers joined Professor Bob Miller ’91 completed a law the full-time faculty this fall as review article in May titled “American an assistant professor. She says Indian Entrepreneurs: Unique Challenges, she is excited to be stepping Unlimited Potential.” He presented that into her new role at the Law paper at the Northwestern University School. “Lewis & Clark is a School of Law Searle Center’s conference very special place. The faculty on Entrepreneurs and the Law in June. He here care about each other and spoke about the Doctrine of Discovery and the students and make sure that they commit themselves to excellent teaching. Indian law issues at a Clark County Histori- The students are energetic, dynamic, and incredibly smart and thoughtful.” cal Museum training for Washington state Powers, a magna cum laude graduate of the Law School, will be teaching museum personnel and at the National Museum of American Indians on the mall energy law, climate change law, ocean and coastal law, other environmental in Washington, D.C. He was also inter- courses, and administrative law. She will also continue to assist the environ- viewed on Washington, D.C., cable access mental law and animal law moot court teams. During her first year, her teach- television. Miller delivered Indian law ing will focus on energy law and climate change. “There are several trainings to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife announcements each week about some new development in climate change Service and the Vancouver, Washington, law,” she says. “Now is an ideal time to think about how the law is working— School District. Miller taught a one-week or not working—to address both domestic and international problems associated summer course, Economic Development with climate change and energy use. It is also a great time to think about inno- in Indian Country, at the University of vative and effective solutions. I am looking forward to exploring all of these Montana Law School. issues with students throughout the year.” Professor Janet Neuman spoke on western During her tenure with PEAC, from 2003 to 2008, Powers’ work focused water law in June at the annual conference primarily on pollution control litigation, with a particular emphasis on the of the University of Colorado’s Natural Clean Water Act. With PEAC, she successfully litigated several cases in federal Resources Law Center in Boulder, Col- and state courts. Before joining PEAC, Powers practiced law and supervised orado. Her article “Chop Wood, Carry clinical students at the Western Environmental Law Center in Eugene. She Water: Cutting to the Heart of the World’s Water Woes” was recently published in the spent several years prior to law school leading teenagers in youth conservation Florida State University Law School’s Jour- corps and other outdoor programs. nal of Land Use and Environmental Law. Powers spent the spring semester of 2007 as a visiting professor at the Univer- Neuman has completed her term as the Law sity of Maine School of Law, where she taught environmental law and coastal School’s associate dean of faculty and has zone law. She was also a visiting professor at the University of Trento, Italy, in embarked on a sabbatical, during which she May 2008. will be working on several writing projects Powers is married to Mark Riskedahl ’00, the executive director of the and doing some consulting work. She is also Northwest Environmental Defense Center. In her free time she enjoys pottery, planning to attend the World Water Forum gardening, travel, and yoga. Another of her favorite activities is cycling, in Istanbul, Turkey, in the spring of 2009. and most days Powers arrives at the Law School on her bike. Professor John Parry’s article “Torture Says Powers, “When you go on the academic job market, everyone tells Nation, Torture Law” has been accepted you that you have to be prepared to move anywhere. While I was willing to for publication in the May 2009 issue of move, I was definitely not excited about leaving the community at Lewis & the Georgetown Law Journal. His essay Clark or my life in Portland. Being able to stay here is the best of all worlds.”

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“Rights and Discretion in Criminal Proce- dure’s ‘War on Terror’” has been accepted for publication in the spring 2009 issue of the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law. Professor Elaine Sutherland published the second edition of her treatise Child and Family Law (W. Green, a subsidiary of the Thompson publishing group) in May. Nearly 1,400 pages long, the work offers critical analysis of Scots law in this fast- Lew Goldfarb joined the Small developing field, with plentiful incorpora- tion of comparative material from Aus- Business Legal Clinic (SBLC) this tralia, Canada, Europe, New Zealand, and fall as a clinical professor. A native the United States. In August, the second of Ohio, he graduated from Ohio edition of her student text, Family Law State University summa cum laude for the LawBasic Series (the Scottish equiv- in 1980 with a degree in business alent of Nutshells), was published by administration. Goldfarb worked W. Green. Over the summer, she completed for five years as a CPA at Arthur an article, “A Veiled Threat to Children’s Andersen and Cardinal Foods Rights?” The article is based on her profes- before attending Ohio State Univer- sorial inaugural lecture delivered at the sity College of Law, from which he graduated with honors in 1988. He began University of Stirling (Scotland) in Febru- ary. She also completed her chapter for the his legal career in the business section of the Baker & Hostetler law firm in 2009 edition of International Survey of Fam- Columbus, Ohio, performing transactional legal work before spending 16 years ily Law, the annual flagship publication of as in-house counsel for Honda of America in Marysville, Ohio, where he eventu- the International Society on Family Law. ally became associate chief counsel. In that senior management position, Titled “What Has a Decade of Devolution Goldfarb was responsible for the day-to-day administration of Honda’s legal Done for Scots Family Law?” her chapter department and for legal counsel provided to the corporation’s manufacturing offers a retrospective on the contribution entities throughout the United States. He also managed their intellectual prop- of the first 10 years of Scottish Parliament erty group and advised the company on its handling of critical supplier issues to family law. Sutherland has begun work that threatened Honda’s production operations. on four chapters (one coauthored with Most recently, Goldfarb satisfied his entrepreneurial spirit by owning and Professor John P. Grant) for the third operating Club Z! In-Home Tutoring Service. His company provided one-on-one edition of Children’s Rights in Scotland (W. Green), which she coedits. It will in-home instruction to more than 1,000 students in the Columbus, Ohio, area, be published in 2009. the majority of whom came from poor, inner-city families. Throughout his career, Goldfarb has provided pro bono legal services and Clinical Professor Terry Wright is serving represented various social causes. He was involved in Big Brothers Big Sisters on a number of committees through the and the Columbus Bar Association’s Lawyers for Justice Program. He also served Oregon State Bar. She served on an advisory committee examining the overlap on the boards of several nonprofits in central Ohio. between the Professional Liability Fund’s Goldfarb is an avid sports fan with strong allegiance to Cleveland’s sports Oregon Attorney Assistance Program and teams and his beloved Ohio State Buckeyes. He realizes that his relocation to the State Lawyers Assistance Committee. Portland has not generated the publicity that attended the arrival of fellow She is also serving on a committee examin- Ohio State Buckeye Greg Oden. However, he remains excited about his move ing the Oregon State Bar’s treatment of and all that comes with it: serving on the Lewis & Clark Law School faculty, out-of-state licensed lawyers who set up working at the SBLC, and watching Oden play for the Trailblazers. practices in Oregon. In March she attended Goldfarb and his wife, Sharon, have identical twin sons, Benjamin and the Western States Bar Conference in Tuc- Joshua, who are high school seniors. They, too, are looking forward to son, Arizona; was a key contributor to a exploring the great Northwest. session; and met with representatives from other large bars in the west. She also attended the Association of American Law Schools Clinical Legal Education Confer- ence in Tucson in May. This spring, Wright taped a session of Legal Links for the Ore- gon State Bar designed for airing on public access television. The topic was how to determine if a person needs a lawyer, and how to find one.

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biophysics from Stanford University. His ex- Michelle Kerin ’96 1950s pertise includes many areas of biotechnology has been elected presi- Judge Robert Jones ’53 was named an hon- and physics, such as molecular biology, phar- dent of the board of orary knight at the Royal Rosarian Hon- maceutical chemistry, drug delivery systems, trustees for Portland’s orary Knighting Ceremony, which took diagnostics, instrumentation, thin-film International School, place during the Portland Rose Festival. media, robotics, solid-state devices, which is dedicated to microfluidics, and microfabrication. providing children 1960s with a comprehensive Judge Betty Roberts Mark Gould ’83 was and challenging educa- ’66 was named an recently appointed tion that includes fluency in more than one honorary dame at by Governor M. Jodi language. In addition to serving as president, the Royal Rosarian Rell and confirmed she chairs the human resources committee. Honorary Knighting by the Connecticut A Farleigh Wada Witt shareholder, Kerin Ceremony, which took General Assembly as focuses her practice on litigation, place during the Port- a judge of the Con- employment, and labor law. land Rose Festival. necticut Superior Dominic Auld ’97 has joined Labaton Court. Gould is sitting Sucharow. With over seven years of experi- in the Meriden Superior Court, where he ence in the area of securities class action 1970s is a resident judge hearing criminal, civil, litigation, Auld will be responsible primarily Judith Armatta ’75 is completing a book on family, and housing cases. for working with the client and case devel- the trial of Slobodan Milosevic. The work Judith Johansen ’83 has been named the opment departments to identify meritorious will be published by Duke University Press. new president of Marylhurst University. She securities fraud cases and present them to Armatta has spent the last three years in takes over for Nancy Wilgenbusch, who is the institutional investors harmed by the The Hague and plans to return to Oregon retiring. Previously, Johansen served as the conduct at issue. He will focus on the firm’s in the near future. president and CEO of PacifiCorp. existing relationships with institutional Jim Mountain ’75 was elected a member Daniel McInerny ’84 was listed in 2008 investors from his home country of Canada of the American Academy of Appellate edition of The Best Lawyers in America and and will also be part of the firm’s outreach Lawyers at the academy’s recent meeting. Indiana Super Lawyers in Environmental Law to other institutions worldwide. The academy recognizes outstanding appel- for 2008. He is a partner in the environmen- Phil Bender ’97 has transferred from K&L late lawyers and promotes the improvement tal group for the firm Bosey, McKinney & Gates’ Portland office to the firm’s Pitts- of appellate advocacy and the administra- Evans in their Indianapolis office. burgh office. He continues to represent tion of the appellate courts. Mountain is Craig Johnston ’85 has been elected to clients in the Pacific Northwest and beyond a shareholder in the Portland office of the council of the American Law Institute. in a wide range of environmental, regula- Harrang Long Gary Rudnick. Members are elected through a process that tory, permitting, and litigation matters. Prior Craig West ’76 moved his office to 4004 recognizes individuals for their significant to joining K&L Gates, Bender served as an Kruse Way Place, Suite 200, Lake Oswego, professional achievements and demonstrated assistant attorney general with the trial divi- 97035. He can be reached by phone at interest in the improvement of the law. sion of the Oregon Department of Justice for 503-496-5505 and by fax at 503-495-5510. James Zehren ’85 has been named the new more than seven years. He can be reached at His e-mail address remains craigowest president of the City Club of Portland. 412-355-6464 or [email protected]. @msn.com. Zehren is a real estate attorney with Stoel Adina Cunningham ’97 has become the Richard Acott ’78 and Constance Acott Rives in their Portland office, specializing in new deputy director of county administra- celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary construction and design law. tion for San Juan County, Washington. on June 28. Sharon Kloss ’88 has been named the new director of gift planning for the University Scott Kauffman ’78 of Portland. She can be reached at 503-943- had one of his short 8677 or [email protected]. stories published in the spring edition of r.kv.r.y Quarterly Liter- 1990s Jesse Margolis ’92 was featured in the ary Review. The story, Curry County Reporter regarding his transi- titled “Rocking,” can tion from private practice and the public be found online at defender’s office to serving on the Curry www.ninetymeetings County Circuit Court bench. Margolis has inninetydays.com/Rocking.html. been on the bench since January 2007. Margaret Weddell ’93 has been appointed 1980s to Oregon’s Workers’ Compensation Peter Dehlinger ’82 has been hired as a Board by Governor Ted Kulongoski. Four alumnae visited Prague’s Old Town partner at King & Spalding in the firm’s Previously, Weddell worked for the Square in May. Left to right: Teresa Statler ’91, Silicon Valley office. He has more than 27 Portland firm Swanson Thomas & Coon Ellen Jones ’91, Phylis Myles ’91, and years of patent experience and is considered and specialized in personal injury matters Alice Bartelt ’81. a leader of the biotech-pharmaceutical bar and workers compensation. in Silicon Valley. Dehlinger has a Ph.D. in

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Michele Stone ’98 has joined the Portland He previously served as a deputy district at- David Bean ’01 has firm of Markowitz Herbold Glade & Mehlhaf. torney for Multnomah County and as politi- been named a partner Scott Bogue ’99 has been selected as the cal outreach director for the Oregon Trial with the Portland firm successor to Seventh Circuit Magistrate Lawyers Association. Meyer & Wyse. He Michael O’Connor. Located in Rapid City, currently serves as South Dakota, Bogue has served as the staff 2000s president of the board attorney for the Seventh Circuit since 2001. Darius Hartwell ’00 was awarded the 2007 of directors of the He also has served as an assistant state Outstanding Pro Bono Service Award from Multnomah Bar attorney general in the appellate division, the Lewis & Clark Small Business Legal Association Young a legal editor for Shepard’s/McGraw-Hill, Clinic. Hartwell has represented a wide array Lawyers Section. an independent legal contractor, and a of clients in the transactional setting, as well Elizabeth Howard ’01 has been named Seventh Circuit Court law clerk. as providing general corporate counsel on an a partner with Dunn Carney in their Port- land office. She practices environmental, Greg Corbin ’99 has ongoing basis. Hartwell was recently named natural resources, and agricultural law. been promoted to prin- shareholder with Schwabe, Williamson & Howard regularly represents her clients in cipal in the Portland Wyatt in their Portland office. federal and state courts, in negotiations with office of Stoel Rives. Román Hernández administrative agencies, and in administra- He is a member of the ’00 has joined the tive proceedings at the state and federal firm’s resources, devel- board of directors of level. She also is the leader of the firm’s opment, and environ- the Portland Guadala- agriculture/ natural resources team and ment practice group jara Sister City Associ- environmental team. and of the forest ation and has made a Jacqueline Jacobson ’01 has opened her industries and renewable energy team. He presentation to busi- own law practice, which will focus primarily represents private and public interests on ness leaders and gov- on representing injured workers. She can be regulatory strategies, major project permit- ernment officials in reached by e-mail at jackie@jacobsonlawof- ting, and natural resource–related transac- Guadalajara to discuss the laws that affect fice.com or by phone at 503-764-9878. The tions. Many of his clients have interests in businesses in Oregon. The presentation is office is located at 1336 E. Burnside Street, Oregon’s Klamath River Basin on matters part of a larger celebration that recognizes Suite 120, Portland, 97214. concerning water rights adjudication and the 25th anniversary of Portland and Laura Ireland Moore ’01 and Holly regulatory matters. Corbin holds a master Guadalajara’s sister city relationship. Gibbons ’04 opened Gibbons & Ireland on of forest science degree, and he writes and Hernández is a shareholder with Schwabe, August 1 in Waldport. Moore was the exec- speaks frequently on issues affecting the for- Williamson & Wyatt. utive director of the National Center for est products industry and forest landowners. Tim Murphy ’00 and Allison LaPlante ’02 Animal Law and director and clinical pro- Rachel Kondor ’99 married Brian Segee are excited to announce the birth of Finnian fessor of the Animal Law Clinic at Lewis on the island of Tortola in the British Joseph Murphy. He was born on June 8 & Clark Law School for the past seven years. Virgin Islands on May 5. Kondor has been and weighed 8 pounds and 10 ounces. Lynn Archer ’02 has been selected as a a senior legislative assistant for U.S. Repre- partner in the Portland firm of Parsinen sentative Raul Grijalva since 2003. Kondor Gordon Phillips ’00 Kaplan Rosberg & Gotlieb. She is an attor- and Segee reside in Brentwood, Maryland, has been elected to ney with the firm’s corporate law team and with their two dogs, Kali and Rocky, and shareholder with Sta- its employee stock ownership plans and their cat, Oregon. hancyk, Kent, Johnson & Hook in the Bend employee and executive benefits team. Laura Maffei ’99 office. Phillips special- Archer’s practice focuses on the design, has been promoted izes in family law, implementation, qualification, administra- to shareholder at divorce, custody, and tion, funding, communication, and termina- Schwabe, Williamson support matters. He tion of employee stock ownership plans and & Wyatt in their Port- can reached at 541-318-9115. other employee benefit plans. With a back- land office. She joined Tracy Sullivan ’00 and husband Michael ground in taxation, she also provides corpo- the firm in 1999 and Hallas are the proud parents of a healthy rate law clients with strategic counsel on her practice focuses baby daughter, Asa Sullivan Hallas. transactional matters and their attendant on environmental and Asa, who was born on May 29, weighed tax and finance issues. Among the parties natural resources law. 9 pounds and 7 ounces and measured she counsels are private companies, institu- Joel Shapiro ’99 21.5 inches long. tional trustees, and commercial lending joined the Washing- Mary-Beth Baptista ’01 has become the institutions. ton, D.C., staff of Sen- director of Portland’s Independent Police Melissa Chureau ’02 and husband Pascal ator Ron Wyden as Review. Baptista, who has worked as a became the proud parents of a baby daugh- counsel for judiciary, deputy district attorney for Multnomah ter, Amelie Miette, on April 12. Amelie foreign affairs, immi- County for seven years, has also worked as weighed 7 pounds and 3 ounces and is gration, elections, an outreach coordinator for the Sierra Club. happy and healthy. labor, education, and nanotechnology issues.

46 Angela Engstrom ’02 moved her office Zoe Wild ’04 has Phillip Haberthur ’06 on July 1 to 405 W. 13th Street, Vancouver, joined the Portland was chosen from a pool Washington 98660. Engstrom’s phone num- office of Stahancyk, of nine candidates to ber is 360-735-8555, and her e-mail address Kent, Johnson & fill a vacant position is [email protected]. Hook, where she on the Battle Ground Allison LaPlante ’02 and Tim Murphy ’00 practices family law. City Council. He is an are excited to announce the birth of Finnian associate in the Joseph Murphy. He was born on June 8 and Vancouver office of weighed 8 pounds and 10 ounces. Schwabe, Williamson Bear Wilner-Nugent ’04 opened an office & Wyatt and specializes in the areas of com- Jeanette Schuster ’02 in Portland specializing in criminal defense, mercial and real estate litigation. joined Tonkon Torp appeals, and related areas of practice. The as an associate in the Jinnifer Jeresek ’06 office is located at 2311 E. Burnside Street, real estate and envi- was the 2008 com- Suite B-1, Portland, 97214. Wilner-Nugent ronmental law practice mencement speaker at can be reached at [email protected] or group, focusing on Montana State Col- 503-351-2327. environmental and lege of Agriculture, J. Ashlee Albies ’05 has joined Steenson, renewable energy mat- from which she earned Schumann, Tewksbury, Creighton & Rose ters. Her experience a degree in 2003. She as an associate. She can be reached at 500 includes helping clients to resolve problems says she encouraged Yamhill Plaza Building, 815 S.W. Second related to environmental cleanup, environ- the graduates to ac- Avenue, Portland, 97204, or by phone at mental insurance claims, wind power siting, knowledge and embrace their roots, figura- 503-221-1792. water rights, land use and zoning, and utility tive and otherwise. Jeresek works as a lawyer rate cases. Anthony de Jong ’05 for Karnopp Petersen in Bend, specializing Patrick Ward ’02 has been appointed as has joined the Austin, in land use litigation and tribal law. an assistant attorney general in the human Texas, firm Larson, Donna Lee ’06 joined Hoffman, Hart & services section of the general counsel divi- Newman, Polansky Wagner in their Portland office as an associate. sion with the Oregon Department of Justice. and White as an asso- Kristin Winges ’06 has been appointed as Gretchen Barnes ’03 has been named a ciate attorney. His prac- an assistant attorney general in the torts partner with the Portland firm Cable Hus- tice will specialize in section of the trial division with the Oregon ton. Barnes is a member of the firm’s busi- patent fields as diverse Department of Justice. Previously, Winges ness and real estate groups. Her scope of as oilfield technology, was a judicial clerk for the Clackamas practice includes negotiating and preparing chemistry, aeronautics, and data security. County Circuit Court. acquisition, leasing, and financing docu- Shems Baker-Jud ’06 and his wife, Scott Leonard ’07 announces the opening ments for complex real estate transactions. Crystal, welcomed a new daughter, Tealia of his office at 520 S.W. Sixth Avenue, Suite Theodore Heus ’03 recently joined Marion, on May 24. 600, Portland, 97204. His practice focuses on Scheminske & Lyons as an associate. His representing small businesses and individuals Jill Brittle ’06 has practice will emphasize appellate litigation in the areas of business transactions and joined the Portland before Oregon’s Workers’ Compensation litigation, family and estate law, tax and office of Stahancyk, Board and appellate courts in defense of bankruptcy law, and criminal defense. Kent, Johnson & Oregon employers. Leonard welcomes new clients as well as Hook, where she Hani Gharbawi ’04 has been named gen- contract work from other attorneys. He can practices family law. eral counsel and company secretary for be reached at 503-222-0722 and through his Emaar, a Dubai-based real estate company. website at www.scottleonardlaw.com. Previously, Gharbawi was the interim chief Yonna Park ’07 has joined Stoll Berne as legal counsel at King Abdullah University an associate. Park’s practice will emphasize Nicole Dalton ’06 has started a practice, of Science and Technology. complex business and intellectual property the Law Office of Nicole Dalton, at 100 E. Holly Gibbons ’04 and Laura Ireland litigation. 13th Street, Suite 2, Vancouver, Washing- Moore ’01 opened Gibbons & Ireland on ton 98660. She can be reached by phone at Frederick Schroeder ’07 is clerking for August 1 in Waldport. Moore was the exec- 360-213-0013. Judge Robert D. Herndon in Clackamas utive director of the National Center for Elisa Dozono ’06 has been appointed to County. Schroeder and his wife recently Animal Law and director and clinical pro- the Metropolitan Exposition Recreation welcomed their second child, Keira fessor of the Animal Law Clinic at Lewis & Commission board of commissioners. Noelle Schroder. Clark Law School for the past seven years. She is an associate with Miller Nash and Kate Stebbins ’07 is the new deputy specializes in business litigation and district attorney for the Hood River County government relations. District Attorney’s Office. She can be Heather Ebert ’06 joined Wallace, Klor reached at 309 State Street, Hood River, & Mann as an associate in their Lake 97031, or by phone at 503-386-3103. Oswego office. Thor Tingey ’07 has joined Ball Janik Kimberly Graves ’06 and her spouse, Peter, as an associate in their Portland office. joyfully announce the birth of their daugh- His principal practice is land use. ter, Lola Riley Graves, who arrived May 9. 47 Bryan Coover III ’75 died unexpectedly at Bradley Peterson ’87 passed away at the In Memoriam the age of 58 on March 12. Born in Shelby, age of 46 on June 27 at his Overland Park, Ohio, he graduated from Milwaukie High Kansas, residence. He was born December Jerry Shank ’54 died on January 20 at the School. In addition to practicing law, his 10, 1961, in Great Bend, Kansas, the son age of 87. Shank was born October 17, 1920, interests included photography, baseball, of Francis D. Peterson and Viola D. Beck in Portland, where he lived all his life. He gardening, camping, singing, and spending Peterson. He married Mary Elizabeth Ben- graduated from Grant High School. During time with his family. He is survived by his nett in 2001. Peterson was a member of St. World War II, he served in the U.S. Army in mother, Geraldine; two brothers; his former John the Evangelist Catholic Church and China. He was an attorney in Portland for wife, Andrea; a son and stepdaughter; and Knights of Columbus Council No. 1521, more than 50 years and a founding partner a granddaughter. both of Hoisington, Kansas, and the Church of the Nativity in Leawood, Kansas. He was with Gilbert Sussman in the firm Sussman James Albert Varon ’75 died on May 16, active with the American Cancer Society Shank. Although early in his career Shank 2008, in Chandler, Arizona, after a two-year and a recipient of the Founders Award for primarily maintained a business practice, he battle with leukemia. Born February 13, his work. Peterson was a self-employed attor- later specialized in bankruptcy law, repre- 1944, in Seattle, Washington, he graduated ney licensed to practice in Kansas, Washing- senting debtors, trustees, some creditors, and from Roosevelt High School in 1962 and ton, and Oregon. He enjoyed hunting; others in related insolvency issues. He was a from the University of Washington in 1966 fishing; watching the Royals, Chiefs, and frequent speaker and writer on bankruptcy- with a degree in broadcasting. After college, Jayhawks; and spending time with family related topics. He was selected for inclusion Varon served as an officer in the signal corps and friends. Survivors include his wife, in the first edition of Best Lawyers in America. in Vietnam. He worked as a corporate attor- Mary Beth; his mother; and many friends. In 1964, he married Harriet Kowitt Meier, ney for GTE Directories for 26 years and for who died about a week after him. He is sur- Valley Yellow Pages of Fresno, California, for Brett Roy Chytraus ’90 died on March 16 vived by his three sons, Dennis, Robert, and 8 years. He was involved in the community at the age of 47. Chytraus was born in Fuller- Steve; a stepdaughter; and a stepson. in numerous ways, including as judge pro ton, California, on January 28, 1961. He Robert J. Groce ’58 died September 22, tem in small claims court for seven years attended Montana State University, where 2007, at the age of 84. Groce was born April and president of the Fresno Better Business he met his wife and received a bachelor’s 9, 1923, in Portland. He graduated from Bureau. He retired to Chandler in 2005 to degree in history. Chytraus married Christy Grant High School. During World War II, pursue his love of golf. Varon is survived by Ross in 1984. They moved to Albany, where he served in a patrol bombing squadron in Stephanie, his wife of 38 years; his daughter he established his law practice with Weath- the U.S. Navy. Groce was an attorney with Amie K., son-in-law Lance, and granddaugh- erford Thompson. Chytraus was an avid a private practice. In 1960, he married ter Elise Sydney Ludwig; daughters Megan skier, mountain biker, and hiker. He loved Shirley A. Flook. Survivors include his M. Varon and Kristin M. Varon; and family the outdoors and was a member of the wife, a daughter, and two sons. members in the Seattle area. National Ski Patrol for many years. He enjoyed fly-fishing and watching hockey Sandra Saunders Gallagher ’78 passed away Charles E. Hodges Jr. ’60 died in October on television. Chytraus also loved being on June 16 at age 64. Born January 1, 1944, 2007 at the age of 76. Hodges was born a father and being with his family. He is in Cleveland, she graduated from Brown March 9, 1931, in Portland. He attended survived by his wife, Christy; daughters University and received a master’s degree Cathedral, Columbia Preparatory, and Saint Kaylie and Kimi; and son Logan. He is also from Fordham University. In 1970 she Martin’s College. He practiced law for 50 survived by his mother and stepfather, moved to Portland, where she practiced as years and retired just a year prior to his Kathy and Pieter DeJonge; father, Robert; an attorney for 20 years. She married Senior death. An avid sports enthusiast, he espe- and brother, Chad. cially enjoyed coaching his children’s teams. Judge Stephen L. Gallagher Jr. in 1990. Sur- Most of his last years were spent at his Surf vivors include her husband; stepdaughters, Linda Johannsen ’90 died March 11, 2008, Pines beach house. Survivors include his Shelli Valles, Lee Saunders Wright, Jennifer of ovarian cancer at age 57. Born Linda seven children. Anderholt, and Elizabeth Collins; and two Newman on September 11, 1950, in Aurora, grandchildren. Colorado, she moved to Lake Oswego in Jerry Kobelin ’67 passed away on June 28 1963 and earned both a bachelor’s degree Eddye McClure ’86 passed away on May 8, at age 73. A funeral mass was held on July 3, and a law degree from Lewis & Clark. She 2008. McClure was born in Houston on 2008, at Christ the King Catholic Church, was an attorney for K & L Gates. In 1971, April 25, 1950. After graduating from the where Kobelin was a longtime member. she married Clifford Johannsen. They moved Law School with a J.D. and certificate in Kobelin was born July 31, 1934, in Billings, to Portland in 1987. Survivors include her environmental and natural resources law, Montana. He received his undergraduate husband, daughters Brynne McGrath and McClure became a staff attorney for the degree from the University of Washington. Amelia Johannsen, and one grandchild. In 1959, he married Maryhelen Pauly. Montana Legislative Services Division, Kobelin continued to practice law until his where she remained until her death. During final illness intervened. Survivors include her employment, she focused her talents on his wife; son, Tim; daughter, Susan; mother, education law and state-tribal relations. Inez; brothers, Warren and Dennis; and two She was a cofounder of the Indian Law grandchildren. Section of the Montana State Bar. McClure loved Montana and committed herself to helping the people of the state through her work at the legislature and in her private life. She was preceded in death by her parents, Eloise and Earl McClure. She is survived by her sister, Sharyn McClure. Oregon Law Institute Lewis & Clark Law School 620 S.W. Main Street, Suite 706 Portland, Oregon 97205-3037 503-768-6580; 800-222-8213 [email protected] Upcoming Schedule All events take place at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland unless otherwise noted. 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