Revamped meeting set for Sept. 18-20
Save these dates — Sept. 18-20 — for the 2003 Oregon State Bar Annual Meeting in Seaside.

Although the location hasn’t changed, the annual meeting has undergone some big changes. For starters, the schedule has been condensed to bring high quality education in a shorter period of time — giving participants more time to wrap up at the office, grab the family and have some fun.

Events will take place at the Seaside Civic & Convention Center and Best Western OceanView Resort. Look for updates in future issues of the Bar News and on the bar’s website at www.osbar.org.

Input sought on discipline proposal
The Special Legal Ethics Committee on Disciplinary Rules recently presented its report to the Board of Governors recommending replacement of the Oregon Code of Professional Responsibility with new Oregon Rules of Professional Conduct based on the ABA Model Rules. The BOG is seeking input and comment on the recommendation from members and will decide in July whether the put the new rules proposal before the House of Delegates in September. The report and the proposed Oregon Rules of Professional Conduct are available on the bar’s web site. Comments should be submitted in writing (including by e-mail) to OSB Assistant General Counsel Sylvia E. Stevens. Comments must be received by April 30, 2003. Contact her at sstevens@osbar.org.

To assist the members in reviewing and commenting on the proposed new rules, the BOG has scheduled a series of meeting in seven locations in Oregon during March and April. Details about those meetings can also be found on the OSB web site. For additional information, contact Sylvia E. Stevens at (503) 431-6359 or (800) 452-8260, ext. 359 (within Oregon).

Award nominations encouraged
The OSB Board of Governors seeks your nominations for awards to be presented at the Awards Luncheon in September 2003 in Seaside, held in conjunction with 2003 Annual Meeting. To be presented are the Award of Merit and three President’s Awards: the Membership Service Award, the Public Service Award and the Affirmative Action Award.

Nomination forms containing a description of each award and its criteria and a list of past award recipients are available from Teresa Wenzel, (503) 620-0222, ext. 386, or toll-free in Oregon at (800)-452-8260, ext. 386: fax: (503) 598-6986; or e-mail: twenzel@ osbar.org. She can be reached by mail at 5200 S.W. Meadows Road, Lake Oswego, OR 97035.

The Board of Governors will select award recipients from the nominations received from groups and individuals. You are encouraged to describe the nominee’s special qualifications for the award and to attach additional information including references and their phone numbers. Careful and thorough preparation will ensure that the Board of Governors has the best information possible to consider your candidate.

Myers to receive UO law school award
Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers will receive the 2003 Frohnmayer Award for Public Service at a Friday, April 4 dinner and reception at the Portland Embassy Suites. The University of Oregon School of Law annual award recognizes a graduate, faculty member or friend whose public service brings honor to the school.

The public service award was given last year for the first time to Frohnmayer who, like Myers, has served as Oregon attorney general and as a state legislator. The award subsequently was named in honor of Frohnmayer and he will present it to Hardy Myers at the April banquet.

Myers was selected by the law school alumni association from dozens of nominations.

Hardy Myers, who is in his second term as attorney general, graduated from the UO law school in 1964. He represented eastside Portland during five legislative terms and was speaker of the House from 1979 to 1983. Myers served on the Portland planning commission and the predecessor of Metro and had a distinguished career with Portland’s Stoel Rives law firm. He has been a successful law and policy reformer throughout his career.

The reception, dinner and program are open to the entire legal community. For information or to order tickets, call (541) 346-3865 or e-mail alumni@law. uoregon.edu.

Notice of reinstatement applications
Three persons have filed applications for reinstatement as active members of the Oregon State Bar, pursuant to Rule of Procedure (BR) 8.1.

Richard L. Francis of California, OSB #78206, has maintained a law office as a sole practitioner in Ventura County, California since 1979. In 1991, his membership in the Oregon State Bar was suspended for failure to pay his annual membership fees. Francis is seeking reinstatement so that he may practice law in Southern Oregon.

Margaret Moore of Portland, OSB #94208, Moore was admitted to the bar on June 21, 1994. Since the time of her transfer to inactive status on Jan. 31, 1996, she has been a self-employed free-lance film producer. She is seeking reinstatement so that she may have the option of obtaining employment as a lawyer.

C. Edward Fletcher III of Portland, OSB #84218, was admitted to the bar on September 14, 1984. He submitted his Form A resignation, effective May 27, 1987. From 1986 through 1996, he served as a faculty member of Cumberland School of Law and University of Cincinnati College of Law, and was a visiting Fulbright scholar in Budapest, Hungary. Since 1996, Mr. Fletcher has attended culinary school and traveled. He now wishes to be reinstated to active membership so that he may seek employment as a lawyer in the Portland area.

Any person with information relevant to this inquiry is asked to contact promptly the OSB Regulatory Services Division, P.O. Box 1689, Lake Oswego, OR 97035-0889; (503) 620-0222 or toll-free in Oregon at (800) 452-8260, ext. 343.

Reciprocity applicants
The following is a list of applicants for reciprocity admission to the Oregon State Bar, received by the Bulletin as of Dec. 31, 2002. The Board of Bar Examiners requests that OSB members examine this list and bring to the board’s attention in a signed letter any information that might influence the board in considering the moral character of any applicant for admission. Send correspondence to Marlyce Gholston, OSB Bar Examiners, 5200 S.W. Meadows Road, Lake Oswego, OR 97035.

Gregory Mark Abel, Jennifer Lynn Aspaas, Neal Dean Lin Black, James Elory Carroll, Roger Thomas Dunaway, Ricki John Faoro, Charles Camillus Flower, Loren Randolph Geller, Ryan James Hall, Brooks Elliott Harlow, P. (Paul) Arley Harrel, Jr., Kristian Einar Hedine, Carol Lynn Hepburn, Marianne Kathryn Jones, Robert H. Lavitt, Constance Susan Manos Martin, Lisa Elizabeth Martin, Clifford Michael McLean, Brenda Sue Molner, Walter Hartvig Olsen, Jr., Bonita L. Olson, Daniel P. Pepple, M. Maria Socorro Rodriguez, William Joel Rutzick, Michael Bruce Saunders, Jackson Schmidt, William Breck Seiniger, Jr., Mark B. Shepherd, Kimberle Don Stephens, Joel S. Summer, Steven Shigeru Takahashi, Eugene H. Tennyson, III, Cynthia Thomas, David Mayo von Beck, James Kelly Vucinovich, Andrew C. Weisbecker, Margaret E. Wetherald, Angelique Nguyen Wiegand.

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