Law areas: Products Liability; Personal Injury; Pharmaceutical Litigation
Admitted: 1999, Oregon
Education
Law School: Northwestern School of Law, J.D., 1998
College: University of Montana, B.A., cum laude, 1981
Memberships
Multnomah County, Federal and American Bar Associations; Oregon State Bar; Oregon Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Board of Governors); Oregon Women Lawyers (Board Member); The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Co-Chair, Ephedra Litigation Group); Trial Lawyers for Public Justice; ATLA Section on Toxic Environmental & Pharmaceutical Torts (Treasurer).
Biography
Phi Delta Phi. Author: "Mass Tort Class Actions: Will Achem Spawn Creative Solutions?" Defense Counsel Journal, October 1998; "Kumho Tire in Oregon: Applying Daubert Test to expert testimony," Oregon Trial Lawyer Magazine, Summer 2000. "In Pursuit of Ephedra: The Challenges of Pharmaceutical Mass Torts," Oregon Trial Lawyer Magazine, Spring, 2006. Co-Author, "The Fraud of Hormone Therapy: How Drug Companies Manipulated Women," Oregon Trial Lawyer Magazine, Spring, 2006. Panelist, Eighth Annual Sedona Conference on Complex Litigation, May, 2006.
Reported Cases: In re Ephedra Products Liability Litigation, 393 I. Supp. 2d 181 (S.D.N.Y. 2005).
