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Law Career Options


Law Career Options: The Career Paths of Five Reed Alumni

Thursday, March 1, 2007

6-7:30 PM in Winch/Capehart 

Join President Diver and Reed alumni currently working in the legal field to learn more about the challenges and rewards of law school, the careers it can lead to, and the role of a Reed education in this field.  Light refreshments will be served following the event.

Alumni guests include:

  • Jas. Adams, '71 History (Assistant Attorney-in-Charge of the Natural Resources Section of Oregon)

Jas. Adams is a Reed College and Boalt Hall graduate whose legal career has included work for public interest organizations, for the Oregon Court of Appeals as a staff attorney, for clients in private practice, and for the State of Oregon in the public sector.  After a number of years working in the Appellate Division of the Oregon Attorney General's office, he is currently Assistant Attorney-in-Charge of the Natural Resources Section of Oregon DOJ, where he oversees legal work for Water Resources, Forestry, Fish and Wildlife, Parks and Recreation, Agriculture, Marine Board, and Watershed Enhancement Board.  He has taught environmental law courses at Willamette University College of Law for several years as an adjunct law professor.  His publications include a chapter in the Oregon Ethical Lawyer on appellate ethics and a recent law review article on navigable waters in Oregon for the Willamette Law Review.

  • Amber Hollister '99, Political Science (Litigation Associate, Perkins Coie LLP)
Amber Hollister is a litigation associate at Perkins Coie LLP, a large Northwest law firm serving a wide range of technology and business clients. Recently, Amber has represented financial institutions, large retail chains and an international coffee company. Amber is a '99 Reed alumna who graduated from the University of Washington's School of Law in 2003. During law school, she served as a judicial extern to The Honorable Diarmuid O'Scannlain in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. After law school, she clerked for two years for The Honorable Robert H. Whaley in the Eastern District of Washington. Amber is a board member of Oregon Lawyers Against Hunger and a member of the Oregon WomenLawyer's dragonboating team.
  • Judge Edward Jones '69, General Literature (Circuit Court Judge, Multnomah Cty)
Prior to his 1999 appointment to the Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Jones spent 9 years in private practice in Oregon City and Portland and then served as the director of MDI, a public defender office in Portland, for 14 years.  His practice was almost exclusively in criminal defense, and included cases in which his clients faced the death penalty. As a judge he has been assigned cases of every kind (except family law), spent 14 months assigned to the STOP program drug treatment court, and supervises the court’s mandatory arbitration program. He is a graduate of Reed College and the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College.
  • Trena Klohe '89, Spanish (Staff Attorney, Legal Aid Services of Oregon)
  • Michael Levine '88 Chemistry (Patent Agent, Stoel Rives LLP)

Michael writes, "I graduated in Chemistry from Reed in 1988, and shortly thereafter I started work as a patent paralegal at Stoel Rives LLP, which is a large corporate law firm.  I passed the patent bar in 1989 and have been working as patent agent at Stoel Rives since then.  Most of my work involves writing and prosecuting patent applications in the technical area of laser micromachining, but I have also done work related to a variety of inspection systems, fiber-optic display systems, sofa beds, and insect pheromone syntheses.  Several of the patents that I have written have been litigated successfully, resulting in large monetary awards to my clients."

Additional information on alumni panelists coming soon.

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