Overview
Barnes Ellis is a retired partner no longer practicing law. To connect with a litigation attorney, please click here.
Barnes Ellis is a retired partner of the firm who practiced in the area of complex business litigation.
Education
- Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1964, magna cum laude
- Yale University, B.A., English literature, 1961, magna cum laude, with honors
Insights
Insights & Presentations
- Barnes lectured extensively on corporate governance, damages, mediation, antitrust, securities enforcement, trial practice, evidence, and expert witnesses.
Recognition
- Ken Morrow Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Recipient, 2017
- Listed in Best Lawyers in America® (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 (Litigation: General Commercial), 2004–2011
- 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
- Received Oregon State Bar President’s Award for Public Service, 2015
Affiliations
Professional
- American College of Trial Lawyers, former Fellow
- Owen M. Panner Inns of Court, Barrister
Civic
- Oregon State Bar Disciplinary System Review Committee, former Member
- World Affairs Council of Oregon, former Trustee
- Mercy Corps Northwest, former Director
- Oregon Public Defense Services Commission, former Chair
- Public Defense Study Committee, former Chair
- Oregon Law Enforcement Commission, former Member
- Oregon Commission on the Judicial Branch (which successfully proposed major legislative restructuring of the state court system), former Chairman
- Oregon State Bar, former Board of Governors
- Board of Trustees, Metropolitan Public Defender Services, Inc., former Chairman
- White House Fellow, former Assistant to United States Attorney General