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Résumé
JACOB TANZER
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| BORN | |
February 13, 1935, Longview, Washington
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| EDUCATION | |
B.A. 1956, Ll.B. 1959 University of Oregon Law School (top man in bottom half of the class); also attended Reed College and Stanford University.
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| PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE | |
| 1959 | |
Member: Oregon State Bar
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| 1964 | |
Admitted to bar of United States Supreme Court
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| 1983 to 2002 | |
Partner or Of Counsel, Ball Janik LLP law firm, Portland, Oregon. Active business and government practice emphasizing
A wide variety of business litigation in state and federal trial and appellate courts. See e.g. Alsea Veneer v. State of Oregon, 117 Or App 42, 843 P2d 492, mod 318 Or 33, 862 P2d 95 (1993) which resulted in a $225,000,000 judgment; and Fireguard Sprinkler Systems v. Scottsdale Ins. Co., 864 F2d 648 (9 Cir 1988) overturning previous insurance coverage decision.
Business and regulatory disputes with federal, state and local government, both in court and informally to avoid litigation.
Governmental clients have included the State of Oregon, the Governor of Oregon, Tri-Met, Metro, League of Oregon Cities, the City of Cannon Beach Special Districts Association, and Clackamas, Jackson and Multnomah Counties.
Arbitrator and mediator of business and governmental disputes of all types ranging in magnitude from small contract disputes to multi-million dollar business tort litigation. Founding member, Toyota Motor Sales USA Reversal Arbitration Board, an innovative, award-winning in-house arbitration system for dealer-to-dealer disputes.
Arbitrator and board member, Arbitration Service of Portland. Completed AAA and USAM mediator training.
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| 1980 to 1983 | |
Justice, Oregon Supreme Court. Known particularly for governmental law opinions such as Springfield Education Ass'n v. School Dist., 290 Or 217, 621 P2d 547 (1980), one of Oregon's leading cases on administrative practice.
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| 1973 to 1979 | |
Judge, Oregon Court of Appeals. Authored interstate commerce opinion entitled American Can Co. v. OLCC, 15 Or App 618, 517 P2d 691 (1973), which appears in virtually all law school constitutional law casebooks, usually the only opinion from other than the U.S. Supreme Court.
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| 1971 to 1973 | |
First Director, Oregon Department of Human Services. Organized and administered the most comprehensive (welfare, corrections, mental health, children's services, etc.) state social services agency in America for Governor Tom McCall.
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| 1969 to 1971 | |
First Solicitor General, Oregon Department of Justice. Established and led the Appellate Division. Represented State of Oregon in state and federal appellate courts, including U.S. Supreme Court. In this and former position, argued more cases to Oregon Supreme Court than any lawyer in its history.
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| 1965 to 1969 | |
Deputy District Attorney, Multnomah County, Oregon. Prosecuted felonies in trial and appellate courts. Member, planning committee to establish Oregon Court of Appeals.
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| 1962 to 1964 | |
Trial Attorney, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. In Organized Crime & Racketeering Section, investigated and prosecuted cases of official corruption, labor racketeering, tax evasion, etc. Then, with the Civil Rights Division, handled grand jury investigation of Ku Klux Klan murder of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
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| 1959 to 1962 | |
Granata & Tanzer, private practice of law in Portland.
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| TEACHING EXPERIENCE | |
| 1969 to present | |
Lecturer, Oregon State Bar and Oregon Law Institute continuing legal education programs for lawyers.
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| 1973 to 2001 | |
Guest lecturer on appellate practice, University of Oregon Law School.
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| 1977 to 1983 | |
Faculty member, Appellate Judges Seminar, New York University Law School for two weeks each summer. Taught judicial administration, administrative law, opinion writing, judicial discretion, jurisprudence, constitutional law and other subjects to student judges from appellate courts from throughout the nation.
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| 1967 | |
Adjunct Instructor, Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College, criminal law and procedure.
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| OTHER | |
Listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 1998
Neutral (Commercial), American Arbitration Association
Recipient of E. B. MacNaughton Civil Liberties Award, Oregon ACLU.
Board of Trustees, World Affairs Council of Oregon.
Former chair, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality Advisory Committee on Industrial Air Pollution. Former chair, DEQ Committee on Toxic Use and Hazardous Waste Reduction.
Master, Owen M. Panner Inn of Court.
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