Dean Jennifer Johnson invites you to a casual alumni and admitted student reception in Los Angeles, California!

Friday April 5, 2024 Symposium

Thank you to those who were able to attend the 2024 Environmental Law Symposium, Animal Agriculture And Climate Change: The Really Big Cow In The Room. If you were unable to attend the full conference in-person, you may access each panel’s recording below. 

The Joyce Ann Harpole Committee invites you to celebrate the 26th anniversary of the Joyce Ann Harpole Attorney Award and the Joyce Ann Harpole Scholarship Award.

Dean Jennifer Johnson invites you to a casual alumni and admitted student reception in Seattle, Washington!

Dean Jennifer Johnson invites you to a casual alumni and admitted student reception in Berkeley, California!

Come and meet the Lezak Steering Committee, former Lezak Social Justice Fellows, and get some information about how to apply for the Lezak Social Justice Fellowship!

Please RSVP by Friday, March 1st!

Join us for the Business Law Spring Luncheon on March 1st at The Nines in downtown Portland, celebrating the 29th anniversary of our program. This year, we’re excited to honor David Howitt ’94, Founder & CEO of Meriwether Group and co-founder of Oregon Chai, as our Distinguished Business Law Graduate.

Ben Crump, renowned civil rights and personal injury attorney and one of the nation’s foremost lawyers and advocates for social justice, will present the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Endowed Lecture on February 20 at the Agnes Flanagan Chapel on the campus of Lewis & Clark College.

Mr. Crump will be joined by Lewis & Clark Law Professor Robert Klonoff for a Q/A format. Professor Klonoff has worked closely with Ben Crump as co-counsel in ongoing litigation on behalf of the family of Henrietta Lacks against companies that profited by the use of Henrietta’s “immortal cell line.”

This is a hybrid event. 

To attend remotely via Zoom, please RSVP here.

There is still space at the lecture in-person, please let us know you are coming: RSVP here

Attendance at the event qualifies for 1.0 MCLE “Access to Justice” credit. (RSVP and advance request for CLE required.)

The Martin Luther King Jr. Endowed Lecture Series

Each year Lewis & Clark Law School hosts an endowed lecture honoring the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made possible by a generous grant from alums Jacqueline Alexander ’07 and Lee Matthews ’73. The mission is to bring internationally recognized legal scholars, practitioners, jurists and civil rights leaders to Lewis & Clark to present a lecture to our law school community on issues of diversity, race relations, tolerance, and equal rights.

Come and mingle with some alums!

Dean Jennifer Johnson, Professors Craig Johnston ’85 and Melissa Powers ’01 invite you to an alumni reception!

We did it! Thanks to your generosity, we have reached the $155 million goal in the most ambitious fundraising campaign in Lewis & Clark’s history. Now let’s party!

Save-the-Date! We are celebrating all class years ending with the number “3”!

Calling all Cornelius Honor Society members! We are excited to celebrate your achievement and to welcome the new inductees from the Classes of 2023!

The McCarty Society – named after Major General Chester E. McCarty ’29, a Lewis & Clark trustee who served as an Oregon senator and was a war hero – honors law school graduates who received their degrees 40 or more years ago.

Come and join Law Alumni Director, Natasha Richmond ’10, on the road in Washington, D.C.!

Anchorage-area law alums! Join Dean Jennifer Johnson for an alumni reception hosted by Schwabe!

Come and join Law Alumni Director, Natasha Richmond ’10, on the road in San Antonio, TX!

Seattle-area law alums! Join Dean Jennifer Johnson for an alumni reception hosted by Lane Powell!

Join the Cornelius Honor Society members for “A Dialogue on the Public Defense Crisis in Oregon,” a CLE panel. 

The Joyce Ann Harpole Committee invites you to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Joyce Ann Harpole Attorney Award and the Joyce Ann Harpole Scholarship Award.

Come and meet the Lezak Steering Committee, former Lezak Social Justice Fellows, and get some information about how to apply for the Lezak Social Justice Fellowship!

Austin-area law alums! Join Dean Jennifer Johnson for a drink and a bite to eat!

Please join us in recognizing this year’s outstanding graduates!

Come and join Law Alumni Director, Natasha Richmond ’10, on the road in Bellevue, WA!

Come and mingle with some alums!

Lewis & Clark welcomes keynote speaker Jared Bartie, a sports industry veteran and partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. Bartie will be joined by Ben Lauritsen, Senior Vice President & General Counsel of the Portland Trail Blazers.

They will be discussing Jared Bartie’s career path, his experiences working in-house and within Big Law, including his pivotal career moments, the challenges he faced as well as his career highlights, and the differences between working as an attorney in-house and in Big Law. Bartie will note the people who influenced him and the lessons he learned from them, as well as how he has worked to give it back and pay it forward. 

A celebration of life and memorial service will be held at 11:00am PST on Saturday, November 20, 2021 for Law School alumna Rebecca Richman, who died tragically with her brother, Michael, CAS ’16, after being struck by a car on November 29, 2019. The service will be held on Zoom. All are welcome.

Rebecca graduated from Reed College in 2013 with a BA in Anthropology and entered Lewis & Clark Law School in 2016. While in law school, Rebecca served as the Business Editor of Lewis & Clark’s Animal Law Review and was a passionate advocate for clients of the school’s Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic. During her third year of law school, Animal Law Review awarded Rebecca the Noodle Award for her outstanding contributions and hard work. After earning her JD, Rebecca was admitted into the Oregon State Bar and moved to Fairbanks, Alaska, where she simultaneously worked as a Deputy City Attorney and as an AmeriCorps Medical-Legal Partnership Attorney for Alaska Legal Services. Becca, as she was known to friends and family, will always be remembered for her love of birds, passion for tax law, and the kind and thoughtful things she did for those fortunate enough to have met her during her lifetime.

Please RSVP for a Zoom link. 

Thank you!

IN REMEMBRANCE

MURIEL DEUTSCH LEZAK, 1927-2021

Muriel Deutsch Lezak, age 94, died October 6, 2021, having led a remarkable life. She was brilliant, accomplished, and widely beloved.

Muriel was born to Lester and Sylvia (Friedman) Deutsch in Chicago on August 26, 1927. After high school, she attended the University of Chicago (the finest academic institution anywhere, she touted!), graduating with an M.A. in Human Development in 1949. A week later, she married the love of her life, Sidney Lezak. She delighted in sharing the fact that she and Sid “slept under the same roof” for years before marrying, having grown up in the same apartment building on Chicago’s South Side.

In lieu of a honeymoon, Muriel and Sid together drove west to Portland, Oregon and never looked back. She was a proud Oregonian and couldn’t understand why anyone would live elsewhere. She and Sid soon developed a wide circle of friends and became active in local civic, arts, and cultural life. They raised their family in Southwest Portland, where they loved entertaining on their large deck.

In 1960, Muriel earned a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Portland. She established herself as an early leader in the field of neuropsychology and the assessment of brain damage. Her landmark 1976 book, Neuropsychological Assessment, is now in its fifth edition (with co-authors) and has become an essential teaching text worldwide. Her work was grounded in her long tenure as a clinical neuropsychologist at the Portland VA Hospital. She was also Professor of Neurology at the Oregon Health & Science University for many years. Throughout her decades-long career, she taught and lectured around the globe and was widely published. From 1987-88, Muriel was president of the International Neuropsychological Society. In her 80s, she served as a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Australia, working well into “retirement.”

After their three children were grown, Muriel and Sid became inveterate world travelers. Together they adventured to wonderful places on every continent save Antarctica. A devoted Francophile, Muriel took great joy in spending time in France. She read for pleasure almost exclusively in French. She remained an avid traveler throughout her 80s and particularly delighted in trips abroad with her grandchildren. At age 90, she accompanied her family on safari in Uganda! When in Portland, she cherished time playing the piano and gardening; attending concerts, films, and art exhibits; and joining friends for wine and cheese or a meal – sometimes all in one day. Many who knew Muriel cited her as their role model for growing old while remaining energetic, active, and engaged.

Muriel is survived by her loving daughters, Anne Lezak (Harry Chen) and Miriam Lezak (David Martin), daughter-in-law, Brigid Flanigan, and German “daughter” Lexi Von Hoffman, along with nine grandchildren – Adrian, Alyssa, and Laurel Chen; Stephen, Eleanor, and Daniel Lezak; and Alexa, Rosalie, and Dakota Martin – all of whom she adored. She was pre-deceased by Sid, her devoted partner of almost fifty years, their beloved son David, and her older brother Victor.

The Lewis & Clark Law Review hosted a symposium on April 17, 2021 featuring scholarship on race and criminal justice reform. A recording of the Zoom event is available for viewing here. 

The 2021 Distinguished International Law Visitor is Philippe Sands, Professor of Laws and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals, University College London, University of London. He will speak about the flight of Nazis from Germany to Argentina, as well as the origins of the legal concepts of genocide and crimes against humanity.

Please join us for a Celebration of Life in honor of Jeffrey D. Jones: Beloved Professor, Husband, Son, Brother, Uncle, Friend.

Join Professor Bill Funk, Dean Jennifer Johnson, Director of Alumni Relations Suraya Barbee ’10, fellow alumni and prospective students at a reception.