Jones Day is an elite American multinational law firm. As of 2021,it was the eighth largest law firm in the United States and the 13th highest grossing law firm in the world. Originally headquartered in Cleveland,Ohio,Jones Day ranks first in both M&A league tables and the 2017 U.S. Law Firm Brand Index. Jones Day has represented over half of the companies in the Fortune 500,including Goldman Sachs,General Motors,McDonald's,and Bridgestone.
Kirkland &Ellis LLP is an American multinational law firm headquartered in Chicago,Illinois. Founded in 1909,Kirkland &Ellis is the largest law firm in the world by revenue and the seventh-largest by number of attorneys,and was the first law firm in the world to reach US$4 billion in revenue. As of 2023,Kirkland &Ellis ranks first on Am Law's list of profits per equity partner. While Kirkland &Ellis was historically considered a firm focused on litigation,during the 2010s,it expanded private equity and restructuring practices which,together with large-scale commercial litigation,comprise the core legal service areas of the firm.
Notre Dame Law School is the professional graduate law school of the University of Notre Dame. Established in 1869,it is the oldest continuously operating Catholic law school in the United States.
Edward Leavy was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and a former judge for the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review. Prior to these positions,Leavy was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon.
Eugene Scalia is an American attorney who is a partner at Gibson Dunn. He served as the United States secretary of labor during the final 16 months of the Donald Trump administration. Scalia previously served one year as solicitor of the Department of Labor during the George W. Bush administration. He is a son of the late Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.
John McDermeid Gearin was an American politician and attorney from the state of Oregon. A native of the eastern portion of the state,he represented Portland on the western side of the state in the Oregon House of Representatives. Originally an independent politician,he later became a Democrat and lost an election to serve in the United States Congress before winning appointment to the Senate in 1905. He also was Portland's city attorney and a district attorney.
Diarmuid Fionntain O'Scannlain is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. His chambers are located in Portland,Oregon.
Katherine Brown is an American politician and attorney who served as the 38th governor of Oregon from 2015 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,she served three terms as the state representative from the 13th district of the Oregon House of Representatives from 1991 to 1997,three terms as the state senator from the 21st district of the Oregon Senate from 1997 to 2009,three terms as majority leader of the Oregon Senate from 2003 to 2009,and two terms as Oregon Secretary of State from 2009 to 2015. She assumed the governorship upon the resignation of John Kitzhaber in 2015. She was elected to serve out the remainder of his gubernatorial term in the special election in 2016 and was reelected to a full term in 2018.
Rene Alexander Acosta is an American attorney and politician,who served as the 27th United States Secretary of Labor from 2017 to 2019. President Donald Trump nominated Acosta to be Labor Secretary on February 16,2017,and he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 27,2017.
Kim McLane Wardlaw is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since 1998. She is the first Hispanic American woman to be appointed to a federal appeals court. Wardlaw was considered as a possible candidate to be nominated by Barack Obama to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Karin Johanna Immergut is an American lawyer and trial judge serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon.
Brian Timothy Fitzpatrick is an American academic and lawyer. Fitzpatrick is known for his unorthodox advocacy of class action lawsuits from a conservative point of view,and is the author of a book on the subject,The Conservative Case for Class Actions.
George Thomas Conway III is an American lawyer and activist. Conway was considered by President Donald Trump for the position of Solicitor General of the United States,and a post as an assistant attorney general heading the Civil Division at the United States Department of Justice,but withdrew himself from consideration.
Amy Vivian Coney Barrett is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The fifth woman to serve on the court,she was nominated by President Donald Trump and has served since October 27,2020. Barrett was a U.S. circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 2017 to 2020.
The University of Notre Dame's annual commencement exercises are held each May,currently in the Notre Dame Stadium. The exercises award undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Ryan Wesley Bounds is an American attorney serving as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Oregon. Bounds had been a nominee for a position as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Billy John Williams is an American attorney who served as the United States attorney for the District of Oregon from 2015 to 2021. He was most recently confirmed to the position by the U.S. Senate in March 2018. Williams was originally named Acting U.S. Attorney of the district in April 2015 and was appointed to the position by Chief U.S. District Judge Michael W. Mosman in February 2016. In November 2017,Williams was nominated by President Donald Trump to retain the position. His nomination was supported by Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden,Oregon's U.S. Senators.
The 2017-2019 Special Counsel investigation involved multiple legal teams,specifically the attorneys,supervised by Special Counsel Robert Mueller,taking part in the investigation;the team representing President Trump in his personal capacity;and the team representing the White House as an institution separate from the President.
The United States solicitor of labor is the chief legal officer of the United States Department of Labor and the third-ranking officer of the department,behind the secretary of labor and deputy secretary of labor. The Office of the Solicitor has the second largest litigation department in the U.S. federal government,with about 500 lawyers in both national and regional offices. The Solicitor of Labor has independent authority to initiate lawsuits to enforce 180 federal workplace statutes. The position is a Presidential appointee requiring Senate confirmation,and is paid at Level IV of the Executive Schedule.
Danielle Jo Forrest,formerly known as Danielle Jo Hunsaker,is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Forrest was an Oregon state court judge for the Washington County Circuit Court from 2017 to 2019.
