Oregon Trial Lawyers Association

04/17/2026

It’s been a busy week at OTLA! We had a full house at the Legal Staff CLE on Wednesday and folks gathered for the Minority Caucus networking event on Thursday at Honorable Mention in downtown Portland.

Don’t miss out on future events! Head to www.oregontriallawyers.org/calendar to see what’s next on the OTLA calendar.

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04/16/2026

⚠️ OTLA Members - It's time to renew your membership! ⚠️

It only takes a couple of minutes, and your support helps sustain the advocacy, education and community that make a real difference for your clients.

Don’t miss a beat! Renew by June 30th at www.oregontriallawyers.org/renewal.

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12/23/2025

Thank you to our members and partners for another great year.
Happy holidays from the OTLA team!

10/01/2025

We couldn't have said it better ourselves. Let's work together in the fight for access to justice.
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08/28/2025

Welcome to the OTLA Board of Governors Jeremy Babener, Emmanuel Miller, Chloe Thompson, Paul Thompson and Maria Witt!

Special thanks to outgoing Board members Kelly Andersen, Sonya Fischer, Derek Johnson and Shenoa Payne for their dedicated service and the significant roles each of them played in OTLA’s success.

08/26/2025

Introducing OTLA’s 2025-2026 President Brent Barton and members of this year’s Executive Committee, Lara Johnson, President Elect Rob Beatty-Walters and Secretary Treasurer Ron Cheng.

We are pleased to welcome the newest member of the committee, Parliamentarian Nadia Dahab.

Special thanks to Melissa Bobadilla for her dedication and hard work as our 2024-2025 President.

01/30/2023

12/20/2022

Gov. Brown made the point of diversifying Oregon’s judiciary. Of her first 100 judicial appointments through this past May, 52 were women and 25 were people of color, including 10 who were Black. Eight openly identified as part of the LGBTQ community

Of Gov. Kate Brown's first 100 judicial appointments through this past May, 52 were women and 25 were people of color, including 10 who were Black. Eight openly identified as part of the LGBTQ community, according to a May press release from Brown’s office.

12/15/2022

Today Attorney General Rosenblum announced the largest state settlement against Monsanto in any PCB contamination suit. Stoll Berne, as Special Assistant Attorney General, along with Seattle-based firm Keller Rhorback worked with DOJ on this one. It's the largest environmental recovery in Oregon's history.

Monsanto to pay state a $698 million lump sum for decades of PCB contamination Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today announced a historic $698 million dollar settlement with the Monsanto Company (Monsanto) for their role in polluting Oregon with PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) for the past....

11/16/2022

New study examines the dangers of big trucks, horrific crashes, weak government regulation, insurance price-gouging of trucking companies, the importance of juries, and why juries decide what they do. Several fact sheets that break down individual topics from the study are also available.

CJ&D is a tax-exempt nonprofit group that works to protect the civil justice system and fight tort reform.

09/13/2022

The company has spent billions on cases about one of its most popular products. As its executives try a brazen new legal strategy to stop the litigation, corporate America takes note.

06/21/2022

"We seek to hold abusers accountable and sometimes we seek to hold the state accountable if the state has acted negligently in its oversight of the child welfare system" said our Political Director Arthur Towers in a testimony against a rule change which would make DHS records harder to access

Despite pledges to increase transparency, officials at the Oregon Department of Human Services are considering a move that would make it harder for the public to access child abuse investigations. Similar records in the past have helped reveal systemic child abuse.