Please join the FBA’s Young Lawyers Division for a brown bag lunch with the Honorable Michael Simon.  We will hear about Judge Simon’s career and his work on the bench.

Where: Mark O. Hatfield U.S. District Courthouse, 8th Floor Attorney Lounge

When: Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 12:00 p.m.

Questions?  Please contact Anna Makowski at annamakowski@markowtizherbold.com.

No RSVP necessary!  Just come on by!

Michael H. Simon is a United States District Judge in the District of Oregon. He received his law degree cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1981 and his undergraduate degree summa cum laude from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1978. After law school, Judge Simon was a trial attorney with the United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division in Washington, D.C. until 1986, when he and his wife moved to Oregon. In 1986, Judge Simon joined the Perkins Coie law firm in Portland where he had a trial and appellate practice in federal and state courts, handling a wide variety of business cases and several First Amendment and other constitutional law matters until his confirmation as a federal judge in 2011.  He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, a Master in the Owen M. Panner chapter of the American Inns of Court, and a past adjunct professor of law at Lewis and Clark Law School where he taught Antitrust Law.