News Anybody who thinks lawyers are boring should tune into the University of Oregon's legal department. The Ducks' attorneys got knocked for a loss for their role in the messy 2010 departure of athletic director Mike Bellotti. That saga ultimately played a role in the firing of U of O President Richard Larivere and its reverberations continue today, as U of O economics Prof. Bill Harbaugh details in his ...   More

News Oregon Solicitor General Jerry Lidz, who was Attorney General John Kroger's top appellate lawyer, resigned last week. Lidz's resignation comes on the heels of departures by two other top Kroger lieutenants, environmental lawyer Brent Foster and elections law specialist Margaret Olney. Lidz, whose job is the state equivalent of what Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan does at the federal level, ...   More