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Clay McCaslin
founded the firm in 2005 in order to provide high quality
and cost-effective legal services to consumers, small
businesses, landlords, tenants, injured persons, and
other individuals seeking personalized attention and
legal representation in a small firm setting.
Mr. McCaslin obtained his J.D. from Tulane University
Law School (2001), where he graduated with honors, and
a B.A. in English Literature from Birmingham-Southern
College (1995), where he graduated magna cum laude with
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Following a two-year stint teaching conversational English
in Hungary and the Czech Republic, Mr. McCaslin returned to
the United States in 1997 to embark on his legal career at
Tulane Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana. While at Tulane,
Clay served as Articles Editor for the Tulane Law Review,
in which he published an in-depth scholarly analysis of Zadvydas
v. Davis, a controversial case concerning the indefinite
detention of permanent resident aliens by the INS that ultimately
reached the United States Supreme Court. Notably, the constitutional
and civil liberties issues addressed in that case have continued
to re-emerge in numerous incarnations ever since the terrorist
attacks of September 11, 2001 and the subsequent enactment
of the USA Patriot Act.
After receiving his law degree from Tulane University,
Clay was admitted to practice law in Texas (2001), Louisiana
(2002), and later, Oregon (2004). He began his career as
an associate for the law firm of Martzell & Bickford,
APC, in New Orleans, where he represented landlowners and
local government entities in complex litigation involving
claims for environmental contamination and underpayment
of oil and gas royalties by major oil companies in the coastal
wetlands of southern Louisiana. Clay later began practicing
in the area of products liability for the Dallas, Texas-based
law firm Waters & Kraus, LLP, where he represented families
of children who suffer from autism and related neurodevelopmental
disorders as a result of their exposure to thimerosal, a
mercury-based preservative once contained in most childhood
vaccines in this country.
After moving to Oregon with his wife and son in 2004, Clay
subsequently opened his own practice in Portland, where
he lives and works today.
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2004 |
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2002 |
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2001 |
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Tulane University Law School, New
Orleans, Louisiana (2001) - J.D.
Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham,
Alabama (1995) - B.A.
“My Jailor is My Judge: Kestutis Zadvydas
and the Indefinite Imprisonment of Permanent Resident Aliens
by the INS,” 75 Tulane Law Review 193 (2000)(reprinted
with permission in 21 Immigration & Nationality Law Review
241)(2000)
American Bar Association
American Trial Lawyers Association
Oregon Trial Lawyers Association
Multnomah Bar Association
Oregon State Bar Association
Louisiana State Bar Association
Texas State Bar Association
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