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Senior Counsel

Lawyer Overview

Corbett Gordon is Senior Counsel, and was the founding partner of the Portland office. She has practiced labor and employment law in Portland since 1982 and is an experienced jury trial lawyer. In addition to the practice of law, she served for many years as an adjunct professor with the Willamette University College of Law, where she taught the course in Employment Law. She is admitted to practice before the federal District Court in Oregon, the Eastern District of Washington, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the US Supreme Court.

She is an active member of the American Bar Association and the Oregon and Washington State Bars. She has served on the Executive Committees of the Labor and Employment Law and Disabilities Law Sections of the Oregon State Bar (OSB), served on the Washington State Bar Civil Rights Committee, chaired the Executive Committee of the Civil Rights Section of the OSB, and served as Chair of the Multnomah Bar Association Committee to Advance Equality in the Profession and the Justice System. She is also a member of the Federal Bar Association and Oregon Women Lawyers and serves on the Executive Committee of the Gus J. Solomon Inns of Court.

In 1999, Corbett argued and won a case arising under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) before the United States Supreme Court. In a unanimous 9-0 decision overturning the decision from the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the Supreme Court found for the petitioner, whom Corbett had represented through the entire proceeding Albertsons, Inc. v. Kirkingburg, 119 S. Ct. 2162, 527 U.S. 555 (June 22, 1999). The case was one of the trilogy (including Sutton and Murphy) from the 1998 -1999 term clarifying the application of the ADA. She is listed in Chambers USA, Employment: Defendant since 2003, and in Best Lawyers in America since 2001.

Areas of Practice

• Labor & Employment Law
• Federal Appellate Practice
• Employment Discrimination and Harassment
• Employment Policies/Procedures/Practices
• Labor Management Relations
• Collective Bargaining & Arbitration

Bar Admissions

• Oregon, 1982
• Washington, 2003
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
• U.S. District Court District of Oregon
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Washington
• U.S. District Court Western District of Washington

Education

• Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1980
  J.D.
• Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1969
  B.A.

Address

Suite 1250
111 SW 5th Avenue
Portland, OR 97204

Phones

(503) 205-8046

Faxes

(503) 242-4263

Emails

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Websites

http://www.laborlawyers.com