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Oregon State Bar Bulletin — JANUARY 2004


Among Ourselves

Robert Sola and Mike Baxter, two Portland consumer litigation attorneys, have been named the 2003 Trial Lawyers of the Year by the National Association of Consumer Advocates. Sola and Baxter were honored for their work in Thomas v. Trans Union, which resulted in a $5.3 million jury verdict for a Klamath Falls woman who brought claims under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The award was presented at the National Consumer Law Center’s Consumer Rights Litigation Conference in Oakland, Calif., on Oct. 25.

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Tonkon Torp partner Brian Booth received the 2003 Alumni Fellow Award from the University of Oregon’s College of Arts and Sciences in late October. The award honors the successes of College of Arts and Sciences alumni who have distinguished themselves in their professional careers and personal accomplishments. Booth is a founding partner in Portland’s Tonkon Torp law firm. His practice emphasizes corporate and business matters for private and public companies and nonprofit corporations, including foundations and universities.

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Don Corson, a shareholder at the trial lawyer firm of Johnson Clifton Larson & Corson, has become a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Corson is a past president of the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association and was recently appointed to the Oregon State Bar’s Council on Court Procedure.

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Milton R. Stewart and William R. Miller Jr., partners with the law firm of Davis Wright Tremaine, were recently appointed to serve in leadership positions for Lex Mundi, an association of independent law firms. Stewart was elected by the membership to serve on Lex Mundi’s board of directors. Miller has been chosen to serve as North American regional vice chair for Lex Mundi’s bank finance and regulation practice group. Both will serve four-year terms.

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Mark Manulik, partner at Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt and chair of the firm’s real estate practice, was elected to a one-year term as treasurer of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys’ board of regents. Manulik represents a broad range of real estate development companies, investors and mortgage lenders in complicated commercial real estate transactions.

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Portland labor and employment firm Fisher & Phillips, in November held 'Happy Hour with the Lawyers: The Latest Drug & Alcohol Developments for Employers.' The comprehensive seminar included a discussion of the latest developments in medical marijuana law, drug and alcohol testing and practical and legal advice about planning company functions where alcohol is served.

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Daniel H. Skerritt has become a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Skerritt is a partner in the Tonkon Torp firm and has been practicing in Portland for 30 years. His practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and dispute resolution.

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Neva Campbell, a partner at Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt, is the first woman to receive the James B. Castles Leadership Award, presented at the annual meeting of the Oregon State Bar’s Business Law Section in November. The award recognizes excellence in the practice of corporate law, professionalism among fellow business lawyers and outstanding community leadership. Campbell, now retired from full-time practice, was a corporate, real estate and land use lawyer. She was admitted to the Oregon State Bar in 1973 and was one of the first women business attorneys in the state to become a partner at a large Portland firm. She served as corporate attorney to many of the Northwest’s leading companies and was active in the business, corporate, real estate and land use sections of the Oregon State Bar.

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Ryan J. York, an associate in the Portland office of Davis Wright Tremaine, was recently named to the board of directors for Mercy Enterprise Corp., a subsidiary of Mercy Corps. York was recently appointed to the board after serving on the organization’s program committee since 2001. York is a business and corporate attorney.

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Garvey Schubert Barer attorney and shareholder Robert C. Weaver Jr. has become a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Before joining the firm, Weaver was a federal prosecutor for 13 years, successfully prosecuting major white-collar criminal cases. He was the chief federal prosecutor in the case of United States of America v. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, et al., which resulted in the conviction and deportation of the bhagwan and his followers. Since leaving the U.S. Department of Justice in 1987, Weaver’s practice has focused on complex business and tax litigation and white-collar criminal defense.

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The pastel and acrylic landscape paintings of Doug Dawson and Sheryl Dawson will be featured at Lawrence Gallery’s January show at its Sheridan location, together with pastels and bronze works by Eugene artist Dan Chen. Doug Dawson is a former assistant Oregon attorney general, and Sheryl Dawson is a former U. S. Bancorp attorney and corporate secretary division manager. The show opened Jan. 9 and runs through the end of January. Lawrence Gallery is located on Highway 18 between Sheridan and McMinnville.


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