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Legal Community Joins Together To Offer Free Class To Portland High School Students.

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PORTLAND Portland, town, England
Portland, town (1991 pop. 12,945), Dorset, S England. It is on the Isle of Portland, a small rocky peninsula. Portland stone has been used in St. Paul's Cathedral and other important London buildings. Lobsters and crabs are harvested.
, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2003

Thirty speakers, fifteen law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
  1. Clifford Chance, £1,030.2m – International law firm (headquartered in the UK);
  2. Linklaters, £935.
, one church and a bakery have banded together to offer a free morning lecture series in constitutional studies to Portland high school Several schools in the U.S. are named Portland High School including:
  • Portland High School — Portland, Connecticut
  • Portland High School — Portland, Maine
  • Portland High School — Portland, Michigan
 students during their unexpected "days off."

The lecture series will take place each weekday 8 a.m.-noon, March 17-20 and May 14-June 11 - days of school that otherwise would be lost due to the state's budget crisis. The classes are open to all Portland high school students who either have taken or are interested in taking a course on the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area.  Constitution. It is offered free of charge to students and to the public. Each class will begin at 8 a.m. with fresh baked goods and a lecture and discussion, after which students will go in small groups to the offices of private downtown law firms that have made their library facilities available for study. Homework will be assigned as·sign  
tr.v. as·signed, as·sign·ing, as·signs
1. To set apart for a particular purpose; designate: assigned a day for the inspection.

2.
. Credit for the hours of direct instruction may be available.

The lecture speakers include lawyers, judges, authors, and legal educators. The participating law firms are Ater Ater (ā`tər), in the Bible.

1 Ancestor of a family that returned with Zerubbabel.

2 Ancestor of a family of porters.
 Wynne Wynne may refer to: Places
  • Wynne, Arkansas
Surname
  • Angus G. Wynne
  • Arthur Wynne
  • Edward Wynne
  • Ellis Wynne
  • Emanuel Wynne
  • Frank Wynne
  • Greville Wynne
  • Ian Wynne
  • Jay Wynne
  • Kathleen Wynne
  • Marvell Wynne
, Ball Janik, Bullivant Houser, Davis Wright, Dunn Dunn may refer to:

Places
  • Dunn, Indiana (extinct)
  • Dunn, North Carolina
  • Dunn, Dane County, Wisconsin
  • Dunn, Dunn County, Wisconsin
People
  • See Dunn (surname)
Other
  • Dunn Engineering, racecar makers
 Carney car·ney  
n. Informal
Variant of carny.
, Lane Powell Lane Powell, a full-service law firm, works with emerging and established businesses and individuals in the areas of business, labor and employment, and litigation. [1] , Lindsay Lindsay, town (1991 pop. 16,696), SE Ont., Canada, on the Scugog River, NE of Toronto. It is an industrial town, with woolen, flour, and lumber mills, in an agricultural and scenic lake district.  Hart, Markowitz Markowitz - The author of the original Simscript language.  Herbold, Meyer & Wyse, Miller Nash, Perkins Coie Perkins Coie is an influential law firm based in Seattle, Washington. The firm is number 86 on the list of the world's largest law firms by 2006 revenue and is listed as number 64 on the Fortune Magazine "100 Best Places to Work in America 2007. , Preston Gates, Schwabe Williamson, Stoel Rives Language
Rive (plural : rives) is a French word meaning "bank" (of a river). Geography
Rives is the name of several places: France
Rives is the name of 2 communes in France:
  • Rives, Isère in the Isère département
, and Tonkon Torp. The bakery is Great Harvest Bread Company.

Lecture topics include "George Washington and His Times", "Government...for the People", "The Death Penalty", and "Education and the Right to Privacy". A complete list of the series is included with this release.

Portland Public Schools Portland Public Schools can refer to the school district in at least three school districts.
  • Portland Public Schools, Oregon in Portland, Oregon.
  • Portland Public Schools, Maine in Portland, Maine.
  • Portland Public Schools, Michigan in Portland, Michigan.
 are scheduled to lose 24 days of instruction this spring. Although we cannot begin to compensate for the loss of learning this represents, the members of the community mentioned above will offer a course of instruction on the Constitution to continue the civic education of Portland's high school students. In doing so, the organizers hope to symbolize their belief in children and the importance of public education.

The First Congregational con·gre·ga·tion·al  
adj.
1. Of or relating to a congregation.

2. Congregational Of or relating to Congregationalism or Congregationalists.

Adj. 1.
 United Church of Christ United Church of Christ, American Protestant denomination formed in 1957 by a merger of the General Council of Congregational Christian Churches (see Congregationalism) and the Evangelical and Reformed Church.  is located at 1126 S.W. Park Avenue. Students interested in attending should register by contacting Jill Gomery, Curriculum Vice President, Lincoln High School Lincoln High School may refer to:
  • Lincoln High School (Los Angeles) in Los Angeles, California
  • Lincoln High School (Alabama) in Lincoln, Alabama
  • Lincoln Normal School in Marion, Alabama
  • Lincoln High School (Lincoln, Arkansas) in Lincoln, Arkansas
, at 916-5200 or, jgomery@pps.k12.or.us.


                                              Portland School District
First Congregational United Church of Christ
1126 S.W. Park Avenue
(corner of Park and Madison)

                          Portland Citizens
                       CONSTITUTIONAL LECTURES

                                                       TIME: 8:00 a.m.
                                                       ---------------

SPEAKER             WORK                TOPIC                    DATE
---------------     ---------------     --------------------    ------
Barnes Ellis        Stoel Rives LLP     The Right to Counsel     March
                                                                  17

Jefferson Smith     Stoel Rives LLP     The Progressive Era:     March
                                         Roosevelt, Hand and      18
                                         Wilson

Stephen Kafoury     Stephen Kafoury     The Legislative Process  March
                     Government          in Theory and Practice   19
                     Relations

Brian Posewitz      Tonkon Torp LLP     Freedom of Speech in     March
                                         the Schools              20
Brian Booth                             Justice William O.
                                         Douglas and Freedom of
                                         Speech

Darian Stanford     Stoel Rives LLP     Religious Liberty in     May
                                         America                  14

Hon. Neil           Neil Goldschmidt,   "Government... for       May
 Goldschmidt         Inc.                 the People"             15

Hon. Ancer Haggerty  United States       A Dialogue on Freedom   May
                     District Court                               16
Hon. Ellen Rosenblum Multnomah County
                     Circuit Court

Phillip Margolin    Author              How a Real Case Travels  May
                                         from the Multnomah       19
                                         County Courthouse to
                                         the United States
                                         Supreme Court

Phillip Chadsey     Stoel Rives LLP     From Magna Carta to      May
                                         Stix Occidentalis        20
                                         Couvina

William Long        Willamette Law      The Death Penalty        May
                     School                                       21
Norman Frink        Multnomah County
                     District Attorney's
                     Office

Stephen Kanter      Northwestern        The Unfulfilled Promise  May
                     School of Law       of the Declaration of    22
                                         Independence

Roy Pulvers         Lindsay Hart Neil   The Initiative           May
                     & Weigler LLP                                23

Hon. Susan Graber   Ninth Circuit       Law and Poetry           May
                     Court of Appeals                             27
Stephen Griffith    Stoel Rives LLP

Robert Stacey       1000 Friends of     Does Mt. Hood Have       May
                     Oregon              Property Rights?         28

Alison Brody        Miller Nash LLP     Oregon Schools, Oregon   May
Michael Porter                           Courts                   29

Hon. Jack Landau    Oregon Court of     It All Happened Here:    May
                     Appeals             Oregon Cases in the      30
                                         U.S. Supreme Court

Charles Hinkle      Stoel Rives LLP     Private Rights and       June
                                         Public Duties            2

James Carter        Nike, Inc.          Commercial Speech and    June
                                         the Global Economy       3

James Westwood      Stoel Rives LLP     George Washington and    June
                                         His Times                4

Stephen Bushong     Oregon Department   Drugs and Federalism:    June
                     of Justice          The Constitution, the    5
Erin Lagesen        Stoel Rives LLP      Controlled Substances
                                         Act and State Regulation
                                         of  Medical Practice

Hon. Wallace        Oregon Supreme      An Independent           June
 Carson              Court               Judiciary                6

Hon. Thomas Balmer  Oregon Supreme      Oliver Wendell Holmes    June
                     Court               and the Common Law       9

Timothy Volpert     Davis Wright        Education and the Right  June
Shelly Larkins       Tremaine LLP        to Privacy:              10
                                          Vernonia School
                                          District v. Acton

Harold Hart         Citizen             If Lincoln Were Alive    June
                                         Today                    11

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