OSB Events

Tonkon Torp and OMLA co-host Diversity Reception

Tonkon Torp LLP and the Oregon Minority Lawyers Association ("OMLA") will be co-hosting a reception to bring together law students and minority lawyers from around the Portland Metro area. The event will be a great opportunity to socialize and meet the diverse members of the Portland legal community and connect with law students who are working in the Portland area for the summer. Tonkon Torp will host the event on June 18, 2008, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at their offices: 888 SW Fifth Ave., Suite 1600, Portland, OR 97204.

Please RSVP to Anil Kari at anil.karia@tonkon.com or 503-802-2110.


Oregon State Bar Annual Awards Dinner

The Oregon State Bar is seeking nominations for its annual awards. The Oregon State Bar presents the Award of Merit, President’s Awards, and the Wallace P. Carson, Jr., Award for Judicial Excellence. The Oregon Bench and Bar Commission on Professionalism presents the Edwin J. Peterson Award. (See enclosed nomination form). Please help us honor our most outstanding lawyers and judges by nominating your deserving colleagues for these awards with the forms below.

2008 Edwin J. Peterson Professionalism Award

2008 Oregon State Bar Awards



50-Year Member Recognition Luncheon

Members of the Oregon State Bar’s Class of 1958 marked their 50th year of membership with
a celebration at the Tualatin Valley Country Club on April 4, 2008.
Twenty-two class members along with family, friends
and the Board of Governors attended the luncheon in their honor.


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Front Row, l-r: Gerry Gaydos (OSB president-elect), Hollis C. Ransom, Robert E. Thompson, Richard L. Biggs, Richard A. Van Hoomissen, James T. Duncan, Brian W. O’Brien, Gregory T. Hornecker, Donald K. Robertson, Harold J. Blank, Duane A. Bartsch, Richard S. Yugler (OSB president)

Back Row, l-r: Robert W. Oliver, Arnold B. Silver, Roland F. (Jerry) Banks, John R. Sidman, John R. Faust, Joel B. Reeder, R. Thomas Gooding, Carl R. Neil, Norman L. Lindstedt, Douglas H. Stearns, Gino G. Pieretti, Douglas J. White