Pete Shepherd is a member of our established government and litigation practices. After practicing law in Eugene, Pete served successively as Legislative Assistant to the late state Senator William (Bill) Frye, Deputy District Attorney in Marion County, Assistant Attorney General in the Organized Crime Section of the Oregon Department of Justice (DOJ) under Attorney General Frohnmayer, and Attorney in Charge of DOJ’s Financial Fraud/Consumer Protection Section under Attorneys General Kulongoski and Myers. Attorney General Myers later selected Pete to serve as one of two Special Counsel to the Attorney General. From 2001-2009, Pete served as the Deputy Attorney General, also by appointment of Attorney General Myers.
Pete applies nearly three decades of experience in government affairs, litigation, and public administration to resolving matters arising within and between governments and to advising private clients with administrative and regulatory compliance issues.
Memberships/Affiliations
Pete is a member of the Oregon State Bar and a past member of two Oregon State Bar Executive Committees, Criminal Law and Consumer Law. In 2004, he won election to the House of Delegates of the Oregon State Bar’s House of Delegates, and began a second three-year term in 2007.
Pete volunteers as a “judge” for the Salem Teen Court program and also serves as a reading instructor for the Start Making a Reader Today (SMART) program in the Salem Public Schools. In addition, he is a volunteer for an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife radio-telemetry fish-tracking study of trout and whitefish in the Crooked River.
Education
Pete received his JD from the University of Oregon School of Law in 1979. He earned a BA in History from the University of Oregon.
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