Updated: Is Sam Hanson-Fleming the lawful owner of Chase, a mixed-breed dog who jumped the fence of his Portland, Ore., home a year ago? Or does the German shepherd-husky mix…
An Oregon woman accused of using TurboTax to file a falsified return and obtain a $2.1 million state tax refund to which she wasn’t entitled has requested a public defender.
In a decision considered important not only to those involved in child sex-abuse cases but to a wide array of organizations seeking to reveal or keep secret material that has…
Observers are wondering how a 25-year-old Oregon woman whose only criminal history appears to be a traffic ticket was able to use popular tax-preparation software to obtain a $2.1 million…
The mother of a 7-year-old boy who disappeared in Portland, Ore., nearly two years ago has filed an unusual civil lawsuit against the child’s stepmother.
A combination of transit benefits, a lack of free automobile parking and participation by workers helped a well-known Portland, Ore., law firm lead the list of the city’s top 25…
At a time when many law students and recent graduates are having a hard time finding jobs in the legal field, four Willamette University alumni knew what they were doing…
Sentenced to death but given a reprieve by a state governor who says there will be no executions on his watch, an Oregon inmate is challenging the suspension of his…
Saying that the use of its own in-house city attorneys to fight employment-related claims conferred a benefit to its insurance carrier, the city of Portland, Ore., has filed suit against…
Held in a Portland, Ore., jail after being arrested last week in a Manhattan insider-trading case, a research analyst who previously made headlines by publicly refusing to wear a government…
A research analyst who made headlines in 2010 when he emailed clients to say he’d refused to wear a wire after being requested to do so by FBI agents for…
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