BAR PEOPLE Among Ourselves Bonnie Richard- son, co-founder and managing partner of Fo- lawn, Alterman & Richardson,is the recipient of the Multnomah Bar Association’s 2016 Professionalism Award. Richardson has practiced law for over 17 years, with an exclusive focus on trial work. She has extensive experience in state and federal court, arbitrations and mediations. Those who nominated her cited her calm, clear-headed ap- proach to litigation, her commitment to professionalism and her dedication to improving the bar and the community. She played an important role in amend- ing the Oregon Rules of Professional Conduct to ensure that discrimination or harassment of a protected class consti- tutes a violation of the rules. Tonkon Torp attor- ney Claire Brown has joined the board of directors of Marathon Schol- ars as secretary. The organization part- ners adults and tal- ented low-income children to make the dream of a college education a real- ity. Marathon Scholars was co-founded by Tonkon Torp partner Jeff Cronn, and sev- eral firm attorneys are actively involved with the organization as coaches. Brown is a member of the firm’s corporate finance and entrepreneurial services practice groups, focusing on securities, corporate governance, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and general business law matters. 46 OREGON STATE BAR BULLETIN • JUNE 2016 Carson R. Cooper and Cozette Tran- Caffee have been selected as mem- bers of the 2016 Leadership Council on Legal Diversity class of Pathfinders, a program designed to train early-career attorneys in critical career development strategies, includ- ing programming on leadership and network develop- ment. Lane Powell has been involved in the council for several years, supporting the organiza- tion’s mission to increase diversity in the legal profession, eliminate impediments and provide minorities and women with a full and fair opportunity to perform, suc- ceed and lead. streets, buildings and roads). It is avail- able from directly from Whitty or from Amazon.com. Cost is $20. Oregon City criminal defense lawyer John Henry Hingson III recently deliv- ered a presentation titled “Keeping the Faith, How Good Faith (United States v. Leon) Can Help You Prove Bad Faith (Arizona v. Youngblood)” at a seminar produced by the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association and the National College for DUI Defense in New Or- leans. William J. Howe III, of counsel at Gevurtz Menashe, has been awarded the Meyer Elkin Essay Award by the Association of Family and Concil- iation Courts and the Family Court Review. The award is presented annually to the best article published in the pres- tigious multidisciplinary journal. Howe and his co-author, Liz Scully, a family law lawyer in Los Angeles and law professor at UCLA, were recognized for their ar- ticle, “Redesigning the Family Law Sys- tem to Promote Healthy Families,” which catalogues various innovative family law reforms, most of which Howe has been intimately involved in creating and sup- porting. The award will be presented at the Association of Family and Concili- ation Courts Annual Conference in Se- attle on June 1. After 25 years of research and writ- ing, Coos Bay attorney John Whitty has produced a 308-page book entitled Coos County Bench, Bar & Beyond. It deals with the lawyers, judges, clients and their cases in Coos County from 1853 to 2014, and includes segments about each of the law- yers who practiced in the county, cases they handled (mostly taken from Oregon Supreme Court reports and focusing on historical events) and the judges who served our area over the years, as well as some information about the clients in- volved in the cases (particularly those whose names are still perpetuated in area Miller Nash Graham & Dunn has been named among the top five nation- ally in the “Ceiling Smasher” ranking of gender equality among big law firms. Law360, a media outlet owned by Lexis- Nexis, surveys hundreds of large law firms each year to come up with national rank- ings based on a firm’s female representa- tion at the partner and nonpartner levels and its total number of female attorneys. In 2016, the firm ranked fifth among Ceil- ing Smasher law firms; in 2014, the firm ranked seventh. According to Law360, women make up about 34 percent of all attorneys and 22 percent of partners in law firms across the country. Some 43 percent of all attorneys and 40 percent of partners at Miller Nash Graham & Dunn are women, and in 2014 the firm named a historic all-female partner class of seven attorneys.