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MICHELLE BURROWS is an attorney in private practice in Portland, Oregon specializing in civil rights litigation largely in federal court. She has filed numerous actions against law enforcement for use of force violations, and the Oregon and Washington Departments of Corrections for violation of prisoner rights. Ms. Burrows has been in private practice since 1996 and an attorney since 1986. She is a former vice president of the Oregon Criminal Defense Attorneys Association, an attorney general appointee to the Civil Asset Forfeiture Oversight Committee to the legislature since 1996, and a prisoner advocate on medical testing procedures with the Oregon Health Sciences University. Ms. Burrows has worked on several workgroups in the Oregon legislature on criminal defense and forfeiture measures. She is a member of the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association, National Police Accountability Project and the Oregon State Bar. She is a graduate of the Trial Lawyers College and is admitted to the U.S. District Court for Oregon and Northern California, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Ms. Burrows has taught civil rights in six week advanced litigation seminars with the ACLU and the Constitutional Rights Center. She has lectured and written on civil rights issues for the Oregon Trial Lawyers, the Oregon State Bar and Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association and national prisoner rights associations. Ms. Burrows was class counsel for the first prisoner class action against ODOC in Anstett v. State of Oregon. She has handled several important and high profile civil rights cases in Oregon including Dunn v. Magana, Kaady v. Bergin, Anstett v. State of Oregon and Gill v. State of Oregon. DAVID D. PARK is a partner at the law firm of Elliott & Park where his areas of practice include police misconduct, employment discrimination and plaintiff oriented trial work. Mr. Park has tried more than 30 police misconduct cases. He is admitted to practice in Oregon, U.S. District Court and 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Park is a member of the Oregon State Bar (member and former chair, Civil Rights Section; former member, Executive Committee). He earned his B.A. degree in economics from the University of California at Berkley and his J.D. degree from Lewis & Clark Northwest School of Law. STEVEN J. SHERLAG is a sole practitioner in Portland, Oregon at the Law Office of Steven J. Sherlag, P.C. (established 2001), where he practices in the areas of complex criminal defense and prosecuting section 1983 civil rights violations. He is the author of the robbery chapter of the Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyer's Association in the Major Crimes and Defenses Manual (2004, 2010) and the chapter "Effective Opening Statements" in the OCDLA's Trial Notebook (2007). Mr. Sherlag has previously lectured on various topics, including "Defense Lawyer Ethics" at OCDLA's New Lawyers Seminar, (January 2010); "The Evidence Code, Prosecutorial Misconduct and Evidentiary Ethics" at OCDLA's Winter Conference (December 2009); "Experts, Evidence and Ethic: Picking, Directing, Preparing, and Attacking the Expert" at OCDLA's Winter Conference (December 2006); and "Arson Through the Eyes of a Trial Lawyer", to Oregon Chapter 31, IAAI, International Association of Arson Investigators (March 17, 2005). He has moderated at OCDLA's Conferences "Attacking Accepted Science and the Fallibility of Memory" (December 2004) and OCDLA's Conference "Crimes Against Children: Real, Imagined and Virtual" (September 2002). Mr. Sherlag was the Senior Felony Attorney in the Major Crimes Unit of Metropolitan Public Defender, Inc. (Portland, Oregon) where he presented on various topics including client interviews, developing case theories, cross examination and arson. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Michigan and his J.D. degree from the University of Michigan Law School's Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies. Mr. Sherlag is a member of OCDLA's Education Committee, (2000-present), the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, St. Francis Park (Board of Directors, 1997-2010), the National Lawyer's Guild (Portland Chapter, Policy Board, 1999-2005, 2011), the Northwest Center for Constitutional Rights (founding member) and the Public Safety Coordinating Council Subcommittee on Minority Overrepresentation in the Justice System (1999-2001), and is on the Board of Advisors of Better People (2000-present). He was a co-recipient of the Oregon Trial Lawyer's Association's Arthur H. Bryant Public Justice Award (2005) based on his work in a multi-plaintiff, multi-suit litigation against the city of Portland, arising out of political protests in 2002 and 2003, which resulted in the then largest gross settlement in the history of the city of Portland.
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