Alumni
Corporate Powerhouse
“The generation before me did all the hard work of trailblazing,” said Eva M. Kripalani JD’86, executive vice president and general counsel for Knowledge Learning Corp. in Portland, Ore. “In speaking with some of these women, I got the sense that they had fought battles to get to where they were. I didn’t have to fight any battles.”
Students
Building Connections Among Students
“In the back of my mind, I always wanted to do criminal law because I knew it would never get boring,” said Charles Sherer, a member of the Class of 2006. Sherer spent his second summer of law school working for the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office in Seattle. “I’m really comfortable in the courtroom. I like thinking on my feet and working on the fly.”
Faculty
A Supreme Legal Educator
I’ve circled around Willamette my whole life,” said Assistant Professor of Law Jeffrey C. Dobbins, a native Portlander. “I’ve always had a consistent level of respect for the College of Law. It is the most well-rounded law school in the state. Its relationship with state government and its location near the Capitol and state appellate courts afford students an important experience that is easily missed in other law schools.”
Dobbins, who clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court, knows firsthand how working with lawmakers can strengthen a young attorney’s lawyering skills. “I hope to be able to draw on cases I’ve worked on and those at issue when I was a clerk to illustrate what relevant rules of law are and to illustrate what will be most relevant to my students’ careers once they graduate,” he said.
