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William A. Masters
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Trial Lawyer
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PRACTICE EMPHASIS:
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- Personal Injury
- Products Liability
- Commercial
- Business and Complex Litigation
- Workers Compensation
- Employment Law
- AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
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EDUCATION:
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- University of Oregon (Pre-Med & Economics) B.S. 1968
- Willamette University College of Law J.D. magna cum laude 1973
- Willamette Law Journal Editor 1972-1973
- Willamette University College of Law, Adjunct Professor of Law 1989-1990
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MEMBERSHIPS:
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- Oregon State Bar 1973
- Washington State Bar 1984
- U.S. District Court District of Oregon 1975
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 1975
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Oregon State Bar Association:
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- Oregon State Bar Panel Counsel 1990-93
- CLE Committee 1991-94 and 2002-2005
- State Professional Responsibility Board 1997-99
- Uniform Civil Jury Instruction Committee 1998-2001
- Chair of Executive Committee of OSB Products Liability Section 2004-2005
- Member of OSB House of Delegates 2004-
- profiled in the Oregon State Bar Bulletin in May 2004
- Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Pro Tempore 1991-1994
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Multnomah Bar Association:
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- Alternate Dispute Resolution Committee 1999-2001
- Multnomah County Professional Responsibility Committee 1985-88
- CLE Committee 1989-91
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American Bar Association:
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- State Chairman of Legislation Committee 1991-1994
- Chair of Judicial Developments Subgroup of Biotechnology Committee 1998-2000
- Business Litigation Committee
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Defense Research Institute:
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- Drug & Medical Device Committee
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International Association of Defense Counsel:
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- Products Liability Committee
- Pharmaceutical, Medical Device & Biotechnology Committee
- Toxic & Hazardous Substances Committee
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MILITARY SERVICE:
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- US Army, Infantry, 1968-1970 (E-5)
- Republic of South Vietnam (1969-1970)
- Bronze Star
- Air Medal
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AUTHOR/SPEAKER (Partial Listing):
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- Author, Contractual Liability Coverage; Premises Medical Payment Coverage (Oregon State Bar, 1992)
- Author, Torts & Products Liability Legislative Review 1993 (Oregon State Bar, 1993)
- Speaker, Trial Advocacy in Oregon (National Business Institute, 1990 and 1995)
- Speaker, Medicine Made Easy (PESI, 1996)
- Author, "A Primer for Defending Claims for Unnecessary Medical Treatments," For the Defense (DRI February 1997)
- Author, "Admissibility of Scientific Evidence: State v. Lyons," OADC Newsletter (Winter 1997)
- Speaker, Evidence for Trial Practice in Oregon (National Business Institute, 1997)
- Speaker, Medical Malpractice in Oregon (National Business Institute, 1997)
- Author, "Scientific Evidence: An Update," OADC Newsletter (Winter 1998)
- Author, "Pleadings and Parties," Civil Litigation Manual (Oregon State Bar, 1999)
- Author, "The Doctrine of Indeterminate Defect," For the Defense (DRI June 2001)
- Author, Chapter IV, Section 1: "Application of Admissibility Standards to Special Areas of Expertise: 'Epidemiology' in Challenging Expert Witness Testimony," (Lexis Publishing, 2001)
- Author, Chapter IV, Section 3: "Application of Admissibility Standards to Special Areas of Expertise: 'Clinical Immunology' in Challenging Expert Witness Testimony," (Lexis Publishing, 2001)
- Author, Chapter XI, "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder,' in Advocacy in the 21st Century, (IADC 2002)
- Author, 'The Assault on General Causation,' IADC Newsletter (May 2001) Author, "Estimating Pre-Injury Cognition: The Dilemma of Neuropsychological Evaluation," IADC Newsletter (August 2002)
- Author, Chapter 15, "Performance, Breach and Anticipatory Repudiation' in Contract Law in Oregon (Oregon State Bar, 2003)
- Author, Chapter 20, 'Third Party Beneficiaries' in Contract Law in Oregon (Oregon State Bar, 2003)
- Author, 'How Epidemiologists Control for Bias and Confounders,' IADC Newsletter (July 2003)
- Author, 'A Limitless Limit: The Test for the Admissibility of Scientific Evidence in Oregon,' IADC Newsletter (December 2003)
- Author, Chapter 7, 'Pleadings and Parties,' Civil Litigation Manual (Oregon State Bar, 2004)
Speaker and Author, 'The Consumer Expectation Test: A Concept in Search of Meaning,' IADC Mid-Year Meeting (February 2004)
- Author, 'An Important Feature of Linear Dose-Response Curves,' IADC Newsletter (March 2004)
- Author, 'The Consumer Expectation Test - A Concept in Search of Meaning' OSB Products Liability Newsletter (Summer 2004) (Use of decision theory to conceptually analyze the consumer expectation test)
- Author, Chapter 5, 'Defamation' in Torts in Oregon (Oregon State Bar, forthcoming 2005)
- Author, Chapter 3, 'Venue' in Pleading and Practice in Oregon (Oregon State Bar, forthcoming 2005)
- Author, 'Differential Diagnosis - What Good Is It?' OSB Products Liability Newsletter (forthcoming 2005)
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