Attorney Profiles

Continuing Education:

Mr. Andersen has continued to be current in personal injury law by regularly attending state and national continuing legal education courses, taking far more classes than the law requires. His continuing education has included trial advocacy seminars at Stanford and Harvard Universities, as well as courses taken in San Francisco, Chicago, San Diego, Monterey, Toronto and, of course, at various locations in Oregon.

He has also lectured at seminars on the subject of personal injury law and has written and published in scholarly journals.

Practice:

Mr. Andersen is admitted to practice in both State and Federal Courts, and has served as lead counsel for people injured in Oregon, California, Washington and Hawaii. He has also handled cases in the Oregon Court of Appeals, the Oregon Supreme Court, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (covering the Western United States), and the U.S. court of Claims.

In 2007, Mr. Andersen was named as one of Oregon's "Super Lawyers" from the publishers of Law and Politics. In the selection process, Law and Politics invited more than 10,000 Oregon Lawyers to participate in the nominating process and each candidate so named was subjected to exhaustive peer review. In the field of general plaintiff personal injury, Mr. Andersen was selected in the top 25 attorneys in the entire state of Oregon, only four of whom practiced outside the Portland area. Mr. Andersen was the only attorney selected for this prestigious honor in the entire southern half of the state.

Mr. Andersen has also been inducted into the "Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum," a rare honor reserved for attorneys who have achieved multi-million dollar settlements or verdicts. This forum only came into existence in 2007 and recognized past achievements.

Areas of Practice

• Consumer Protection
• Sexual Harassment
• Class Actions -- Plaintiff
• Elder Law
• Insurance Law
• Personal Injury -- Plaintiff
• Motor Vehicle Accidents -- Plaintiff
• Products Liability Law
• Medical Malpractice
• Toxic Torts
• Wrongful Death

Bar Admissions

• Oregon, 1979
• U.S. District Court District of Oregon, 1979
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 1995
• U.S. Court of Federal Claims, 1998

Education

• Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Provo, Utah, 1979
  J.D.
  
  
• Brigham Young University, 1976
  B.A.
  
  
• National College of Advocacy - Advanced Trial Training
  Standford University (1986); Harvard University (1990)
  
  

Classes/Seminars Taught

• Lecturer, Personal Injury Law, Scholarly Journals

Honors and Awards

• Advocate in the National College of Advocacy, 1992
• Member of Million Dollar Advocates Forum, 1997
• Senior Counsel in American College of Barristers, 2001
• Lawyer Representative of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 2001 - 2004
• Society of Outstanding Lawyers of America, 2004

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Oregon State Bar Association
  
  
• Oregon Trial Lawyers Association
  
  
• American Association for Justice
  
  
• Jackson County Bar Association
  
  
• Southern Oregon Federal Bar Association
  Past President
  
  
• Oregon State Bar, Product Liability Section
  Past Executive Committee
  
  

Birth Information

• 1952