Oregon State Bar Bulletin — AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2002
| Among Ourselves |
Lawrence Wobbrock and Richard A. Lane of Lawrence Wobbrock Trial Lawyer in Portland, and Charles S. Tauman of Portland’s Bennett, Hartman, Morris & Kaplan were recently honored as finalists for the 2002 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award. They won a precedent-setting $150 million punitive damages verdict in Schwartz v. Philip Morris, the first 'low-tar fraud' case against tobacco companies to go to trial.
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Roseburg criminal defense lawyer Richard A. Cremer has been re-elected to his second term on the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers board of directors. Besides his work on the NACDL board, Cremer has also been active on several other NACDL efforts. He is an active member of the Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, where he has served in several executive positions including president. Cremer has served on the OSB Committee on the Defense of the Indigent Accused and served as president of the Douglas County Bar Association.
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Stoel Rives recently received three awards for the firm’s marketing and promotional efforts, winning recognition for its two most recent annual reports and the firm’s new identity materials (e.g., logo, letterhead). In May, it received first place in the promotional/collateral category for its 2000 annual report at the the Legal Marketing Association’s 'Your Honor Awards.' In July, the firm received received a bronze medal for its 2001 annual report (text and cover category) of the Neenah Paper Paperworks contest, Western region. And the firm’s new identity system received a best of category award, for the legal profession, from the International Engraved Graphics Association.
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Pamela Frasch, of the Animal Defense Fund, an adjunct professor at Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College, is a co-author of the newly released Animal Law, Cases and Materials (2nd edition) from Carolina Academic Press. Bruce A. Wagman and Sonia S. Waisman are the other authors. This is the second, updated edition of the book. In a cohesive format, the book touches on most areas in which animals affect legal doctrines, case law and legislative direction.
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Portland attorney Doreen Stamm Margolin was recently elected chair of the Portland Community College board. Margolin represents Zone 5, an area comprising parts of southwest Portland and Washington County, an area of 1,500 square miles.
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Lawrence A. Aschenbrenner, Oregon’s first public defender and long-time directing attorney of the Alaska office of the Native American Rights Fund, recently received the Charlie Parr Lifetime Achievement Award from the Alaska chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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John Knottnerus, a partner at Martin, Bischoff, Templeton, Langslet & Hoffman, has been selected as a sustaining member of the Product Liability Advisory Council.
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In celebration of her balanced approach to life, Lewis & Clark Law School’s Harpole Committee has honored Kathleen Dailey with the 2002 Joyce Ann Harpole Award. Dailey was honored for being 'a committed mother, community volunteer, successful lawyer and clearly an inspiring role model to others seeking balance in their day-to-day life.' She has been described as '…an attorney who is incredibly well prepared, passionately advocating her clients’ positions while never compromising her unsurpassed integrity.' Dailey practices law at Williams, Dailey, O’Leary, Craine & Love, focusing on products’ liability, personal injury, toxic tort, nursing home issues, toxic mold and pharmaceutical mass tort.
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Laura L. Schantz is the new president of the Washington County Bar Association for the one-year term through July 1, 2003. Schantz is a family law practitioner in Hillsboro. The Washington County Bar Association holds social meetings in Hillsboro on the second Wednesday of the month beginning at about 6 p.m. Inquiries about membership and reservations to attend the Washington County Bar meetings can be made through the secretary, Julie Viner, at (503) 648-0300.
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Susan K. Eggum has been elected to serve a two-year term as the president of the Owen M. Panner American Inn of Court. This Inn was founded in 1987 and was the 28th American Inn of Court in the United States. Patterned after the English Inns of Court, the American Inns of Court are designed to improve the skills, professionalism, civility and legal ethics of lawyers and judges alike.