Jeff Merrick, JD, LLM
Attorney at Law
Merrick Law Firm
Fighting for your legal right to monetary compensation.
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Resume of Attorney Jeff Merrick
Education
Stanford University, B.A., Economics & Political Science, 1980
University of Minnesota School of Law, J.D. (Juris Doctor) with honors, 1984
Associate Editor, Minnesota Law Review
Northwestern School of Law, Lewis & Clark College, LL.M. (Master of Law), with honors, 2004
Legal Work Experience
Jeff Merrick, P.C., 4/1/2000 to present
Civil litigation is my specialty. I represent many people with many kinds of claims, including, injured people against insurance companies and the people or corporations that caused their injuries; employees wrongfully fired or harassed; brain injured people, elderly suffering from nursing home abuse and neglect, injured children and their families.
Northwestern School of Law, Lewis & Clark College, 1/2005 to 5/2005
Adjunct Professor teaching Toxic Torts.
Williams, Merrick, Dailey & O'Leary, P.C., 11/1999 to 3/31/2000
Continuation of Williams & Troutwine, P.C. following the departure of Gayle Troutwine.
Williams & Troutwine, P.C., 10/1992 to 11/1999.
I represented injured people, locally and nationally, with and against the best lawyers in the country, in some of the most complex litigation ever seen in Oregon and the United States .
Allen, Kilmer, Schrader, Yazbeck & Chenoweth, P.C., 4/1987 to 10/1992
Roughly fifty percent of my practice was representing insurance companies against injured people, and the rest involved employment law litigation, business litigation and litigation against government.
Miller, Nash, Wiener, Hager & Carlsen, 9/1985 to 4/1987
As a young associate in the labor law department, I supported partners with legal research and case preparation in the areas of employment law and traditional labor law.
Oregon Department of Justice, 9/1984 to 9/1985
Attorney General Dave Frohnmayer appointed me to a one-year term in the honors program. I defended the state, mostly in tort cases.
State Bar and other activities
2006-07 |
Safe Kids Legislative Committee. A committee of safety professionals that works on laws to protect children. In 2007, we successfully updated the law requiring children to ride in booster seats and infants in rear-facing child seats. |
2001-02 |
Council on Court Procedures. This organization drafts the Rules of Civil Procedure, which govern the practice of civil litigation. |
2000-02 |
Oregon State Bar House of Delegates. This organization regulates the practice of law. |
1998 |
Adjunct Professor, Portland State University, School of Business Administration (taught undergraduate law class) |
1995-97 |
Portland State University Human Subjects Research Review Committee. |
1994-96 |
Executive Committee – Product Liability Section of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America . |
1993-96 |
Uniform Civil Jury Instruction Committee. This committee writes the jury instructions for the judges to use |
1989-90 |
Oregon State Bar Civil Rights Section - Chair |
1988-90 |
Oregon State Bar Labor Law Section - Executive Committee member |
1986-92 |
Oregon State Bar Civil Rights Section - Executive Committee member |