Oregon LawyerSPRING/SUMMER 2005 UPDATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP TEAMS WIN BIG “LIVES FOREVER” BATTERY AND ARESENIC CLEANUP BUSINESS PLANS ATTRACT INVESTOR INTEREST

Law students Clayton Jones and environmental problem, “ Glasson Will Glasson will share over says, “The amount of arsenic $50,000 in cash awards with other contained in the predicted future members of two UO entrepreneur- volume of treated waste wood is ship teams that assess, develop enough to kill everyone on this and launch new high-tech startup planet.” businesses. The team claims benefits to Both teams placed in the 2005 waste management customers in- international Moot Corp. — a kind clude lower costs, greatly reduced of “Super Bowl” of world business liability, and a vehicle for being plan competitions — held at the more environmentally respon- University of Texas in May. The sible. 20-year old competition featured CleanSmart’s market entry is 40 teams from five continents. focused upon Norway, and then Jones and his team developed the European Union, where CCA a battery substitute that, in his is classified as hazardous waste words “lives forever.” Glasson’s with restricted use and disposal team will introduce an environ- and where companies already pay mentally-friendly technology that for cleanup. The team projects that removes arsenic from waste wood revenue will be based on treat- products. ment services, reselling compo- Jones and Glasson are nent materials and consulting. Clayton Jones with Will Glasson and Technology Entrepreneurship Glasson is interested in corpo- “Perpetua Harvester” “CleanSmart” technology Fellows, part of a four-year-old rate transactional work and wants collaborative effort between the power source for small devices. Jones is interested in entrepre- to nurture technology ventures UO business and law schools, In its business plan, Perpetua neurship and business law and that offer an alternative to harm- the UO Office of Technology focused on markets in which the plans a legal career working pri- ful or unsustainable industrial Transfer and Pacific Northwest total cost of battery ownership is marily with start-up and emerging practices. He said “ “I would love National Laboratories of Richland, exceptionally high. growth companies. to be one of the people who make Washington. Jones, who has a background in the next technology small biotechnology, engineering, and CLEANSMART business stronghold!” PERPETUA HARVESTER business is working on a joint Will Glasson and his teammates Law professor Barbara Aldave, Clayton Jones and team members J.D./M.B.A. degree at the UO. He from the business school, David directs the law school’s Center from the business school — Jed said, “The Perpetua Harvester will Grove and Eric Brunsvold, are for Law and Entrepreneurship and Cahill, Jon Hofmeister, Lars Juel, initially be installed in wireless addressing the problem of lumber co-designed the technology entre- and Mason Adair — have devel- sensor networks monitoring the pressure-treated with chromate preneurship program. She said, oped the Perpetua “Harvester”, a structural health of bridges and copper arsenic (CCA). Used in “It immerses our students in all of battery substitute that generates pipelines throughout the United decks, fences and the like, pres- the challenges — and frustrations electricity using naturally occur- States. From there, the possibili- sure-treated lumber all over the — of transforming a raw technol- ring differences in temperature ties are limited only by the imagi- world is decaying at a fast rate ogy into a market-ready business and offers an extremely long-life nation.” and entering land fills. “It’s a huge opportunity.”

BUSINESS LAW PROGRAM ALL GROWN UP With a rich, vigorous and innovative cur- out how the UO stacked The business law riculum, a full complement of business up. They discovered program extends faculty — not to mention the Technology that the UO is the only beyond the classroom Entrepreneurship program, the Portland busi- school in Washington to include nation- ness program, new business externships and a and Oregon to offer ally known visitors lively student group — the business and com- classes on venture capi- such as John Coffee. mercial law program at the UO is officially all tal and private equity, Sneirson welcomed grown up. financial institutions Assistant Professor Judd Sneirson’s contracts class the Columbia securi- Of 22 business law courses offered next year and banking regulations, meets at the top of Mt. Pisgah in Lane County. ties law professor to — large and small — 18 filled up during pre en- and two semesters of the UO this spring as rollment. “This indicates a real jump in interest. securities law. the Coif Distinguished Lecturer, and he hopes to I think our efforts to expand the curriculum and A growing number of top schools offer semi- bring equally well-known corporate law speak- build student awareness are paying off,” said nars on post-Enron corporate governance and, ers to Eugene next year. Rob Illig, assistant professor and former transac- in some cases, a small business clinic. The UO “Here’s an expert commentator for the inter- tional attorney with Nixon Peabody. offers both. national business press speaking on Post-Enron Assistant Professor Judd Sneirson and Illig Illig said, “We have one of the richest and jurisprudence — and our students and alumni surveyed the 22 Pacific Northwest and top most innovative sets of offerings among our in Oregon had a chance to discuss current is- public and private law schools this year to find peers.” sues with him,” Sneirson said.

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SCHOOL OF LAW • WWW.LAW.UOREGON.EDU SPRING/SUMMER 2005 • SCHOOL OF LAW OREGON LAWYER UPDATE • SPRING/SUMMER 2005 LAIRD KIRKPATRICK TO RESUME TEACHING, SCHOLARSHIP IN DECEMBER ACADEMIC DEAN AND CRIMINAL LAW PROFESSOR MARGARET PARIS WILL SERVE AS INTERIM DURING NATIONAL SEARCH FOR NEW DEAN

By Laird Kirkpatrick, Philip H. Knight Dean

Last fall in these pages you read about the forward progress the law school has made on many fronts, and more recently you may have read about the high national rank- ing of our natural resources and dispute resolution programs. We have a vibrant public law school that boasts three new programs, a Portland presence, a new busi- ness law clinic, five new tenure- track faculty members, seven new endowed professorships and fellowships, impressive new faculty publications, a dou- bling of scholarships available Dean Kirkpatrick talks with U.S. District Judge Owen Panner as Coos County Circuit Judge to entering students, ten new Richard Barron looks on at the March 10 O’Connell Conference. faculty offices, a new masters degree in dispute resolution, the estab- December in order to solidify our exter- my co-author, who has carried more than lishment of a loan repayment assistance nal fund raising and alumni relations his share of the load, we have been able program, the Oregon Innocence Project, efforts. Beginning January 2006, criminal to publish a fifth edition of our evidence the Oregon Review of International Law, law professor and Associate Dean Margie coursebook and a third edition of our evi- and much, much more. Paris will serve as interim dean until a dence hornbook in the last two years. But These achievements are the result of new dean takes office, almost certainly by now our publisher (West) wants a new the combined efforts of our faculty, staff, the end of the next school year. edition of our five-volume treatiseFederal students and alumni. All of us who care A dean search committee has been ap- Evidence. This is a project that will oc- about the school should be proud of the pointed by the provost that includes five cupy much of my post-deanship time. progress it is making, despite the continu- faculty members, one student, the chair of I fully expect the coming summer and ing challenge of lack of adequate state the Dean’s Advisory Council, and a mem- fall to be as productive for the law school funding. ber of the Alumni Association Board. and enjoyable for me as the last few years I have had the extremely good fortune The deanship at Oregon is a wonderful have been. I hope to see as many of you to lead the law school during the last opportunity, and given all the positive as possible. As always, my door is open three years. But we are now nearing the energy and extraordinary people here we to you, your ideas, and your advice. end of my three-year commitment to should be able to attract many outstand- serve as dean, and it is time for me to ing candidates for the position. transition back to teaching and scholar- I very much look forward to teaching ship as a member of the law faculty. again and will return to the faculty as the At the request of University President Hollis Professor of Legal Procedure. I also Frohnmayer, I have agreed to extend look forward to having more time for my my service for another six months until scholarship. Thanks to the dedication of

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Chair James Carter ’76 Kirk Johansen ’74 Paul Nelson ’74 Writer and Editor UNIVERSITY OF Rohn Roberts ’79 General Counsel, Nike, Inc. Partner, Schwabe, Williamson & Partner, Hancock, Rothert & Assistant Director, OREGON SCHOOL Partner, Arnold, Gallagher, Saydack, Beaverton, Oregon Wyatt Bunshoft LLP Communications O F L A W Percell & Roberts Portland, Oregon San Francisco, California Eliza Schmidkunz Eugene, Oregon Don Corson ’85 Laird Kirkpatrick The Don Corson Law Firm Paul Kelly Howard Ollis ’72 Designer Philip H. Knight Dean MEMBERS Eugene, Oregon Retired Global Director of Public Eugene, Oregon Mike Lee Affairs, Nike Inc. www.MikeLeeAndMe.com Jane Gordon The Hon. ’79 John Crawford ’73 Beaverton, Oregon Laura E. Rackner ’84 Associate Dean U.S. District Court Judge Partner, Schwabe, Williamson & Partner, Stahancyk, Gearing, Rackner Photography Student/Program Affairs and Eugene, Oregon Wyatt Christopher Kent ’85 & Kent Ela Orenstein Communications Portland, Oregon Partner, Kent Custis LLP Portland, Oregon (botanical cover photo) Kelly Allen Portland, Oregon Eugene, Oregon Deirdre Dawson ’86 Nicholas Rockefeller Jack Liu A L U M N I & Partner, Cassidy, Cheatham, Shimko Thomas Landye Partner, Perkins Coie LLP DEVELOPMENT Howard Arnett ’77 Cartoon & Dawson, PC Partner, Landye, Bennett, Blumstein Santa Monica, California Matt Roberts, Assistant Dean Partner, Karnopp, Petersen, San Francisco, California LLP An LRAP donation from Noteboom, Hansen, Arnett & Sayeg, Portland, Oregon Richard Shaw ’62 Stu Rees Tara McMahon, Director LLP Gary Galton ’70 Partner, Higgs, Fletcher & Mack LLP attorney at law Colleen McKillip, Bend, Oregon Principal, Accord Mediation The Hon. Edward Leavy San Diego, California Stu’s Views: http://www.stus.com/ Palm Desert, California Senior Judge, U.S. Circuit Court Executive Assistant Jeffrey Beaver ’85 Kenneth Stephens ’67 Portland, Oregon (541) 346-3865 Partner, Graham & Dunn The Hon. Alfred “Ted” Partner, Tonkon Torp LLP Seatle, Washington Goodwin ’51 Kenneth Lewis Portland, Oregon William W. Knight Law Center Senior Judge, Ninth U.S. Circuit Court Retired President, Lasco Shipping Ed Belsheim ’78 of Appeals Co. The Hon. Vicki 1221 University of Oregon Chief Administrative Officer, Pasadena, California Portland, Oregon Toyohara ’80 1515 Agate Street InfoSpace Administrative Law Judge Eugene, Oregon 97403 Bellevue, Washington Katherine Gurun ’75 Richard Mollison ’69 Seattle, Washington U.S.A. Senior Vice President and General Partner, Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP www.law.uoregon.edu B. Kent Blackhurst ’50 Counsel, Bechtel Corp. Washington, D.C. William Wiley ’75 © 2005 University of Oregon Medford, Oregon San Francisco, California Principal, Wiley & Company ’64 Lake Oswego, Oregon The Hon. David Robert Holland ’52 Brewer ’77 Orange, California Salem, Oregon E X O F F I C I O Oregon Court of Appeals Salem, Oregon The Hon. Thomas Hart ’86 President, Law School Alumni Association

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FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS RECOGNIZED WITH SIX NEW ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Six members of the law faculty were new book, Second Founding, about the coming revision of Cohen’s Handbook of honored for their scholarly achievements remaking of the Constitution after the Federal Indian law, the major reference by being appointed to endowed professor- Civil War, is forthcoming from Henry Holt on the subject. ships and faculty fellowships. Dean Laird and Company. Kirkpatrick announced the appointments The professorship is a result of a be- Law professor on January 27. quest by Orlando John Hollis, who served Margaret Paris, “We are extremely proud of our new as dean of the law school from 1945 to who is also the law endowed professors and fellows, whose 1967, and whose 35 years at the law school’s associate scholarly work in such different areas school included a stint as acting univer- dean for academic — from real estate financial to natural sity president. affairs, received the resources law to feminist jurisprudence to Elmer Sahlstrom constitutional law — has brought national Dean Laird Kirkpatrick has been awarded Senior Fellowship. attention to our school, ” Kirkpatrick the other professorship from the en- Paris is the coau- said. dowment and will become the Hollis thor of a coursebook Professor of Legal Procedure. on criminal proce- Steven Bender will dure used nation- be the new James Caroline Forell, who ally. She serves and Ilene Hershner served as the Wayne on the editorial Professor of Law. Morse Center direc- board of the ABA’s He is the coauthor tor last year, is the Criminal Justice magazine. Paris will of a well-known new Clayton R. serve as interim dean of the law school casebook on real Hess Professor of beginning January 2006. estate transactions, Law Her research Eugene trial lawyer Elmer Sahlstrom’s now in its third focuses on women 1993 gift originally came in the form of edition, that brings and the law and a vintage Rolls Royce that was sold to taxation, corporate she is the coauthor partially fund this fellowship. The late law, ethics and UCC of the 2000 book, trial practice teacher and evidence expert principles into the A Law of Her Own: Wayne Westling held the fellowship for traditional mix of The Reasonable many years. real estate material. Woman as a His professorship was endowed in 1992 Measure of Man. Law professor by longtime Eugene business attorney The professorship is funded by a be- Maurice Holland and law graduate Jim Hershner, who died quest from Clayton Hess, a Milwaukie at- was awarded the in 2001. Hershner was a named partner torney who served as an Oregon assistant James O. and Alfred with the law firm of Hershner, Hunter, attorney general for over 20 years. Hess T. Goodwin Senior Andrew, Neill & Smith. was a 1949 graduate of the law school. Faculty Fellowship. Holland served as Garrett Epps is the Mary C. Wood was dean of the law new Orlando J. and awarded the Dean’s school from 1986 to Marian H. Hollis Distinguished 1991 and is cur- Professor of Law. Faculty Fellowship. rently executive di- Epps, a former An expert in Indian rector of the Oregon Washington Post Trust Doctrine Council on Court staff writer, is the and wildlife law, Procedures, based author of a number Wood was also the at the law school. of books, including founding director in The fellowship was endowed by a gift To An Unknown 2003 of the school’s from Alfred T. Goodwin, a senior judge God: Religious Environmental and on the Ninth Circuit and the highest-rank- Freedom on Trial. It Natural Resources ing judge to graduate from the law school, was a finalist for the Law center. She and his late brother James Goodwin, who ABA Silver Gavel has just finished a was also a lawyer. Award in 2002. His chapter in the forth-

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2 3 SPRING/SUMMER 2005 • UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SCHOOL OF LAW OREGON LAWYER UPDATE • SPRING/SUMMER 2005 COME TOGETHER JUDGES AND ATTORNEYS SHARE T H E S TA G E Jeffrey Fisher became a partner in the Seattle office of Davis White Tremaine right after he had won two U.S. Supreme Court cases in four months — cases aris- ing from his very first criminal trials. Crawford v. Washington reframed the right of con- frontation, and Blakely v. Washington challenged the legality of federal sentencing guidelines. The young attorney key- noted “Come Together,” this Lane Circuit Judge MaryAnn Bearden ’78 speaks on Blakely and Crawford with panelists year’s O’Connell conference (L to R) U.S. attorney Barry Sheldahl ’69, federal defender Steven Wax and Coos Circuit Judge held on March 10 at the law Richard Barron. school. Federal and state judges, U.S. attorneys and fed- The annual event is funded in part eral defenders, law professors by a gift from Kenneth J. O’Connell, and attorneys spent the day the late justice discussing the two Supreme and UO law professor. Cosponsors of Court decisions as well as this year’s conference included the Keynote pretrial procedures and pitfalls in civil U.S. District Court for the District of speaker litigation. Oregon, the Lane County Bar Association, Jeffrey Fisher Conference organizer Tom Lininger, the Chapter of the who teaches evidence and criminal law, Federal Bar Association, and the Lawyer said, “Jeff Fisher shaped the criminal Representatives to the Ninth Circuit Lane Circuit Judge Lyle Velure ’66 and justice system more than any other at- Judicial Conference. U.S. District Judge Michael Hogan. torney in 2004 — he was a great keynote speaker. This year’s conference brought together virtually all the federal judges in Oregon and a substantial portion of the state judges. I’m impressed that they In my mind, there is no are so generous in sharing their time and “ greater satisfaction than insights with practitioners.” winning a decision based ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD on a position that is consistent with your President/Treasurer Jim Egan ’85 The Hon. Thomas Hart ’86 Kryger, Alexander, Egan & Elmer Marion County Circuit Court Judge Albany, Oregon conscience. Salem, Oregon Cynthia Fraser ’87 ” — LARE ASCHENBRENNER, J.D. ’57 Past President Garvey Schubert Barer Heather Decker ’96 Portland, Oregon Attorney at Law Portland, Oregon Kurt Hansen ’84 Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt Vice President Portland, Oregon 2005 FROHNMAYER AWARD Mustafa Kasubhai ’96 Oregon Workers’ Compensation Board Joseph Hollander ’85 Salem, Oregon Marion County Deputy District Attorney GOES TO CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER Salem, Oregon Secretary Lynne Rennick ’97 Linda Kessel ’90 LARE ASCHENBRENNER ’57 Special Assistant Attorney General Oregon Department of Justice Eugene, Oregon Salem, Oregon Lare Aschenbrenner’s zeal for justice has Alaskan villages won the same status as Mentoring Program Coordinator Allyson Krueger ’96 always placed him in the center of the Indian tribes in the lower 48.” Anne Foster ’99 Barran Liebman LLP Dunn Carney Allen Higgins & Tongue Portland, Oregon action. He was appointed Oregon’s first Lawrence A. Aschenbrenner, 74, Portland, Oregon Grethe Larson ’75 Public Defender in 1964, right after the retired director of the Alaska office MEMBERS Hewlett-Packard Company Vancouver, Washington U.S. Supreme Court handed down several of the Native American Rights Fund, Jane Aiken ’78 landmark decisions expanding the rights received the fourth Frohnmayer Award Attorney at Law The Hon. Lorenzo Salem, Oregon Mejia ’86 of accused criminals. for Public Service at an April 15 banquet Jackson County Circuit Court Judge He represented black citizens of in Portland. The annual event, spon- Emilio Bandiero ’90 Medford, Oregon Attorney at Law Mississippi in 1968 when the rage of the sored by the UO Law Alumni Association, Eugene, Oregon The Hon. Doug Mitchell ’83 old white power structure was at its peak. recognizes a graduate, faculty member or Brooke Burns ’00 Lane County Circuit Court Judge Oregon was in the forefront of a num- friend whose public service brings honor Black Helterline LLP Eugene, Oregon Portland, Oregon ber of civil rights and environmental to the school. The previous recipients are Summer Saad ’00 Dave Coffman ’97 Oregon Department of Justice legal struggles in the 1970s, and so was University President Dave Frohnmayer, Coffman Legal, PLLC Salem, Oregon Seattle, Washington Aschenbrenner, who co-founded Oregon’s Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers Jon Stride ’90 first public interest law firm. ’64, and Ninth Circuit Senior Judge Ted Myles Conway ’88 Tonkon Torp LLP Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt Portland, Oregon In the 1990s, he led a successful fight Goodwin ’51. Bend, Oregon E X O F F I C I O for recognition of 226 Alaska Native James Dole ’89 A longer story about Lare Aschenbrenner’s Schultz, Salisbury, Cauble, Versteeg & Dole Lacy Westfall 3L villages. Aschenbrenner said that, after Grants Pass, Oregon UO Law Student Bar Association President being treated for decades as “little better key cases and photographs of the April 15 banquet than ethnically based social clubs, these will appear in the Fall 2005 Oregon Lawyer Annual. 4 5 SPRING/SUMMER 2005 • UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SCHOOL OF LAW OREGON LAWYER UPDATE • SPRING/SUMMER 2005 APPROPRIATE DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN ONLY FIVE YEARS, IT’S GROWN FROM A COUPLE OF CLASSES TO A PROGRAM THAT AFFECTS THE WHOLE CURRICULUM… AND 21 OREGON COUNTIES BESIDES

“Palpable energy and excitement.” That’s what an external review com- mittee said about the faculty behind the law school’s new master’s degree pro- gram in conflict resolution. But it applies equally well to the entire Appropriate Dispute Resolution Program (ADR) at the University of Oregon School of Law. In 2000, law faculty taught two ADR classes. Five years later, it’s a different story. Over 200 students (not to mention nine visitors from a Ukrainian law faculty) have gone through the intensive 30-hour basic mediation training class, offered twice a year. Each semester, students participate in the Mediation Clinic work- ing on small claims cases in Lane County District Court. Students compete in — Keynote speaker Lorig Charkoudian at the conference of Oregon community mediators held at and help organize — both the Mediation the UO in January. She directs the Maryland programs. Advocacy and Negotiation Competitions. Students, practitioners and the public mediation programs each biennium. The and the entire graduate curriculum — in- enjoy annual conferences on subjects money supports 1,000 volunteer media- cluding sociology, business, education, ranging from restorative justice to mind- tors who respond to over 5,000 conflicts public policy, planning and management fulness in mediation to mastering modern in 21 counties each year. and political science. arbitration. In September 2005, the law school will For more information about the The ADR program is intimately in- admit the first students in a newMaster’s master’s degree program: http:// volved in issues beyond the law school. Degree Program in Conflict and Dispute www.law.uoregon.edu/org/adr/masters/ We administer one million dollars in Resolution (CDR) Over two years of full- or call (541) 346-3042. state funds that go to Oregon’s community time work, students will draw from law THEY DID IT AGAIN! LAW STUDENTS WIN STATE PRO BONO AWARD FOR THE FOURTH YEAR IN A ROW If you’re a teenager in trouble, a victim Each year the New Lawyer’s section of outreach effort. Street Law teams present of domestic violence, an evicted tenant the records and reviews easy-to-understand one-hour seminars — the law may look like the enemy and pro bono work by individual attorneys, about basic legal rights to people who legal help may be hard to find. law firms, and law schools and recognizes may have difficulty finding the informa- Enter the students of the University of the top volunteers. The UO has held the tion elsewhere. Oregon School of Law. law school title since the Challenge began This year, Street Law held at least two For the fourth year in a row, they in 2001. Oregon Supreme Court Justice sessions on search and seizure law at four aced the Oregon State Bar’s Pro Bono Thomas Balmer conferred the awards at a area high schools — South Eugene, North Challenge by contributing more than March 10 ceremony in Portland and Jane Eugene, Marist and Churchill. 10,600 volunteer hours directly to the Steckbeck, pro bono program director, “We stick to the typical stop and frisk, poor and to nonprofit and government accepted the student award on behalf of reasonable suspicion aspects of the agencies that help the poor. the law school. Fourth Amendment, “ Dickman says. At law clerk wages, that’s nearly The law school’s outstanding Pro Bono “We’re working with juniors and seniors, $130,000 worth of free legal help. Service Award went to Jeremy Dickman. so we discuss traffic stops and drug cases. Much of the credit is due to the class of Dickman, who worked with Street Law They like being considered adults, and 2005, who have contributed over 12,000 as his pro bono contribution, has been telling them about their constitutional hours during the past two years, breaking working hard this year to energize the rights gives them a feeling of adulthood.” all prior records for a single class. law school’s community education and CONCERNED ABOUT LOW PAYING PUBLIC SERVICE WORK AND HIGH LAW STUDENT DEBTS? Since the summer after his first year of paying public service work and high law law school, David Eisenberg has worked, student debts. steadily and without fanfare, on the Students and local alumni have been intake desk at Lane County Legal Aid working with the law school for three Services, the front line on civil issues for years on just this problem. This year, we Lane County’s poor. introduce our Loan Repayment Assistance “Legal Aid is a blast! You get exposed Program specifically for UO law gradu- to managing a case, rather than focusing ates who choose public interest legal on research and writing memos,” says the work. If you are one of those attorneys third year law student from Ann Arbor, — and if you graduated December 2001 Michigan. or later and have outstanding law student Eisenberg has been thoroughly ex- loans — you could be selected for one of posed. the inaugural awards to be given later this After graduation, he would like to keep “Money? Ha! I’m a legal aid lawyer. year. June 15 is the application deadline doing work just like this, although he The only thing in my wallet is an overdue for 2005 awards. Information and applica- worries about the mismatch between low notice for my student loans.” tion form: www.law.uoregon.edu/lrap 4 5 SPRING/SUMMER 2005 • UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SCHOOL OF LAW OREGON LAWYER UPDATE • SPRING/SUMMER 2005

Oregon on public service careers Gov. Ted Kulongoski and his wife Mary Oberst ’84 visited the law school on January 21 and spoke to students on public service careers. During a faculty reception, he said he is absolutely convinced that a strong higher education system is essential to a stable economy. The governor warned that much work needs to be done to convince voters that Oregon’s future depends as much on its colleges and universities as on its K-12 public schools.

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Open2004-5 Speakers and Events at the UO School of Law

2004-5 Morse Professor: international law expert Hilary Charlesworth Hilary Charlesworth served as the 24th Wayne Morse professor last January and February and spoke on the missing voice of women in the Iraq War at a public lecture on January 26. She is the director of the Centre for International and Public Law at Australian National University in Canberra. She is pictured here with the Morse Fellows: law students Ben Hovland, Kathryn Moakely, Jason Hartz, Nelly Sangrujiveth, Jason Duferrena, Tehan Wittemyer, Martha Pellegrino, Charlesworth, Karen Ellis, and Lauren Sommers.

California litigator Paul Hoffman on the Alien Tort Claims Act The law school’s Public Interest student group (PIPS) hosted noted California litigator Paul Hoffman on January 20. In 2003, Hoffman led the team that argued on behalf of the respondent in the hotly debated Supreme Court case, Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain. It involved a 215- year-old statute that has increasingly been used by foreign citizens to bring suit against human rights violators in United States Courts. Hoffman meets with PIPS faculty leaders Dom Vetri and Tom Lininger and students in the Lewis Lounge.

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Race relations expert Ray Diamond on Brown v. Board of Education UO honored guest Ray Diamond, Tulane law professor, visited the UO last October 26 to discuss the 1954 Supreme Court decision that ended legal racial segregation in U.S. schools forever — or did it? Diamond, a race relations expert, is the coauthor of Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture and Constitution. Panelists include Diamond, UO Vice Provost Greg Vincent, UO philosophy professor Naomi Zack and law professor Robert Tsai.

Judge Gilbert Merritt on New York Times v. Sullivan Last October 9, the UO journalism and law schools commemorated the 40th anniversary of the 1964 libel case that established federal constitutional standards in libel law. The keynoter, federal appellate judge Gilbert S. Merritt, was one of 13 U. S. legal experts selected to help rebuild Iraq’s judicial system. Other speakers talked about Sullivan’s impact on the media, including Washington Post associate editor and columnist David Ignatius and Oregonian editor Sandra Mims Rowe. Pictured (L to R): Media law experts Jane Kirtley, University of Minnesota, and David Kohler, Biederman Insitute; Oregon Supreme Court Justice Rives Kistler and Oregon Appeals Court Judge David Schuman.

Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Mary M. Schroeder and women appellate judges speak The first woman to occupy the chief judge spot spoke on “Whatever Happened to Diversity?” on February 16. Before that, Schroeder and a number of other women appellate judges and a U.S. attorney talked about their careers. The Women’s Law Forum organized the events. Above (L to R): Retired Oregon Supreme Court Justice Susan Leeson, Oregon Senate Majority Leader , U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken, Schroeder, and U.S. attorney Karin Immergut.

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Lights, Camera, Oregon! TAR A MCMAHON Arizona law grad new player in law school’s $15 million fundraising campaign New Development Director Tara McMahon The law school table at January’s campaign earned her J.D. with gala (L to R) Tom Stine ’05, Frankie highest distinction in Holland, Kate Drewry ’05, Dean Laird 1987 from the University Kirkpatrick, Lind Kirkpatrick, Bob Holland of Arizona. ’52. McMahon joined the law school development …launched the public phase of the team three months ago, university’s $600 million fundraising and has already met with campaign — including the law school’s 50 alumni and partici- $15 million piece — at a black tie gala pated in the gala kickoff on January 29. Campaign Oregon: for the UO Campaign. Transforming Lives has the goal of Tara McMahon’s $100 million in new scholarships and the phone number is (541) doubling of endowed faculty positions 346-1665 or call the The Class of 1985 at “Lights, Camera, Oregon!” (L to R) Chris and Mary from 75 to 150. development office at Rice Kent, Maryann Yelnosky and Don Corson. http://campaign.oregon.edu/ 346-3865. LIFE LESSONS “KEEP YOUR NOSE TO THE GRINDSTONE… THEN GO CLIMB SOMETHING.” Jim Harrang, shown here on a tough 25- to see what the law was all about.” still believers in the joys of a balanced mile stretch of California’s Salmon River, The law school experienced an explo- life to the extent that they have funded an is no slouch. He climbed Mt. Hood on sion in enrollment about that time, most- endowment to support outdoor activities his eightieth birthday two years ago. He ly due to ex-GIs like Harrang. In 1944, at for law students. climbed Tanzania’s Mt. Kilimanjaro So far, the gift has helped the on his seventieth. Harrang has Run Club pay for law student entry climbed all of the peaks in Oregon fees in local races and partially and Washington and rafted the riv- funded the Minority Law Students ers of Oregon and Idaho. The trim Association weekend of fun and athlete with penetrating blue eyes physical activity at the coast. An still works mornings before he goes award will be made next fall to on his daily run at the UO — and Land Air Water for their annual he is still chairman of the board of river raft trip. As the endowment Harrang, Long Gary, Rudnick, the grows with additional gifts, it will Eugene firm he founded 47 years also be used to support student ago. scholarships. Harrang, Class of 1951, is also Just before he talked to Oregon the human subject in most of the Lawyer, Jim Harrang and eleven seven outdoor action photographs others rafted the Rogue River hanging in the law school’s student from Grave Creek near Merlin in lounge and the man whose firm Southern Oregon to Foster Bar near — Eugene’s largest — donated the Pacific Coast. He said, “An out- $100,000 to build and furnish it. the height of the war, no one graduated. door life relieves the stress and demands “Oregonians live in Shangri-La,” he By 1948, 127 men and two women were of law practice.” said. “You miss a lot if you don’t take enrolled as first year students. The law And, he added, “It keeps the weight advantage of it.” school required a “C” grade point average down.” During World War II, Harrang served and three years of college for admission. To contribute to this unique and re- in Italy with the 10th Mountain Division. “It was a lot easier to get into then. It warding endowment, please contact the After VE Day in 1945, his war was over wasn’t any easier to get through,” Harrang Development Office at (541) 346-3865. and he was left with both the federal and said. state GI Bill and a good deal of curiosity. His approach to school? “Keep the nose Check the law school website for an extended In fall 1946, he entered the UO, finished to the grindstone for two months — then profile of Jim Harrang: how he explored on his bachelor’s degree in philosophy we’d go climb something.” homemade skis, scouted in the Apennines, and “walked across the street to the law Harrang and his wife Nadine, also a rangered in the Grand Tetons and aimed for school. I thought it would be interesting UO graduate and a mountain climber, are $1,000 a month as a young solo practice lawyer. 8 9 SPRING/SUMMER 2005 • UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SCHOOL OF LAW OREGON LAWYER UPDATE • SPRING/SUMMER 2005

tion competition, and is now an community that strives to ensure exchange student in Germany. justice for all Oregonians.” CLASS NOTES Dan Neal ’77 chose law over his Ronald Brown ’79 has been ap- music career for thirty years — but pointed chief deputy district attor- THE ’FORTIES to announce that when visiting now he has released his first CD, ney for Clatsop County in Astoria. his daughter in Vail recently, he When the Big Picture Fades. You Norm Wiener ’47 and Mary Bentley was still able to make it down the can find it in Eugene at the House THE ’EIGHTIES Wiener UO ’44 celebrated their mountain on skis. of Records, CD World or online at sixtieth anniversary in January. cdbaby.com. Retired Wilsonville attorney Wiener writes “We are a three-gen- THE ’SEVENTIES Charles Schrader ’77 keeps a blog, William R. Benedetto ’80 pub- eration UO family. My wife’s par- www.constructionlaborlawblog. lished his first book,Sailing ents attended the UO in the WWI Chris Hansen ’73, Public Defender com, targeting construction labor into the Abyss: A True Story of days and my wife was a Junior Services of Lane County in law issues. He is a partner in the Extreme Heroism on the High Seas Weekend Queen in the 1940s. The Eugene, is vice president of the Portland firm Jordan Schrader PC. (Kensington Publishing). The book third generation consists of son Jon is a true account of the final ill-fat- UO ’75 and daughter Lisa Wiener ed voyage of the SS Badger State, Stember UO ’85. Every indica- a merchant ship chartered by the tion points to the strong possibil- Navy to carry bombs to Vietnam in ity of a fourth generation being 1969. Oregon best-selling author involved…” Wiener received the Phillip Margolin describes it as law school’s Meritorious Service “a harrowing tale of life at sea Award in 2002. that is as exciting as any fictional thriller.” Available at bookstores THE ’FIFTIES and websites. Jack Hamann ’80 is the author of U.S. District Judge Malcolm F. On American Soil (Algonquin Marsh ’54, a native Oregonian, Books) about the largest and was profiled in the Legal Heritage longest Army court-martial of column in the October 2004 World War II. In 1944, 43 African- Oregon State Bar bulletin. He American soldiers at Seattle’s is credited with being the force Fort Lawton were charged with behind the design of Portland’s rioting and lynching murder of an Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse and CLASS OF 1954 was inducted into the Order of the Emerald on their 50th Italian prisoner of war. The Army the features that have served as a reunion reception at the law school on November 13, 2004. Registrar emerita prosecutor was Leon Jaworski of model for other courthouses. His Lois “Mrs. A.” Ackerman read each person’s name while University President Watergate fame. respect for litigants, juries and Dave Frohnmayer conferred the awards. (L to R) Mrs. Ackerman, President Joshua Marquis ’80 was named citizens is reflected in the light- Frohnmayer, Don Dunn, Bill Deatherage, Malcolm Marsh, Ilene Hershner, Leon 2003 Prosecutor of the Year by filled space, Oregon regional art Campbell and Dean Laird Kirkpatrick. Mrs. Hershner accepted the award for her Oregon’s state DUII MDT task force and great views. FULL STORY: late husband, Jim. Priscilla Deatherage, Slyvia Loewen, Shari Marsh, Ray at the group’s annual conference in www.osbar.org/publications/ Ackerman, Lynn Frohnmayer, and Lind Kirkpatrick also attended as did Assistant April in Tigard. (For the uniniti- bulletin/04oct/heritage.html Dean Matt Roberts and Executive Assistant Colleen McKillip. ated, the City of Portland oper- ates a Motorola SmartZone Type THE ’SIXTIES Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Peter Glazer ’78 has been awarded II Trunked Radio System.) The Association. the 2004 Vocational Service Award honor recognizes his continued Douglas County Circuit Court Michael Fox ’74 is leaving his posi- from the Lake Oswego (Oregon) work against drunk driving, most Judge Thomas W. Kolberg ’67 now tion on the Eugene School Board Rotary Club. The award cited his notable drafting and lobbying for is of counsel to Dole, Coalwell, to join his wife in the Peace Corps work as a deputy district attorney the passage of laws relating to DUII Clark, Mountainspring, Mornarich in Elbasan, Albania. Fox will teach and his assistance to people with in the 2003 Oregon legislative ses- & Aitken, P.C. (Roseburg). Kolberg 20 college seniors about American- problems in the areas of injury ac- sion. will be available as an arbitrator/ style democracy and citizen- cidents and family law. Glazer has mediator in complex civil cases. Monica Kirk ’81 has accepted a ship at the Aleksander Xhuvani volunteered in local schools and temporary appointment with the Stephen Hutchinson ’67, of University of Elbasan. is active in the Royal Rosarians, National Policy Consensus Center Hutchinson, Cox, Coons, Dupriest, a branch of the Portland Rose Blaine G. Gibson ’77 has been at Portland State University’s Orr & Sherlock in Eugene, was Society that serves as official greet- elected a Superior Court Judge for Hatfield School of Government. recently elected to the Eugene ers and ambassadors of good will Yakima County, Washington. He Kirk will return to her posi- Symphony board. He just com- for the City of Portland, Oregon. and his wife and Sandi recently tion as Special Counsel, U.S. pleted a year as president of the celebrated their 23rd wedding an- Leslie Jin ’78 has completed his Environmental Protection Agency, Eugene Southtowne Rotary Club niversary. Their son Mark gradu- fourth year as staff director for the Region 10’s Portland office at the and will be going to Mexico to ated from high school, earned the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights completion of her one-year assign- help with the Rotary “projecto rank of Eagle Scout, placed in in Washington DC. Prior to that ment. amigo” for migrant children near the national computer 3D anima- he had served the Clinton admin- Cofradia, Colmia. He is proud Mark B. Williams ’81 has been ap- istration for six years as general pointed as the director of South counsel at the U.S. Information Waterfront Project for the Oregon Agency, sponsors of educational Walter Grebe ’64, chairman emeritus of Portland’s Schwabe Health & Science University in and cultural exchange programs Williamson and Wyatt, received the Multnomah Bar Association Portland. He will work with other and the Voice of America, a mul- Professionalism Award in May. The Bar announcement said that OHSU leaders, city and county timedia broadcasting service in 44 over forty years, Grebe often represented high profile clients in con- officials, neighborhood organiza- languages. tentious cases but “he never raised his voice — he was direct, cour- tions, and others to continue the teous and just plain tough.” Grebe was born and raised in Portland, Frank C. Gibson ’79 was awarded development activities at the was student body president at the UO as an undergraduate and the 2004 Community Partnership South Waterfront Central District. graduated from the law school in 1964. Among his many civic, pro- Award that is presented annu- Allan Muir ’82 an attorney at Pierce fessional and volunteer achievements, he promoted and obtained ally by the Lane County Law Atwood LLP in Portland, Maine continuing support of his firm for “El Programa Hispano,” a pro and Advocacy Center and Lane is listed in the eleventh edition bono project that provides legal services with translation capabili- County Legal Aid Service. He has of The Best Lawyers in America ties to low-income and Spanish-speaking clients. It has served more practiced law in the Eugene area 2005-2006. Muir is recognized for than 1,000 people since 1991 and remains the only pro bono legal for 25 years and was cited for his his work in worker’s compensation clinic in Oregon that is staffed and funded by a single law firm. “dedicated service in building a law. He also has appeared in each book edition since 1995. 8 9 SPRING/SUMMER 2005 • UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SCHOOL OF LAW OREGON LAWYER UPDATE • SPRING/SUMMER 2005

Laurie Webb Daniel ’82 was in- worked as a policy coordinator ships. O’Connor is a senior associ- Lisa C. Greif ’98 of Medford is cluded in the business litigation for the Oregon Water Resources ate in the Portland office of Garvey president of the board of the section of Best Lawyers in America Department. Byler is a fifth-genera- Schubert Barer where he practices Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers 2005-2006. Webb is a partner tion Oregonian born and raised in complex commercial litigation Association. at Holland & Knight in Atlanta, Pendleton. with an emphasis on class action Robert Kline ’98 has opened a solo Georgia. Mark Chernaik ’93, helped at- defense. law practice, Kline Law Offices Don Corson ’85 and Kevin Strever torneys at the Legal Resource Mark D. Alleman ’98 along with PC, in Portland, Oregon focusing ’85 were both invited to join Center in South Africa negotiate M. Matthew Hall, B. Anna McCoy, on personal injury, employment the American Board of Trial with the petrochemical and motor John D. Russell and Christopher S. disputes, and public interest envi- Advocates. ABOTA’s primary pur- industries and the government Tuttle have formed a new law firm ronmental law. Kline most recently pose, for almost half a century, has to bring South Africa’s emission in Portland, Oregon specializing was a commercial litigation associ- been to promote the civil jury trial. control standards in line with the in patent, trademark and copyright ate at Bullivant House Bailey PC. Keith Bartholomew ’87 is now an European Union. He was also part prosecution, licensing and enforce- Andrew List ’98, Carson City, has assistant professor of urban plan- of the team that successfully nego- ment. worked for the Nevada Association ning at the College of Architecture of Counties for four years and is and Planning, University of Utah now executive director. in Salt Lake City. Carol Pratt ’98 is an associate Milton Ghivizzani ’87 prac- Maj. Gen. Raymond Rees ’76 in life sciences practice at the tices criminal defense law Portland firm Preston Gates and in Seattle. His debut mys- OREGON’S NEW Ellis LLP. tery novel, Employee of the ADJUTANT GENERAL Todd Johnston ’99, who has prac- Year, was published in 2004. ticed law in Eugene since gradua- Read the first two chapters at Governor Ted Kulongoski announced the appointment of U.S. tion, joined the Hershner Hunter www.joebarimystery.com Army Major General Raymond “Fred” Rees to the position of firm. He specializes in commercial Craig C. Sheffer ’87, of Sacramento, Adjutant General of the Oregon National Guard, at a time when de- litigation. California is 2005 president of ployments have reached the highest level since World War II. Since the Capitol City Trial Lawyers the Sept. 11 attacks, more than 8,000 members of Oregon’s Army T H E T W O Association. He also continues to and Air National Guard have been deployed for combat or other THOUSANDS serve on the board of governors anti-terrorism support missions, according a Guard statement. of the Consumer Attorneys of “Major General Rees brings the depth of experience and leader- Peter R. Dworkin ’00, a prosecutor, California. He represents personal ship — as a soldier and as a commander — that we need during this was married in July to probation injury plaintiffs exclusively as time of increased dependence on Oregon’s soldiers,” the governor officer Ryann Wolsey. They live in a partner in the 20-lawyer firm said. Bellingham, Washington. Rees is expected to return to Oregon this spring, after he of Dreyer, Babich, Buccola, and Steve Stuart ’00 was appointed completes his duties as the head of the United States Northern Callaham LLP. to the Clark County, Washington Command — the center of homeland defense — in Colorado BethAnn Boudah Chapman ’88 board of commissioners in Springs, Colorado. has been elected a fellow of the December, 2004. He focused on In a 2004 statement Rees said, “National Guard members must American College of Trust and land use issues while at school, be prepared to fight in new combat environments that include Estate Counsel, a national associa- and then took a position as direc- high-technology systems, complex weapons and equipment. As tion of more than 2,600 lawyers tor of 1,000 Friends of Washington major contributors … the National Guard must be a full partner and who have made outstanding con- and fought hard for land use integral part of any plan to transform our military services from the tributions to the field of trust and reform. outset.” estate law. Rees led the Oregon Guard twice before in the 1980s and 90s. R. Scott Weiland ’00 has joined Myles Conway ’88 and Katherine He has held upper-level National Guard and U.S. Army jobs in Kurtz, Ford & Johnson of Eugene Tank ’88 are shareholders with Washington, D.C. and Colorado for the past decade. He earned his as an associate. His practice will the Bend office of Schwabe, bachelor’s degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in emphasize construction, probate Williamson & Wyatt. 1966 and served in the 101st Airborne in Vietnam during 1968-69. and estate planning, real estate and Hugh Duvall ’88, of Clark & Duvall He is a 1976 graduate of the law school. general civil litigation. in Eugene, sits on the directors Ajay Bhatt ’01 was in Thailand and of the Oregon Criminal Defense India at the time of the tsunamis. Lawyers Association. He writes, “It was quite a trip. I tiated the phase-out of leaded gas Amy Chestnut ’98 joined the Seattle did a ton of street performing in in South Africa by 2006. He works office of Schwabe, Williamson & schools and hospitals and ended THE ’NINETIES with E-LAW in Eugene, Oregon. Wyatt as an associate in the firm’s up in Southern India during the environmental law group. She spe- Aron “Ron” M. Oliner ’90 is a share- Capt. Stephen Carpenter Jr. ’95 storm.” NPR’s Robert Siegel inter- cializes in water rights and natural holder with Buchalter, Nemer, completed his tour of duty as a viewed Bhatt about the devastation resource regulations including the Fields and Younger and was JAG officer last spring and was in the Indian city of Madras: Endangered Species Act and Clean recently elected 2005 chair of the married in May. He and his wife http://www.npr.org/templates/ Water Act. San Francisco Bar Association’s spent June to December traveling story/story.php?storyId=4246561 around the world and now live in Jennifer Dumas ’98 has been Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Jennifer Marston ’01 is a 2004-05 Seattle. named the “Washington Rising Section. More importantly, he’ll Advocate in the Women’s Law & Star” in the December/January again coach his boys’ Little League Andrew Kohlmetz ’95 sits on Public Policy Fellowship Program issue of Washington Law and team in Walnut Creek. the board of directors for the at Georgetown University Law Politics magazine. The magazine Frederick Paul Dickerson III ’91, of Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Center. The selection process for surveys attorneys in 14 states and, Riverside, California, was elevated Association. He is a partner in the fellows is highly competitive and based on performance and peer re- to the bench last year and is now Portland firm, Raivio, Kohlmetz & draws law graduates from across view, names “rising stars” on their the Commissioner of the Superior Gregory. the country and outside the United way to becoming “Super Lawyers.” Court of Riverside County. Brian H. Gunn ’97 lives in San States. Dumas is an associate counsel Francisco with his family. He man- Gov. Ted Kulongoski named with Avanade, a joint venture of Kristine Schlegelmilch ’01 contin- ages the Walnut Creek branch of Thomas Byler ’93 of Salem to Microsoft and Accenture. ues to work with the International be the executive director of the Wolf & Wyman. Trade Administration of the Credence E. Fogo ’98 married Oregon Watershed Enhancement Michael R. O’Connor ’97 is presi- Department of Commerce in sound designer Xavier Sol last Board. Byler serves as a policy dent-elect of the Oregon Club of Washington, DC. She is now the July in Los Angeles. Fogo is an adviser to Kulongoski on water- Portland (OCOP) and will serve lead on the Intellectual Property associate with Liner Yankelevitz related issues. He has also served as president in 2006. OCOP is the Rights portfolio. She traveled Sunshine & Regenstreif LLP. in a similar capacity to former Gov. state’s largest booster club raising recently to Geneva as her depart- and previously money for UO athletic scholar- ment’s representative to a World

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Trade Organization Council on Belarusian students were amazed IN MEMORIAM pal violist. She also performed trade-related aspects of intellectual at the wealth of material online. with the Oregon Bach Festival property rights. Vasiliades wrote, “The team now Donald S. Richardson ’41, died on Orchestra, the Eugene Opera Kimberly K. Tucker ’01 joined the has research available to compete September 9, 2004. He had retired Orchestra, the Oregon Mozart law firm of Alan Stuart Graf in for the Jessup International Round from private practice and lived in Players, and most recently with Portland. Tucker will focus on in Washington D.C. this spring, Portland, Oregon. the Springfield, (Mass.) Symphony civil rights law and Social Security thanks to Stephanie and Mark for Cecil Wright ’42, died May 27, Orchestra. disability. their assistance and dedication 2004. He was retired from private Richard J. McNerney ’81 died on to international legal education!” Deena Bothello ’02 is with Perkins practice and lived in Orange, July 17, 2004. He practiced law in The Open Society Institute places Coie in Portland. California Hermiston and Newport. scholars in host departments in George A. Luoma ’46, died on Jacquelyn Romm ’81, died Kay Hyde-Patton ’02 opened a law Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, and November 30, 2002. He had his November 8, 2004. She was a office in downtown Eugene in the Moldova. historical Smeede Hotel Building own practice in Roseburg, Oregon. partner at the law firm of Walters, Royce B. Covington ’04 joined the at 767 Willamette St. Suite 203. William F. Bernard ’47, died on Romm, Chanti, & Dickens PC. Salt Lake City, Utah firm of Parr Her practice emphasizes litigation, June 1, 2004. Bernard was an She was also actively involved Waddoups Brown Gee & Loveless business law, property and land attorney for Duffy Kekel, LLP in as a member of the Lane County as an associate. He will focus on use. Portland, Oregon. Legal Aid board of directors, on real estate, title , and the Hillel Advisory Board, the Bill Narus ’02 was offered a Robert M. McKechnie ’50, died on escrow claims, and securities Metropolitan Opera Guild and position with the United States February 22, 2002. He had retired litigation. served as president of the Southern Attorney’s office in San Diego, from ACAR, Inc. in Chandler, Michael Callier ’04, Portland, Willamette Private Industry California, a rare honor for a recent Arizona. joined Tonkon Torp as a litigation Council. Memorial contributions graduate. associate. Callier previously in- Patricia Ann Young Braun ’52 died may be made to the Jacquelyn Kristin Olson ’02 of Portland works terned with Gov. John Kitzhaber’s on July 8, 2004. She was retired Romm Loan Repayment Assistance for Bullivant Houser Bailey PC. legal counsel during Oregon’s and lived in Salem, Oregon. Fund, care of University of Oregon Michael A. Thomas ’02, of 2001 legislative session and has Richard Cleveland ’61 died Foundation/Law School. Henderson, Colorado is in his also clerked for the Lane County February 23, 2005. He was a cap- Allen J. LeCompte ’87 died July 10, second year at the Social Security Circuit Court. tain in the U.S. Air Force Judge 2002. He lived in Pleasant Hill, Administration, Office of the Morgan Diment ’04, Eugene, is an Advocate General’s office and in Oregon. Regional Counsel. He litigates the JAG reserves. He practiced law associate at Diment & Walker. He Gary W. Majors ’87 died in San disability denial cases from the in Eugene for 38 years. specializes in domestic relations, Diego on August 10, 2004. He had Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals general civil litigation and crimi- Frederick Hartstrom ’66 died June been an attorney at Majors & Fox and now from the Ninth and Tenth nal law. 8, 2004. He had been with the in San Diego, California. Circuits as well. “Every day brings Jeni Lassel ’04, Portland, joined Eugene law firm of Horton, Koenig, a new adventure and is anything Jim Beard ’97 died at home on David Wright Tremaine and will Barnes, Sabit & Spence. but boring,” he writes. He and his December 24, 2004 after a long focus on business transactions and Clifford Kennerly ’75 died June 5, wife Liesel expect a second child battle with cancer. An environ- tax law. 2004. He was assistant counsel in June. mental advocate for eight years Zack P. Mittge ’04 joined for Douglas County in Roseburg, in Washington D.C., Seattle and Heather Unger ’02 and Kurt Unger Hutchinson, Cox, Coon, DuPriest, Oregon. Portland, he worked to stop the ’02, of Sparks, Nevada have a new Orr and Sherlock, P.C. in Eugene. Sharon Gordon Barker ’77 died production of nuclear weapons baby, McKenzie, born last August. He will specialize in land use and June 11, 2003 in Amherst, and to clean up highly contami- Peter J. Gorn ’03 has joined the real estate law. Massachusetts. She served as a UO nated areas. He also worked as a Eugene office of McCrea PC as an Allison Mosher ’04 of Portland law school assistant dean and di- law clerk for the Oregon Supreme associate. He will practice in the joined Hecht & Smith, LLP as an rector of career services during the Court for two years and, since area of criminal defense. Peter associate. She will practice immi- mid-1980s. In 1986, she pursued 1999, had been an attorney with previously clerked for the Hon. gration law. a lifelong passion to become a the Eugene law firm of Clifton, Darryl L. Larson in Lane County professional musician. She joined Larson & Schaller. Adele J. Ridenour ’04, Boise, serves Circuit Court. the Eugene Symphony, serving for as the Judicial Clerk for the Idaho Richard Vincent ’00 died June 26, Jeremy M. Green ’03 of Eugene is many years as assistant princi- Supreme Court. 2004 in Lawndale, California. an associate at Arnold, Gallagher, Saydack, Percell, Roberts & Potter. His practice will focus on busi- ness, real estate, and tax law. EVERYONE KNEW SAM ADAMS ’85 Lindsay R. Kandra ’03, Portland, has joined Cable Huston Benedict Anchorage District Court Judge Sam Adams, 48, “Sam did not waste much time before going into Haagensen and Lloyd LLP. She died last September 22 while on a moose hunting public service, first clerking for a prominent judge, focuses on energy and public util- trip in Alaska’s Innoko National Wildlife Refuge, then working as a district attorney, and next at the ity law, natural and environmental and immediately his classmates responded. attorney general’s office. In 2001, he was appointed resources law and water law. Everyone knew Sam Adams. The Class of 1985 a district court judge and by 2004, had become one would not have been the same without him, said of Alaska’s most respected judges.” Shawn Menashe ’03, Portland, Bob Schrank ’85, who sent in memories of the man Classmate Jim Egan ’85 wrote, “Sam was a great is the new vice chairman of the who only reluctantly came down to the lower 48: guy.” family section, American Bar “He was a back-slapping wild man and had one Adams is survived by his wife and three daugh- Association’s Young Lawyers of the strongest, truest moral compasses of anyone ters Helen, Cammie and Margaret. Division. you could ever meet. Elizabeth Vasiliades ’03 teaches “He would alternately dress his 6 foot 8 inch The outpouring of affection for Sam Adams deeply law at the Belarus State Economic frame in hunting camo or a gigantic cardigan moved the organizers of the Class of 1985 reunion University as a higher educa- sweater with a bear knit into its back — then there and inspired them to establish a perpetual schol- tion fellow supported by the was Sam’s periodic head shaving and his jailhouse arship endowment in memory of the classmates Open Society Institute. Despite a striped rugby shirts. they miss — including Sam (d. 2004) Yeshiyah severe lack of resources, the law “Alaska doesn’t have a law school, so Sam had Gilrod (d. 1991) and James Britton (d. 2001). Their school sponsored their first-ever to come down here. He was always anxiously fundraising goal is $100,000 by September 16 and Jessup moot court team, which waiting until he could head home to Butterfly Lake 18 2005, when they will present their gift to the Vasiliades coached. She turned — reachable only by plane.” dean on reunion weekend. For information or to to UO law librarian Stephanie Adams married UO architecture student donate, please call the development office at (541) Midkiff and Westlaw account Catherine Call shortly after graduation in 1985, and 346-3800. manager Mark Cygnet for help. honeymooned on the Alaskan highway. They provided passwords, and the

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