September 27, 2004
Against The Grain: Working For The Public Interest
Oregon’s attorney general, the founder of a Corvallis youth project, a federal judge from Eugene and the Portland attorney behind the Oregon Bus Project will keynote Against the Grain: Working for the Public Interest, a free all-day conference on Friday, October 1 at the Knight Law Center, 1515 Agate Street Eugene.
Panels of elected officials, judges, public agency staff attorneys, and attorneys in private practice will talk about public service opportunities in criminal law, environmental law, social advocacy and as lawmakers.
The conference will explore the myriad opportunities available for lawyers interested in careers in law in the public interest and public service sectors. This is the first of four conferences that will be sponsored in 2004-05 by the University of Oregon School of Law’s Public Interest/Public Service (PIPS) Program. PIPS is an umbrella organization within the law school whose aim is to develop understanding of the value of public interest and service work nationally and globally.
Conference information: Josh Reed, jreed2@law.uoregon.edu
or Ela Orenstein, porenste@law.uoregon.edu.
PIPS home page: http://www.law.uoregon.edu/org/pips/
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
12:00 P.M. LUNCH *
Wayne Morse Commons
12:15 P.M. Keynote Speeches
Wayne Morse Commons
Ann Aiken, U.S. District Court Judge, Eugene
Steven Black, Jackson Street Youth Center, Corvallis
Hardy Myers, Oregon Attorney General, Salem
Jefferson Smith, Oregon Bus Project, Portland
1:30 P.M. Panels
Social Advocacy, Room 175
Lawyers as Elected Officials, Room 184
2:45 P.M. Panels
Criminal Law . Room 184
Environmental Law, Room 175
4 :00 P.M Raffle
PANELISTS
Social Advocacy
Ann Aiken
Judge of the U.S. District Court, District of Oregon, Eugene OR
J.D. University of Oregon School of Law (1979)
Steven Black
Attorney; Founder Jackson Street Youth Center, Corvallis OR
J.D. University of Oregon School of Law (1978)
Peter James
Attorney – Marion-Polk Legal Aid Services, Salem OR
J.D. University of Oregon School of Law (1988)
Mark Johnson
Attorney – Johnson, Renshaw & Lechman-Su, P.C.; recipient, Oregon Gay and Lesbian Law Association Award of Merit
J.D. Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley (1987)
Hardy Myers
Attorney General, State of Oregon, Salem OR
J.D. University of Oregon School of Law (1964)
Jefferson Smith
Founder, Oregon Bus Project; former staff attorney: Stoel Rives, Portland OR
J.D. Harvard Law School
Lawyers as Elected Officials
Kate Brown
Senator, Oregon Legislature, Portland OR
J.D. School of Law, Lewis & Clark College
Ann Kneeland
Attorney – Domestic Violence Clinic, Lane County Legal Aid, Eugene OR
J.D. School of Law, Georgetown University
Gary Papé
Attorney; Eugene City Councilor, Eugene OR
J.D. University of Oregon School of Law (1973)
Floyd Prozanski
Senator, Oregon Legislature, Eugene OR
J.D. South Texas College of Law
Kerry Tymchuk
Chief of Staff, U.S. Senator Gordon Smith, Beaverton, OR
JD, Willamette University College of Law (1984)
Criminal Law Panel
Craig Campbell
Attorney; Senior policy advisor to Governor Ted Kulongoski, Salem OR
J.D., University of Oregon School of Law
Dan Koenig
Attorney – Criminal defense; former prosecutor, Eugene OR
J.D. Willamette University (1973)
David Pebworth
Attorney – Public Defender Services of Lane County, Inc., Eugene OR
J.D. University of Oregon School of Law (2002)
Tim Sylwester
Attorney – Oregon Department of Justice, Salem OR
J.D. University of Oregon School of Law (1981)
Deborah Vogt
Attorney – Lane County District Attorney, Major Crimes Division, Eugene OR
J.D. Willamette University College of Law (1994)
Environmental Law
James D. Brown
Attorney – Cascade Resources Advocacy Group, Portland OR
J.D. School of Law, Georgetown University (2002)
Marianne Dugan
Attorney – Facaros and Dugan, former associate director Western Environmental Law Center, Eugene OR
J.D. University of Oregon School of Law (1993)
Pete Frost
Attorney – Western Environmental Law Center, Eugene OR
J.D. University of Oregon School of Law (1990)
Lauren Regan
Director – Civil Liberties Defense Center; Secretary/Treasurer – Cascadia Wildlands Project, Eugene OR
Liam Sherlock
Attorney – Hutchinson, Cox, Coons, DuPriest, Orr & Sherlock, Eugene OR
J. D. University of Oregon School of Law (1990)
* Lunch will be provided to the first 150 attendees who pre-register by Sept. 30, 2004, Pre-registration will be available on Sept. 28, 29, and 30 at noon in the Commons.
