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David
P.R.
Symes
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David P.R. Symes represents employers and management in general and employment-related litigation and arbitration across a wide range of industries, including telecommunications, financial services (banking and asset management), retail, transportation services, manufacturing, and emerging growth technology. Mr. Symes has successfully handled complex, multiple plaintiff, and class action litigation involving such workplace topics as equal employment opportunities, wage and hour law, and disability law.
Mr. Symes also has substantial expertise in enforcing and defending noncompetition and nonsolicitation agreements, and in preventing the actual or threatened misappropriation of his clients' trade secrets and other confidential information.
Professional Recognition
- AV Peer Review Rated (highest rating) by Martindale-Hubbell
- Listed as one of "America's Leading Lawyers for Business" (Oregon) in Chambers USA (Labor & Employment) in 2008 and 2009
Professional Leadership
- Oregon State Bar, Bar Counsel, 2004 - present
Community Involvement
- DoveLewis Emergency Animal Hospital - Board of Directors
- OregonHEAT - Board of Directors and Executive Committee
Clerkships
- Hon. Rene J. Gonzalez, Alaska Superior Court, 1992 - 1993
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- Washington University School of Law, J.D., 1992
Associate Editor, Washington University Law Quarterly
- St. Olaf College, B.A., Philosophy, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1988
- Oxford University, 1987

- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon
- U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska
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