International Water Conference I U.S. District Judge Michael McShane ’88 I Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts I Honor Roll of Donors TheADVOCATE LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL I PORTLAND, OREGON I FALL 2013

Justice Sonia Sotomayor to Visit Law School Fifth Visit by a Supreme Court Justice Since 2008 Alumni Board of Directors Board of Visitors 2013-14 Table of Contents 2013-14 John Bates Features Matthew Bergman ’89 Tonya Alexander ’01 Justice Sonia Sotomayor to Visit...... 6 Sidney Billingslea ’84 Sidney Billingslea ’84 Water for Life ...... 8 Bowen Blair ’80 Hon. Anna Brown ’80 Introducing Oregon Volunteer Lawyers Monte Bricker Coby Dolan ’99 for the Arts...... 14 Michael Eidlin ’92 Thomas Brown ’80 Changing Lives for the Better ...... 16 Dan Eller ’04, Vice President Jerry Carleton ’07 Albert Menashe...... 20 Adina Flynn ’96, President Ying Chen ’95 DOJ Honors the National Crime David Hittle ’74 Jonathan Cole ’76 Victim Law Institute...... 22 Thomas Jensen ’83 Bruce Crocker ’76 Commencement 2013...... 24 Molly Marcum ’82 Victoria Cumings ’04 Honor Roll of Donors ...... 46 Hon. Keith Meisenheimer ’76 Jeff Curtis ’86 Sarah Melton ’08 Stephen Doherty ’84 Departments Christopher Neumann ’98 Barnes Ellis Events in the News ...... 2 Ajit Phadke ’98 David Ernst ’85 Faculty and Staff News ...... 28 Justin Sawyer ’01 M. Carr Ferguson Class Notes ...... 35 Kenneth Schefski ’99 Paul Fortino In Memoriam ...... 58 Bryan Scott ’91 Hon. Julie Frantz ’75 Heather Self ’01 Hon. Susan Graber Hon. Jill Tanner ’88 Gary Grenley ’75 Lawrence Wobbrock ’77 Edwin Harnden Volume 35, Number 1, Fall 2013 Christie Helmer ’74 The Advocate Recent Graduate Steven Hopp ’75 David Howitt ’94 Lewis &Clark Law School Council 10015 S.W. Terwilliger Blvd. 2013-14 James Hubler ’72 Judith Johansen ’83 Portland, Oregon 97219-7799 Lizzie Brodeen-Kuo ’08 Hon. Elizabeth Johnson ’77 503-768-6600 Scott Byrd ’07 Jeffrey Lewis ’89 law.lclark.edu Eric Deitrick ’05 Caroline Lobdell ’01 Justin Caberera ’05, Vice President Henry Lorenzen ’76 Cody Elliott ’09 Richard Maizels ’66 Patrick Foran ’09 Charles Markley ’75 Anthony Kuchulis ’08 Leodis Matthews ’73 The Advocate is published for alumni, faculty, Holly Rudolph ’10, President Alan Merkle ’82 Christina Schuck ’11 staff, and friends of Lewis &Clark Law School. Matthew Murray ’75 Letters and articles are welcomed; submissions Vathana Sivanesan ’05 Michael Nelson ’95 are subject to editing. Manohar Sukumar ’12 Ambyr O’Donnell ’01 President: Barry Glassner Tyler Volm ’08 Hon. Diarmuid O’Scannlain Dean: Robert H. Klonoff Tara Zuardo ’10 Jordan Schnitzer ’76 Writing: Elizabeth A. Davis ’93 J. Mack Shively ’79 Design: Reynolds Wulf Inc., Henry Skade ’77 Robert Reynolds, Letha Wulf Nancy Tauman ’78 Jeffrey Teitel ’73 On the cover: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Mark Tratos ’79 Michelle Travis © 2013 Lewis &Clark Law School. All rights reserved. Isao Tom Tsuruta ’89 Recycled paper. Lewis & Clark is committed Steven Wildish ’85 to using resources wisely. Michael Williams go.lclark.edu/printing_practices Lawrence Wilson ’75 Russell Winner Benjamin Wolff ’94 Letter From the Dean

Dear Law School Community: years, our full-time faculty have published 251 articles, 60 books, In my last letter, I wrote about our extraordinary staff, adjunct and 30 book chapters. A number of these professors have pre- professors, mentors, and visiting professors. In this issue, I want sented these articles—or spoken on other topics—at academic to discuss our permanent faculty. and professional conferences around the country. This exposure One of the incredible things about our school is that faculty advances the law school’s reputation with potential employers. members who join us rarely leave. Our longest-serving faculty (A glance at the Faculty and Staff News section on page 28 will members have been here for over 40 years, and the majority have give you an idea of some of the faculty’s recent scholarly activity.) been here for more than 10 years. Equally important is that the Our faculty also make an enormous contribution to the knowledge and experience of this group is reinforced by the 24 administration of the law school. Each faculty member serves on faculty members who have been at the law school for less than one or more committees that have responsibility for such tasks 10 years and are adding exciting new ideas and energy to the mix. as curriculum, admissions, faculty appointments, budget, and All of our faculty members are dedicated to teaching. I am other less obvious concerns that are essential to the operation proud to say that most of our faculty regularly score 4 or higher of the institution. (on a scale of 1 to 5) in student evaluations. And faculty members In addition to all of this, most faculty members find time volunteer to take on teaching responsibilities in addition to the to mentor student groups, serve on bar committees, or volunteer scheduled classes they are required to teach: for example, over with a variety of community groups—and some do all three. the past five years they have supervised 498 externships (many In his book Dinner With Lenny, Jonathan Cott reported on with papers) and 564 individual research projects. a conversation with maestro Leonard Bernstein that turned The law school’s open-door policy, long a hallmark of this out to be Bernstein’s last interview. In addition to composing institution, is alive and well. Forty-five faculty members volun- and conducting, Bernstein hosted a weekly television show, teered to participate in this past year’s new 1L Faculty Advising “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.” The show proved Program, and most faculty also spend untold hours mentoring that Bernstein was, first and foremost, a teacher. He told Cott: additional students and alums. “Teaching is…the most unselfish, difficult, and honorable pro- Through these efforts, our faculty have influenced countless fession.” I could not agree more. We are blessed at Lewis &Clark students. As Henry Brooks Adams said, “A teacher affects eternity; with a faculty—podium, legal writing, and clinical—that is second he can never tell where his influence stops.” Whenever I meet to none. They have chosen to dedicate their careers to teaching, with alums, I hear stories about professors who had a profound scholarship, and service and, in short, are the lifeblood of this law impact on a particular alum’s professional life and development. school. For their dedication and hard work, the entire law school Our faculty keep in touch with students long after they graduate. community owes them a debt of gratitude. And our students have demonstrated their gratitude by contribut- ing generously to fundraising efforts to honor particular faculty Warm regards, members, including Doug Newell, Ed Brunet, and retired dean and professor Jim Huffman. Teaching, of course, is the number one commitment of every faculty member. At the same time, however, our faculty is made up of prolific scholars who are leaders in their fields. In the past six Bob Klonoff Dean and Professor of Law

Fall 2013 ADVOCATE 1 Events in the News

Higgins Visitor Ken Starr and Jim Huffman March 12, 2013 March 18, 2013 William Rodgers of the University of Washington Law School served as the Ken Starr inaugurated the James L. Huffman Lecture in Honor of the 2013 Higgins Visitor. His public lecture was titled “Warranted but Precluded: Western Resources Legal Center. The series was established by generous The State of U.S. Environmental Law.” lead gifts from Dan Harmon ’85, Kirk Johansen, Valerie Johnson, Rick Sohn, and Steven Wildish ’85. Professor William Rodgers (University of Washington), and Clinical Professor Allison LaPlante ’02. Ken Starr and Dean Emeritus James Huffman.

Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture Series January 28, 2013 Professor of Law at Georgetown Sheryll Cashin served as the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture Series speaker. The series is made possible through a generous endowment by Lee Matthews ’73 and Jackie Alexander ’07. Lee Matthews ’73, Jackie Alexander ’07, Professor Sheryll Cashin (Georgetown), Dean and Professor Bob Klonoff, and Jeffrey Bain Faculty Scholar and Professor Paula Abrams.

2 Events in the News

Earthrise Clients Win SLAPP Suit in Federal Court July 24, 2013

For over two years, Earthrise Law Center has represented a Mount Hood area community planning organization (the rural equivalent of a neighborhood association), as well as individuals associated with the organization. They were sued in federal court by a developer upset by their comments opposing his development proposal’s adverse impacts on Oregon’s Sandy River and its important salmon habitat. It was a classic SLAPP—a strategic lawsuit against public participation. This July, Judge Michael Simon issued an order granting the Earthrise clients’ motion for summary judgment and dismissing all claims against all defendants. According to lead attorney Professor Hon. Betty Roberts Women in the Law Program Dan Rohlf, Earthrise clinic student February 21, 2013 Laura Hagen ’14 did excellent work during the discovery phase of the The law school welcomed the Honorable Diane P. Wood, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and senior lecturer case during the fall semester of in law at the University of Chicago Law School, as the 2013 Honorable Betty Roberts Women in the Law Program speaker. 2012. Nick Lawton ’13 wrote much The program is made possible through a generous endowment by Williams Love O’Leary & Powers. of the summary judgment brief Left to right: Lisa Whittemore ’13, Hon. Diane P. Wood, Hon. Jill Tanner ’88, and June Liu ’14. text—as well as argued the summary judgment motion before the court this summer. Lawton drew praise from Judge Simon for both his written and oral advocacy in the case. “All in all,” says Rohlf, “it is a result that makes me proud to work with Earthrise and teach at a law school with such dedicated and talented students.”

Mentor Program Awards April 3, 2013 The Mentor Program Spring Awards Reception honored Valerie Berg ’11, Erin Fitzgerald ’08, Laura Maurer ’11, Will McLaren ’14, Karen Nashiwa, Raife Neuman ’08, and Robert Scott ’11.

Fall 2013 ADVOCATE 3 Events in the News

Environmental and Natural Resources Law Distinguished Visitor and Graduates October 3, 2013 James Salzman

Harpole Awards for her clerking position with the Oregon Lewis & Clark welcomes its 26th annual Natural Resources Law Institute Department of Justice. Among her Distinguished Visitor, James Salzman, this fall. He holds a joint appointment April 2, 2013 classmates, Lowery is known both as at Duke University Law School as the Samuel Fox Mordecai Professor of Law Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici an excellent student and as a generous and at the Nicholas School of the Environment as the Nicholas Institute (above, center) served as keynote and reliable friend. Professor of Environmental Policy. speaker at the 15th Annual Joyce Ann Janet Schroer of Hart Wagner is the Salzman will deliver “Turning the World Upside Down: How Frames of Harpole Reception and Awards Ceremony, 2013 Harpole Attorney Award recipient. Reference Shape Environmental Law” on Thursday, October 3, 2013, held at the Oregon Historical Society. Attorneys in her office turn to her at 5:30 p.m. The lecture is open to the law school community. On hand were friends and family of routinely for advice and guidance, and Prior to the lecture, the law school will honor the 2013 Distinguished Joyce Harpole, past and present award opposing counsel speak highly of her as Environmental Law Graduates: Janice Schneider ’92, partner at Latham recipients, past and present members someone who always works toward a & Watkins in Washington, D.C.; Cliff Villa ’93, assistant regional counsel, of the Harpole Committee, and many just resolution. Schroer and her U.S. EPA Region 10, in Seattle; and Chuck Bonham ’00, director of the members of the law school community. husband, Steve Williams, are the California Department of Fish and Wildlife in Sacramento. Bonamici praised honorees Sarah parents of three sons. Among other The Environmental Alumni Association will also present the annual Lowery Vogel ’14 (above, right) and activities, the family play sports and Williamson Award to Liv Brumfield ’13. Named for the founder of Lewis & Clark’s Janet Schroer (above, left) for their participate in outdoor activities together. environmental law program, the late Professor Emeritus Bill Williamson, accomplishments and their ability to Schroer also regularly volunteered in the award honors a recent graduate who is dedicated to the pursuit of public balance family, career, and public and raised funds for their schools when interest environmental law. service. her children were young. Lowery, the 2013 Harpole Scholar- The reception and ceremony were Liv Brumfield ’13 ship recipient, is a newlywed and the instituted by the friends, family, and mother of a young son. Throughout her classmates of Joyce Ann Harpole ’79 in second year she commuted to Salem memory of her spirit and achievements.

Janet Schroer; her husband, Steve Williams; Sarah Lowery Vogel; her husband, and sons Matt and John Williams Daryl Vogel; and son Nick Alexander

4 Events in the News

Lewis &Clark Earns Green Honors From Princeton Review and Sierra Lewis &Clark is one of the greenest schools in the nation, according to the Princeton Review and Sierra magazine. It is among only 22 schools to make the Princeton Review 2014 Green Rating Honor Roll, which highlights sustainability-related practices, policies, and academic offerings, and one of the top 20 “Cool Schools” named by Sierra. In addition to recognizing the quality of the environmental education and programing across all three schools, the Princeton Review noted that Lewis & Clark employs several sustainable practices. One hundred percent of the school’s electricity is generated by “green power” sources and emissions have been reduced by more than 30 percent since 2006. Students participate in groups such as SABER (Student Advocates for Business and Environmental Responsibility) and the institution-wide Sustainability Council. About a quarter of the food served on campus is grown within 100 miles of the school. In 2013, Lewis & Clark ranked first in the Northwest Conference in the EPA’s College and University Green Power Challenge. PILP Auction The Princeton Review calculated February 8, 2013 Green Rating scores for 832 colleges Auction directors Sandra Gustitus ’14, Andy King ’14, and Kathryn McNeill ’14 had worked hard for 10 months. Now it was Friday, and universities. Only the schools February 8, and their fingers were crossed in anticipation of the doors opening on the 23rd annual Public Interest Law Project receiving a score of 99 in the Green Auction. Would moving the event downtown pay off? Rating tallies made the publication’s The PILP auction had always been held on campus. It all began 23 years ago with a potluck and Professor Jack Bogdanski honor roll. serving as the auctioneer. Students raised enough money to help support two of their peers working at Legal Aid over the summer. Over the years, the auction grew. There was a professional auctioneer, and catered food. Revenues increased, too, but in recent years that growth had slowed. What if the auction had grown as large as it could in its campus venue? This year’s auction directors put together a plan, ran the numbers, and convinced not only themselves but also the school that this was the right time to take a chance and move downtown. It meant all the planning and best practices built up over 22 prior auctions would have to be taken apart and put back together. Gustitus, King, and McNeill worked night and day to pull it off. And the students and alumni came. The numbers outpaced the best case the auction directors had imagined. Admissions were through the roof. When the live auction began, the bids rolled in. Items sold for record amounts. By the end of the night, it was clear that more money had been raised than ever before. The net proceeds were up 40 percent over last year. Downtown is the place to be! PILP auction funds support LRAP and this year provided stipends for 18 students to work at the Alaska Public Defender’s Office, Animal Welfare Institute, Catholic Charities Immigration Legal Services, Columbia Riverkeeper, Crag Law Center, Earthrise Law Center, Federal Public Defender for the District of Oregon, Legal Aid Services of Oregon, Metropolitan Public Defender, Southern Environmental Law Center, Trout Unlimited, Trustees for Alaska, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 8, U.S. Department of Justice, ENRD, and Western Resources Legal Center.

Fall 2013 ADVOCATE 5

Justice Sotomayor to Mark FifthVisit by a Supreme Court Justice Since 2008 By Amanda Johnson ’13

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is set to visit the Eskridge, Jr., the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale law school in the spring of 2014. Dean and Professor of Law Law School (in 2012); Paul Clement, the 43rd Solicitor General Robert Klonoff says she is planning to visit the school while on a of the United States (in 2011); and Charles Fried, Beneficial Pro- book tour in the Pacific Northwest for her recently published fessor of Law at Harvard Law School, former Solicitor General of memoir, My Beloved World. the United States and former Justice on the Massachusetts Supreme The book, published earlier this year, recounts her life growing Court (in 2010). During his second visit, in addition to inaugurat- up in the housing projects of the Bronx, her struggles as a child ing the lecture series, Justice Kennedy again taught several classes. with diabetes, her years at Princeton University and Yale Law In April 2013, the Chief Justice of the United States, John G. School, and her career prior to joining the Supreme Court. It is an Roberts, Jr., visited the school to judge the first annual Advocate extraordinarily powerful book. of the Year competition, an in-house environmental law moot Dean Klonoff and Justice Sotomayor were classmates at Yale court competition. Before judging the competition, Chief Justice Law School. He says they have stayed in contact since they grad- Roberts made surprise visits to three first-year classrooms, where uated together in 1979. Before her appointment to the Supreme he called on students by name after memorizing class seating Court, Justice Sotomayor served as a prosecutor, a civil litigator, charts. Dean Klonoff believes that Chief Justice Roberts’s visit was a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New the first visit from a sitting Chief Justice to an Oregon law school. York, and a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second In addition to visits from several Supreme Court Justices, the Circuit. school has hosted numerous other judges and scholars from around Justice Sotomayor’s visit will mark the school’s fifth visit by the country, as well as five former Solicitors General. Dean Klonoff a Supreme Court Justice since 2008. In the fall of 2008, Justice says the school’s supportive faculty and alumni are substantial factors Anthony Kennedy and retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in helping the school attract such renowned visitors. He especially spoke at a Federal Judicial Center Conference hosted by the law credits Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals school. Both Justices held Q&A sessions with law students. Justice for the Ninth Circuit (who also serves as an adjunct faculty member Kennedy also taught several classes. and a member of the school’s Board of Visitors). “He is an incredible Justice Kennedy returned to the school in the fall of 2009 to ambassador for the school,” Klonoff says. Judge O’Scannlain received inaugurate the annual Anthony Kennedy Lecture series. Kathleen the Honorary Alumni award from the law school in 2009 for his Sullivan, former dean of Stanford Law School and a renowned con- commitment to the school. stitutional law scholar, gave the inaugural lecture. Since then, the Dean Klonoff says Justice Sotomayor is planning to hold a Q&A series has promoted discussion of cutting-edge issues affecting the session with students and faculty. Klonoff believes that the law school U.S. Supreme Court and has attracted prominent speakers in the community will be inspired by Justice Sotomayor’s visit. “She is an ■ ©iStockphoto.com field of Constitutional Law. Past speakers have included William incredibly dynamic and powerful speaker,” he says.

Fall 2013 ADVOCATE 7 Water for Life Lewis &Clark cohosts a conference in India on an issue of global importance. This past May, the law school continued to expand its international presence as it cohosted its first collaborative conference with the National Law University in Delhi, India. Realizing the Goal of Water for Life: Lessons From Around the World attracted international experts from a variety of disciplines to pursue a wide variety of opportunities for cross-cultural informa- tion sharing, research, and scholarship. Since its inception, stu- discuss global issues affecting access dents, faculty, and administrators from both countries have taken to clean water, including the resolution advantage of this program by studying, completing externships, of transboundary water conflicts and and lecturing abroad. Corey Moffat ’15 is one such student. He was able to attend the Realizing the Goal of Water for Life the enforcement of environmental laws. conference while enjoying several weeks of vacation in India, shortly before beginning an externship at New Delhi’s Enviro- Dean Robert Klonoff, Assistant Director of the Environmental Legal Defence Firm. and Natural Resources Law Program Lucy Brehm, Professor The Realizing the Goal of Water for Life conference Erin Ryan, and retired professor Janet Neuman travelled to represents an important step toward satisfying the Global India to participate in and help facilitate the two-day event. Law Program’s early ambitions. Upon establishing the India Nawneet Vibhaw LL.M. ’10 coordinated the conference from Collaboration, leaders in Lewis & Clark’s environmental and the law school in Delhi, where he previously served as an assis- global law community, including Klonoff and Professor Susan tant professor. As Vibhaw explained, the conference aimed to Mandiberg, emphasized the importance of sealing the new part- raise awareness about water issues, especially among students. nership by cohosting an international conference to explore an important environmental topic. According to Brehm, “The goal Lewis &Clark’s India Collaboration was to have an opportunity to listen to people from around the During his tenure as dean, Klonoff has prioritized the develop- world discuss lessons learned with respect to a compelling issue.” ment of a comprehensive global law program at Lewis & Clark. After two years of planning and collaboration with the The cornerstone of this program is the emerging India Collabora- National Law University in Delhi, the conference took shape tion, an innovative partnership involving the law school, several around the themes of water law, water rights, and water scarcity. of India’s prestigious National Law Universities, and select law The event happened to coincide with the United Nations’ Inter- firms, businesses, and public interest organizations. national Year of Water Cooperation, as well as its International Unique among American law schools, the India Collabora- Decade for Action devoted to securing water, and the topic tion provides for international student and faculty exchanges, offered additional advantages to conference planners. “Water thus enabling members of the Lewis & Clark community to is an important issue that can be addressed from many different ©iStockphoto.com

Fall 2013 ADVOCATE 9 Right: Retired Professor Janet Neuman (front left) and Professor Erin Ryan (back left) talk with conference attendees. Below: Conference speakers and organizers.

10 Water for Life “Conference issues were very diverse, ranging from something as simple as water pollution to something like transboundary water disputes and access to

groundwater.” Nawneet Vibhaw LL.M. ’10

points of view,” says Brehm, explaining that the subject was well “A Compelling Place for a Conversation About Water” suited to a discussion involving international speakers from a va- In addition to housing one of the country’s top law schools, riety of disciplines. Delhi is the seat of India’s government and supreme court. In an effort to reflect perspectives from each of the major By locating the conference on the campus of the National continents, conference coordinators focused on geographic Law University, coordinators helped to facilitate the participa- diversity in identifying potential speakers. Ultimately, experts tion of Indian attorneys, academics, and activists. Local speakers attended the conference from as far afield as South Africa and included Depinder Kapur, a consultant working to prevent Brazil, in addition to India and the United States. “I was pleas- inequitable water privatization projects in Delhi, and Sujith antly surprised by how gracious and enthusiastic everyone we Koonan, an associate professor at Delhi’s Amity University contacted was,” Brehm says. “Even if someone couldn’t come, who has analyzed Indian water regulation and sanitation issues they would recommend others who could.” for the Environmental Law Research Society. Professor Philippe To recruit speakers, Brehm also capitalized on relationships Cullet of the University of London’s School of Oriental and established during prior events associated with the India African Studies, currently a senior visiting fellow at the Centre Collaboration. For example, after meeting M.C. Mehta, a highly for Policy Research in New Delhi, addressed the conceptual and influential Indian attorney and environmental activist, during practical shortcomings of India’s judicially recognized right to a visit to India in 2009, Klonoff arranged for him to speak at water. Although the conference overlapped the National Law Lewis & Clark in 2010. Mehta continued this relationship by University’s final exam period, many local students were able participating in Realizing the Goal of Water for Life. His pres- to attend at least a few presentations. entation, “Water Pollution Control and the Role of the Judiciary The conference’s location also served to ground the in India,” emphasized the importance of approaching irreplace- discussion. As Vibhaw explained, Delhi is struggling with a able natural systems with respect. Similarly, renowned Indian major water crisis. Although the Indian legislature has enacted attorney Sanjay Upadhyay, the founder of the Enviro-Legal a number of comprehensive environmental statutes, official Defence Firm and Corey Moffatt’s host for the summer, strength- enforcement of these laws remains unreliable. As a result, ened his ties to the Lewis & Clark community by taking part in environmental problems continue to plague the country, this May’s event. His lecture provided conference attendees with threatening the health of its citizens. According to a recent a broad overview of Indian water law, including issues pertaining UNICEF report, India contains approximately 16 percent to incentives and enforcement. of the world’s population, but only four percent of global water

Fall 2013 ADVOCATE 11 Top: Assistant Director Lucy Brehm Left: Dean Klonoff

resources. Resulting water shortages, exacerbated by climate The World Bank anticipates that change, have led to conflicts and created opportunities for coop- eration between agricultural, domestic, and industrial users. In two-thirds of the global population addition, poor management practices have compounded these problems of scarcity, leading to inadequate sanitation. Although will suffer the effects of water scarcity India is a signatory to the United Nations’ 2010 declaration of by 2025. Even where water scarcity water as a right, many communities continue to lack access to safe water supplies, perhaps as a result of ingrained economic, is not an issue, water management social, and political power imbalances. In short, as Brehm explains, “Delhi is a compelling place for a conversation may be problematic. about water.” abstract. Rather, as Vibhaw explains, the negative implications “Realizing the Goal of Water for Life” of water shortages cast a shadow on our everyday lives, even in In the words of Harvard research fellow and conference partici- affluent areas of the world. “We have to think about how we pant Sharmila Murthy, “Water is life.” Beyond satisfying basic can have water protection for present and future generations,” human needs, the resource is essential to the achievement of says Professor Solange Teles da Silva of Mackenzie Presbyterian social and economic development, and necessary for the conser- University in Brazil. vation of properly functioning ecosystems. In many areas of the Through the Realizing the Goal of Water for Life confer- world, traditional cultures have also endowed water with deep ence, coordinators from Lewis & Clark and the National Law religious and spiritual significance. However, global population University in Delhi sought to create a forum in which interna- growth and the associated increased demand for water have tional experts could share their research concerning the cultural exerted excessive pressure on this resource. importance and best management of this essential resource. According to the United Nations, 31 countries now face “Conference issues were very diverse,” Vibhaw says, “ranging water scarcity and almost one billion people lack reliable access from something as simple as water pollution to something like to clean drinking water. The World Bank anticipates that two- transboundary water disputes and access to groundwater.” thirds of the global population will suffer the effects of water Oregon State University Professor Aaron Wolf, who has scarcity by 2025. Such ominous statistics and predictions are not mediated transboundary disputes internationally through his

12 Water for Life “As important as it is to develop economically, it does us no good if we have laid waste to the environment that sustains us.”

Retired Indian Supreme Court Justice Swatanter Kumar

position as director of the university’s program in water conflict By all accounts, Realizing the Goal of Water for Life was management and transformation, opened the conference by a success. Cosens remarked that “the conference has brought emphasizing the importance of data. He explained that a care- together some of the best speakers and thinkers I’ve experienced ful analysis of historical facts reveals that the management in any water conference. It’s been a fabulous range of ideas of shared water resources might be far more nuanced than and places in which people are practicing those ideas. It’s been politicians and journalists typically suggest. tremendous.” Similarly, Ryan observed that the conference Murthy, who co-leads the Human Rights to Water and presented “a valuable opportunity for us to exchange ideas Sanitation program at the Carr Center for Human Rights about managing water policy from around the world.” Policy, indicated that cultural notions of honor and faith are After the final presentation, Ryan recalled retired often inseparable from conflicts concerning the allocation Indian Supreme Court Justice Swatanter Kumar’s opening of water. As she explained, negotiators can contribute to the remarks, which in turn paraphrased a Native American- successful resolution of such disputes only by understanding proverb: “When the last fish is caught, when the last tree the full complement of issues at stake. is cut, when the last river is drained, only then we will Professors Teles da Silva and Michael Kidd, of the remember that you can’t eat money. As important as it is University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, spoke about to develop economically, it does us no good if we have various failures in the conventional regulation of water laid waste to the environment that sustains us.” ■ resources. Professor Barbara Cosens of the University of Idaho, as well as Neuman, Klonoff, and Ryan, discussed potential responses to these failures. Such responses might include the substitution of ecosystem services for technological solu- tions, the inclusion of indigenous peoples in the negotiation of transboundary water agreements, judicial recognition of broad public trust rights to water, and the pursuit of class action litigation. Brehm says she hopes to make each presentation available via podcast, so “the entire law school community and beyond can learn from this conference.”

Fall 2013 ADVOCATE 13 Introducing Oregon Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts

The new nonprofit helps artists It was while I was working as a filmmaker OVLA Venture Competition Team, create without fear. in Seattle that I decided to become a lawyer. left to right: Sean Clancy ’14, Mark Banner ’14, I had just realized that the soulful soundtrack Amber Buker ’14, Ken Katzaroff ’14, and By Sean Clancy ’14 to my award-winning balloon puppet video Aaron Gonzales. violated copyright law. Around the same time, I also unwittingly gave away the educational seminars, wrote amicus briefs, rights to a screenplay when a “friend” con- and coordinated among local attorneys to vinced me to sign a nondisclosure agreement offer pro bono legal help for creative people. without reading it. In another incident, Haver graciously bought me lunch and gave a corporate office phone call overrode a me the names of more people to meet. local manager’s approval at the last minute, Meanwhile, on the law school campus, effectively shutting down my 12-person film the Entertainment, Art, and Sports Law crew while we were on location. Legal issues (EASL) student group had just come into were everywhere and I wanted to figure existence and acquired a small budget for them out. I wanted to protect the people events. Mark Banner ’14 and Amber Buker who create things. ’14, creative go-getters I could relate to, and I While preparing my law school applica- joined the club, all of us pursuing a desire to tions, I learned of Washington Lawyers for merge an interest in arts with a career in law. the Arts, an organization in Seattle that EASL hosted several panel events, inviting could have helped me with the legal snags in local attorneys to speak about what it means my creative projects. By then, I was preoccu- to practice law with content creators. Follow- pied with my new life in Portland and happy ing one panel, I met with Karen Davis, an to put my film career on hiatus to become a intellectual property attorney who had been lawyer. All the same, I took note of the possi- deeply involved with Washington Lawyers bilities of lawyers-for-the-arts services. for the Arts. She expressed interest in estab- In 2011, one week into my first year of lishing a Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts legal studies at Lewis & Clark, I met Kohel organization in Portland, and gave me yet Haver ’82, the president of Northwest more names. Things were starting Lawyers and Artists (NWLA). The 23-year- to come together. old nonprofit organization offered CLEs, gave

14 Oregon Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts “I’m excited for Oregon to have a Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts organization and I’m proud of the hard work and dedication that Lewis & Clark law students have invested in making OVLA a reality. Connecting lawyers and law students with creative individu- als and organizations to address their legal issues will strengthen the vibrant arts community in Portland and throughout Oregon.” Lydia Loren, Kay Kitagawa and Andy Johnson-Laird Intellectual Property Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law

Around this point, I approached Professor showing that, of the artists and arts organiza- Lawyers, students, and creatives mingle at the Lydia Loren. She asked about my investiga- tions surveyed in Portland, 80 percent had a OVLA Launch Party held on June 20, 2013. tions and I explained how in Seattle, Wash- need for direct legal services. ington Lawyers for the Arts offers pro bono By August, we had gathered enough music—thanks largely to Koch’s tremendous legal services for creatives in association with information to present a formal business plan dedication and expertise—announcing local law school programs. Reflecting back to the NWLA board. They were pleased and OVLA to the world. on it, she says, “I knew this would be some- passed a resolution forming an Oregon Vol- I am pleased to write that OVLA has thing I couldn’t resist getting sucked into.” unteer Lawyers for the Arts (OVLA) com- indeed arrived. Our mission: Help artists Sure enough, in June 2012, Loren and mittee for the purpose of holding a legal create fearlessly by providing legal services the student members of EASL were invited consultation clinic in the fall. Lewis & and education, while fostering synthesis to attend the next NWLA board meeting. Clark’s Small Business Legal Clinic kindly among lawyers, students, and creative indi- There, we discussed the idea of an all-inclu- offered its office space and in October OVLA viduals. OVLA fills a need by offering legal sive Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts organiza- offered legal services to its first clients, with services specifically catered to artists and arts tion for Portland. The board asked the students observing, thanks to volunteer attor- organizations that cannot otherwise afford important questions about organizational neys Haver, Davis, Anne Koch ’01, and Bart the legal help that they need. structure, operations, marketing, funding, Day. The Small Business Legal Clinic has If you are interested in becoming state bar requirements, and everything else since become an official partner, offering its a part of what we are building, please get that we hadn’t figured out yet. Nevertheless, support to nurture OVLA’s growth. in touch with us through oregonvla.org, they were enthusiastic. The students involved in OVLA facebook.com/oregonvla, or @oregonvla My fellow EASL members and I researched submitted a business plan to Lewis & Clark on twitter. ■ the viability of a Volunteer Lawyers for the College’s inaugural Venture Competition. Arts organization in Portland over the course (You can learn more about the Lewis &Clark “We have the kind of talent to celebrate of the summer. We called executive directors Venture Competition at go.lclark.edu/ and support here in Portland. For those and attorneys from similar organizations venture_competition.) The competition who started NWLA in 1988 and those around the country, including Atlanta, Balti- offered stellar training seminars on business who have joined us since, this is a more, Boston, Chicago, Denver, New York, concepts and a spectacular forum for us to moment we hoped for.” Nashville, New Orleans, Portland (Maine), hone the OVLA concept pitch before live Kohel Haver ’82, Partner at Swider Medeiros Haver Seattle, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C., venture-capitalist judges. The Venture Com- to name just a few. We spoke with local petition also granted the OVLA student team attorneys and the Oregon State Bar. The a substantial budget to purchase marketing board of NWLA procured a recent survey materials and throw a launch party with live

Fall 2013 ADVOCATE 15 Changing Lives for the Better

U.S. District Judge Michael McShane ’88 is lauded as a compassionate champion.

By Melody Finnemore On May 29, Judge Michael McShane ’88 took the bench at the “My parents really valued education and we actually were Multnomah County Courthouse for the last time. McShane, one of those families that talked about current events at dinner. who handled many of the circuit court’s most highly visible cases Everybody loved literature, so we really focused on thinking for during his 16 years there, spent his last two days where he began: ourselves,” McShane says. “My parents taught me that continuing traffic court. education and public service are important in life.” “[Room 124] is the same courtroom where I took the bench my McShane wasn’t quite sure what he wanted to do for a career first day as a pro tem judge in November of 1997,” McShane wrote when he graduated magna cum laude in 1983 with a degree in in a farewell email to his colleagues. “I was wearing a borrowed English literature from Gonzaga University, but he had long been robe belonging to a very tall colleague and I failed to recognize that drawn to social service. He moved to Portland and joined the there was a step just beyond the door of the chambers as I went into Jesuit Volunteer Corps, where he did outreach to homeless parolees the courtroom. I fell carrying about 30 files. It was spectacular.” and probationers—many of whom had mental health issues and That self-deprecating sense of humor, a compassion for people were addicts. McShane supported them in meeting their probation from every segment of society, and a commitment to helping law requirements, and connected them to resources for housing, food, students and young attorneys succeed are just a few of the qualities employment counseling, and other essential services. McShane’s colleagues and mentees celebrated as McShane stepped While he enjoyed helping others, McShane says his ongoing into a new role as a U.S. District Judge for the District of Oregon. uncertainty about what to do for a living ultimately led him to Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Eric Bergstrom ’90 law school. “I didn’t feel like I had a lot of choices at the time, and had his first trial against McShane shortly after graduating from in some ways I went to law school to hide for three years,” he says. law school. Bergstrom was with the Multnomah County District He had considered becoming a police officer, but felt he needed Attorney’s office, and McShane was a senior attorney with to continue the family tradition of pursuing advanced education. Metropolitan Public Defender. “Sometimes we do things for all the worst motivations, we pick a “As an attorney he was smart and straightforward, he cared career and a path for all the wrong reasons, and we have to figure about his clients, he was realistic, easy to deal with, and trustwor- out how to make the best of it.” thy,” Bergstrom says. “When you picked up the file at the arraign- ment and saw he was going to be handling the defense, you felt “All during high school and college, good about it. You knew you had your hands full with him as an I would do anything to avoid public speak- opponent, but you also knew you were dealing with someone who was ethical and had his client’s best interest at heart.” ing…[but] I think I really found my voice Bergstrom says the DAs were very pleased when McShane became by speaking for those who couldn’t speak a pro tem judge in 1997 because they had confidence in his fairness. for themselves.” “He’s probably tried more death penalty cases in the state than any Michael McShane, U.S. District Judge for the District of Oregon other judge. He’s someone everyone seeks out for resolution because they know he will listen and he’s creative,” Bergstrom says. Transformation “He really is a wonderful human being and he makes a great con- Metropolitan Public Defender (MPD) hired McShane out nection with everyone.” of law school, and it was an experience that transformed him both personally and professionally. During his first week on the “He really is a wonderful human being and job, McShane learned that his partner, who had supported him he makes a great connection with everyone.” through law school, had a terminal illness. He credits his col- Eric Bergstrom ’90, Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge leagues at MPD with helping him through that difficult time. McShane says his work with MPD also helped him overcome The Appeal of Social Service severe anxiety about public speaking. McShane was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1961 and grew “For me, stepping into a courtroom was one of the most up in Kennewick, Washington. His mother stayed at home to raise transformative moments of my life. All during high school and him and his five brothers and sisters. His father was an engineer college, I would do anything to avoid public speaking,” he says. who worked in the nuclear industry and helped design the U.S.S. “I had avoided the courtroom because I never thought I could Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine. succeed there. But you’re not putting yourself out there when you are speaking for someone else, and I think I really found

Fall 2013 ADVOCATE 17 my voice by speaking for those McShane’s work in the community has benefited the St. Andrew who couldn’t speak for them- Nativity School, the Classroom Law project, the Metropolitan selves.” He now speaks regularly Learning Center, and the Cascade Aids Project. He serves on the to students and gives presentations governor’s Council on Offender Re-Entry and the Oregon Judicial across the country. Department Criminal Law Committee. Last year, McShane received McShane worked for MPD the Oregon State Bar President’s Public Service Award. until 1997 and vividly recalls As an adjunct professor for Lewis & Clark Law School, being excited to go to work there McShane has taught trial advocacy courses with Portland attorney each and every day. “It was a won- Peter Richter as well as a criminal practice seminar, first with Judge Judge McShane and Michael Hsu ’11 derful office and had great leader- Stephen Mauer and then with Bergstrom. McShane conducted ship. There was an atmosphere classes at the courthouse so students could see a courtroom first- of collegiality. People would help you and we explored new ideas hand as they learned the skills they would need to succeed there. on how to try cases. It was a really dynamic and fun place to work,” “I tell them anyone can be a good courtroom lawyer if they have he says. “I’ve supervised young attorneys who work there, and it’s passion and are authentic. They don’t have to be confrontational been rewarding to watch them grow and succeed.” or loud or have a big personality,” he says. “In my experience, there One of those attorneys is Michael Hsu ’11. Like McShane, are all sorts of personalities that can work in front of a jury. They he was a quiet law student who never envisioned arguing cases in can just be themselves and have great success in the courtroom.” a courtroom. As an intern for McShane, Hsu learned of the judge’s “Having law students around just keeps you younger,” he says own struggles with public speaking and it gave him the confidence of why he likes to teach. “They are energetic and fun and do to consider a career as a trial attorney. things spontaneously.” Hsu says he expected his internship to include a healthy dose The people he works with, from interns and clerks to fellow of legal research and writing. However, one of the first projects judges, frequently become like family to McShane. Paul Shoen ’06, McShane asked him to do was to help someone on probation sign his clerk for many years, is McShane’s best friend, godfather to his up for community college courses to earn a GED. son, and “the one person who can calm me down when my Irish “Going in I thought it was going to be strictly this legal thing, temper gets the best of me,” he says. Shoen’s wife, Annie, also but it turned out to be much more than that,” he says. clerked for McShane. Hsu also was affected by watching McShane interact with Will McLaren ’13 is among the cadre of former and current the people who appeared before him. “He gives people his card, law students who view McShane as a mentor and friend. McLaren no matter who they are, and says, ‘If you need any help or are first met McShane at a mentor reception shortly before starting struggling in any way, give me a call.’ I don’t know any other judge at Lewis & Clark and was amazed at how comfortable the judge who does that,” Hsu says. “I’m just very lucky to have met him.” seemed socializing with “lowly law students.” McLaren contacted McShane periodically for advice about “He gives people his card, no matter who his studies in environmental law. When the judge was asked to they are, and says, ‘If you need any help consider an Oregon Clean Water Act case in a different county, he invited McLaren to attend as an unofficial clerk, brief some or are struggling in any way, give me a call.’ motions, and break down some aspects of the case for him, effec- I don’t know any other judge who does that.” tively putting McLaren front and center in the courtroom. Michael Hsu ’11 “That was an unforgettable event in my fledging legal career. I felt that I impressed a judge, got to look important in front of pow- Kindness “Simply His Nature” erful lawyers, and got a feel for both the courtroom and a subject in During his tenure on the Multnomah County bench, McShane which I have immense interest,” McLaren says. “All of that kind- handled a diverse—and often heartbreaking—load of criminal ness, though, is nothing to Judge McShane—it is simply his nature.” and civil cases. In 2005, he was selected to sit as one of four judges As they worked together their friendship grew. McShane and on the court’s death penalty panel. When asked about his more his partner of five years, Gregory Ford, started inviting McLaren memorable cases, though, McShane says “it’s the situations where and his fiancée, Jill, to their home for dinner. people’s lives have changed for the better as a result of having “Up to that point my diet had consisted almost entirely of cereal gone through the court system” that stand out for him. and ramen. He and Greg constantly fed us and treated us like family,” McLaren says. McShane married Will and Jill in Cathedral Park last spring.

18 Changing Lives for the Better “He often calls his mentees ‘therapists,’” McLaren says. “I used “I did not realize just how long it would to be so proud of myself for helping him figure out this or that. But take and how much scrutiny I would I doubt he ever truly needed any help. He’s a deft problem solver and can likely navigate life issues in his sleep. Instead, I think he be under. I can’t say I’ve lived my life in noticed me dwelling on my major sources of stress—jobs, grades, anticipation of becoming a federal judge, the future—and put his own his life issues out there just to help me and you do find yourself having to explain relax a little. That level of care and altruism is amazing to me.” things that you shouldn’t have to explain Chris Allnat, an attorney with Brisbee & Stockton, says McShane taught him life lessons that extended well beyond the to strangers.” legal realm. Looking Forward “At some point in our lives I think we all risk internalizing With his confirmation on May 20, McShane became Oregon’s the artificial limits that have been placed on us. Sometimes those first openly gay federal judge. He described the sea change that limits come from bad parents or from growing up in a depressed has taken place for gay and lesbian legal professionals since he neighborhood or from race and gender labels,” Allnat says. was a law student working in the Clark County District “Judge McShane gave me the strength to endure past those limits. Attorney’s office. His example showed me that the good guy can win, that integrity “There were not a lot of role models for young gay lawyers and character are valued.” back in the late ’80s, and it was kind of scary,” he says. “I began When “don’t ask, don’t tell” was repealed, Allnat enlisted in realizing that if I was going to work in criminal law it would be the National Guard. He was 29 and had wanted to join since age on the defense side. It was a more conservative time back then. 18. “Some people called me crazy, but he immediately was support- Being gay, it was a better fit to be on the defense side.” ive and genuinely excited,” Allnat says of McShane. As he prepared for the move to Eugene, McShane also “When I applied for my current position, he helped me prepare reflected on the grueling confirmation process that began in by organizing a four-person practice interview. The practice and September 2011. “Had I known more about it in advance, feedback made me more confident in the interview and that was I probably never would have put my name in,” he says. “I did a big reason why I got the job.” not realize just how long it would take and how much scrutiny Allnat said he appreciates the times he and McShane would I would be under. I can’t say I’ve lived my life in anticipation have a beer or go for a hike in the Gorge and talk about the law of becoming a federal judge, and you do find yourself having to and life. “There is no pretention or guarding. He makes me com- explain things that you shouldn’t have to explain to strangers.” fortable expressing my thoughts and myself.” While acknowledging the need for vetting, McShane says it was nonetheless disconcerting to have nearly every judicial decision and newspaper comment scrutinized. Judge McShane and Will McLaren ’13 “Right now I’m really just looking forward to starting that day-to-day work of being a federal judge,” he says. He is certain he will miss parts of being a circuit court judge. “It’s an interesting tradeoff, but as I go into my 50s I think I want that third career now where I get to think more about the law and take more time to do my cases.” In true McShane fashion, in his farewell email he credited his colleagues with helping him since that first day when he took a big spill. “I like to think I have grown up a lot as a judge since, but in truth I have continued to have my occasional falls. I often step forward without thinking. Thankfully, I have had all of you to help me get up. It has been quite the adventure.” ■

Fall 2013 ADVOCATE 19 Albert Menashe

A mentor talks After recently celebrating 33 years in Over time, we have managed to turn it into this business, what is it about practicing a team practice with 25 lawyers. We are about life, law, and family law that keeps you coming to work proud to say that we believe we are now every day? the largest family law firm west of Chicago. a little bit of wine. The answer to this question is really pretty So, when you stop to think about that for a simple, actually: from day one, my passion minute, we must be doing something right— By C.J. Graves ’13 has generated from helping people. This is and that makes me extremely proud! not an area of practice you want to be in As a recent Lewis & Clark Law School gradu- if you do not find genuine satisfaction in What piece of advice would you give ate, embarking on a new career and engrossed helping people. Luckily for me, I have been your 30-year-old self? in studying for the bar exam, I decided to able to work at something that I am pas- What I have always told young lawyers, spend some time with my new career mentor sionate about. and it still makes me proud to share this and Portland family law attorney, Albert after 33 years, is that you should strive to Menashe. Albert is the founding shareholder As a founder of Gevurtz Menashe, be the very best you can be. Not necessarily of Gevurtz, Menashe, Larson & Howe, which what makes you the most proud when the best there is, but to strive to be the he began with his partner Ron Gevurtz in talking about your practice? best you can be. You must also have serious January of 1982. After a successful three- It is important to share how it all began. passion for what you do—that will shine decade-long career, Albert remains passionate Thirty years ago, Ron Gevurtz and I came through above anything else. People are about practicing law and the growth of his up with a novel idea to start a firm practic- genuinely attracted to people who are truly family law firm—all of which inspires me as ing family law exclusively. We were the first passionate about what they do. Success then I prepare to join the Gevurtz Menashe family family law firm in Oregon at the time to do becomes the natural byproduct of working later this fall. During our talk, Albert imparted this. We worked hard, took some risks, and really hard and having passion for your some profound perspective and advice regard- as it turns out, we succeeded beyond our career. If you go to work and give it 100 ing business and career development for new wildest dreams, increasing our firm to its percent every day, you will enjoy both lawyers like me. Here are some highlights present size. Back then, for the most part, success and satisfaction in the long term. from our discussion. family law was an individual practice.

20 Albert Menashe You’ve been a businessman and lawyer for best family lawyer: intelligence, instincts, We know you are still practicing law in 36 years. What are some attributes you empathy, and like I said before, a genuine Portland, full-time, but now that you have think are critical to the success passion for helping people. If you are out handed off the management responsibilities of someone just getting started? there, and you are talking about what you to your son, Shawn, how are you spending I am going to break this into two parts: the do and why you enjoy it, people relate to your extra time? practice of law and the business of being a that. They are able to get a sense about you Simple—I get to practice law. With the lawyer. The first part is actually practicing overall—what kind of person you are by decrease in responsibility on the management law, and that requires three very important how you comport yourself. You cannot side I am handling more cases and enjoying things: preparation, preparation, and prepa- fake passion. it more than ever. I really like what I do after ration. As a lawyer, generally, starting off all these years and I get to work with my son in the right environment is also critical to What has surprised you the most over every day. What more could I ask for? long-term success. The reputation you estab- the course of your career? lish at the onset of your career is essential. I’d say there has been a substantial change I have heard you have developed a lifelong As a young lawyer, you do not have to know to the legal industry over the years, and it passion for wine. Are you willing to share everything or have the right answer, but it continues to evolve. I think the greatest how that began? is crucial that you are honest about what change has been in the last 5 to 10 years Right around the time when I became you do not know and where your develop- with the growth of technology and related interested in wine, I was collecting a lot of ment areas exist—then seek out the right demands. How people find lawyers today art. I noticed what I love best about wine is kind of help and support system to assist is much different than it was 30 years ago. that wine itself is a kind of art form—with you in getting you to where you want to The delivery of legal services in general its color and bouquet. It is a very romantic be. I also speak a lot about professionalism. and clients’ expectations have all changed thing—you can sit there and observe the At any age, it is important that people in dramatically in the past decade. As lawyers color, smell, taste, and viscosity. As my inter- professional services carry themselves in a serving the needs of our clients, we have est in wine grew, I started reading a lot about professional manner. to constantly adjust to remain responsive wine and traveling to various wine regions And finally, in addition to being pas- and adaptive. of the world to learn about and taste different sionate, you have to care. We are in a serv- wines. Every time you go to a winery, it’s a Where do you see the firm in five years? ice business and helping clients through a fun experience; there is a community of Our firm is unique in a couple of respects. life-altering period of their lives can result happy people, making wine. It’s the opposite We have a fairly limited focus. We have in tremendous satisfaction, but also requires of the conflict I see daily. It provides a good always practiced family law exclusively. patience and sensitivity along with advocacy balance for me. As of this fall, we are proud to be expanding for those you represent. our family law practice to include trust and Last question: What advice do you And for the second part, when I first estate planning. This decision marks a very have for the next generation of young started practicing, law was primarily just positive evolution in our firm, as estate professionals embarking on their careers? a profession and much less a “business.” planning is highly compatible and a natural Over the past several decades, however, Stay at it! Young professionals need to extension of our family law practice. the “business” and “profession” sides have recognize that success does not happen become much more balanced. Today, young overnight. You should take advantage of I have heard mentorship is a big piece lawyers who recognize that law is a business opportunities as they arise and know that for new attorneys at your firm. How have are more successful. That said, running a patience and consistency will pay off in the positive mentors shaped your career? business is much more expensive today— long run. Get out into the community and Having great role models as you begin your especially with the overhead from health be seen. Talk to people. Build relationships. career is really important. I was fortunate care, rent, technology, compensation, etc. You do not necessarily need to sell what you enough to have several along the way: Doug But that is just a fact of life. do. People instinctively like to talk about Houser, Stan Samuels, Ned Clark, Malcolm themselves, so be curious, ask questions, Those who work for you share your Marsh, and Eric Lindauer, among others. and find common ground in your discussions. philosophy that recruiting the right talent Because of our firm’s belief in the value As a result, they will remember the positive is an essential part of the success of any of mentoring, as we grew our practice, we experience and hopefully remain in touch. business. What qualities do you look for implemented a formal program so our new At the end of the day, it is about working when hiring a new lawyer? lawyers could spend time learning different hard, being passionate, and developing areas of our practice as well as how to be a First and foremost, we always try to hire relationships with people. ■ lawyer from our partners and staff. We are the best lawyer. When we first started the very proud of that mentoring program. firm, Ron Gevurtz and I sat down to deter- mine the key qualities that make up the

Fall 2013 ADVOCATE 21 DOJ Honors the NationalCrime Victim Law Institute

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder presented Arizona attorney Steven Twist, founder Eric H. Holder Jr., Attorney General of the the National Crime Victim Law Institute of Arizona Voice for Crime Victims and United States; Tony West, Acting Associate (NCVLI) with the Crime Victims’ Rights coauthor of the lone law school textbook Attorney General of the United States; Meg Garvin, Award this April. The U.S. Department of on the subject of victims’ rights, Victims in NCVLI Executive Director and Clinical Professor; Justice honor recognized NCVLI for its work Criminal Procedure, previously received the Rebecca Khalil, NCVLI Staff Attorney; Mary Lou supporting crime victim lawyers and victims DOJ award. “NCVLI has been one of the Leary, former Acting Assistant Attorney General in the assertion and enforcement of their most critical factors in developing national for the Office of Justice Programs; and Joye Frost, rights in criminal and related civil processes. crime victims’ rights law in the history of Principal Deputy Director Office for Victims of NCVLI is the only such national resource. the country,” he says. Crime Office. Meg Garvin, executive director and clinical professor of law for NCVLI, says the Educating Attorneys materials provide arguments for attorneys on award signifies that the institute’s efforts to NCVLI focuses on carrying out its mission issues they might encounter in real cases. transform the field of victims’ rights have through education, litigation, and public NAVRA has grown to more than 1,000 been successful. policy. The institute trains lawyers and law members in large part thanks to NCVLI’s out- NCVLI was conceived in 1997 by students nationwide on the practicalities reach. The institute also provides some direct Professor Doug Beloof ’81 to promote balance of victim representation through seminars, representation at a local level and files amicus and fairness in the justice system. Garvin conferences, and the Victims’ Rights Litiga- briefs in state and federal court nationwide. says that while NCVLI will work with any tion Clinic at Lewis & Clark, the only clinic victim population, about 60 percent of the of its kind in the country. “We walk them Litigating Cases institute’s current efforts are related to issues through what it will actually be like to repre- NCVLIs legal team, which includes of violence against women, such as domestic sent a victim in a criminal case,” Garvin says. Lewis & Clark students, provides consultation violence, stalking, and sexual assault. Homi- NCVLI also operates with the National for practitioners in the midst of cases. “We cide, kidnapping, and crimes involving chil- Alliance of Victims’ Rights Attorneys hold the hands of the people we train dren account for a large number of the (NAVRA) to maintain a database of research, throughout the entire process so that victims remaining cases. training materials, and legal briefs to aid everywhere can benefit from our national advocates in the field. Garvin says the

22 NCVLI National Crime Victims’ Rights Week was observed April 21-27.

Garvin explains that unlike a prosecutor In Oregon, NCVLI has been successful who has obligations to the state and may in ensuring that victims have a right to be not always be able to fully represent a victim’s present and heard during critical stages of a “NCVLI has been one of interests, NCVLI’s focus is entirely on the defendant’s adjudication. In a recent case in the most critical factors victim and the effect of the legal system on which a victim was not informed about a plea in developing national his or her rights. “We might not agree with or sentence hearing, the Oregon Supreme every victim we work with, but it doesn’t Court subsequently vacated the sentence and crime victims’ rights matter. We provide their voice in the case remanded the case for resentencing. law in the history and fight for their legal right to participate,” Steven Twist, who now serves on the of the country.” Garvin says. board of the Arizona clinic and as a volunteer attorney, relied on NCVLI’s resources during Steven Twist, Founder of Arizona Voice Influencing Public Policy his representation of a local victim of iden- for Crime Victims As part of its mission to engage in public tity theft who was defrauded out of his entire policy discussions, the institute works to life savings. Twist explains that the state ensure that victims’ rights are treated like court judge allowed the victim to be present other civil rights. NCVLI acts nationwide at sentencing, but refused to let him speak. expertise,” Garvin says. “We may get a call to secure victims’ rights legislation aimed at “I filed a mandamus petition with the Ninth from an attorney who is in court saying that protecting both procedural and substantive Circuit,” says Twist. “NCVLI was helpful in the judge is about to rule on an issue. When rights. “We exist to make sure that victims’ strategizing the mandamus action and argu- that happens, we immediately research the rights are meaningful,” Garvin says, “and ment. When I went before the Ninth Cir- issue and provide the attorney with an argu- that they are not just a rhetorical pat on the cuit for oral argument, I had the full support ment and legal authority that is on point.” head or mere words on paper.” and backing of NCVLI.” The federal judge Garvin says NCVLI helps on big and Garvin has testified before Congress agreed with Twist and ordered the lower small cases alike and will contact individuals and the Oregon legislature on the state court to do it over again. involved with high-profile cases to ensure of victims’ law. NCVLI staff members have Currently, Garvin says, NCVLI is work- that they are aware of NCVLI’s services. served on legislative and public policy com- ing on federal legislation to provide legal The institute also partners with NAVRA to mittees and task forces dedicated to making services for sexual assault victims in the match victims around the nation with pro change in the field. military. The institute has also collaborated bono attorneys who will work to secure and with countries such as Australia and Israeli enforce their rights. to tailor victims’ rights laws to the legal During the child sexual abuse trial of systems of those nations. Pennsylvania State University’s assistant While in Washington, D.C., for the football coach Jerry Sandusky, NCVLI pro- Unlike a prosecutor award ceremony, Garvin and staff attorney vided assistance to the lawyers involved and who has obligations Rebecca Khalil had an opportunity to meet filed an amicus brief on behalf of the victims to the state and colleagues from around the country—as well asking that they be identified by number as several sexual assault survivors and fami- rather than name in order to protect their may not always be lies of homicide victims. Coming face-to-face privacy. Even though the trial judge ulti- able to fully represent with officials was impressive, says Garvin, mately ordered that the victims’ names and a victim’s interests, but it was the number of crime victims and identities be disclosed at trial, Garvin says advocates in attendance at the event that she still considers the outcome a positive one. NCVLI’s focus is she found truly inspiring. “It is more mean- The institute was ready to fight and antici- entirely on the victims ingful when a survivor claps for you than pated a win in the appellate courts, but “the and the effect when anyone else does.” ■ victims in that case wanted us to stop fight- of the legal system ing,” she says. “It was important from an empowerment perspective that they were on their rights. able to make that choice.”

Fall 2013 ADVOCATE 23 2013 Graduates

Master of Laws Mark E. Bennett Jr.1 Matthew J. Crawford Tori J. Freeborn Environmental and Eriks R. Berzins Kristie Novakovich Cromwell Gabriel A. Frias Natural Resources Law Diana J. Bettles Sarah Rose Dandurand Meera Amar Gajjar Sara Althoff 2 Matthew B. Blythe Cam-Tu Dang Grant Douglas Gilmore 2 2 Carey Parks Gilbert III 1 Mary C. Bodine Zachary T. Davies Christopher J. Graves Nandita Rastogi Celina E. Bonugli Michael T. Davis Ava Green 2 Rehan Rauf 3 Kevin D. Boston Brady V. Deal Carolyn Ayn Greenshields Jeffrey Austin Thompson1 Katelynn D. Boyd Adria D. Decker Dana R. Gross Peter Braun Matthew Deisen Denisse Guadarrama Master of Laws Faye E. Breitreed Jodine Dixon Anna Marie Gulotta Animal Law Kara A. Brooks Zachary T. Dorn Jeffrey M. Haagenson Mitzi M. Bolaños 2 Taya A. Brown John Christopher Duckworth Margaret M. Hall 2 Amanda Winalski Jenna L. Bruce Erin Kathleen Duncan Angela M. Hanslovan Olivia M. Brumfield Lora Teresa Dunn Frederic W.L. Harder Jr. 2 Juris Doctor Aaron E. Bruner Beth E. Edwards 2 Reiko Higuchi 2 Alyssa A. Aaby Reiko A. Bryant Lowell S. Elliott Scott Neil Hilgenberg 1 James Michael Aaron Marie N. Burcham Emily L. Elsberg Jennifer Marie Holley 1 Shannon R. Aaron Sean P. Burt Andrew B. Erickson Shanelle Akiko Honda Bryce J. Adams Joanna L. Cahoon Britta A. Erickson Matthew F. Hoselton 1 Arrien Drake Aehegma Brienne Rebecca Carpenter John P. Evans Elizabeth J. Inayoshi 1 2 Abdullah Saad Al Ghamdi 2 Kristen A. Chambers Maura Caitlin Fahey Victoria Langstaff Jarvis 1 Nancy L. Alexander Tung T. Chau Lisa M. Farrell Amanda F. Johnson 2 Amanda I. Alvarez Jane Chausova Rachael A. Federico Jeffory “Jay” Johnston 2 Lolly B. Anderson Arthur Taw Chiam Hannah P. Fenley Heather N. Joy 2 Alexis Charlotte Andiman Sylvia Monica Ciborowski Kaiti S. Ferguson Angela Kaul Naomi K. Andress Xavier Atlas Clark Andrew Louis Ferroggiaro Gail Kazuko Kawakami-Schwarber 2 Brett Erin Applegate Grant S. Cole Kimberly Nicole Fisher David J. Kayes Marie Elizabeth Atwood Kelly L. Coleman Jenny Rae Foreman John Hunter Keane Alexander Baldino Joshua R. Colwell Amelia S. Forsberg Michael D. Kearney 1 Nicholas Zurich Barnabas Ioan Tiberiu Coman Craig M. Fouts Jennifer L. Keatinge 2 Meghan Sqawsan Barner 2 Lia C. Comerford Robert J. Franco Renessa S. Kennelly James C. Bartholomew Nicholas D. Cordes Jared Heinz Franz Laura Jean Knudsen Maryam Behrouzi Kelsey McDonnell Coulter Pamela Danielle Frazier Anaiah E. Krueger Philip Frederick Counce Jr. Joshua C. Freeborn Eli C. Krueger

24 Jeffrey Thomas Kucirek David M. Mitchell Jacob T. Randall Elizabeth Amira Kennedy Streeter Sandra Lyon Kuenzi Robert L. Molinelli Bryan A. Raymond Jacqueline K. Swanson Kimberly White LaDuca Carter W. Moore Vicky M. Razo-Aparicio 2 Jenevieve Clair Swinford Erin C. Lambley Christopher A. Morehead 2 Timothy K. Reeve2 Melissa Dawn Thaisz Kelly LaToza Levenda Christopher Ross Morgan Kimberly M. Roegner Adrienne Ladd Thompson Mackenzie Jane Lawson Melanie Morgan Musial Shayna M. Rogers Bryan Matthew Thompson Timothy A. Lawson Danielle Marie Myers Rachel E. Rosenberg Alejandra Torres William N. Lawton Rachel K. Nakanishi Allison M. Rowe Peter T. Tran Nicholas E. Lebo 2 Michael A. Neal Amanda Alleen Rude Amanda Elaine Tufts June Yong Lee 2 Theresa Avonne Neibert 1 Bart I. Rylander 1 Joseph Angel Ureño Sangmin Lee Laura S. Nelson Erin L. Scheurer Colin William Van Dyke 1 Jaclyn Leeds1 Ricky R. Nelson Amelia Reiver Schlusser Jeffrey Wallace Van Name Adena Nicole Leibman Anne K. Nguyen2 David A. Schor 1 Richard Marcus Viloria Kane Alexander Lemley Chau T. Nguyen Bobby J. Schroeder Jason M. Wald Katie R.J. Lichter Frances Khanh Nguyen Joshua J. Schroeder Aila Rose Wallace Jennifer H. Logan Elizabeth E. Oates Kallie M. Seifert Melissa N. Walton Susan Ma 2 Alexander S. Ogurek 1 A. Jalil Shamsud-Din Samuel R. Walton Mark A. Maher Henry T. O’Keeffe Brian R. Sheets Bryan J. Wasetis Erica M. Mann 2 Vanessa M. Padgalskas Stephan A. Sherman Deborah R. Wechselblatt Efrain Marquez Ksen Pallegedara Harpreet Singh Lucas A. Welliver Rashel M. Matthys Vittal Patel Parakram Singh 2 Rosalie C. Westenskow Mkulisi Mavuwa Lina Grace Pauley Matthew M. Singleton1 Elisabeth Forsberg Whittemore Rebecca M. Maxwell Michelle S. Pawliger Luke A. Sinkinson Ryan M. Wilkinson Alyosha Conan McClain Richard R. Peel Laurel K. Smith Lorena M. Wisehart 2 Kimberly L. McCullough Sarah Yael Perelstein Luisa Violet Sondie Grace Wong Michael K. McDonald2 Mark J. Perez Alexander G. Sorenson Sean M. Worley Cynthia L. McNew Zachary B. Pilchen Mario A. Sosa Sarah E. Wright Angelina Marie Medina Joseph E. Piucci Paige Elise Spence Chris L. Wyrostek Karl G. Meier Christine Joanne Poklemba Alexander C. Spinks Emily C. Yeh Matthew T. Merryman 2 Laura J. Powers Bradley Michael Steinman Jessie Danielle Young Andrea R. Meyer Matthew J. Preusch Garrett H. Stephenson Catherine A. Meyer Meredith M. Price Frederik Feierskov Stig-Nielsen 1 January 2013 graduate. Emily Justine Mikhaiel 2 Georgia C. Prim 2 Anna L. Stoefen 2 Student has not yet completed Jacob M. Miller Daryl D. Ramires 2 Christopher S. Stoner requirements for graduation. 3 Summer 2012 graduate.

Fall 2013 ADVOCATE 25 Commencement 2013

Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California at Irvine School of Law, Serves as Speaker

Erwin Chemerinsky, an expert on constitutional law, federal practices, civil rights Janet Steverson and liberties, and appellate litigation who has had an illustrious career as an educator, Honored With scholar, and litigator, was the speaker at the commencement ceremony on May 25. Inspired by the transformative example of the civil rights lawyers of the 1950s and Leo Levenson Award 1960s, Chemerinsky has worked for over 30 years to convey his belief that law is the most powerful tool for social change. In his remarks, he reassured the graduates that Fittingly enough, the graduating class awarded “the need for excellent lawyers is no less today than it ever has been, and it will be the 2013 Leo Levenson Award for Excellence no less tomorrow.” in Teaching to the Douglas K. Newell Professor of Teaching Excellence, Janet Steverson. For over 30 years, Chemerinsky has worked to convey his belief Steverson’s research topics include that law is the most powerful tool for social change. consumer warranties, and children’s rights “There is a wonderful position as a lawyer for each of you, a position where you are of special interest to her. Before joining can really make a difference in people’s lives and society. As lawyers, you will have the the Lewis & Clark law faculty, she was an chance for tremendous power: to take away lives or to save them, to protect freedom associate at Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, or to compromise it, to protect our environment or aid in defiling it, to help companies D.C., doing general litigation. Steverson was do good things or to help them do bad things. Your law school has focused so much also a member of the Harvard Law School of the last three years teaching you to think and to contemplate. But most of all, today I want to remind you to care—to care about the consequences and effects of what you Board of Student Advisors. do on people and on society. No matter what field of law you go into, you can devote In 2009, the law school recognized her some of your time to helping individuals and causes that lack the resources to afford commitment to student success and enriching representation. No matter what field of law you go into, you can work to make people’s the academic experience by naming Steverson lives and your community better.” to the Douglas K. Newell Professorship of Chemerinsky has taught at several law schools across the country, including Duke Teaching Excellence. Law School, University of Southern California School of Law, UCLA School of Law, and DePaul University College of Law. He has also authored seven books, the most recent of which is The Conservative Assault on the Constitution (2010), and nearly 200 articles in top law reviews. In addition, Chemerinsky frequently argues cases before the nation’s highest courts and serves as a commentator on legal issues for national and local media.

26 Cornelius Honor Society Induction

Twenty-seven graduates were inducted into the Cornelius Honor Society on May 24 during a special reception. Members are selected by the faculty based on distinguished scholarship, leadership, and contribution to the law community. The society is named in honor of Dorothy L. Cornelius, who served the law school for 20 years.

2013 Inductees James Michael Aaron Olivia M. Brumfield Lia C. Comerford Andrew B. Erickson Maura Caitlin Fahey Rachael A. Federico Christopher J. Graves Carolyn Ayn Greenshields Dana R. Gross Margaret M. Hall Scott Neil Hilgenberg Gail Kazuko Kawakami-Schwarber Jaclyn Leeds Kimberly L. McCullough Robert L. Molinelli Zachary B. Pilchen Meredith M. Price Shayna M. Rogers Amanda Alleen Rude Paige Elise Spence Melissa Dawn Thaisz Adrienne Ladd Thompson Joseph Angel Ureño Jeffrey Wallace Van Name Elisabeth Whittemore Lorena M. Wisehart Jessie Danielle Young

Top to bottom: Kimberly McCullough ’13 (third from left) and her family. Dean Robert Klonoff and Lisa Whittemore ’13. Kay Erickson, Andrew Erickson ’13, Professor Craig Johnston ’85, and Clinical Professor Tom Buchele. Jeffrey Van Name ’13, Rich Van Name, and Heather Van Name.

Fall 2013 ADVOCATE 27 Faculty and Staff News

______Paula Abrams Salmon (2012) is now available for downloading in two Henry Drummonds Jeffrey Bain Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law installments: ssrn.com/abstract=848587 and Professor of Law In January, Abrams ssrn.com/abstract= 2213366. Following on his assignment teaching international spoke with medical Published human rights in Paris in 2012, Drummonds is writing practitioners and medical ”The Public Trust in Wildlife,” 2013 Utah L. Rev. 1 a chapter on the human rights/employment and labor students at OHSU on (forthcoming), with Aurora Paulsen ’12, available law nexus for the ABA-sponsored treatise International legislation impacting at ssrn.com/abstract=2189134 Labor and Employment Laws. He is also writing a reproductive health. chapter for Global Labor and Employment Law on Abrams worked with law “Lands Council, Karuk Tribe, and the Great Environ- the role of global union alliances and federations. students this year to mental Divide in the Ninth Circuit,” 54 Nat. Res. J. 1 Drummonds has published an essay on the Oregon revive the Lewis & Clark (forthcoming 2013), coauthored with Maggie Hall Public Employee Pension System on SSRN, and he chapter of the national ’13, available at ssrn.com/abstract=2246917 continues to work on a law review article on public organization Students ______employee pensions. for Reproductive Justice. She spoke on population, Jack Bogdanski sustainability, and human rights at the first event Douglas K. Newell Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law Presented sponsored by the group. Bogdanski’s treatise A talk on the Oregon Public Employee Pension Sys- Abrams continues to serve on the Oregon Law Federal Tax Valuation was tem and impairment of contract issues at a faculty Commission Judicial Selection Work Group. In recently cited by the Ninth colloquium June, she taught a course on international art law Circuit, and for the sev- Published in Florence, Italy. enth time by the U.S. Tax “The Public Policy Exception to Labor Arbitration Presented Court. He is at work on Award Enforcement: A Path Through the Bramble A paper on the use of narrative in Supreme Court a new edition of another Bush,” 49 Willamette l. Rev. 105 (2012) and posted opinions at an international conference in London, federal tax treatise, which on SSRN July 2013 he will be joining as coau- ______thor; the new assignment Susan Felstiner Doug Beloof ’81 has required him to put Clinical Professor, Small Business Legal Clinic Professor of Law his well-read political blog on hiatus. For the 19th consecutive tax season, he operated a workshop in In July 2012, Felstiner Beloof will be testifying which dozens of international students at Lewis & Clark joined the faculty as a vis- in front of Congress on received free U.S. tax counseling from Bogdanski and iting clinical professor after a victims’ rights amend- a group of dedicated law student volunteers. 14 years in private prac- ment to the U.S. Consti- tice at the law firm of tution as part of the effort Published Cable Huston Benedict to make a criminal justice “Section 336(e) Elections Finally Arrive,” 40 Corporate Haagensen & Lloyd. In system more balanced. Taxation ____ (July/August 2013) February 2013, the faculty He is also working on “Highest and Best Use: How High? How Good?” voted to offer her a posi- an article about the 10th 40 Estate Planning ____ (July 2013) tion as a clinical law pro- anniversary of the Crime fessor. Felstiner is fluent in Victims’ Rights Act “The Wrong Stuff: Parker, Inc. and the Step Transac- Spanish and frequently gives presentations in that lan- (which he helped to draft) and on a book on victims’ tion Doctrine,” 40 Corporate Taxation 42 guage to owners of small businesses. At the request rights for a popular audience. (January/February 2013) of Hacienda Community Development Corporation, who often refers clients to the Small Business Legal Published “Courts of Appeals Weigh in on Easement Donation Clinic, Felstiner gave a presentation to Hacienda’s mi- Victims’ Rights: A Documentary and Reference Guide, Issues,” 39 Estate Planning 40 (December 2012) cromercantes program participants on employment Greenwood Publishing Group (2012) ______law in July 2012, and a presentation on regulations ______Mari Cheney governing Portland food carts in October 2012. She Michael Blumm Reference Librarian also participated on a panel of small business advisors Jeffrey Bain Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law Cheney’s article “Legal Research Boot Camp: Bridg- at the 11th Governor’s Marketplace Conference in Blumm is working on a ing the 1L Knowledge Gap” was awarded the Short April 2013. Felstiner is treasurer of the Oregon natural resources law Form Division Award from the American Association Hispanic Bar Association and a member of Oregon casebook with Eric Frey- of Law Libraries. Women Lawyers. fogle (University of Illinois) Published and Blake Hudson (LSU). “Promoting Services and Celebrating Differences,” His public trust casebook Cheney et al., 17 AALL Spectrum, November. 2012, will be published by at 22 Carolina Academic Press this fall. Sacrificing the

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______Published George Foster “Constitutional Law and Separation of Powers,” in Associate Professor of Law Developments in Administrative Law and Regulatory In his capacity as chair Practice, American Bar Association Press (2012) of the Global Law Com- “Agency Guidance Documents and NRDC v. EPA,” mittee, Foster oversaw ABA’s Section of Energy, Environment, and Re- the process of securing sources Newsletter, TRENDS (2012) summer externship place- ______ments for Lewis & Clark Meg Garvin students in China and Executive Director, India. He also organized National Crime Victim Law Institute several global law events Clinical Professor of Law, Crime Victim Litigation on campus, including Clinic two practitioner panels to provide inside perspectives to students interested In December and May, in careers in global law, and multiple visits and lectures Garvin provided training at by prominent scholars. On the scholarship front, he the Air Force’s Judge Ad- Registrar Susan Galyen B.A. ’70 retired recently contributed an article, “Taking Stock of the vocate General School at this June. She had been with Lewis & Clark, United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Maxwell Air Force Base in as either a student or an administrator, Peoples After Five Years,” to the newsletter of the Alabama to help establish for 43 years. American Society of International Law’s Rights of a new branch of Air Force Susan always said that working with stu- Indigenous Peoples Interest Group. He is also work- JAG. The Special Victims dents was the best part of her job. She made ing on a law review article tentatively titled “When Counsel will provide repre- Commercial Meets Sovereign and Domestic Meets sentation to sexual assault the Registrar’s Office a hub of information and International: A New Paradigm for Applying the victims assistance. Not only did she manage every- Sovereign Immunity and Act of State Doctrines in during courts martial. Garvin’s article “Victims and thing related to class schedules, registration, Crossover Cases.” the Court’s Eighth Amendment Jurisprudence in transcripts, and graduation requirements, ______Miller: A Tale of a Constitutive Paradox” is forthcom- Susan also worked with the offices of admis- William Funk ing in the New England Journal on Criminal and sions and career development, as well as the Lewis & Clark Distinguished Professor of Law Civil Confinement. curriculum committee, to ensure the best ______Funk spent much of the service and experience for students. John P. Grant summer in Europe pre- It was in large part thanks to Susan that Professor of Law senting a paper, “Changes the law school undertook—successfully— in American Constitutional Grant has completed the chapter “Pronounced for major projects to update our technology. Law,” at the American Law Doom: Deacon William Brodie” for the book Pro- She brought about the computerization of Today symposium in Paris nounced for Doom: Early Scots Law Tales, edited by our records as well as the transition to online organized by the Univer- Professor Elaine E. Sutherland and him, and to registration. More than 15 years before such sity of Poitiers; participat- be published by Avizandum later this year. His article ing in a discussion group “The Lockerbie Trial: Was It Independent, Dignified, software would be commercially available, at the University of Lux- and Scrupulously Fair?” has appeared in the special Susan adapted the processes she developed embourg on global ad- commemorative 200th edition of Juridica, the presti- for her office into a system that enabled stu- ministrative law, where his paper “My Way or No Way: gious Estonian law review. To mark this anniversary, dents to take exams on their own computers. The American Reluctance for Trans-Territorial Public Juridica is convening a readers’ conference in Tartu As a result, Lewis & Clark became one of the Law,” to be published by the University of at which Grant, as one of the founders of the law re- first law schools in the country to allow stu- Missouri Law Review, was discussed; and teaching view 20 years ago, gave an opening address. His ex- dents to take their exams this way. a course in American constitutional law at the Univer- perimental reading group on unrepresented nations Susan’s willingness to explore and develop sity of Mainz. Funk continues to serve as the editor and peoples, offered last fall in association with the new processes as the world changed, and her of both the U.S. and International Administrative Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization Law eJournals that appear weekly from the Social (UNPO) in The Hague, will in future be offered as an commitment to working with students on Science Research Network. Currently, Funk annual workshop, allowing students to undertake solutions, will be greatly missed. How lucky is working on a new constitutional law casebook practical research and report writing on human rights we were, to have someone of her caliber and for West Publishing. His column on recent articles issues in an unrecognized state or minority group dedication for so long. of interest appears quarterly in the Administrative identified by UNPO. Law News magazine. —Associate Dean Martha Spence ’84 Published Presented “The Lockerbie Trial: Was It Independent, Dignified, “Drones, Due Process, and the Fourth Amendment” and Scrupulously Fair?” JURIDICA (commemorative at William & Mary Law School at a symposium 200th edition) IV (2013) organized by that school’s Bill of Rights Law Review, March 2013

Fall 2013 ADVOCATE 29 Faculty and Staff News

______ments,” Journal of the Legal Writing Institute (forth- Published Kathy Hessler coming 2013) “Oregon’s Death Penalty: The Practical Reality,” Director, Animal Law Clinic 17 Lewis & Clark Law Review, 1 (2013 Clinical Professor of Law “It’s Not About the Grades...Really,” Teaching Legal ______Writing and Research 1 (2012) Hessler was interviewed Robert Klonoff by Portland’s KGW News Your Client’s Story: Persuasive Legal Writing, with Dean and Professor of Law for two stories relating to Ruth Anne Robbins and Ken Chestek, Aspen In May, Klonoff was animal law that aired in Publishers (2012) awarded the 2013 October and was quoted ______Oregon Consular Corps by Monique Balas for Jennifer Johnson Honorary Award for Indi- “Pet Custody Battles Erskine Wood Sr. Professor of Law vidual Achievement in Illustrate Need for Legal In May, Johnson addressed International Affairs. In Clarity Regarding Pets” the Family Business Insti- June, he participated in on Oregon Live. Along tute at the law school. a water law conference with Joyce Tischler and in Delhi cohosted by Pamela Hart, Hessler is working on a book to be Presented Lewis & Clark Law published by Carolina Academic Press, tentatively A paper analyzing private School and the National titled Teaching Animal Law Across the Curriculum. placement statistics and Law School in Delhi. Klonoff recently signed a con- She is serving on the executive committee of the FINRA rules at the Univer- tract to serve as a coauthor of a treatise on com- AALS Balance in Legal Education Section and the sity of Cincinnati Law plex litigation. His coauthors include U.S. District executive committee of the AALS Animal Law Section. School Corporate Law Judge Lee Rosenthal and former Tulane Law School Conference, March 15, Presented Dean Ed Sherman. He is also in the process of 2013 “Learning From Difficult Cases: Lessons From Tilikum revising his Federal Appellate Practice Nutshell. v. Sea World” at the Animal Ethics Conference at Moderated a panel of state securities regulators at ______Utah Valley University, April 2012 the University of Cincinnati Law School Corporate Anna Laakmann Law Conference, March 15, 2013 Assistant Professor of Law “Consideration of Whether Hunting Is Cruel Under the Law” at the Law and Society Annual Meeting, “Do I Have a Deal for You!” at the annual luncheon Laakmann participated Boston, May-June 2013 honoring emeriti faculty and former staff of in the health law panel Lewis & Clark College, March 2013 of the New Scholars “Learning From the U.S. Animal Law Experience: Colloquia at the annual Cases and Classes” at the Animal Law and Ethics A paper on crowdfunding and advertised private Southeastern Association Conference in Zurich, Switzerland, July 2012 offerings at the annual meeting of the Law and of Law Schools (SEALS) Society Association, Boston, June 2013 “Standing” at the Second Annual Animal Law Conference in August. ______Symposium at Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, In addition, she was Aliza Kaplan October 2012 selected through a blind, Associate Professor of Law peer-reviewed screening Moderated the “Preemption” panel at the Second For the second year process to present her Annual Animal Law Symposium at Lewis & Clark Law in a row, along with work-in-progress on physician innovation at the 2013 School, Portland, October 2012 Kathy Hessler, Kaplan Health Law Scholars Workshop sponsored by St. “An Overview of Animal Law and Legal Education in coached the law school’s Louis University Center for Health Law Studies and the U.S.” and “Application of Animal Law in the U.S. National Animal Law the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics. Through Cases and Courses” (both presentations Moot Court Competition ______given with Pamela Frasch) at the Master in Animal team to victory. Lydia Loren Law and Society Program at the Autonomous Kay Kitagawa and Andy Johnson-Laird Intellectual Presented University of Barcelona, March 2013 Property Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law Workshop, “Pushing for ______Preparation: The Need for In March 2013, Loren Steve Johansen ’87 Theory and Skills-Based participated in the Inter- Professor of Law Public Interest Law Pedagogy,” at the Hybrid Law net Law Scholars Works- Johansen organized a Teaching Conference sponsored by the Institute for in-Progress Conference conference on applied Law Teaching & Learning at Washburn University hosted by Santa Clara legal storytelling that was School of Law, June 2013 University Law School, held in London in July. where she presented her “Wrongful Convictions Panel: What Went Wrong?” current work, “The Viabil- Published (presented and moderated), Lewis & Clark Law ity of the $30 Casebook.” “Coming Attractions: An School, March 2013 That paper explores the Essay on Movie Trailers “Letter From Birmingham Jail 50th Anniversary” various dynamics in and Preliminary State- (with Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling professors Mollie Galloway and Joel Martinez) at Lewis & Clark College, January 2013 30 Faculty and Staff News

______the traditional publishing market that have led to John Parry Melissa Powers ’01 casebooks costing over $200, and describes the Professor of Law Associate Professor of Law experiences of Semaphore Press, a publisher that offers a very different approach to providing law John Parry is nearing Powers taught an inten- school casebooks. (Semaphore Press offers digital the final stages of editing sive climate change law copies of required textbooks for law school classes The Constitution and the class at the University of at a suggested price of $30. A student can choose Future of Criminal Justice Trento, Italy, in May 2012 to pay less or more than the suggested price, or in America for Cambridge and December 2013. She even download a copy of a required casebook for University Press (coedited was elected to the gov- free.) This article examines the viability of the Sema- with Song Richardson, erning board of the IUCN phore Press publishing model. Loren also work- University Of Iowa College Academy of Environmen- shopped the paper at an Intellectual Property in of Law). He also wrote tal Law, and continues the Snow gathering in Whistler, B.C. a chapter for the book to serve as cochair of Crime Across Borders: its research committee. Presented Globalization, Executive Power, and the Transforma- Finally, she was named Scholar of the Week by the “The Viability of the $30 Casebook” at the Internet tion of Criminal Justice. He presented the chapter University of North Carolina’s Center for Law, Envi- Law Scholars Works-in-Progress Conference hosted as part of a panel at the Law and Society Annual ronment, Adaptation, and Resources in March 2013. by Santa Clara University Law School, March 2013 Meeting in Boston at the end of May. On April 8, Presented Published Parry was the moderator for the keynote panel Tidal “Small Is (Still) Beautiful” at the University of Wiscon- Shift: Promoting Military Retrenchment or Escalation 2013 Case and Statutory Supplement to Copyright in sin in April 2012 a Global Information Economy (3rd ed., coauthored), at Lewis & Clark’s International Affairs Symposium. Aspen Publishers, June 2013 Parry is also working on the third edition of his crimi- Essays around the theme “Climate Change: Doom ______nal law casebook Criminal Law: Cases, Statutes, or Merely Change?” (with Lewis & Clark College of James Oleske and Lawyering Strategies, published by Lexis and Arts and Sciences professor Rob Kugler), as part Assistant Professor of Law cowritten with David Crump (Houston), Neil Cohen of Lewis & Clark’s Faculty and Friends Dinner Series, (Tennessee), Laurie Levenson (Loyola), and Penny September 2012 In June, Oleske appeared Pether (Villanova). Professor Ed Brunet has as a guest on OPB “The Fallacy of an All-of-the-Above Energy Policy” asked him to join as a coauthor for the fourth edition radio’s Think Out Loud at the University of Maryland in July 2012, as part of Summary Judgment: Federal Law and Practice, and KATU television’s of Lewis & Clark Law School’s faculty colloquium in published by West. Parry’s review of George C. Your Voice, Your Vote to September 2012, at Vermont Law School in October Thomas III & Richard A. Leo’s book, Confessions of provide analysis of the 2012, and at the University of Santa Clara Law Guilt: From Torture to Miranda and Beyond (2012), Supreme Court’s deci- School in February 2013 is forthcoming in the Criminal Justice Review. sions in the same-sex Published Published marriage cases. Earlier “U. S. Municipal Climate Plans: What Role Will “International Law in State Courts: Sovereignty, in the year, he spoke to Cities Play in Climate Change Mitigation?” Local Resistance, Contagion, and Inevitability,” Willamette the Lewis & Clark chapter Climate Change Law: Environmental Regulation in Journal of International Law and Dispute Resolution of the American Constitution Society about Stormans Cities and Other Localities, (Benjamin J. Richardson, (forthcoming) v. Selecky, a case pending in the Ninth Circuit in ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing (2012) which pharmacy owners are seeking religious ______exemptions from regulations requiring them to dis- Sandy Patrick “County Report: USA, Climate Change in the pense emergency contraception. He also spoke to Professor of Legal Analysis and Writing Supreme Court,” 1 IUCN Academy of Environmental the student chapter of the Animal Legal Defense Law E-Journal 245 (2012) Patrick is writing a com- Fund about religious liberty issues that may be panion book on persua- “Making Sustainability Count,” in Rethinking Sustain- implicated by laws restricting animal sacrifice. sive analysis, A Lawyer able Development to Meet the Climate Change Presented and Published Persuades, which is Challenge, Environmental Law Reporter (Jessica “Lukumi at 20: A Legacy of Uncertainty for Religious scheduled for publication Owley & Keith Hirokawa, eds.) (2013) Liberty and Animal Welfare Laws,” presented at the in 2014. “Small Is (Still) Beautiful: Designing U.S. Energy second annual Animal Law Symposium and pub- Published Policies to Increase Localized Renewable Energy lished in Volume 19, Issue II, of Animal Law A Lawyer Writes: A Generation,” 30 Wisconsin International Law Practical Guide to Legal Journal 595 (2012) Analysis, Carolina Acad. Press (Second Edition), coauthored with Christine Nero Coughlin and Joan Rocklin, 2013

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______Daniel J. Rohlf “Mono Lake and the American Public Trust Doctrine: Radio interview with Jim McLaren on March 25, Professor of Law The Backstory to America’s Most Famous Public 2013, for KEX News Radio, Portland, about the Of Counsel, Earthrise Law Center Trust Litigation” at Realizing the Goal of Water for federalism and same-sex marriage issues in the Life: Lessons From Around the World, National Law Defense of Marriage Act and California Prop. 8 With this year marking University at Delhi, India, May 31, 2013 cases then before the Supreme Court the 40th anniversary of ______“Wifi Without Potable Water: Water Management in the Endangered Species Richard Slottee Urban China” at the Association for Law, Property, Act, Rohlf has been in- Director, Lewis & Clark Legal Clinic and Society Conference, University of Minnesota, vited to speak at several Professor of Law conferences dealing with April 2013 Slottee was coeditor of the Oregon State Bar CLE the statute, including the “Breathing Air With Heft: Coal, Cars, and the Stag- Consumer Law in Oregon, which was published in University of Florida’s gering Problem of Air Pollution in China” at Legal and February. He drafted training materials on the Fair public interest environ- Policy Pathways for Energy Innovation, University of Debt Collection Practices Act and in February made mental law conference Minnesota, April 2013 and the Wildlife Society’s a presentation at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Western Section annual meeting. He gave a presen- “Wifi Without Potable Water: Environmental Regula- Oregon to volunteer lawyers of the Oregon State Bar tation on environmental law to the environmental tion and Public Health in Urban China” at the 10th Debtor Creditor Section Pro Bono Bankruptcy Clinic. compliance staff of PG&E. Annual Western Regional International Health Confer- He was also on a three-member panel discussing ence: Global Health in Changing Environments, ethical issues in representing low-income debtors Published Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, in Chapter 7 bankruptcies, as well as the editorial “Integrating Law, Policy, and Science in Managing April 2013 board for the forthcoming Professional Liability Fund and Restoring Ecosystems,” in The Laws of Nature: Publication “Oregon Statutory Time Limitations.” Published Reflections on the Evolution of Ecosystem Manage- He served as the program planner for an Oregon “When Socrates Meets Confucius: Teaching ment Law and Policy, (Kalyani Robbins, ed.), Law Institute full-day CLE, held on June 21, involving Creative and Critical Thinking Across Cultures University of Akron Press (2013) a joint presentation by the Federal Trade Commission Through Multilevel Socratic Method,” Nebraska ______and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming, 2013) Erin Ryan ______Associate Professor of Law “Why Equal Protection Trumps Federalism in the Janet Steverson Same-Sex Marriage Cases,” Huffington Post, April Ryan presented her book Douglas K. Newell Professor of Teaching Excellence 17, 2013, available at www.huffingtonpost.com/ Federalism and the Tug Steverson was honored erin-ryan/gay-marriage-states-rights_b_3100985. html of War Within (Oxford, with the Leo Levenson 2012) to audiences in the “Why Equal Protection Trumps Federalism in the Award for Excellence in United States and India. Same-Sex Marriage Cases: A Federalism Scholar’s Teaching by the Class By request of the Ameri- Take on Why Federalism Isn’t the Issue,” American of 2013. The award was can Constitution Society, Constitution Society Blog, March 29, 2013; The presented during the she prepared an issue Oregonian, April 8, 2013, available at www.acslaw. commencement cere- brief analyzing the im- org/acsblog/why-equal-protection-trumps-federalism- mony on May 25. She pacts on environmental in-the-same-sex-marriage-cases and oregonlive.com/ has also been admitted law on the new spending opinion/index.ssf/2013/04/ why_equal_protection to the Oregon State Bar power limits that the Supreme Court set forth in last _trumps_fe.html as a law teacher/pro summer’s health care decision. In May and June, Other Media bono member. Ryan traveled to India to present at an international Radio interview on May 31, 2013, for Radio Dwarka, ______water law conference cosponsored by Lewis & Clark New Delhi, India, about water issues in India and the Juliet Stumpf and the National Law University at Delhi and to lec- International Conference on Realizing the Goal of Professor of Law ture about U.S. constitutional law at the National Water for Life at the National Law University at Delhi Law School of India University in Bangalore. She Stumpf spoke at the completed a series of essays about Chinese environ- Radio interview with Lacey Evans on March 27, Duke School of Law in mental issues in China Environmental Experiences, 2013, for KXL News Radio, Portland, about the fed- January and Yale Law a nine-part series on the Environmental Law Profs eralism and same-sex marriage issues in the Defense School in February. She Blog. She also published several short essays and of Marriage Act and California Prop. 8 cases then then traveled to Holland op-eds about the federalism implications of the before the Supreme Court to teach a five-week course on crimmigration same-sex marriage cases then pending before the Live interview with anchor Stephanie Stricklen on law in a new master’s Supreme Court and was interviewed about them March 26, 2013, for KGW Television News, “Live at program in criminal jus- on various local and national radio programs. 7,” about the same-sex marriage and federalism is- tice at the Institute of sues appearing before the Supreme Court that week Presented Criminal Law and Crimi- “Overview of the U.S. Legal System” and “American Live interview on March 25, 2013, for the Lars nology at the University of Leiden. While there, she Federalism and the Tug of War Within” at the Larson National Radio Show about the federalism met with scholars from Belgium, England, and the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, and same-sex marriage issues in the Defense of Netherlands as part of her ongoing efforts to expand India, June 5, 2013 Marriage Act and California Prop. 8 cases then a network of transnational interdisciplinary scholars appearing before the Supreme Court 32 Faculty and Staff News

studying the causes and consequences of crimmi- Association Annual Meeting, and the 2013 South- She has been asked by the OSB president to chair gration. In May, she spoke on four panels at the Law eastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) a task force regarding legal technicians. In June, and Society Association’s annual conference, chair- Annual Conference she presented an OSB CLE on economic status as ing a panel on the borders of crimmigration, offering a barrier to accessing legal services. She is on the A workshop for new law school teachers on compar- comments on the book Social Control and Justice: planning committee for the Northwest Clinical Law ative constitutional law organized by the Association Crimmigration in the Age of Fear, presenting her Conference being held in Leavenworth, Washington, of American Law Schools (AALS), June 2013, and chapter in The Constitution and the Future of Crimi- in September. at a conference in Istanbul, Turkey, October 2013 nal Justice in America (edited by John Parry and ______Song Richardson), and presenting her draft article Published Tung Yin on procedural justice and immigration law. In June, “Temporary Constitutions,” 102 California Law Professor of Law she spoke on the scholarship panel at the Emerging Review ___ (forthcoming 2014) During the spring semes- Immigration Law Scholars Conference. She has “The Turkish ‘Model’ of Civil-Military Relations,” 11 ter, Yin spoke as part of accepted invitations to speak in the fall at the Univer- International Journal of Constitutional Law ___ the Wrongful Convictions: sity of Minnesota and Queens University in Kingston, (forthcoming 2013) What Went Wrong? panel Canada. She also completed work on a chapter, ______sponsored by the Oregon “The Process Is the Punishment in Crimmigration Chris Wold ’90 Justice Resource Center, Law,” in the forthcoming book The Borders of Pun- Director, International Environmental Law Project focusing on the role of ishment: Criminal Justice, Citizenship, and Social Professor of Law prosecutorial misconduct Exclusion, in connection with a conference at Oxford or intransigence in exac- University last year. She continues to work on her Wold provided legal erbating the problems of chapter “Preemption as Proportionality in State and and technical advice to wrongful convictions of Local Crimmigration Law” for John Parry and Song Pacific Island Developing innocent defendants. He also appeared at the Port- Richardson’s forthcoming book The Constitution and States at the climate land Japanese American Citizens League’s annual the Future of Criminal Justice in America. She has change negotiations in Day of Remembrance, which serves as a reminder also agreed to write a chapter on crimmigration for Doha, Qatar, in Decem- of the internment of Japanese Americans during The Handbook on Crime and Migration. ber 2012. He traveled World War II. Yin noted some disturbing parallels ______with seven students to between the lack of transparency and due process Bernard Vail Bangkok, Thailand, in involved in the internments and today’s targeted Professor of Law March 2013 for negotia- killings of suspected terrorists. tions relating to interna- Vail chaired a workgroup of the Oregon Law tional wildlife trade. While there, he provided advice Presented Commission that prepared legislation based on to governments and nongovernmental organizations “Targeted Killings, Drones, and Civil Rights” at the the Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts for on a range of implementation and enforcement is- Multnomah Athletic Club, April 2013 submission to the 2013 Oregon legislature. sues that affect endangered species such as sharks, ______“Undercover Sting Operations and Domestic elephants, and rhinos. Ozan O. Varol Terrorism (a.k.a. Entrapment and the Mohamed Assistant Professor of Law Published Mohamud Case)” at University of Oregon Law “Leveraging Climate Change Benefits Through the School (Federalist Society chapter), March 2013 Varol’s article “The Demo- World Trade Organization: Are Fossil Fuel Subsidies cratic Coup d’État,” 53 “Entrapment’s Failure: Attempting to Regulate Under- Actionable?” 43 Georgetown Journal of International Harvard International cover Sting Operations Aimed at Stopping Domestic Law 635 (2012) Law Journal 291 (2012), Terrorism” at Lewis & Clark Law School, March 2013 was recently identified “Climate Change, Presidential Power, and Leader- Published by Mark Tushnet (Harvard ship: We Can’t Wait” 45 Case Western Reserve “Were Timothy McVeigh and the Unabomber the Law School) as “one of Journal of International Law 303 (2012) Only White Terrorists? Race, Religion, and the the best works of recent ______Perception of Terrorism,” 4 Alabama Civil Rights scholarship relating to Theresa (Terry) Wright & Civil Liberties Law Review (forthcoming 2013) constitutional law” in Clinical Professor of Law a review published in Other Media Wright has been Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots). Commentary for various local and national television, appointed to the Oregon During the 2013-14 academic year, Varol will chair radio, and print news stories on topics including the State Bar’s (OSB) the Linkages and Engagements Advisory Group Mohamed Mohamud trial and conviction, the contro- Judicial Administration of the Younger Comparativists Committee of the versy over the Parrish Bennett defense team’s deci- Committee, to fill the American Society of Comparative Law. He was sion not to disclose immediately the location of the unexpired term of a also invited to serve as an advisory board member victim’s body, Reaz Khan’s arrest and indictment for resigning member. She to the Justice Academy of Turkey. providing material support to a terrorist act, the finished her final year Boston Marathon bombing, IRS official Lois Lerner’s Presented on the Multnomah Bar invocation of her right against self-incrimination, “Temporary Constitutions” at Columbia Law School, Association’s Court and other local criminal cases Gonzaga Law School, Lewis & Clark Law School, Liaison Committee. Whittier Law School, the 2013 Law and Society

Fall 2013 ADVOCATE 33 Calendar of Events The Alumni Board Letter From the President Dates are subject to change. Please check law.lclark.edu for more information on these events and others still to be announced. Dear Alumni, I embark on my term as president September 2013 of the Alumni Board with gratitude. 26 Bend, Oregon, CLE and Alumni Reception I am grateful for the support I have 26-27 Student ACLU Conference received from the Lewis & Clark com- October 2013 munity. So much of where I am and 4 Business Law Fall Forum who I am is because of faculty, stu- 4 Animal Law Symposium dents, and alumni. 8 Boise, Idaho, Alumni Reception My volunteerism, which started 14-18 Higgins Visitor: Alan Morrison in college, was nurtured in law school 21 Anthony Kennedy Lecture and continues to grow through oppor- by J. Michael McConnell tunities presented to me by alumni, students, and faculty. My first—and November 2013 second and third—legal jobs can be 4 New York City Alumni Reception traced directly back to a professor, a 5 Washington, D.C., Alumni Reception staff member, or an alum. Even my January 2014 grade in Constitutional Law can be 7 Sacramento Alumni Reception attributed in large part to the generos- 8 San Francisco Alumni Reception ity of a fellow student who spent an 9 Los Angeles Alumni Reception entire evening going over an outline with me. I hear that doesn’t happen April 2014 at other schools. 4-5 Younger Comparativists Conference Today I write to you to ask that you give back to the community that I hope has May 2014 given as much to you as it has to me. And today I highlight one individual among 24 Commencement thousands of others: Professor Ed Brunet. In recognition of his 40th anniversary on the faculty, we are working to establish an endowed professorship in his name. An endowed professorship lasts in perpetuity, and is one of the highest academic awards that an institution can bestow on a faculty member. It will also be instrumental in efforts to recruit and retain outstanding faculty who will follow Ed’s example of teaching and scholarly excellence. The endowment will provide funds for salary and research, so both the school and the faculty member holding the position benefit. To me, community and family are very similar. When we feel we are a part of a community, we want to help fellow members. Think of how some member of the Lewis & Clark faculty has helped you. In recognition of that help, and of our community, consider making a donation to the law school. It’s easy to do. Simply contact Melanie Allen, assistant dean of development, at 503-768-6901 or [email protected], or visit law.lclark.edu/giving. Thank you for your support.

Sincerely, Adina Flynn ’96

34 Class Notes Includes news received from November 20, 2012, through May 30, 2013.

1950s Richard Bach ’66 in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, Bar Foundation. Brown is a partner published Common D.C. He serves as an adjunct fellow with Cosgrave Vergeer Kester, where Donald Bowerman Ground, the second for the Discovery Institute’s technology his practice focuses on civil appeals in ’59 was named in book in his Common and democracy project, and has a state and federal courts, insurance The Best Lawyers in Denominator series background that includes 25 years of coverage opinions and litigation, and America in the prac- of romantic thrillers. service with Verizon Corporation, where professional liability defense. tice areas of com- The book is available he served for more than a decade as mercial litigation, Scott Downing ’80 was elected for Kindles, Nooks, and other its vice president of federal govern- medical malpractice to the board of the Multnomah Bar e-readers at www.richarddavidbach. ment relations. A native Oregonian, defense, and personal injury litigation. Foundation. Downing practices in the com and e-book outlets. The first title Dillow served as assistant public utility areas of family law, wills, estates, Warren Braucher ’59 was honored in the series, Common Enemy, is also commissioner for the State of Oregon probate, and real property. by the Colorado Bar Association for available. during the administrations of Gover- his 50 years of outstanding service to nors Tom McCall, Bob Straub, and Paul Elsner ’80 the legal community. During his career 1970s Vic Atiyeh. He is also a former news was named in The he was commerce counsel in the law Chris Helmer ’74, reporter for The Oregonian. Best Lawyers in department of the Denver and Rio America for the a partner with Miller Stephen Sady ’77 Grande Western Railroad, as well as fifth year in a row. Nash, was profiled in was the chief assistant attorney general for Col- Elsner is an attorney the January issue of defense attorney orado and counsel to the Colorado with Beery Elsner the Oregon State for the high-profile Public Utilities Commission. In his pri- & Hammond, and has 30 years of Bar Bulletin. Portland trial of the vate law practice, Braucher special- experience as a local government Somali American ac- ized in transportation law, representing attorney both as in-house counsel cused of trying to ig- carrier and shipper interests before John Powers ’74 was honored as and as outside advisor. nite a weapon of mass destruction at state and federal agencies and federal a Top 100 Criminal Defense Lawyer the city’s 2010 holiday tree-lighting David Schachterle ’80 retired after court. He was appointed by the U.S. by the National Trial Lawyers. Powers ceremony. Sady is the longest serving more than 32 years as an associate Bankruptcy Court to the position of has been a criminal defense lawyer employee in the Oregon Federal regional counsel for the U.S. Environ- trustee in the liquidation of a major in Portland for more than 30 years. Public Defender’s Office. mental Protection Agency in the Denver-based motor carrier before Bruce Beal ’75 wrote and published Denver regional office. retiring in 2000. a techno-thriller, Proteus, about a The Honorable Lane Simpson genetically modified oil-eating organ- ’77 officially retired from his position C. Thomas Davis ’81 wrote and 1960s ism that goes awry. The novel is avail- as Lake County circuit court judge, published a white paper on debt able at www.amazon.com/Proteus- but will likely continue to serve as a collection law in Oregon. His practice Correction: Our sincere apologies Mr-Bruce-Leonard-Beal/dp/ senior circuit court pro tem until Gov- includes local, state, and national to Mr. Albert Menashe, a shareholder 1479385557. ernor John Kitzhaber fills the vacancy. clients, and he appears in all courts in Gervurtz Menashe Larson & Howe. Simpson took office July 1, 1990, throughout the state. Davis’ profes- In our spring 2013 issue of The Emil Berg ’75 presented a CLE pro- after 13 years in private practice. sional involvement includes serving Advocate, we mistakenly listed him gram, Differences Between Idaho and He grew up in Lakeview, Oregon, as president of the Washington as an alumnus of Lewis & Clark Law Oregon State Court Practices and and graduated from Lakeview High County Bar Association, pro tem School and indicated he had retired. Procedures, in Boise, Idaho. Berg School in 1969. circuit and municipal judge, court- We should have said that Albert L. practices in Oregon and Idaho. appointed arbitrator, and hearing Menashe ’65 retired, but again, The Honorable Steven Maurer 1980s officer for the State of Oregon. He Albert A. Menashe of Gevurtz ’75 returned to private practice, re- Pamela Beery ’80 has worked in the debt collection Menashe is actively practicing law joining his former law firm—now was named in The industry for over 30 years. Davis’ at his firm. We regret the error and Glazer, Maurer & Peterson—in Lake Best Lawyers in white paper is available at www.na- any confusion it caused. Oswego, Oregon. Maurer served as America for the fifth tionallist.com/white_papers/oregon. presiding judge of the Clackamas year in a row. Beery Nancy Garry Kahn ’62 County Circuit Court from 2006 is an attorney with Hungerford ’81 and Steven Kahn through 2010. His practice empha- Beery Elsner & was elected to a ’88 moved their sizes personal injury, family law, crimi- Hammond, and she specializes in two-year term as a firm, Kahn & Kahn, nal defense, and general civil litigation. land use and telecommunications law. board member of to the Loyalty Build- Frank Dillow ’77 Thomas Brown the national Council ing at 317 S.W. was appointed to ’80 was honored by of School Attorneys Alder Street in Port- serve as chair of the the Multnomah Bar (COSA), an organization affiliated with land. Garry Kahn recently celebrated Realtor Commercial Association with the the National School Boards Associa- 50 years as an Oregon lawyer. Alliance of the 2013 MBA Profes- tion. COSA focuses on education for Northern Virginia sionalism Award. its members and advocacy on legal Association of He also was elected issues for school districts on the Realtors for 2013. Dillow is licensed secretary/treasurer of the Multnomah national level. Hungerford practices

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as the senior partner of The Hunger- Steven Hedberg a current member and past secretary Lilian Bier ’86 of Bier Family Law ford Law Firm, which represents more ’84 joined Aequitas of the Southwest Washington Estate moved her practice to 8705 S.W. than 100 Oregon school districts and Capital in Portland Planning Council, she has served as Nimbus Avenue in Beaverton, Oregon. community colleges in the area of ed- as chief operating general counsel for the Port of Van- Bradford Lamb ’86 opened a new ucation and labor law. officer. couver since 1998. In 2010, Lowe firm, Hill & Lamb, in Portland. Lamb’s was appointed chair of the Washing- Mark LeCoq ’82 is the commercial practice focuses on litigation and ton Public Port’s legal committee, litigation group leader at Schwabe, appellate work in state and federal becoming the first person from out- Williamson & Wyatt. Heather Hippsley ’84 was ap- courts with an emphasis on complex side the Port system to be named to pointed chief of staff of the Federal litigation, including insurance cover- Norman Dick ’83 joined ADR that post. Lowe currently serves as Trade Commission in Washington, age disputes, construction defect, Support Services Panel News. He the first female chair of Identity Clark D.C. Previously, Hippsley was assis- environmental, business, and defense is a shareholder in the law firm of County, is an emeritus board member tant director in the Federal Trade of professionals. Walstead Mertschin in Longview, and past member of the executive Commission Division of Enforcement. Washington, where he maintains an committee of the Columbia River Eco- Terry Weiner ’86 traded his galoshes active general civil litigation practice. Dan Lindahl ’84 nomic Development Council, and was and umbrella for cowboy boots and His work involves representing both and John Kaempf a president of the Camas-Washougal sunglasses by moving to central plaintiffs and defendants concerning ’92 formed Lindahl Chamber board of directors. She also Washington after accepting a position insurance defense, personal injury, Kaempf in Portland. serves on the Humane Society for as the city attorney of Ellensburg. wrongful death, insurance coverage, The firm focuses on Southwest Washington’s board of Gordon Welborn real property, and commercial matters. defending civil litiga- directors, as chair of its planned giv- ’86 was inducted tion in Oregon and ing committee, and as cochair of its Jeffrey Keeney ’83 was named in into the American Washington state and federal courts, annual auction committee. She was the 2013 edition of Chambers USA, College of Trial at both the trial and appellate levels. president of the Clark County Bar American’s Leading Lawyers for Busi- Lawyers. Welborn Association for 2001. Lowe has been ness. Keeney is a shareholder with Dave Tilton ’84 was elected presi- is a partner with highly involved in Leadership Clark Tonkon Torp in Portland, and his real dent of the Coos County Bar Associa- Hart Wagner in County (LCC). A 2003 graduate of the estate practice includes acquisitions tion for 2013-14. He continues to Redmond, Oregon. program, she has served as a board and sales, financing, commercial leas- serve on the Coos-Curry Housing member and been a mentor to LCC Barbara Craig ’87 ing, and land use permitting. He rep- Authority, with which he has once project teams working to address was named the resents local, regional, and national again assumed the position of chair. community issues. 2012 Distinguished property owners and developers in a Jeff Eden ’85 is Environmental Law wide range of transactional matters Richard O’Brien ’85 was appointed the product litigation Graduate by and assists clients in land use pro- president and CEO of Boart Longyear group leader at Lewis & Clark Law ceedings before local governments. Limited. Most recently the president Schwabe, School. Craig is a and CEO of NYSE-listed Newmont Max Miller Jr. ’83 was named in Williamson & Wyatt. partner with Stoel Rives in Portland. Mining Corporation, one of the world’s the 2013 edition of Chambers USA, largest gold producers, O’Brien brings Carla Kelley ’87 American’s Leading Lawyers for 25 years of operational and financial rejoined Miller Nash Business. Miller is a shareholder Mary Lou Haas ’85 is the 2013 experience in the natural resources, after serving as gen- with Tonkon Torp in Portland, and he recipient of the Multnomah Bar Asso- energy, and power sectors to his eral counsel to the chairs the firm’s environmental and ciation Pro Bono Award of Merit for new role. Port of Portland for natural resources practice group. her service to the Oregon State Bar 10 years and as Cecily Smith ’85 Turid Owren ’83 Debtor Creditor Section Legal Aid assistant general is the executive was named in the Bankruptcy Clinic. Haas started counsel at NW Natural for 13 years. director of the 2013 edition of volunteering with the bankruptcy Kelley is part of the firm’s business Foothill Conser- Chambers USA, clinic in 1997. practice, where she works with clients vancy in Pine Grove, American’s Leading on government and regulatory issues. Alicia “Lisa” California. Smith Lawyers for Busi- Lowe ’85 is a has more than 10 Steven Kahn ’88 ness. Owren is a recipient of the 2013 years of experience working for envi- and Garry Kahn shareholder with Tonkon Torp in Port- Iris Award, honoring ronmental nonprofit organizations. ’62 moved their land, and heads the firm’s immigration women of achieve- Before joining the Foothill Conser- firm, Kahn & Kahn, practice group, advising clients on ment in Southwest vancy, she was the water resources to the Loyalty Build- employment-related immigration and Washington. Lowe specialist for Prairie Rivers Network, ing at 317 S.W. naturalization. is a member of the board of directors which is Illinois’ only statewide river Alder Street in Port- and partner in charge in the Vancouver protection and conservation nonprofit. land. Steven Kahn recently celebrated office of regional law firm Schwabe, 25 years as an Oregon lawyer. Williamson & Wyatt. A member of the Washington State Bar Association and

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Miriam Feder ’80 Although the people in rural Cambodia A life of exploration and learning depend on agriculture and natural resource extraction, many do not have title to the land By Jordan Schoonover ’14 on which they have lived for generations. Formal land titling is relatively new, and “I was running away from theatre,” says corruption and controversy are common. Miriam Feder of why she decided to attend The government will sometimes give land law school. “I didn’t know how to get started concessions to outside entities. “There is no with it and feared life as a waitress.” The process exercised for these concessions, little University of Minnesota theatre arts and if any compensation for the displaced vil- humanities graduate chose Lewis & Clark lagers, and no limitations or conditions because of Portland’s lack of snow and her enforced on the grant of land,” says Feder. curiosity about former professor Leonard “Often these concession-holders simply DeBoff’s publications on art law. cut the forest and run.” “I was a huge fan of ‘Fast Eddie’ Brunet Feder helped revise grant applications and Barb Safreit, and I could follow Don seeking funding for KYSD programs address- Large’s tangents through a lecture,” she says. ing these problems, as well as efforts to miti- Feder enjoyed the intellectual challenges, the gate the effects of climate change on the friendly and supportive environment, and local rice-based agriculture and to secure the fact that she could always find refuge just human rights protections. “These issues— a few feet away in Tryon Creek State Park. along with gender equity, youth empower- She started her 14-year career practicing ment, and development of civil society— law as an attorney advisor for an administra- When her passion for theatre returned, are tightly interwoven,” Feder says. “Improve- tive law judge with the Commodity Futures she wrote and directed two musicals for stu- ment on any one front can mean progress on Trading Commission in Washington, D.C. dent production—In Portland and Even to the others.” After returning to Oregon, she worked in the Western Ocean. A writing project resulted Feder invites law students and others private practice, the state attorney general’s in her producing three one-woman shows. who might be interested in getting involved office, and the general counsel’s office at In 2010, she wrote, produced, and acted in with KYSD or similar types of work in Cam- Tektronix, where she became an environ- the musical The Only Way Out Is Through. bodia to get in touch. She says that there is mental lawyer. She took that practice to Most recently, she wrote and produced a play a real need for volunteers with a combination Garvey Schubert & Barer. based on her mother’s life, called Ephemory. of analytical skills and strong writing ability Currently, she is the producer for PDX Although she no longer practices, in English. Playwrights. “You learn so much about your own Feder says “law never leaves your In the spring of 2013, Feder launched background by traveling and getting to know brain.” yet another adventure by traveling to Cam- another culture,” says Feder. “I had to remind bodia to volunteer with Khmer Youth and my Cambodian colleagues that democracy Since leaving legal practice, Feder has Social Development (KYSD), a small grass- doesn’t mean we can stop worrying about served on several nonprofit boards and started roots organization. KYSD works in Phnom issues like protection of natural resources a number of small businesses, including a Penh and three rural provinces helping vil- or human rights. In the U.S. we still have college test preparation business. She credits lagers protect their land rights and natural to work vigilantly for those concerns, but we her law school experience with teaching her resources, while simultaneously creating and have open processes by which to do so and about test taking and says she developed the supporting opportunities for young people freedom of expression. Stepping outside our basic theories behind Portland Test Prep to engage with their community and have a own legal system is an excellent way to see while preparing for the LSAT. voice in current issues. “This is very necessary what it actually does for us.” in a country where maybe as much as 70 per- cent of the population is under 30 and there is no history of community involvement or political participation,” Feder says.

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The Honorable John Kaempf ’92 Ying Chen ’95 Benjamin Lenhart Michael McShane and Dan Lindahl was named the 2013 ’96 was named in ’88 (See “Changing ’84 formed Lindahl Distinguished Busi- the 2013 edition of Lives for the Better” Kaempf in Portland. ness Law Graduate Chambers USA, in this issue.) The firm focuses on by Lewis & Clark. America’s Leading defending civil litiga- Chen is a patent Lawyers for Busi- tion in Oregon and attorney and ness. Lenhart is Washington state and federal courts cofounder of Chen Yoshimura, L.L.P., a shareholder with Lane Powell in LeAnne Bremer at both the trial and appellate levels. in Los Angeles, California. Portland. ’89 was appointed secretary of the Barry Needleman Greg Scholl ’95 recently performed Joe Cooke ’97 and his musical board of directors ’92 is now admitted at the Lincoln City Cultural Center in group Bizarre Love Triangle were for the Humane to practice in the Lincoln City, Oregon, with the Pacific featured in the third episode of AMC’s Society for South- States of Maine, Trombone Quartet. Scholl plays prin- new competition series, Showville, west Washington. Massachusetts, cipal trombone in the Portland Colum- which aired June 6. Following audi- She also received the Spirit of Clark and New Hamp- bia Symphony, the Vancouver tions at the Power House Theater in County Award for her contributions shire; the U.S. Dis- Symphony, and the Newport Sym- Walla Walla, Washington, the act was to improving county operations by trict Court, District of New Hampshire; phony orchestras. He also plays in the selected to compete to be named streamlining the permitting process. and the First Circuit Court of Appeals. Portland Brass Quintet and with the town favorite. Bremer is the partner in charge of Needleman is an attorney with Michael Vlatkovich Trio. Scholl is the Glenn Perlow ’97 was appointed Miller Nash’s Vancouver, Washington, McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton. director of Metro Public Defender in New Hampshire Bank Commissioner. office, where her practice focuses on Hillsboro, Oregon. Barbara Smythe ’92 opened her Prior to joining the Banking Depart- land use law, real estate, and govern- own law practice, Barbara Smythe, David Voluck ’95 ment, he served for five years as a ment affairs. L.L.C., in Lake Oswego, Oregon. She released Alaska senior assistant attorney general at 1990s focuses on helping Oregonians plan Natives and Ameri- the New Hampshire Department of for their futures and protect their loved can Laws, Third Edi- Justice. Helen Hierschbiel ones, including spouses or partners, tion, a treatise June Wiyrick Flores ’97 was unan- ’91 was elected children, aging parents, friends, and coauthored with imously voted secretary for the Port- treasurer of the valued charities. David Case. Voluck land Estate Planning Council Board. Multnomah Bar sits as chief judge to the Sitka Tribe of Roger Alfred ’93 Association Board Alaska, magistrate/judge to the Cen- Dominic Auld ’98 was elected joined the Office of for the 2013-14 tral Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian partner of Labaton Sucharow in Metro Attorney as term. Tribes of Alaska, and judge pro tem New York, New York. Auld, an accom- a senior assistant for the Aleut Community of St. Paul Is- plished litigator with 15 years of Robert J. Miller attorney for the land Tribal Government. He is also an experience prosecuting large-scale ’91 took a teaching Metro Regional adjunct professor with Lewis & Clark’s securities and investment lawsuits, position with the Government. He will summer Indian Law Program. is a leader in the firm’s securities and Sandra Day continue to practice in the areas of client and case evaluation groups. O’Connor College land use and transportation planning, David Aman ’96 was named in the He also directs the firm’s recently of Law at Arizona with responsibility for issues related 2013 edition of Chambers USA, expanded international litigation State University in to the urban growth boundary and American’s Leading Lawyers for Busi- practice group. Phoenix. He joined ASU’s Indian legal other regional planning projects. ness. Aman is a shareholder with program and will concentrate Tonkon Torp in Portland, and main- Christopher Mitchell Milby ’94 moved his law on American Indian economic tains a business litigation and intellec- Neumann ’98 is practice, Milby Attorneys & Counselors, development issues. Previously, Miller tual property practice. the recipient of the to 1909 Woodall Rogers, Suite 500, taught for 14 years as a member of International Erosion Dallas, Texas 75201. He focuses on Adina Flynn ’96 the Lewis & Clark Law School faculty. Control Association business law, including entity forma- was named a 2012 (IECA) Environmental Dorothy Cofield tion, business negotiations and con- Five Star Wealth Connection 2013 ’92 moved the tract drafting, and trial work arising Manager in Portland Presenter of the Year Award for his Cofield Law Office to out of business disputes. Monthly. Flynn is a course Stormwater Enforcement and 8705 S.W. Nimbus financial advisor Peter Ayers ’95 opened the Law Risk Mitigation Trends. The winner is Avenue, Suite 380, with Ameriprise Office of Peter J. Ayers in Austin, determined through the review of pre- in Portland. She will Financial Services and president of Texas. He is frequently called on as an senter evaluations. Neumann is share- continue to focus the Lewis & Clark Law School Alumni independent legal expert in intellectual holder at Greenberg Traurig in Denver, her practice on all aspects of land Board of Directors. use law, including rural and urban property matters, especially patent Colorado, and counsels clients in the development permits. infringement suits in the electrical and retail, natural gas, petroleum, con- computer areas. struction, home building, solid and

38 Class Notes hazardous waste, and mining indus- 2000s Linda Ratcliffe annual event designed to help stu- tries on a wide variety of litigation, ’00 joined the dents finance legal public interest Nicholas Dazer ’00 has been prac- environmental, natural resources, Bend, Oregon, firm work at no cost to their employers. ticing as Nicholas Dazer P.C. since American Indian law, administrative, of Hurley Re as an June 1, 2013. An experienced trial Jennifer Bridges ’01 opened a land use, and insurance coverage associate. Her prac- attorney, he represents both plaintiffs practice, Paraclete Law, in Medford, matters. tice focuses on and defendants in cases involving Oregon. She specializes in estate issues facing sen- Timothy Resch complex business disputes, insurance planning, real estate and homeowners iors, people with disabilities, and ’98 is managing coverage, and catastrophic personal associations, business formation and caregivers. partner at Samuels injury. Dazer is also an elected mem- agreements, and intellectual property. Yoelin Kantor in Trung Tu ’00 was ber of the Oregon State Bar House Anne Kunkel ’01 Portland. Resch’s inducted as the of Delegates. was elected presi- practice emphasizes National Asian Román dent of CREW employment and Pacific American Bar Hernández ’00 is Idaho, a business business litigation. Association North- the 2013 recipient of networking organi- west Regional Joshua Alpert ’99 joined the staff the Oregon Hispanic zation dedicated to Governor at the of Portland’s mayor, Charlie Hales, as Bar Association’s supporting women association’s national convention in a policy director. Alpert most recently Paul J. De Muniz in commercial real estate. She is a Washington, D.C. In June, Tu received was the Northwest conservation Professionalism founding member and also serves on the Community Leadership Award strategies director with the Trust for Award. He was also appointed to a the organization’s board of directors. from the Oregon Area Jewish Com- Public Land, where he led success- three-year term on the board of direc- Kunkel is a partner with the Boise law mittee. He is a partner with McEwen ful ballot initiatives to protect lands tors of the Portland Branch of the firm of Givens Pursley, and her prac- Gisvold, where he specializes in busi- in several western states, including Federal Reserve Bank of San Fran- tice focuses on complex real estate, ness litigation, legal malpractice Oregon. cisco. Hernández is a shareholder business, and asset transactions. She defense, and employment law. also helps clients obtain, transfer, and Joshua Husbands with Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, where he focuses his practice in the Ian Wallace ’00 maintain liquor licenses and related- ’99 was named by areas of employment law, labor law, opened a law firm, use licenses throughout Idaho. the Portland Busi- and business litigation. He provides Wallace & Hull, in ness Journal as one Caroline Lobdell general employment and labor advice Portland. He spe- of its 40 Under Forty ’01 is the recipient related to employment policies and cializes in bank- Executives for 2013. of the 2012 Service practices to employers of all sizes, ruptcy, consumer Husbands is a part- to Agriculture Award and represents firm clients in state and creditor rights, ner with Holland & Knight in Portland, by Oregon Women and federal courts in Oregon and and civil litigation, particularly personal where he is a member of the private for Agriculture. She Washington. injury, product defect, and premises wealth services section and repre- was also recently liability claims. sents clients in an array of business, Leslie McAdam awarded the Oregon Cattlemen’s tax, business succession, and estate ’00 was named Jeremy Aliason ’01 was selected Association Top Industry Promoter planning matters, including business partner at Ferguson as the first president of the newly Award. Appointed to the Oregon State reorganizations, acquisitions, and di- Case Orr Paterson established Seminole Nation Bar Bar Agricultural Law Section Execu- vestitures. in Ventura, Califor- Association. Aliason is a member of tive Committee and the Oregon State the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. Bar Administrative Law Section Exec- Laura Maffei ’99 nia. McAdam is a civil litigator with He grew up in Oklahoma City and is utive Committee, Lobdell serves as was elected 2013 significant experience in labor and a member of the Nurcup Harjo band. the executive director of the Western chair of the Environ- employment, business, real estate, Aliason serves on the board of direc- Resources Legal Center, a nonprofit mental and Natural and probate litigation. She frequently tors for College Horizons, a program legal education program affiliated Resources Section works on commercial unlawful detain- dedicated to helping Native Ameri- with Lewis & Clark. She joined the of the Oregon State ers and discrimination matters. cans go to college and graduate Lewis & Clark Law School Board of Bar. Maffei, a share- school. Visitors in 2013. holder with Schwabe, Williamson & Kevin Minoli ’00 Wyatt, focuses her practice on envi- joined the Environ- David Bean ’01 Justin Sawyer ’01 ronmental and natural resource law. mental Protection served as an advi- was named by the She has extensive experience with Agency ‘s Office of sory committee Portland Business Clean Water Act permitting and litiga- General Counsel to member for the Journal as one of tion, environmental cleanup projects, serve as the acting 2013 Public Interest its 40 Under Forty and environmental due diligence in principal deputy Law Project (PILP) Executives for 2013. Oregon and Washington. Maffei is general counsel. Principal deputy is the Auction, which took Sawyer is a partner also a member of the board of the senior-most career attorney position at place in February. The auction is an in the litigation department at Miller Oregon Association of Clean Water the EPA, and is essentially the equiva- Nash in Portland. Agencies, as well as chair of its lent of managing partner at a law firm. legal committee.

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Shari Lane ’02 Paige Davis ’03 Whitney Yazzolino ’04 and Julie Catherine Turner ’05 received joined Harang Long was named a 2013 Lohuis of Yazzolino, Lohuis & Edgel Minnesota Bar Association Criminal Garry Rudnick’s Washington Rising are corecipients of the 2013 Senior Law Specialist certification, complet- labor and employ- Star by Super Law Project Volunteer of the Year ing a rigorous approval process that ment practice as Lawyers magazine. Award. In addition to staffing the included an examination in her spe- of counsel. Lane’s Davis is a share- Hollywood clinic on a monthly basis, cialty area, peer review, and docu- practice focuses holder with Lane each attorney takes direct referrals mented experience. Turner is a on advising employers in personnel Powell in Seattle. She concentrates from homebound clients who are criminal defense lawyer practicing in issues and labor negotiations and on her practice on cross-border tax and unable to make it to the SLP clinic. the Twin Cities metro area. representing employers facing admin- business planning for U.S. and foreign Yazzolino started volunteering with Chad Colton ’06 istrative agency claims and audits. entities, working with clients to create the SLP in 2009, and has helped was elected share- international investment structures more than 66 clients. Christine Moore holder at Markowitz that are efficient from tax and legal ’02 joined the Justin Cabrera Herbold Glade & perspectives. Portland firm of ’05 was appointed Mehlhaf. His prac- Landye Bennett Trinh Tran ’03 graduated from the as associate general tice focuses on Blumstein as an inaugural Asian Pacific Islander (API) counsel for PECI, a complex business associate attorney. Community Leadership Institute, an nonprofit energy- cases such as shareholder and part- She focuses on innovative yearlong program in Ore- efficiency consulting nership disputes, claims involving state and federal civil litigation and gon for developing leadership skills firm in Portland. corporate fraud and fiduciary obliga- employment law. Moore is admitted to with a focus on equity, empowerment, Cabrera previously was an associate tions, bet-the-company litigation, practice in Oregon, Nevada, the U.S and public advocacy. general counsel at Nike, and is vice and contract disputes. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, president of the Lewis & Clark Law Dan Eller ’04 is Phillip Haberthur ’06 was named and the U.S. District Court for the School Recent Graduates Council. the tax assistant shareholder of Schwabe Williamson & District of Oregon. She is a member group leader at Jennifer Durham Wyatt in their Vancouver, Washington, of the Oregon State Bar, Multnomah Schwabe, Williamson ’05 is a partner with office. He focuses in the areas of Bar Association, Oregon Women & Wyatt. He is a Hiefield Foster & creditor’s rights, including foreclo- Lawyers, Oregon Trial Lawyers Asso- shareholder with the Glascock in Port- sures, loan workouts, and modifica- ciation, National Employment Lawyers firm and vice presi- land. She devotes tions; consumer protection actions; Association, and U.S. District Court dent of the Lewis & Clark Law School her practice to bankruptcy; real estate and title litiga- of Oregon Historical Society. Alumni Board of Directors. defending personal tion; and general commercial litigation. Alfred “Bubba” Cook ’03 was injury, products liability, and construc- David Richardson ’04 started a law Jason Nixon ’06 featured in the Fiji Times Online for his tion defect matters. firm, PDX Law Group, in Portland. His was elected share- work for the World Wide Fund for Cory Jones ’05 practice will continue to focus on real holder at Durham Nature Western Central Pacific Tuna is a partner with estate litigation and transactions. Jones & Pinegar program based in the South Pacific Klarquist Sparkman in Salt Lake City, Program office in Suva. His special Geoff Tichenor in Portland. His Utah. Nixon is an focus is the sustainable management ’04 was named by practice focuses intellectual property of tuna throughout the region, the Portland Busi- on assisting in the attorney with an electrical engineering including the lucrative skipjack, ness Journal as one preparation and background. albacore, yellowfin, bigeye, and bluefin of its 40 Under Forty prosecution of patent applications tuna stocks. The core of his work with Executives for 2013. with an emphasis on the computer Jeff Woodcox ’06 the WWF involves advocating for and Tichenor, a partner and software field. was elected partner promoting sustainable management at Stoel Rives in Portland, focuses his at Tonkon Torp in Neil Olsen ’05 is a shareholder with of the tuna fisheries and requires practice on state and federal environ- Portland. Woodcox Zupancic Rathbone in Portland. His significant engagement with the mental laws applicable to air emis- is a business attor- practice focuses on real estate and Western Central Pacific Fisheries sions, water discharges, storage ney who advises business matters. Commission and its subsidiary tanks, waste management, contami- clients on acquiring bodies. The position also requires nated lands, chemical storage, and Suzanne Revelle and disposing of businesses and close contact and coordination with spills. He regularly counsels clients ’05 opened a law assets, securities compliance, and the fisheries ministries of South Pacific facing environmental enforcement practice, Suzanne raising capital through private place- countries such as Indonesia, Papua actions and presenting complex Revelle, Attorney ments of equity and debt. He is a New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, permitting and compliance questions. at Law, in Portland. Philippines, and Tokelau. She focuses on family law, child advocacy, probate and wills, and general civil practice.

40 Alumnus Profile

member of the firm’s corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions Phuntsok “Jimmy” Namgyal ’11 practice groups. Leading the Way

Shannon Flowers By David Jay Lefkowitz ’89 ’07 joined Folawn Alterman & Richard- Born and raised in Lhasa, Tibet, Phuntsok “Jimmy” Namgyal son in Portland ’11 worked for years guiding tourists through the lands and as an associate. cultures of the Himalayas. Now, half a world away, he guides Flowers’ practice immigrants seeking a better life through the maze of the focuses on civil liti- U.S. Customs and Immigration Service. gation at both the trial and appellate levels, in areas including legal mal- Namgyal’s father, manager of the Lhasa Hotel, encouraged practice, business and commercial him from an early age to go to college, study English, and disputes, and trust and estate litiga- major in tourism. “So I went to China,” says Namgyal. tion. She most recently worked for “It was my only option.” Following graduation, he returned several years as a deputy defender to work as a guide in Lhasa and in Katmandu, Nepal. in the appellate division of Oregon’s “I met many, many Americans. They always encouraged Office of Public Defense Services. me to come to the United States, but I didn’t think it would Teka Lamade ’07 received the be possible,” he says. However, the growing political unrest 2013 Solo Practitioner Pro Bono in Tibet and the long, cold off-season soon made Namgyal Award from the Alaska Bar Associa- rethink his future. tion. She was recognized for her His world opened one day when he was 24. Namgyal work through the Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault was standing with countless others in front of the U.S. Consulate in China, all of them hoping to secure assisting victims with matters includ- a U.S. visa. The t-shirt he was wearing caught the eye of a U.S. official. On it was printed the Buddhist ing protection orders, divorce, pater- mantra “Om mani padme hum.” (“Every living being will be free of suffering” is one of the mantra’s many nity, probate, and bankruptcy. meanings, according to Namgyal.) The official began a conversation with him that led to Namgyal’s Previously a staff attorney for the receipt of the golden ticket: a visa to study in the United States. Sitka Tribe of Alaska, Lamade started Namgyal’s studies brought him to Portland, where he met and married Dolkar, a Tibetan-born U.S. her own practice in Sitka in 2012. citizen. Through Dolkar he gained U.S. citizenship. He also adopted the name Jimmy, which was both Merrill Maiano ’07 joined Wyse familiar to his fellow students and reminiscent of his father’s name, Jigmy. Kadish in Portland as an associate It was when he and Dolkar were expecting their first child that Namgyal decided to study law. attorney. She continues to focus on He had a strong desire to help those who wanted to immigrate to his new country. “I remember I was estate planning and administration. so scared,” he says of the prospect of law school. “I took my LSAT study guide with me when I drove Allison Williams ’07 opened the Dolkar to the hospital.” Happily, both the birth and the test went well. Law Office of Allison Williams in As a new father, Namgyal could not afford to quit work, so he applied to Lewis &Clark’s Lake Oswego, Oregon. Her practice evening program. focuses on personal injury and crimi- nal defense. “I was quiet in law school. I knew I was among elite students and Kailei Feeney ’08 joined deVrieze I didn’t think I was good enough. But all the professors were amazing. Carney in Seattle, Washington, as an associate attorney and office They were always available for me when I needed them. I have to say, manager. the moment I knew I could make it was when Professor Newell pushed Leslie Joyner ’08 joined the law me out of my comfort zone in Contracts. He questioned me in class firm of Marlin Saltzman in Agoura Hills, California. Her areas of practice in a way that guided me and accelerated my learning.” include employment, nonemployment Namgyal says he is enormously grateful for the help and opportunities he received while at class actions, and complex litigation. Lewis &Clark. In 2012, he opened a law office in Beaverton, Oregon, where he works to assist Loren Thompson ’08 joined the immigrants seeking, as he once was, greater freedom and less suffering. firm of Bobzien McGuire in Portland.

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Jennifer Gail Shibley ’09 is the chief of staff transactions and disputes, intellectual Elizabeth Jessop ’12 joined the Woodhouse ’08 for Portland’s mayor, Charlie Hales. property, and real estate. Sliwoski also Law Offices of Geoff Bernhardt in joined Schwabe was elected to the Hollywood Theatre Portland as an associate. Her practice Mark Strandberg ’09 is an associ- Williamson & Wyatt Board. Prior to practicing law, he includes estate planning, probate and ate in the Portland office of Wrenn as a tax associate in worked as an office technical consult- trust administration, and elder law. Bender McKown & Ring. He repre- Portland. Previously, ant, a technical writer, and an English sents municipal entities, businesses, Johanna she was a staff teacher in Japan. and individuals in regulatory, permit- Schwartz ’12 is attorney with Legal Aid Services of ting, and litigation matters involving a Leora Coleman- an associate with Oregon in their statewide tax clinic. broad range of environmental, natural Fire ’11 joined the Klarquist Sparkman Malcolm Begay ’09 was the fea- resources, tribal, energy, land use, and board of directors for in Portland. Her tured speaker at Northland Pioneer occupational health and safety issues. Portland’s Q Center, practice focuses on College’s Leadership Spring Lecture a nonprofit organiza- the preparation and Series. He is from Steamboat, on the 2010s tion dedicated to prosecution of patent applications. Navajo Nation. Begay has legal assis- serving the area’s Jason Yarashes tant and research experience with the Bridget Donegan lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, ’12 joined Harrang vehicular homicide unit of the Mari- ’10 joined Larkins and queer (LGBTQ) community. Long Gary Rudnick copa County Attorney’s Office. He Vacura in Portland Coleman-Fire is an associate with in Portland as also served the Gila River Indian Com- as an associate. Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt and an associate. munity Office of Water Rights and with Donegan previously focuses her practice in the area of Previously, he various private sector legal firms. was a law clerk for labor and employment law. the Oregon clerked for the Kathy Black ’09 Supreme Court. Daniel Rowan ’11 Multnomah County Attorney and joined the board joined Bullard Law worked for a small Portland law firm of directors for the Andrew Ginis ’10 is corecipient of as an associate. He specializing in employment. As a law Oregon Crusaders, the 2013 Young Lawyers Sections trial specializes in public student, Yarashes performed legal a Portland-based practice, handle commercial real estate sector law, collective services for numerous organizations, drum and bugle and leasing transactions, and assist bargaining, and including the Legal Aid Services of corps recently clients with estate planning and trust labor arbitration. Oregon’s Farmworker Program. granted world-class status by Drum administration. of Multnomah Bar As- Todd French ’12 joined Dascenzo Corps International. The nonprofit sociation Award of Merit. Ginis is a Intellectual Property law as an attor- Births and youth organization emphasizes per- member of and an active contributor ney. His practice focuses on patent Adoptions formance excellence in percussion, to the YLS Pro Bono Committee. and trademark procurement, as well brass, dance, and visual artistry. Nikki Martin ’10 as client counseling. Eric DeWeese ’09 joined the Alaska Oil Laura Godfrey ’12 is an assistant joined the law office and Gas Association district attorney with the Bronx District of Robert G. Dolton (AOGA) as regulatory in New York. in Clackamas, Ore- and legal affairs gon. He will manage manager in Anchor- Jenelle Hellekson the firm’ trial prac- age. Previously, ’12 joined McEwen tice, handle commer- Martin was an associate attorney for Gisvold in Portland Roberta Phillip ’06 and her hus- cial real estate and leasing transactions, Anchorage-based Foley & Foley. She as an associate. band, C.J. Robbins, welcomed and assist clients with estate planning also worked as a law clerk for Judge Her practice focuses daughter Nina Mosi Robbins on and trust administration. Andrew Guidi, and for the Western on real estate trans- October 5, 2012. She weighed 6 lbs., Resources Legal Center. Martin acted actions, business Katie Jeremiah ’09 was named 10 oz. and was 20 inches long. as a legislative aide to Alaska State law, and estate planning. one of Engineering News Record’s Legislature House Majority Leader Elizabeth Brodeen-Kuo ’08 and Top 20 Under 40 for her work in Ralph Samuels, and as a legislative Jeremy James her husband, Sid Kuo, welcomed son design and construction. Jeremiah correspondent for U.S. Senator ’12 joined Cosgrave Maxwell Rawley Kuo on March 13, has a degree in construction engi- Ted Stevens. Vergeer Kester in 2013. He weighed 7 lbs., 13 oz. and neering management and worked in Portland as an was 20.5 inches long. Max joins his construction for five years before Vincent Sliwoski associate. His prac- 3-year-old brother, Eddie. earning her J.D. Her practice at Jor- ’10 joined Farleigh tice focuses on civil dan Ramis focuses on construction, Wada Witt in Port- litigation, including environmental, Mine Safety and Health land as an associ- personal injury and property damage Administration, and sustainability law. ate. He maintains a liability. diverse practice that Katie Scates ’09 opened the Law includes business Office of Katie Scates at 2121 S.W. Broadway, Suite 130, Portland 97201.

42 Maria Witt ’14 Named a 2013 Shepherd Legal Scholar The Recent Graduate Council “Before law school, I spent eight years working as a labor union and Letter From the President political organizer with low-income, immigrant, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities,” says Maria Witt ’14.” Dear Recent Graduates, As a student, I have continued this work through jobs and volun- I am honored to begin my term as president of the Recent Graduate teer opportunities such as this summer’s position at the U.S. Council (RGC), especially now as we are hitting our stride. Thanks Attorney’s Office Civil Rights Division. The Shepherd Scholarship to past president Tyler Volm ’08, as well as Robin Jerke and Sarah is particularly meaningful because it will help enable me to con- Petersen, the RGC has built a solid foundation for innovative pro- tinue focusing on a public interest law career where I can protect grams to help you thrive in a tough job market. I look forward and advance civil rights.” to expanding our ability to provide you with opportunities and The scholarship provides financial assistance to third-year services in the coming year. and fourth-year law students who demonstrate both academic This January, we were fortunate to be able to blend the RGC’s excellence and activist commitment to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, Star Awards with the Alumni Board’s Distinguished Honors Awards and transgender civil rights movement. Shepherd scholars must ceremony, making for an event where newer alumni could mingle dedicate their legal expertise to fighting bigotry and discrimination, with graduates of earlier classes. We were very pleased to recognize with an emphasis on the rights of sexual minorities. The scholar- two extraordinary recent graduates who bring honor and prestige ship is named after the late Bill and Ann Shepherd, who in the to alumni of all generations: Bobbin Singh ’11 and Laurie Rule ’01. mid-1970s cofounded what would become the Portland chapter (See “Distinguished Honors” in the spring 2013 issue of The of the International Federation of Parents, Families, and Friends Advocate to learn about their work.) We encourage you to con- of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). sider other new alumni who represent the highest capabilities of Lewis & Clark graduates and to nominate them for their own Star Awards. The RGC has some exciting projects in the works. In addition to offering many new opportunities to network with established professionals, other recent graduates, and the law school, we will continue to provide you with support in the form of programs that help you hone your interviewing skills, practice job-seeking strate- gies, and develop a balance between work and personal life. It can be difficult to make the transition from student to working professional. While the RGC works hard to be a bridge for graduates who are just starting out, we need your suggestions in order to best serve you. I invite you to contact any of us on the council with ideas about how we can help you and your classmates. Best wishes, and I hope to meet many of you in the months to come!

Cheers, Holly C. Rudolph ’10

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During an evening ceremony on June 14, Madsen has played other significant roles Kodiak Justice Center 2013, the justice center in Kodiak, Alaska, in the community, as well. He participated in Renamed in Honor of was officially renamed in honor of retired rebuilding Kodiak after the 1964 earthquake Roy H. Madsen ’53 Superior Court Judge Roy Madsen, a long- and tsunami, helped get the city’s charter time Kodiak figure. Dignitaries including approved, spearheaded the opening of Kodiak Senator Gary Stevens, Alaska Supreme College in 1969, and was involved with the Court Justice Joel Bolger, and Kodiak mayor formation of Koniag Incorporated, one of Pat Branson offered congratulatory remarks 13 Alaska Native regional corporations estab- and regaled the audience with stories. lished by Congress under the terms of the Madsen had graduated from the law school Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to 60 years earlier, to the day. Opening a private settle the aboriginal land claims of Alaska practice in Kodiak, he spent 22 years as an Native people. attorney there as well as 15 years as a superior At the ceremony’s closing, Madsen court judge. expressed his gratitude and his hopes that Madsen was instrumental in getting a he will inspire others to pursue their dreams. full-time superior court judge appointed “Seeing my name so prominently displayed to Kodiak. When he took the bench, he on the exterior of this building and the gigan- worked well beyond the expected hours, tic plaque that is mounted just inside of the presiding not only over the court in Kodiak entrance is, to say the least, overwhelming. but also traveling to the rural villages of If anything displayed there serves to inspire southwest Alaska. any observer to pursue a dream. It will have served a purpose.”

44 In Memoriam

In Memoriam Ellen practiced with her father-in- The Honorable Philip Abraham Duane Bartsch ’58 passed away law, becoming a partner in the firm ’57 passed away peacefully in his on April 9, 2013, at age 85. Born on Ellen Peirce Bump ’37 passed Bump, Young and Walker in 1956. sleep on January 2, 2013, at age 84. May 23, 1927, in Cresbard, South away on January 21, 2013, in Hills- She served as a lawyer for 43 years, Born on October 22, 1928, he was Dakota, he grew up on the family farm. boro, Oregon, at age 98. Born on Oc- until her retirement. The most reward- the fifth of seven siblings. Duane served in the U.S. Navy tober 31, 1914, to Willis and Alice ing part of her job, she said in an in- Philip was drafted into the U.S. during World War II. Later, he worked Arnold in Oakland, California, she was terview with The Advocate in 2008, Army in 1953 and served as a staff for the West Coast Lumberman’s raised in Tacoma, Washington, and was working with elderly clients, sergeant during the Korean War. Association in Portland while attend- Forest Grove, Oregon. many of whom had few family left and He began his legal career working ing law school classes at night. Ellen’s early hopes of studying therefore needed significant assistance. with the city attorney’s office in Port- Duane was admitted to the Oregon music at the college level were Ellen was very active in civic and land, becoming a judge in 1964. State Bar in 1958. He went on to dashed when her father, citing the community activities. A president of Philip retired as the chief criminal practice law for more than 50 years, family’s lack of money, sent her to a the League of Women Voters, she judge of Multnomah County, where and was admitted as a member of secretarial program at the Northwest- also served on the Forest Grove Li- he remained a senior judge until his the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court ern School of Commerce. She subse- brary Commission, Library Commit- death. He was respected for his fair- in 1969. quently worked as a secretary for tee, and the Washington County ness and humility on and off the Duane was a member of the attorney D.D. Bump. Noting her inter- Public Welfare Commission. Ellen was bench, and known for his propensity Holy Cross Lutheran Church for est in and aptitude for law, Bump en- a member of Forest Grove’s Commu- to break into song. more than 60 years and served as couraged Ellen to enroll in law school. nity Health Organization and served Philip is survived by his wife of 56 member of the board of directors She did, working days in the office as the Banks School attorney. years, Patti; sisters Doris and Betty; for the Northwest District Lutheran and attending classes in the evening, Ellen also made many quiet con- brothers Dick, David, and Bud; Church Missouri Synod for 13 years. and passed the bar in 1937. For the tributions to the citizens of Forest daughter and son-in-law Leslie and He was also a founding member of next two years, Ellen worked for Grove. She frequently visited nursing Ronald Keller; son and daughter-in- the Concordia University Foundation. Washington County in juvenile court. home residents, shut-ins, and the eld- law Michael and Trisonya; son An avid sports fan, Duane he passed She also earned a degree in social erly, taking them cards, letters, gifts of Matthew; daughter and son-in-law his love for the Trail Blazers on to his work from Pacific University in 1940. homemade “goodies,” books, plants, Lori and Steve Lane; son Philip Jr.; entire family. He also enjoyed hunting On December 22, 1942, Ellen and other thoughtful items. son and daughter-in-law Todd and and fishing, cooking, family road trips, married Kenneth A. Bump, the son of Ellen was preceded in death by Regina; daughter and son-in-law and tending to his beloved rose D.D. Bump, in San Luis Obispo, Cali- her parents, Willis and Alice Arnold, Melissa and Chris Hartnell; grandchil- garden and tomatoes. fornia. The couple soon returned to and her two sisters, Betty Robertson dren Joshua, Jacob, Justine, Alyx, Duane is survived by his wife, Forest Grove. They had one son, and Alice Diehl. Survivors include her Amirah, Michael Jr., Caleb, Payton, Elaine; two sons; a daughter; six Daniel, who is now a mathematics husband, with whom she celebrated Claire Marie, Philip III, Tiana, Jamie, grandchildren; and three great- professor at Stanford University. a 70th wedding anniversary this past Amari, and Logan; and numerous grandchildren. December; her son and daughter-in- nieces and nephews. Philip was pre- law, Daniel W. and Kathryn C. Bump; ceded in death by his sister Louise. her brother-in-law and his wife, Dr. Forrest and Rosemary Bump; her grandson, Gregory Hallock; her granddaughter and her husband, Amber and Dr. Jeremy Ackerman; her two great-grandchildren, Benjamin and Emma; and seven nieces and nephews.

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Dianne Daily ’82 passed away Jacqueline Koch ’87 passed away Joris Naiman LL.M. ’95 passed Anna Louise Rooney ’07 passed on November 22, 2012, in Denver, on December 13, 2012, only weeks away on April 9, 2013, at home in away on July 5, 2013, at age 36, Colorado, at age 62. She was born after a cancer diagnosis. She was Waltham, Massachusetts, at age following a traffic collision. She was on October 10, 1950, in Great born on March 23, 1949, in Bridge- 61. Born in Chicago to Mark and born in Chillicothe, Ohio, on April 14, Falls, Montana. port, Connecticut, to Eleanor and Adeline (Lubell) Naiman, he grew 1977, to Dr. Richard C. Rooney and Throughout her legal career, William Kohler. up in Philadelphia and Lincoln, Carole Mayer Rooney. Dianne was affiliated with Bullivant Jacqueline graduated from Port- Pennsylvania. Anna graduated from Western Houser Bailey in Portland. There, land’s Reed College in 1970 with a Joris attended the University of Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio, she served in a number of leadership double major in theatre and English. Massachusetts and the Massachu- in 1995, where she was a star athlete, positions, was a highly respected After earning her master’s degree in setts Institute of Technology, where and earned her bachelor’s degree litigator and counselor, and was a 1971, she taught school before work- he studied metallurgy, rowed, played from Brown University in 1999. treasured mentor to many young ing for Oregon’s Bureau of Labor and hockey, and interned in the laboratory Following her graduation from law lawyers. Dianne devoted many years Industries, where she discovered her of Harold “Doc” Edgerton, as well school, Anna first worked as prose- of leadership service to the American legal analysis skills. as pursuing diverse craft activities. cuting attorney in Bozeman, Montana, Bar Association, becoming the first Jacqueline clerked for the Oregon He went on to earn an M.S. in engi- where she served her community by woman chair of the Tort and Insur- Court of Appeals and dedicated her- neering at Rensselaer Polytechnic aggressively prosecuting domestic ance Practice Section, as well as self to employment, family, and appel- Institute before working in industry. violence cases. Subsequently, she chair of the ABA Section Officers late law. She was also a wife and He eventually returned to school, returned home to Chillicothe, where Conference. homemaker. gaining a J.D. at Boston College and she opened her own law practice. Dianne is also remembered for Her love of arts and crafts blos- an LL.M. in environmental and natural Anna was passionate about many volunteer contributions in the somed in recent years, and Jacque- resources law, summa cum laude. adventure and recently began a Portland community, including the line threw herself into Portland During 17 years with the U.S. professional mountain biking career. spearheading of successful toy drives Community College courses in callig- Fish and Wildlife Service, Joris She traveled all over the world, and fundraisers during the holiday raphy, drawing, book making, and achieved many successes in refining reaching every continent except season. painting, gathering many new friends and enforcing environmental regula- Antarctica, which was on her list. After retiring from law practice along the way. A witty raconteur, she tion to protect endangered habitats She also lived and worked in New and moving to Denver in 2007, will be remembered for her top-notch and wildlife. An avid hiker and flyer York City and San Francisco on Dianne served as a docent at the Shakespearean acting, compassion, (CFI helicopter and fixed-wing), he various start-up ventures. Denver Art Museum, visited hospice brilliant legal mind, skill at cards, cre- was also a founding member of the Anna was beloved by many patients with her Yorkshire Terrier, ative prowess, and love of books. Waltham Land Trust. for her charm, sense of humor, studied Italian, attended cooking Jacqueline is survived by her Joris is survived by wife and courage, unique ability to make oth- school in Italy, and continued to sister Jane Kohler; her brothers hiking partner, Lesya Struz, and his ers feel loved, and generous smile. entertain her friends and family with James and William; her nephews brothers Kiri and Alaric. Her most memorable characteristics her characteristic flair. Samuel, Raphael, and Brendan; and were her boundless energy and Survivors include her half brother, her beloved cats, Archie and Fritz. unending optimism. two sisters, two nephews, and a Anna is survived by her parents; niece. her sister and brother-in-law Kate and Dr. Michael Lyaker; her brother and sister-in-law Dr. Craig Rooney and Dr. Angie Song; her brother and sister-in-law Dr. Walt and Adrienne Rooney; and many aunts, uncles, and cousins.

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