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Deering, Thomas Phillips was born on February 15, 1929 in Winfield, Kansas, United States. Son of Frederick Arthur and Lucile (Phillips) Deering.
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Thomas DEERING, American Lawyer, Partner of STOEL RIVES BOLEY Jones & GREY, specializing in the field of General Practice and Litigation in State and Federal Courts Corporation and Corporate Finance, Real Estate, Taxation, Securities, Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law, Commercial, Antitrust, Hospital and Health, Forest Products, Franchise Law, Insurance, International Transactions, Government Law, Media Law, Municipal Law and Tax-Exempt Financing, Labor, Employee Benefits, Construction, Banking, Public Utilities, Trusts and Estates, Mining, Natural Resources, Environmental and Family Law.
Education
University of Colorado (Bachelor of Science, 1951). University of Colorado (Bachelor of Laws 1956). Phi Delta Phi; Order of the Coif.
Editor-in-Chief, Rocky Mountain Law Review, 1955-1956 (now University of Colorado Law Review).
Career
Worked at Stoel Rives Limited Liability Partnership (Portland, Oregon) specializing in General Practice and Litigation in State and Federal Courts. Partnerships, Joint Ventures and Corporate and Securities, Real Estate and Land Use, Federal Taxation, Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law, Commercial, Bankruptcy, Reorganizations and Workouts, Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Hospital and Health Law, Forest Products, Franchise Law, Immigration, Insurance, International Trade and Transactions, Government Law, Media and Advertising Law, Municipal Law and Tax-Exempt Financing, Labor and Employment, Employee Benefits, Construction, Banking, Public Utilities, Trusts and Estates, Mining, Natural Resources, Environmental, State and Local Taxation, International Tax, White Collar Criminal Law. Admitted to the bar, 1956, Oregon and Colorado.
Order of the Coif.
In 1987, the 140-attorney Portland law firm of Stoel Rives Boley Fraser & Wyse merged with the 45-lawyer Seattle firm of Jones Grey & Bayley to create Stoel Rives Boley Jones & Grey.
Both firms boast of more than 80 years of service to clients. The firm has since opened offices in Boise, Idaho (1991) and Salt Lake City, Utah (1992).
Stoel Rives provides comprehensive representation to public, private, domestic and international businesses of all sizes. The firm changed its name to Stoel Rives in 1995.
Achievements
Membership
Board directors Girl Scouts Columbia River Council, Portland, 1961-1970. Trustee, moderator First Unitarian Church, Portland, 1967-1970. Trustee, president Catlin Gabel School, Portland, 1970-1976.
Board directors, vice president American Civil Liberties Union, Portland, 1966-1971, 73-80. Chairman Multnomah County Task Force on Edgefield Manor, Portland, 1972-1975. Board directors, treasurer Portland Art Museum, Contemporary Arts Council, 1986-1988.
Member City County Task Fore on Service Evaluation, Portland, 1982-1985, Citizen's Advisory Committee West Side Corridor Project, Portland, 1988-1993. Board governors Pacific Northwest College Art, 1991-2000, since 2002, chair, 1996-2000, chair presidential search committee 2002-2003. Member collections committee Portland Art Museum, 1992-1996.
Trustee Oregon College Art and Craft Endowment, Portland, 1991-1997. With United States Army, 1952-1954. Fellow American College Benefits Counsel (emeritus).
Member American Bar Association (tax section, EB committee 1989-2000), City Club of Portland (board governors 1968-1970, 2000-2003, Research board since 2003).
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Married Marilyn Marie Anderson, September 6, 1952. Children: Thomas P. Junior, Robert E., Paul A.
