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TIMOTHY F. BREWER is principal and lead attorney for Adoption Agency Legal Group in Eugene, Oregon, and maintains a law practice as Timothy F. Brewer, P.C. He started his legal career in Eugene, Oregon, in 1985, as a litigator and insurance defense attorney. For the last 15 years, Mr. Brewer has focused his law practice on adoption and family formation law. He is one of the few Oregon attorneys whose practice is largely limited to ARTs and adoption law. Mr. Brewer provides legal representation and guidance to adopting parents, birth parents, intended parents, surrogates, donors and gestational carriers in a wide array of adoption and assisted reproduction settings. He works collaboratively with other attorneys and ARTs and adoption professionals throughout the United States to help create families, and to guide clients through the legal thicket that can accompany adoption and third party reproduction. In 1999, Mr. Brewer formed Adoption Agency Legal Group, an entity dedicated to advising and assisting adoption agencies throughout the United States. In this capacity, he has written and published a multi-volume Hague Accreditation Assistance Manual designed to assist adoption agencies in complying with sweeping new federal legislation pertaining to intercountry adoption. Mr. Brewer is a member of several state, local and national bar associations and organizations, including the Oregon State Bar Standing Committee on Adoption. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys, an invitation-only organization of attorneys throughout the United States and Canada who have distinguished themselves in the field of adoption and family formation law. Mr. Brewer is a charter member of the American Academy of Assisted Reproductive Technology Attorneys, established in May 2009. He earned his B.A. degree, with honors, from Grinnell College and his J.D. degree from the University of Oregon School of Law. JOHN CHALLY has more than 30 years of experience practicing in the areas of adoption and adoption litigation. He is licensed in Oregon and Washington, and has represented adoption agencies, adoptive parents, birth parents, and intended parents. Mr. Chally is the author of "Adoption Mediation" (Adoption Mediation seminars, 1985) and co-author of "2 Family Law, Ch.18, Adoption" (Oregon CLE), and he frequently speaks at adoption seminars. He was a member of the State of Oregon Task Force on Adoption Services and drafted legislation regarding Oregon jurisdiction in adoption proceedings, which was enacted by the 2003 legislature. Mr. Chally co-founded Open Adoption & Family Services, Inc. in 1985 and served on its board of directors for eight years. He is a member of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys. Mr. Chally earned his B.A. degree from the University of the Pacific and his J.D. degree from McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific. CATHERINE DEXTER is a partner in the law firm of Dexter & Moffet, an adoption law firm located in Wilsonville, Oregon. Having practiced adoption law since 1983, Ms. Dexter represents adoptive parents looking to adopt, birth parents seeking the right home for their child, and step-parents, as well as other adoption situations. She is a charter member of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys and active in adoption related issues with the Oregon State Bar and the Oregon Legislature. Ms. Dexter graduated from Michigan State University and earned her J.D. degree from the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College. She is a member of the Oregon State Bar and the Federal District Bar. Ms. Dexter has served on the Standing Committee on Adoption for the Family Law Section of the Oregon State Bar. SUSAN C. MOFFET is a partner in the law firm of Dexter & Moffet, an adoption law firm located in Wilsonville, Oregon. She has practiced adoption law since 1987 and is also now handling assisted reproductive technology law. Ms. Moffet graduated from Portland State University and earned her J.D. degree from the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College. She is a member of the Oregon State Bar, of the Oregon Women Lawyers organization and has served for many years on the Standing Committee on Adoption for the Family Law Section of the Oregon State Bar. Ms. Ms. Moffet is currently the chairperson of the Standing Committee on Adoption. She is a charter fellow of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys. Ms. Moffet has twice served on the Board of Trustees of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys and also has served on several of the organization's committees. ROBIN E. POPE is a sole practitioner in Beaverton, Oregon. For more than 25 years, adoption and family formation law has been the primary focus of her law practice. Ms. Pope is one of a small handful of Oregon attorneys whose practice is limited to adoption and ARTs law. She is a member of the Oregon State Bar (OSB), a fellow in the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys (“AAAA”), an invitation-only organization of attorneys throughout the United States and Canada who practice and have distinguished themselves in the area of adoption and family formation law, and a charter member of the American Academy of Assisted Reproductive Technology Attorneys (“AAARTA”), a specialty division of the AAAA. In 2009, Ms. Pope co-chaired the annual meeting for the AAAA, held in Portland, Oregon. In addition to representing adoptive parents, birth parents, surrogates and intended parents, for the past 20 years she has represented the position of the Oregon State Bar on adoption and surrogacy issues. During that time Ms. Pope co-authored and successfully lobbied for the passage of legislation governing adult adoptions, helped write and was the primary lobbying voice for Oregon's adoption counseling statute, and actively lobbied to pass changes to Oregon's adoption jurisdiction law. In addition, she has served on several statewide work groups which reviewed and revised Oregon's administrative rules for agency adoptions, independent adoptions, and Oregon's paternity statutes. For several years Ms. Pope was the chair person of the OSB Standing Committee on adoption and remains a member of that group. From 1990-1999 she served as a Pro Tem Judge in Clackamas County and currently serves as a Pro Tem Judge in Washington County. Ms. Pope has organized and presented to lawyers, prospective adoptive parents and hospital staff at numerous seminars covering adoption and family formation law.
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