OREGONOREGON LAWYERLAWYER FALL 2000 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SCHOOL OF LAW ALUMNI NEWSLETTER CONTENTS DEAN’S MESSAGE 2 DEAN HOLLIS LEGACY 4 TOM FOSTER SCHOLARSHIP 6 NEW ASSISTANT DEAN FOR EXTERNAL RELATIONS 6 CENTURY OF SERVICE RETIRES 7 UO-LVIV PARTNERSHIP 9 LAW SCHOOL TASK FORCE 12 The Legacy of DEPUTY ATT. GEN. SCHUMAN 14 NEW FACULTY 16 Orlando Hollis FACULTY PROFILES 18 1904–2000 CLASS NOTES 21 CLASS OF ’50 REUNION 26 DONOR HONOR ROLL 27 LAW & ENTREPRENEURSHIP 35 DEAN’S MESSAGE The Many Gifts of Alumni and Friends As a dean, there are weeks–even months–when I last year ranged from the multi-million dollar bequest feel more like a panhandler than a legal educator. A of Dean Emeritus Orlando John Hollis to a transforma- very substantial part of my first two and a half years at tional ADR program underwriting to substantial Oregon were spent looking friends and alums in the additions to named scholarships to a basketball from a eye trying to get into their pockets. And as our new first year law student with a whole lot of support in building proudly demonstrates, a substantial number between. We are deeply grateful to all of our donors. opened up their hearts as well as their wallets, purses We have alumni donors we are working with to and stock portfolios. Our alums and friends did what a help finish their million lot of folks thought impossible–raising the money to dollars of gifting and finish paying for the new Knight Law Center. others we are helping There were months on end when I felt people were provide tax opportuni- running in the other direction when they saw me ties to support them- coming. During this time, I was constantly reminded of selves and their families a story told by Ethel Krepps, one of the first Kiowa while creating a nest egg Indian lawyers. Ethel reports one Indian’s response to for the law school. We the fundraising of the white missionaries. also have substantial donors who cannot afford large sums who ‘We are truly grateful for all that contribute twenty-five or fifty or a hundred Dean Rennard Strickland this represents–or the continued vote dollars. We are truly grateful for all that this of confidence in what a first quality represents–for the continued vote of confidence in what law school means to the state and to a first quality law school means to the state and to the profession. the profession.’ An equally important part of this thanksgiving message is to show our appreciation to those who help us out in ways that go beyond dollars. There are Once after a church service the missionaries asked important and diverse ways our alums and friends for a collection as they always did. One old Kiowa man donate to the law school. These extend far beyond stood up and pulled some change from his pocket and dollars and cents. Time and reputation are, in many looked at it long and hard. He seemed reluctant to give ways, the greatest contributions you make to the up his last bit of money. Old Mookeen stood there and University of Oregon School of Law. These include: the squared his shoulders and spoke to one of the mission- high level of professionalism that you demonstrate in aries in broken English, “Whatza matter this Jesus–he your daily practice, the mentoring you do with high all time broke?” school and college students who are considering law I am sure many of you feel this way when you get school, help with our annual fund, or serving as class our newsletter, a brochure about an upcoming event agent, speaking to a student roundtable, attending one and notes from your class agent or the alumni associa- of our Twenty-First Century Law School Forums. These tion. I hope you also know that your positive response donations also make a difference–a very real difference. creates “the margin of excellence” that makes the Remembering your days as a student, you should University of Oregon one of the great state law schools. be able to recall important interaction you had with the Our strong programs in law and entrepreneurship, bench and bar. Each year our supporters judge a international environmental law, legal research and number of moot court, advocacy, trial practice and writing, and ADR would not be possible without other competitors. private support. Others serve as mentors in both formal and The purpose of this column is to say “thank you” to informal programs. Recently, the Alumni Association’s all of you who gave to the building campaign, to the Portland Program has been cited as a model. Further- annual giving campaign, to the alumni association, to more, we have graduates who work with students on our special scholarship efforts and to a dozen or so professionalism and mock interviews as well as actual other student programs, support drives and even the bake and Indian taco sales. Gifts to the law school this Continued on Page 3 2 OREGON LAWYE R Gift from Galton to Support ADR University of Oregon School of Law graduate with ADR experts to incorporate ADR issues effectively Gary Galton, ’70, feels so strongly about the importance into their courses. of including alternatives to litigation in legal education The program will cover process options, strategies that he donated seed money to establish a new program and skills in a broad array of legal areas including at his alma mater. business, torts, family, labor, real estate, intellectual Galton, a labor lawyer from Lake Oswego, along property, public planning and policy, and community with his wife, Anne Marie, donated money to the UO and international relations. School of Law to establish the new Appropriate Dispute “I am very grateful to the Galtons, our faculty Resolution (ADR) Program. and administrators, for helping us establish the ADR Started this summer, the new program will expand program,” says Lisa Kloppenberg, an associate profes- upon previous ADR offerings at the law school and sor of law who directs the ADR program. “This will educate students about various ways in which disputes enable us to train students to be creative problem can be resolved, including negotiation, mediation, solvers who will be able to generate many options to arbitration and litigation. resolve disputes early and effectively.” “I often prevailed in court for my clients, but I ADR is a rapidly growing area of legal practice. began to question, what were they really ‘winning?’ The UO law school recently helped train mediators for When I considered the expense, lost opportunities, time the Environmental Mediation Pilot program involving spent and damaged relationships, it was clear there had the U.S. District Court for Oregon, the Western Justice to be a better way,” says Galton, who also operates a Foundation and the U.S. Institute for Environmental mediation practice in Palm Desert, California. Conflict Resolution. The UO law school has been incorporating The law school’s task force for the 21st century also courses in Appropriate Dispute Resolution into its received a significant amount of input from legal curriculum for many years and at one time operated a practitioners and the community at large about the federally funded mediation clinic. need for alternatives to litigation in legal education. The Galton gift will provide more comprehensive “ADR is one of the most important developments and consistent ADR offerings that will be integrated in the legal world today,” says Michael Hogan, chief into the traditional law school curriculum. Interested judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of faculty will receive financial support and consultation Oregon. “It is wonderful to see the UO law school increase its teaching and research in this area to im- prove the problem-solving skills of lawyers.” The Galton family has a history of giving to the Many Gifts UO law school. Gary Galton’s father, Herb Galton, is a 1938 graduate of the law school who established a UO Continued from Page 2 scholarship that Gary later supplemented. law school job interviews. We regularly call upon our Gary Galton also serves on the law school Board of friends to help in admissions by talking with applicants Visitors and volunteered his time as a guest lecturer at who are choosing between law schools. Currently, we the school. have a group who are working on the Twenty-First “This is a particularly meaningful gift because the Century Task Force preparing an analysis of how we Galtons have given to the law school in many ways, can make our programs worthy of Oregon’s history, including their time, ideas and long-term support,” tradition and new facility. says Rennard Strickland, UO law school dean. In short, you support and honor this law school by Associate Profesor Lisa Kloppenberg has been being a true and trustworthy member of the profession, named director of the program. of the family of law. This makes us thankful that we are, The first ADR Conference will be held Nov. 10 for so many of you, your other mother. And you, in and 11 in conjunction with Alumni Weekend to kick off turn, are as Judge Matthew Deady noted in 1884, on the the new program. CLE credits will be available. Judge opening day of our law school, “the keepers of the Dorothy Nelson of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will conscience of the country.” It is for that, above all, that be featured as keynote speaker. The event will be part we say “thank you.” of a legal conference highlighting current ADR issues.