Message from the Dean
Dean’s Advisory Council Meets
By Laird Kirkpatrick, Philip H. Knight Dean
Nicholas Rockefeller Leads Fundraising Effort
University of Oregon Law School
The first meeting of the Dean’s Advisory Council on January 31
was both a pleasure and an enlightening experience for me. The
law school council welcomed new members Don Corson
’85 and Chris Kent ’85, both former students of mine. Ken
Stephens ’67 also was gracious enough to join. All three of
these Oregon attorneys remind me again of the quality of our
school and the important contributions our graduates make to
the legal profession. Ken, who practices corporate and
securities law, is a founding partner of Tonkon Torp in Portland.
Chris is a trial lawyer with his own Portland practice and is
also a member of the law school's Appropriate Dispute Resolution
board. He and his wife Mary Rice-Kent attended law school
together—almost certainly the first married couple to do
so. Don, past president of the Oregon Trial Lawyer's As-
sociation, is a partner in the Eugene firm Johnson, Clifton,
Larson and Corson.
They join a distinguished 23-member board led by
Nicholas Rockefeller, whose sound counsel will support
our school through its continued growth as well as the
largest fundraising campaign in UO history.
Fortunate as I am to have this strong group of advi-
sors, I think the group felt equally privileged to be part of
a remarkably active law school. While we were meeting,
law students were busy organizing a visit of the Navajo
Supreme Court, developing a loan repayment assistance
program and putting together an intellectual property
and digital media symposium. We welcomed two new
faculty members in business and evidence, as well as an
assistant dean of finance and operations. Meanwhile, the
faculty was teaching, publishing, and organizing our
first-ever Portland lecture series.
We are going places. With your help, we'll go even
further and faster.
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