Community Activities

Institutional Service | Professional Service | Consulting and Legal Practices | What We’re Up To

 Institutional Service

We thank our faculty, along with student representatives, for their service on the 2011-2012 Lewis & Clark Law School and College Standing Committees. A description of the various college committees is also available.

 Professional Service

Find out about service opportunities through the American Bar Association web page.

Find out about service opportunities through the Association of American Law School web page.

Find out about service opportunities through the Oregon State Bar web page.

 Consulting and Legal Practices

Faculty may engage in occasional outside consulting or legal work, subject to the following rules outlined by the ABA and AALS.

American Bar Association —Standards for Approval of Law Schools and Interpretations 2004-05 — Chapter 4: Faculty

ABA Standards for Outside Practice/Consulting:

A(c) A full-time faculty member is one who during the academic year devotes substantially all working time to teaching and legal scholarship, participates in law school governance and service, has no outside office or business activities, and whose outside professional activities, if any, are limited to those that relate to major academic interests or enrich the faculty member’s capacity as scholar and teacher, are of service to the legal profession and the public generally, and do not unduly interfere with one’s responsibility as a faculty member.

Interpretation 402-4:

Regularly engaging in law practice, having an ongoing relationship with a law firm or a business, being named on a law firm letterhead, or having a professional telephone listing is prima facie evidence that an individual has “outside office or business activities” and is not a full-time faculty member under this Standard. If there is prima facie evidence that an individual is not a full-time faculty member, a law school shall demonstrate that the individual has a full-time commitment to teaching, research, and public service, is available to students, and is able to participate in the governance of the institution to the same extent expected of full-time faculty. (June 1992; 1994; August 1996)

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Standards for Outside Practice/Consulting – from the 2005 AALS Handbook — Chapter 6: Membership Requirements

Section 6-4.2 Limits on Outside Professional Activities:

To determine whether outside professional activities are properly limited so as not to divert a full-time faculty member from the primary interest and duty as a legal educator, the following factors should be considered:

(i) The extent to which the outside activity coincides with the full-time teacher’s major fields of interest as a teacher and scholar;

(ii) The character of the professional activity as a source of novel and enriching experience that can be directly utilized in the person’s capacity as teacher and scholar;

(iii) The degree to which the demands of the outside activity interfere with the teacher’s regular presence in the law school and availability for consultation and interchange with students and colleagues; and

(iv) The extent to which the outside activity may properly be characterized as public service, as distinct from the pursuit of private purposes.

 What We’re Up To

Within the past year, members of our faculty participated in many community activities. A partial list is included here:

Service to Bar Associations includes work with:

ABA Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice Section

OSB Board of Governors

OSB House of Delegates Member for Region 5/Multnomah County

OSB Drafting Task Force for Uniform Securities Act

OSB Intellectual Property Law Section

OSB Environmental & Natural Resources Section

OSB Consumer Law Section

OSB Estate Planning and Administration Section and Elder Law Section newsletter

OSB Litigation Section

OSB Constitutional Law Section Executive Committee

OSB Joint Bench/Bar Commission of Professionalism

OSB Legal Heritage Interest Group

OSB Affirmative Action Program

MBA Court Liaison Committee

MBA Professionalism Committee

Reviewing tax questions for the Oregon Bar Exam

Service in other ways as follows:

chair, Oregon’s Victim’s Rights Compliance Task Force

chair, AALS Natural Resources Section

create and maintain on-line blogs

volunteer, Between the Lines (prison outreach program)

member, American Law Institute’s Tax Advisory Board

member, ACLU Lawyer’s Committee

volunteer, Portland Farmers Market

board member, Friends of Tryon Creek

vice chair, Tryon Creek Watershed Council

president, Portland Baseball Group

volunteer, various local elementary schools

board member, Metropolitan Public Defender

appointed to Advisory Council of U.S. Court of Appeals for Federal Circuit

member, Oregon Women Lawyers

member, Center for Progressive Reform

mediator, Oregon Federal Court

chief justice, Grand Ronde Tribe Court of Appeals

board member, Tribal Leaders Forum

advisory member, Oregon Water Trust Board

board member, Workers’ Rights Board

member, Oregon Trial Lawyers Association

member, Oregon Minority Lawyers Association

charter member, Portland Christian Legal Aid Organization

member, Litigation Committee at national level for Defenders of Wildlife

member, U.S. Bankruptcy Court of Oregon

member, Family Law Committee of the Law Society of Scotland

commissioner, Oregon Commission on Asian Affairs

chair, Finance Committee of the Democratic Party of Oregon

member, Public Defense Diversity Task Force

member, National Advisory Committee of Environmental Protection Agency

arbitrator, Multnomah County and NASD

member, American Society of International Law

volunteer, Oregon Humane Society

board member, Edwards Center, a non-profit serving developmentally disabled adults

member, Portland’s River Plan Committee

volunteer, Multnomah County Legal Aid

member AALS Minority Sections Group Executive Committee

volunteer, Food for the Hungry