Representative Experience
Prepublication and prebroadcasting matters. Access and closure questions and litigation. Copyright litigation. Defense of defamation and privacy claims for book, newspaper, magazine, film, and broadcast clients.

Defamation and privacy defense includes McCracken v. New York Times Co.; Guillen v. Swift Newspapers, Inc.; Cunningham v. Sony Pictures; Schenck v. Oregon Television, Inc.; Gregory v. Oregon Television, Inc.; Northon v. Simon & Schuster; DuBoff v. Playboy; Gardner v. Clear Channel Communications; and Johnson v. Harper Collins

Lead counsel for the defendant in the intellectual property case of Computer Associates v. Software AG

Lead counsel for plaintiff in the telecommunications case of United States Cellular v. Pacific Telecom

Multiple appearances before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Oregon appellate courts

Prior Experience
Clerked for Chief Judge T. Emmett Clarie, U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut

Publications and Presentations
Author, chapters on both Defamation and Privacy for the national Media Law Resource Center

Author, “Personal Jurisdiction”, Oregon Civil Pleading and Practice

Contributing author, Civil Pleading Handbook for Oregon Litigators

Memberships and Activities
Past Chair and current director, Oregon Bar Press Broadcasters Council

Director, Open Oregon

Selected to "Super Lawyers," Law & Politics, 2006

Member, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association

Member, Oregon Association of Broadcasters

Past President and current director, Understanding Racism Foundation

Past Chair, Oregon State Bar Association’s Diversity Task Force

Past Chair, University of Oregon Law School Board of Visitors

Past Chair, Urban League of Portland

Past elected official in the county, state, and national bar associations

Board of Directors, Portland Art Museum

Past Chair, National American Advertising Museum

Education
J.D., University of Oregon Law School

• Editor-in-Chief, Oregon Law Review