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In Domestic Violence Clinic: Real Life Lessons '74 Alum Wins Two Firsts Against Ford OregonOregon LawyerLawyerUniversity of Oregon School of Law ■ Fall-Winter 2001 .LAW.UOREGON.EDU W SCHOOL • WWW In Publicthe Interest ’74 Alum Wins Two Firsts Against Ford Domestic Violence Clinic: Real Life Lessons SINCE 1884, OREGON’S PUBLIC LA MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN As many of you know, I will fin- We are focused on the teaching, the learning, ish my five-year term as dean of the application and the creation of law; the very the School of Law in June of thing terrorists wish to destroy. 2002. The first statement I wrote We are focused upon the reasoned, fair and at Oregon focused on lessons of consistent application of rules, hopefully governed community from my days living by a shared consensus of human values. In the through the Oklahoma City broadest sense, this is our reason for being. It is the bombing when I was dean at thing to which we must return and the thing we Oklahoma City University. As seek to preserve and to pass on to those within and my Oregon deanship was wind- beyond our immediate community. We feel the im- ing down, it never occurred to portance of that challenge even more strongly in me that we would be faced with times of crisis. a terrorist act that dwarfed Okla- As I prepare to return to the classroom at Or- homa City. egon, I am reminded of that line from the conclu- You would be proud of how sion of Tennessee William’s The Glass Menagerie. our law school community came Narrator Tom declares, “I was more loyal than I in- together that week of September tended to be.” When I arrived here five years ago, 11th. We began with a candlelight Oregon seemed like another stop in the life of a vigil and concluded with a noon “serial dean,” but I have now come to think of it— gathering with silent moments. and each of you in this community—as truly spe- Faculty, staff, students, alumni and even friends from cial. the neighborhood drew strength from each other, Those who have studied the import of tragedies from the sharing of our feelings. We were all re- like those of September tell us that we must hold minded of how much we mean to each other. close to those who are important in our lives. Re- There are great joys and sorrows that are part of covery is dependent upon recognition of what we community. During my years as Oregon’s dean, the mean to each other. So I want to tell you just how law school has had a rich share of both of these special you are to this law school community, to our emotions. Through it all—joys and sorrows—the students and our graduates, to our faculty and our center of this community is the law. staff —and especially to me. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SCHOOL OF LAW 1 University of Oregon School of Law Board of Visitors 2001-2002 The board supports and advances law school programs with the UO president, the bar, and the legal profession. Nicholas Rockefeller, Chair FALL-WINTER Partner, Perkins Coie LLP Santa Monica, California 2001 Gary Galton ’70, Vice Chair Principal, Accord Mediation Palm Desert, California 6 Members The Hon. Ann Aiken ’79 U.S. District Court Judge Eugene, Oregon Howard Arnett ’77 Partner, Karnopp, Petersen, Noteboom, Hansen, Arnett & Sayeg, LLP Bend, Oregon Don Bourassa ’80 Entrepreneur and business administrator Rancho Mirage, California The Hon. David Brewer ’77 Oregon Court of Appeals Salem, Oregon Lori Houck Cora ’89 Assistant Regional Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10 1111 Seattle, Washington Serena Cruz Multnomah County Commissioner, District 2 Portland, Oregon • Okianer Christian Dark 6 Class Act Professor of Law, Howard University Washington, D.C. San Francisco civil litigator Paul Nelson, ’74, just won two “firsts” against The Hon. Alfred “Ted” Goodwin ’51 Ford Motor Company in high stakes product cases. Long ago, two law professors Senior Judge, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Pasadena, California encouraged the Oregon native to seek his fortune in the big city. Paul Kelly General Counsel, Nike, Inc. Beaverton, Oregon • Thomas Landye 11 To Be of Use Partner, Landye Bennett Blumstein LLP Portland, Oregon The Lane County Domestic Violence Law Clinic gives UO students a way to help The Hon. Edward Leavy battered women find their way through the legal system. For many, it’s also Senior Judge, U.S. Circuit Court Portland, Oregon their first chance to put law school theories into real world practice. Kenneth Lewis Retired President, Lasco Shipping Co. Portland, Oregon Paul Loving ’93 2 • News Vice President of Business Development, Torson Group, Inc. New Dean Search Underway… Law School Honors “Mrs. A and Ray”… and more Lake Oswego, Oregon Hardy Myers ’64 Oregon Attorney General 16 • Centers & Programs Salem, Oregon Peggy Nagae Charles Ogletree, Jr., Leads Wayne Morse Center 2001-02 Programs Principal, Total Diversity Management Consultants Senior Lawyers Mediate Enthusiastically Eugene, Oregon Daniel Ousley ’73 District Attorney, Wallowa County Enterprise, Oregon 18 • Faculty Laura E. Rackner ’84 Remembering Wayne Westling… Faculty Notes… Professors in Print Partner, Stahancyk, Gearing, Rackner & Kent Portland, Oregon Robert Richmond ’70 Partner, Richmond & Quinn 22 • Alumni Anchorage, Alaska Class of 1956 Reunites Rohn Roberts ’79 Partner, Arnold, Gallagher, Saydack, Percell & Roberts Eugene, Oregon William Wiley ’75 23 • Class Notes Principal, Wiley & Company Lake Oswego, Oregon Ex officio • Cynthia Fraser ’87 27 Honor Roll President, Law School Alumni Association Annual giving campaign raises $100,000 2 OREGON LAWYER FALL-WINTER 2001 interest so many have expressed in the position and the excellent pool of qualified applicants. Commit- tee members made many personal contacts, and spread the word enthusiastically. Our only problem will be narrowing the list. We hope to begin inter- viewing candidates in October.” NEWS University representatives on the search com- mittee include seven faculty members and admin- istrators and two law students in addition to Grier. Transition Planning Two Oregon appeals court judges and a Portland attorney represent the legal community. Well on the Way The committee plans to ask members of the law Search Committee Hopes New Dean school Board of Visitors and greater legal commu- nity to meet with finalists, and hopes to make a rec- Selected by January 2002 ommendation to Provost John Moseley in time for When Rennard Strickland joins the rest of the fac- him to make the selection by the end of the year. ulty on the third floor next summer, who will be- “We believe our school has much to recom- come the new occupant of the first floor dean’s mend it,” said Associate Dean Jane Gordon, a com- suite? Dean Strickland announced his retirement mittee member. “I’m thinking particularly of our last May, and since then each deliberative group strengths in teaching and scholarship, our role in a in the law school has carefully considered the research university, our technology capacity and our question. new building and the warm learning environment.” Last spring, the teaching faculty held three fa- The new dean will become the head of cilitated meetings to discuss qualities of the new Oregon’s only public law school and the 18th dean dean that were particularly important to them. Their since the school was founded in 1884. ■ priorities include a candidate who has a distin- guished career either in academia or practice or both, a strong ability to relate well to people, supe- Class of 2004 rior leadership abilities, excellent fundraising skills, and a vision of the importance of public legal edu- Strong in Academics cation. Add to that administrative experience, high and Life Experience energy, and a commitment to diversity and it makes The University of Oregon law school’s first entering a formidable list. class of 1884 would be surprised to see the new Associate Professor Merle world of the class of 2004. Tuition has risen consid- The Deans List Weiner, search committee vice- erably from the $75 assessed that year. And this chair, said, “We are working class’s mandatory laptops, its balance of men and Richard Hopwood Thornton, 1884-1903 hard to find the best possible women and its cosmopolitan profile might raise a The Hon. Calvin U. Gantenbein, 1903-1915 dean for the law school and I am few pioneer eyebrows. Edward W. Hope, 1915-1919 confident we will succeed.” The 175 first year students range in age from William G. Hale, 1920-1927 So far, there is no shortage of early 20s to mid-50s. Almost half of the students are Charles E. Carpenter, 1927-1931 applicants. Early response to let- women. Fifteen percent are minorities. They come Wayne L. Morse, 1931-1944 ters, advertisements and word of from 80 colleges and universities, with nearly 50 Orlando J. Hollis,* 1941-44 mouth has been promising, with percent graduating from schools in the Pacific 1945-1967 nearly 50 applications received Northwest. The class includes speakers of Chinese, Chapin Clark,* 1967-68 by the beginning of the law Spanish, French and German. Eugene F. Scoles, 1968-1974 school term. Applicants were still The incoming class is of high academic caliber, Chapin Clark, 1974-1980 applying as Oregon Lawyer went said admissions committee chair Carl Bjerre, an as- Laird Kirkpatrick,* 1980 to press. If all goes well, a new sociate professor who teaches commercial law. Derrick Bell, 1981-1985 dean will have been selected by “Applications to the law school jumped up fully 17 Fred Merrill,* 1985-1986 December or January and will percent this year and we are on an upswing in Maurice Holland, 1986-1991 assume the position July 1, 2002.
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