Updated: An accidental posting of a law school exam on a University of Oregon School of Law e-mail discussion list last week offered students an opportunity to apply legal ethics…
A concerned divorce lawyer following her client home after a consultation watched in horror as the woman tumbled from the car, shot by her husband who was hiding in the…
John Kroger is used to being successful in life. But the Oregon attorney general said he was stunned last night to hear a presenter start reading a paragraph from a…
A major Pacific Northwest-based law firm has agreed to settle for $30 million securities fraud and legal malpractice claims brought by investors in a failed company that oversaw dozens of…
It may seem like a no-brainer that dogs don’t belong in a supermarket. But in pet-friendly Portland, Ore., the question is controversial enough to require state officials to weigh in…
After an Oregon state-court judge ruled in June that a Portland ordinance banning individuals from sitting or lying on the sidewalk was unconstitutional, authorities are reportedly trying new tactics to…
A 61-year-old Oregon woman who was convicted of feeding wild bears at her home, even after neighbors reportedly warned her not to do so, has been sentenced to stay away…
Breaking away from Seattle-based Foster Pepper after more than two decades of affiliated practice, 26 lawyers in Portland, Ore., have hung out their own shingle this month and begun honing…
An “extremely bored” Oregon juror “just couldn’t take it” anymore and went AWOL at lunchtime after half a day in Washington County Circuit Court, he told the police officers who…
Portland, Ore., is among the cities attracting young well-educated “hipsters” willing to overlook a tough job market to live in a popular place. And some of the new arrivals are…
A CIA agent who pleaded guilty to espionage in 1977 has been indicted on charges that he continued to sell secrets to the Russians from an Oregon federal prison.
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