William A. Masters

Practice Areas:

Personal Injury

Products Liability

Commercial

Business and Complex Litigation

Workers Compensation

Employment Law

Bar Admission:

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

Education:

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

Military Service:

US Army, Infantry, 1968-1970 (E-5)

Republic of South Vietnam (1969-1970)

Bronze Star

Air Medal

Publications & Teaching:

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)

California Location:
2033 Gateway Place, Suite 500 • San Jose, California 95110 • [map]
Phone: (408) 467-3845 • Fax: (503) 224-0410

Oregon Location:
5800 SW Meadows Road, Suite 220 • Lake Oswego, Oregon 97035 • [map]
 Phone: (503) 224-8949 • Fax: (503) 224-0410

Washington Location:
4200 Two Union Square • 601 Union Street • Seattle, Washington 98101-4000 • [map]
Phone: (206) 652-3265 • Fax: (206) 652-3205