Circle Members

Includes:

• Title sponsorship of a Civics Learning Project event;
• Sponsorship of the Legal Citizen of the Year award, including prominent acknowledgment on the website, in press and promotion, and in a thank-you ad in the Oregon State Bar Bulletin;
• Special access to Civics Learning Project activities and events;
• A complimentary foursome at the Jim Neill Memorial Foundation Golf Tournament benefiting Civics Learning Project; and
• Regular promotion through press, outreach, collateral, and letterhead.

The American Board of Trial Advocates is a national association of experienced trial lawyers and judges dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the civil jury trial right provided by the Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. We believe that teachers are the key to preserving the health of our democracy, as they educate the next generation about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.

Miller Nash LLP is a premier regional multi-service law firm, offering comprehensive, responsive, and innovative services to clients. Community involvement is a way of life at Miller Nash. Members of the firm run, walk, pole, pedal, paddle, hammer, and prepare food for numerous community causes. Additionally, we have a long tradition of encouraging pro bono work by all its attorneys, which includes not only litigation matters, but a variety of business matters for nonprofit organizations.

Nike believes in the power of sport to unleash human potential and build community. We fuel this belief through Made to Play, our commitment to getting kids moving through play and sport so that they can lead healthier, happier and more successful lives. Together with community partners and our employees around the world, we’re designing innovative solutions to get more than 16 million kids playing, running and jumping their way to a brighter future. Find out more about Nike’s commitment to getting kids moving and providing opportunities for equal playing fields for all at community impact.

Includes:

• Supporting sponsorship of a Civics Learning Project event;
• Sponsorship of the Legal Citizen of the Year award, including prominent acknowledgment on the website, in press and promotion, and in a thank-you ad in the Oregon State Bar Bulletin;
• Special access to Civics Learning Project activities and events;
• A complimentary foursome at the Jim Neill Memorial Foundation Golf Tournament benefiting Civics Learning Project; and
• Regular promotion through press, outreach, collateral, and letterhead.

Bambuza Hospitality Group is a family-owned and operated restaurant and retail management group known for its high-quality food and customer service excellence. Stewardship, integrity and community are our core values, and we embody them in everything we do. Whether we’re championing green initiatives, promoting equitable hiring practices, or building a robust local supply chain, we are committed to helping build a healthy, sustainable community that works for everyone. We partner with schools to advance educational opportunities and with non-profits to help people in need, supporting organizations like Because People Matter, World Vision, Passion Impact, Family Promise, the Pink Eraser Project, Water Africa, and Civics Learning Project.

Bradley Bernstein Sands, LLP is a woman-owned firm with offices in Washington, Oregon and California. BBS values deep collaboration and genuine curiosity about clients, each other, and the world around us.

Their focus on solving complex problems for sophisticated private and public entity clients springs from a deep and genuine enthusiasm for helping to solve clients’ toughest legal challenges. BBS takes pride in producing excellent legal work that reflects their dedication to detail, strategic creativity, and great results for all of their clients.

With more than 75 attorneys in offices in Washington, Oregon, and California, Bullivant Houser has an intimate understanding of the jurisdictions up and down the West Coast. We bring that institutional and industry knowledge when advising clients on ways to stay out of court in the first place and when resolving complex disputes as they develop.

From leadership positions in charitable and professional organizations to pro bono matters and other volunteer initiatives, our employee’s contributions extend beyond the clients they serve to the role they play in shaping our local communities.

Cosgrave Vergeer Kester LLP is a full-service law firm that has been an integral part of the Portland community since 1934.  Through charitable donations, volunteer activities, and individual service, we work to help our communities thrive. In addition to the Civics Learning Project, organizations we support with volunteered time and donations include the Campaign for Equal Justice, Multnomah Bar Association – CourtCare, St. Andrew Legal Clinic, Oregon Women Lawyers, Oregon Food Bank, National MS Society, Providence Medical Foundation, Harrington Family Foundation, Dress For Success, Project Lemonade, and the PSU Foundation.

Dunn Carney LLP is a Portland full-service law firm with broad expertise in Litigation, Real Estate, Business and Estate Planning and Administration.  We are proud to support organizations that promote access to justice, diversity, community health and welfare, and industry excellence, so our support of the Civics Learning Project is a natural fit for our firm. Our lawyers contribute to many community organizations through leadership, pro bono legal services, volunteer service and  financial sponsorships.

IMS Legal Strategies | Tsongas is a professional services firm that partners with the most influential global law firms and corporations to elevate their legal strategies. Through every stage of dispute resolution, IMS provides the full suite of sophisticated advisory services lawyers need to prevail—world-class expert witness placement, specialized litigation consulting, cutting-edge visual advocacy, and flawless presentation delivery using state-of-the-art technology. Whether identifying expert witnesses from any industry and discipline, developing themes and demonstratives, preparing witnesses for depositions and hearings, conducting focus groups and mock trials, or guiding jury selection and voir dire, we work collaboratively with our law firm partners to strengthen their cases. IMS offers a fully integrated international team with decades of practical experience in more than 45,000 cases and 6,500 trials. Our trusted expertise is hard-earned. Together, we win. Visit imslegal.com for more.

At Lane Powell, our people are deeply engaged in the work we do, and that passion flows out as an active involvement in the greater community. With a history of more than 140 years in the Pacific Northwest, we have long been guided by a strong spirit of giving back. The result is a vigorous and consistent commitment to the health and progress of the people and places where we live and work. Community involvement is an essential part of our mission and culture. We actively support individual and firm-wide engagement. We seek out opportunities to get involved and promote a strong corporate and personal giving culture. Through pro bono, board memberships, volunteering, sponsorships and donations, we work to advance important civic and legal initiatives, early childhood education, immigration rights, homelessness advocacy, eldercare, the arts and more.  Lane Powell continually reexamines and reinvigorates our community involvement efforts, as we seek to create an ever-more thoughtful and strategic approach that amplifies our community impact and service.

Markowitz Herbold is a litigation law firm that tries high-stakes business disputes for individuals, companies and state, local and regional governments, to juries, judges and arbitrators. The firm is based in Portland, Oregon, and our lawyers practice before state and federal trial courts in the Northwest and across the country.  The firm has a strong reputation for giving back to the community. We are not only a leader in supporting legal organizations, but we also give back to area non-profits through in-kind donations, contributions and volunteer time.

A leading international law firm, Perkins Coie utilizes its many resources to provide frontline support to the disadvantaged and underrepresented among us. Upholding the firmwide commitment pro bono and public service, our Portland office promotes, supports and facilitates volunteerism at dozens of nonprofits throughout Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Our employees are passionate about sharing our knowledge and resources with the communities in which we live and work.

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt attorneys are encouraged to take on pro bono work as a part of the firm culture. As a Pacific Northwest law firm, we seek to improve lives in our communities by using our skills to serve populations and nonprofits that do not have equal access to legal services. Our attorneys engage in pro bono work in everything from asylum and refugee cases to supporting small, performing arts nonprofits. We encourage a minimum amount of 50 pro bono hours per year.

We commit our dollars and our attorney time to pro bono legal services. In 1991, Schwabe became the founder, and provided the funding for a low income legal clinic which serves the Hispanic population in east Multnomah County, Oregon. We also support a low-income legal clinic in Seattle, The Legal Action Center. Every year since, attorneys from our firm have volunteered their time to help these low-income clients in our offices on a weekly basis. Today the program is coordinated in partnership with the Oregon Law Center, an independent nonprofit organization that provides staff assistance and Spanish translation services to our volunteer attorneys. Many of these cases deal with immigration as a large portion of our pro bono clients are undocumented. Our attorneys provide substantial legal assistance to help more than 100 pro bono clients per year get their homes back, address automobile obligations and collections issues, and solve problems relating to individual civil rights.  We are proud to provide excellent legal services to this deserving client base.

Stoel Rives is a leading U.S. corporate and litigation law firm. One of the largest national firms focused on energy, natural resources, climate change and the environment, Stoel Rives also serves the agribusiness, food and beverage and healthcare industries. With a headquarters in Portland, our attorneys represent Oregon’s most prominent companies and are also active community members in Portland and throughout Oregon.  Among the Boards and Commissions on which we have served are the Campaign for Equal Justice; Legal Aid Services of Oregon; the ACLU of Oregon; the Oregon Economic and Community Development Commission; the Oregon Transportation Commission; 1000 Friends of Oregon; the Oregon Symphony; Oregon Ballet Theater; Portland Center Stage; the Portland Art Museum; and United Way of the Columbia-Willamette.

Tonkon Torp is one of the largest firms headquartered in Oregon, with over 80 lawyers dedicated to a sophisticated business practice. One of our firm’s core values is being a good steward — for our employees, our clients, and our community. We support a wide range of Pacific Northwest nonprofit organizations through sponsorships, donations of in-kind services, and volunteer participation by our attorneys and staff members.

Umpqua Bank’s people are the center of our community engagement programs. Our people understand the needs of their communities and are passionate about improving them. By supporting their efforts, we amplify what they can accomplish on their own and extend our impact exponentially. We draw attention to the issues that matter to our people and act as an accelerant for the positive change they wish to create.

Includes:

• Supporting sponsorship of a Civics Learning Project event;
• Sponsorship of the Legal Citizen of the Year award, including prominent acknowledgment on the website, in press and promotion, and in a thank-you ad in the Oregon State Bar Bulletin;
• Special access to Civics Learning Project activities and events; and
• Regular promotion through press, outreach, collateral, and letterhead.

* Events include: high school Mock Trial and We the People Constitution Team competitions, Courthouse Experience Tours, Project Citizen Showcase, Law Day Student Conferences (Portland and Eugene), Oregon Civics Conference for Teachers, and Summer Institute for teachers.

Becker Capital is proud to have fostered a philanthropic company culture; the Firm donates 1% of its gross revenue to worthwhile causes, has a formal employee matching program and gives time off to volunteer.

Buchalter Ater Wynne lawyers have a genuine commitment to the communities in which they live. We focus our most significant contributions and volunteer efforts on programs for children and education. The American Bar Association awarded Buchalter Ater Wynne the first National Civic Literacy Award for our work with the Oregon Children’s Foundation in co-founding SMART, a multi-state children’s literacy program.

Buckley Law P.C., located in Lake Oswego, provides a broad range of specialized services in business and commercial law, employment and labor law, real estate, civil litigation, intellectual property, family and elder law, and estate planning, probate, and trust administration. Heavily involved in the local community, the attorneys and staff at Buckley Law give back in partnership with these organizations: Civics Learning Project, FACT Oregon, Kruse Way Rotary Service Club, Lake Oswego Rotary Service Club, Mt. Hood Kiwanis Camp, Breast Friends, Campaign for Equal Justice, Arts Council of Lake Oswego, and Guide Dogs for the Blind.

NW Natural grew up in the Pacific Northwest, and we believe in investing in the communities we serve. Through our philanthropy program, we work to empower organizations that address critical needs in our service area. Our giving focuses on supporting families and children at risk to make local communities better places to live, work and learn for everyone.

For more than 129 years, PGE has been delivering safe, reliable energy to Oregonians. With 2,900 employees across the state, PGE is committed to building a cleaner, more efficient energy future. Together with its customers, PGE has the No. 1 voluntary renewable energy program in the U.S.

Deeply rooted in the great Northwest and nationally recognized for outstanding work for over 40 years, Stoll Berne has achieved extraordinary results for our clients through practical, strategic, and tenacious representation. Our firm’s achievements reflect our professional abilities. The consistent referrals we receive from satisfied clients and peers in the community better illustrate our success. We are not a full-service law firm. We focus our practice and we do our jobs very well.