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Jim was born in Chicago in 1949. He worked as a construction laborer, apprentice plumber, dishwasher, golf caddy, and parking attendant during high school and college. He graduated from Yale University in 1971 and the Lewis and Clark Law School in 1977, having served as Editor-in-Chief of the law review. He spent a year as a law clerk to the Hon. Robert C. Belloni in Federal Court before beginning private practice.
Jim has devoted his practice since 1978 to representing individuals, labor unions and non-profit public interest groups against government agencies, employers and insurance companies. He is a past chair and long-time member of the Oregon Trial Lawyers association Amicus committee. He has taught at Lewis and Clark Law School and speaks at conferences for lawyers on punitive damages, product liability, appellate practice, social security and the coordination of public and private disability benefits. Jim is a member of the Bars of the Oregon Supreme Court, United States Supreme Court, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and United States District Court. He has served on the boards of the Northwest Environmental Defense Center, Oregon Environmental Council, Portland Sustainability Commission, and Community Cycling Center.
He performs irregularly at Artichoke Music. Jim and his wife Cheryl live in Northwest Portland and ride their tandem bike to work.
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Acquired: 1977
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820 SW Second Avenue, Suite 200, Portland, OR, 97204-3087
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Social Security & Disability lawyer
2015
2015 Super Lawyer, SuperLawyers
2014
2014 SuperLawyer, SuperLawyer
2012
2012 Super Lawyer, SuperLawyers
2011
2011 Super Lawyer, SuperLawyers
2010
2010 Super Lawyer, SuperLawyers
2009
2009 Super Lawyer, SuperLawyers
2008
2008 Super Lawyer, SuperLawyers
1999
Public Justice Award, Oregon Trial Lawyers Association
1999
Trial Lawyer of the Year Finalist, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice
1988
Social Justice Award, National Lawyers Guild
N/A
super, Super Lawyers
1992 - Present
Managing Partner, Swanson Thomas Coon & Newton
1984 - 1992
Partner, Sherwood & Coon
1982 - 1984
Associate, Welch Brunn & Green
1978 - 1982
Partner, Sobel & Coon
1977 - 1978
Law Clerk, United States District Court, Oregon
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Reversal of denied benefits by Ninth Circuit Court of appeals and disapproval of language used by agency to find claimants not credible
$25 million punitive damages verdict at trial; case still on appeal
$79.5 million punitive damages verdict after three appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court
Took case to Oregon Supreme Court and won right for all custodians to get their jobs back
$11.5 million verdict upheld after five years of appeal.
All benefits paid recovered
Won political rights for police officers
State tax ruled unconstitutional
1977
JD - Juris Doctor
1971
2014
Workers Compensation Practice
2014
What Appellate Lawyers Hope Trial Lawyers Will Do in Social Security Hearings
2012
Legal Research and Writing
2011
The Punitive Damages Claim: Substantive Law and Appellate Review
2010
Medicare Liens in Third Party Litigation
2008
Williams v. Philip Morris
2014
2013
2009
1997
English
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