Barnes H. Ellis

Experience

Barnes Ellis is a retired partner of the firm who practiced in the area of business litigation. He is now General Counsel at Mercy Corps, a large international aid and development agency.

Professional Honors & Activities

• Listed in Best Lawyers in America® (currently: Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation), 1989-2012
• Listed in Oregon Super Lawyers® (Business Litigation), 2006-2011
• Portland's pick, Top Litigators in Oregon, The National Law Journal, 2006
• Selected as one of "America's Leading Lawyers for Business" (Oregon) by Chambers USA (currently: Litigation: General Commercial), 2004-2011; one of only three Oregon attorneys selected as a "Star Individual" in Litigation -- the highest ranking available in Chambers
• Received The Judge Learned Hand Award from The American Jewish Committee
• Named Honorary Alumnus of Northwest School of Law of Lewis & Clark College, 1998, and is a member of the College's Board of Visitors
• Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers, 1980-2011
• Chair, Oregon Public Defense Services Commission, 2001-2011 
• Barrister, Owen M. Panner Inns of Court
• White House Fellow, Assistant to United States Attorney General, 1967-1968
• Chairman of Oregon Commission on the Judicial Branch (which successfully proposed major legislative restructuring of the state court system), 1980-1984 
• Served on Board of Governors of the Oregon State Bar, 1974-1977
• Chairman, Board of Trustees, Metropolitan Public Defender Services, Inc., 1971-1999

Presentations

• Barnes has lectured extensively on corporate governance, damages, mediation, antitrust, securities enforcement, trial practice, evidence and expert witnesses.

Civic Activities

• Trustee, World Affairs Council of Oregon, 2010
• Director, Mercy Corps Northwest, 2010

Education

• Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1964, magna cum laude
  Board of editors, Harvard Law Review, 1964
  Stanford Law School, 1961-1962
• Yale University, B.A., English literature, 1961, magna cum laude, with honors
  Phi Beta Kappa
• Phillips Exeter Academy, 1957

Admissions

• Oregon
• Washington
• U.S. District Courts for the District of Oregon, Western District of Washington and Northern District of California
• U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First and Ninth Circuits
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Federal Claims
• U.S. Tax Court

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