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After graduation, I attended Vanderbilt Law School. At law school I was editor in chief of the Vanderbilt Law Review and received honors for being first in my class in first, second and third years. After I graduated in 1963 I took a judicial clerkship with Judge Richard T. Rives of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, who was based in Montgomery, Alabama. This was an incredible experience, as the civil rights movement was in full swing. Following my clerkship, I spent a year as a teaching fellow at Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, California. There I taught legal research and writing and helped run their Moot Court Program in which students practiced briefing and arguing cases. After my fellowship, I was ready to begin private practice and wanted to be an appellate lawyer. I considered practicing in San Francisco, but felt that the larger law firms were not sufficiently congenial. At the recommendation of a neighbor, I interviewed in Portland, Oregon, and took a position with my current firm, Stoel Rives LLP. At that time it was known as Davies, Biggs, Strayer, Stoel and Boley, and while it was the largest firm in Oregon, it consisted of only 36 attorneys. The firm now has over 400 attorneys practicing in five states. |