Prior to joining the University of Oregon, Jeslyn Everitt was an attorney at the law firm Munger Tolles & Olson in San Francisco, where she litigated numerous matters involving higher education, intellectual property, contract, tort, and labor and employment law.

Jeslyn also has extensive experience advising clients on issues related to free speech, privacy, and government regulation. In addition to her work at Munger Tolles, Jeslyn spent brief periods of time as a trial attorney with the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office and with the Office of General Counsel at the University of California.

Jeslyn holds a BA in social studies and comparative religion from Harvard College and a JD from UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as a senior editor for the California Law Review. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Argentina and, following law school, clerked for the Honorable Sandra S. Ikuta with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

In her free time, Jeslyn teaches a law school course on alternative dispute resolution, serves on the local board for the Fulbright Association, and volunteers as a community mediator.

Pronouns: she, her, hers

Assistant:
Kelly Fondren
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Bryan Dearinger joined the UO in September 2014.  Prior to his arrival, he worked exclusively in federal courts for nearly ten years.  This included serving as a trial attorney in the civil division at the US Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., where he represented the United States, the President of the United States, federal agencies, and government officials in affirmative and defensive civil litigation, including constitutional litigation, Administrative Procedure Act litigation, civil rights cases, national security litigation, privacy litigation, Freedom of Information Act cases, and the enforcement of various federal statutory and regulatory schemes. In addition, before entering the Department of Justice through the Attorney General’s Honors Program, Bryan served for three years as a federal judicial law clerk for judges in US district courts in Seattle, Washington, and Cheyenne, Wyoming. Prior to that, Bryan worked for Legal Aid Services of Oregon in Portland, Oregon.

Bryan holds a BA from the University of Portland and a JD from Drake University, where he was Order of the Coif, the Edwin Earle Ferguson Public Service Scholar, and Editor in Chief of the Drake Law Review.  Bryan has litigated in over a dozen federal courts across the country and has also authored articles published in the Oregon Law Review and the St. John’s Law Review.  He is an adjunct professor at the University of Oregon School of Law.  

Bryan serves as a board member for the Oregon Federal Bar Association (FBA) and helps run the FBA's Free Federal Law Clinic as one of two volunteer Attorney Ambassadors.  The clinic serves persons without financial or legal resources, primarily assisting unrepresented (pro se) litigants with civil matters filed in federal court in Oregon.

In December 2018, the federal district judges in Oregon selected Bryan as a Ninth Circuit Lawyer Representative for the District of Oregon (2019 - 2022 term).  Lawyer representatives are chosen by federal judges in each of the Ninth Circuit’s fifteen districts.  In this role, Bryan works closely with federal judges and the federal bar to improve the administration of justice in the Circuit.  In April 2020, Bryan was selected by Chief Judge Marco Hernandez to serve as Co-Chair of the Ninth Circuit Lawyer Representatives for the 2020-2021 term.

Pronouns: he/him/his

Assistant:
Kelly Fondren
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As the Deputy General Counsel, Doug is UO’s Chief Counsel for the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, and UO’s Head of Litigation.  He also manages UO’s outside-counsel legal services portfolio, supervises the Law Fellowship Program, and advises units on all aspects of UO operations.  Since joining UO in 2007, Doug has held the positions of Assistant General Counsel, Associate General Counsel, and Interim General Counsel.  His prior work includes teaching at the UO law school, and working for a private law firm, the ACLU, the Associated Counsel for the Accused, and the Oregon Department of Justice (DOJ). 

While at DOJ, Doug developed the arguments that prevailed in two U.S. Supreme Court cases and received DOJ’s highest professional honor (the Outstanding Achievement Award) for successfully defending the constitutionality of Oregon’s dangerous offender statute and the Balfour appellate procedures.  In 2020, the Oregon Women Lawyers Association awarded Doug its highest professional honor (the Justice Roberts & Judge Deiz Award) for his outstanding contributions to promoting women and people from outside the dominant culture in the legal profession and in the community. In May 2023, the federal district judges in Oregon selected Doug as a Ninth Circuit Lawyer Representative for the District of Oregon (2023 - 2026 term).  Lawyer representatives are chosen by federal judges in each of the Ninth Circuit’s fifteen districts.  In this role, Doug works closely with federal judges and the federal bar to improve the administration of justice in the Circuit.

Doug holds a BA in English literature from the University of Washington, and a JD from the University of Oregon.  He has co-authored articles published in the Willamette Law Review and the Oregon State Bar Criminal Law Manual. He served on the Board of Directors for the Eugene Education Foundation for six years helping to raise funds for and distribute grants to Eugene’s public K-12 schools.  Doug is currently one of the longest serving members (10 years) on the UO’s Leadership Council for the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, where he also serves on the Executive Committee and chairs the Development Committee.  Doug has served as a presenter on multiple higher education topics, including serving as panelist for the National Association of College and University Attorneys, the American Council on Education, and the Association of Student Conduct Administrators. 

Pronouns: he/him/his

Assistant:
Kelly Fondren
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Jessie joined the Office of the General Counsel as Assistant General Counsel in August 2023.  Before becoming a Duck, Jessie was a shareholder at the law firm of Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt in Portland where she represented clients ranging from individuals to publicly held corporations to administrative agencies in affirmative and defense civil litigation, including on matters involving commercial disputes and business torts, environmental issues, and various administrative procedures, including public records. In addition to her traditional private-sector work, Jessie dedicated a substantial portion of her practice at Schwabe to pro bono representations of marginalized communities and incarcerated people in civil litigation, post-conviction review, and parole hearings.

Jessie holds a BA from California State University Long Beach and a JD from Lewis & Clark Law School, where she graduated summa cum laude and was inducted in the Cornelius Honor Society. During law school, Jessie served as the Notes and Comments Editor for the Lewis & Clark Law Review, worked as a judicial extern to the Honorable Magistrate Judge John V. Acosta in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon and as a law clerk for the Federal Public Defender for the District of Oregon, and volunteered her time for Legal Aid Services of Oregon in Portland.

Jessie currently serves as a board member for the Understanding Racism Foundation and on the advisory committee for the Oregon Campaign for Equal Justice. She has won numerous awards, including the Michael E. Haglund Young Lawyer Pro Bono Award from the Multnomah Bar Association, the Oregon State Bar’s Oregon New Lawyers Division Public Service Award, and the Associate Award from the Oregon Campaign for Equal Justice, and she has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America as “One to Watch” and by Superlawyers as a “Rising Star” for multiple years in a row.

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Assistant:
Kelly Fondren
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Kevin S. Reed serves as vice president and general counsel for the University of Oregon. He is responsible for the management of the legal affairs of the university, including the provision of legal guidance to all university units, schools, and colleges. His work involves drafting and counseling on a wide array of issues facing a large public research university, ranging from government ethics, procurement policy, research compliance, athletics compliance, IP protection, employment and labor issues, Title IX, free speech, academic freedom, governance, and promotion of diversity. Additionally, Kevin oversees the Office of Public Records and the university’s purchasing and contracting services office.

Kevin previously served as vice chancellor, legal affairs at UCLA, where he oversaw UCLA’s provision of campus-wide legal assistance and ombuds services, the prevention of sexual harassment and compliance with Title IX.  Prior to joining UCLA in March 2008, Kevin was acting general counsel and then general counsel of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the nation’s second largest school district. In nearly five years there, he directed LAUSD legal affairs, conducted litigation for the district and oversaw the work of 40 outside law firms and 40 in-house attorneys.  He also oversaw the District’s Ethics Office, Educational Equity Compliance Office, and directed collective bargaining with the District’s 11 employee units. A civil rights lawyer by training, from 1996 through 2004, Kevin was a partner at Strumwasser & Woocher LLP, a Santa Monica law firm, where he successfully challenged the state of California’s distribution of funds for school construction, resulting in $600 million in state funding for LAUSD.  He previously spent six years as the managing attorney for the western regional office of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., in Los Angeles.  Kevin received his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School and his B.A., with distinction, from the University of Virginia.

Pronouns: he/him/his

Assistant:
Brad Lowary
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