William B. Crow

503-796-2406 Direct
bcrow@schwabe.com

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Professional Experience
William B. Crow joined Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt as a shareholder of the firm in 2003 after a long and significant career with the Northwest law firm of Miller Nash. His practice includes antitrust counseling and litigation in health care and the aluminum industry as well as in other business interests; securities advice, litigation, and dealing with the SEC; environmental litigation involving CERCLA and groundwater contamination; and patent and trademark infringement. In addition to trial experience in these fields, he has served as national trial counsel in breast implant and diet drug litigation. His trial practice has also included the representation of the pharmaceutical industry in a variety of claims, including mass tort litigation.

Mr. Crow has an active alternative dispute resolution practice and focuses on early dispute resolution counseling, an area of particular and growing interest to him as litigation costs continue to escalate.

Professional & Community Activities
• American College of Trial Lawyers: Member and Past Co-Chair, Access to Justice Committee
• International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC): Trial Academy Faculty 1999; Author, Privacy Project
• American Bar Association: Litigation Section, ADR Section, Antitrust, Securities
• Oregon Professional Liability Fund: Former Member, Board of Directors
• Oregon State Bar Board of Governors: Member, 1989-92; President, Oregon State Bar, 1991-92
• American Judicature Society: Board of Directors, 1989-95
• Willamette University: Former Member, Board of Trustees
• American Bar Foundation: Life Member
• Oregon State Bar: Member and Regional Disciplinary Chair, Disciplinary Board; former member, Joint Bench/Bar Commission on Professionalism
• Juvenile Rights Project: Board of Directors
• United States Arbitration & Mediation of Oregon: Panel Member
• American Arbitration Association: Mediation Panel
• Miscellaneous honors: Mr. Crow's peers have selected him as one of The Best Lawyers in America in both Commercial Litigation and Product Liability for more than ten years. He was named one of Oregon's ten best litigators by the National Law Journal.

Admitted to Practice
Oregon State Courts
United States District Court, District of Oregon
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
United States Supreme Court

Education
Willamette University College of Law, Juris Doctor degree, with honors (1961)
New York University, Master of Business Administration degree (1954)
University of Oregon, Bachelor of Science degree (1953)