Edward J. Reeves
Experience
Ed Reeves is a partner of the firm based in the Portland office. Since 1984, Ed's
practice has focused on counseling employers, educating management in all areas of
labor and employment law and advising private colleges and universities on all aspects
of education law. He also offers to serve as a neutral mediator and arbitrator.
Before joining Stoel Rives, Ed was a law clerk for Chief Justice Edwin J. Peterson
of the Oregon Supreme Court (1983-1984), a legal intern at Harvard Community Health
Plan in Boston (1982-1983) and a high school English teacher for the Weymouth Public
Schools in Weymouth, Massachusetts (1978-1980).
Professional Honors and Activities
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Listed in Best Lawyers in America© (currently: Employment Law-Management,
Labor Law-Management), 2007-2016
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Partner
Selected as one of "America's Leading Lawyers for Business" (Oregon)
Portland, OR
by Chambers USA (currently: Labor and Employment), 2005-2016
(503) 294-9260 direct
Listed in Oregon Super Lawyers® (Employment & Labor, Schools & Education),
2008-2015
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Member, American Bar Association
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Member, section of Labor and Employment Law and Employee Rights and
(503) 220-2480 fax
ed.reeves@stoel.com
Education
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Responsibilities Committee
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Member, Oregon State Bar
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Member, Washington State Bar Association
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Member, Multnomah Bar Association
Boston University Law School, J.D.,
1983
Staff Member and Editor, Annual
Review of Banking Law, 1981-1983
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Yale University, B.A., History, and
Certificate in Teacher Preparation,
1978
Publications
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Labor and Employment Law - Private Sector (Chapter coauthor), Wage & Hour
Laws, Oregon State Bar CLE, 2011
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"Before ENDA: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Protections in the
Workplace Under Federal Laws," Law & Sexuality Journal, 2011
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"Company Policies" (Chapter coauthor), Advising Oregon Businesses, Oregon State
Bar CLE, 2003
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Labor and Employment Law - Private Sector (Chapter coauthor), Oregon State Bar
CLE, 2002
Admissions
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Oregon
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Washington
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U.S. District Court of Oregon
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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit
Edward J. Reeves
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"Equality or Further Discrimination? Sexual Orientation Nondiscrimination in Oregon Statutory Employment Law After Tanner v.
OHSU" (coauthor), Small & Emerging Business Law, 1999
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"Some Oregon Guidelines," Oregon State Bar Bulletin, Apr. 1996
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"Chief Justice as Administrator: 1983-84 Efforts to Improve the Judicial System," Oregon Review, 1994
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"Whose Bill of Rights?" Oregon State Bar Bulletin, Feb./Mar. 1991
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"Preventing AIDS Discrimination in the Workplace," Oregon State Bar Bulletin, Feb./Mar. 1989
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"The Federal Reserve and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act: A Marriage of Inconvenience," Annual Review of Banking Law, 1983
on the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court reviewing the issue of whether same-sex couples hve a constitutional right to
marriage or whther states can ban gay marriage. 2015
Civic Activities
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Member, Oregon Repertory Singers
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Volunteer attorney, Central City Concern, Outside In, Cascade Aids Project and American Civil Liberties Union