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July 28th 2005 • Printer version From sports to the courts:
Former Ducks bring their competitive fire to their
legal careers
The Register-Guard July 24, 2005
When Michael Callier was a teenager growing up in Salem, he saw a movie
called The Firm, an adaptation of a John Grisham novel of the same name.
The book and film feature a character named Mitch McDeere, a fresh-faced young lawyer who begins working at a high-powered firm out of law school before Grisham's familiar pulp fiction ensues. "Man," Callier recalls thinking to himself, "I want to be an attorney."
A decade later, fresh out of the University of Oregon School of
Law, Callier has followed through on his pronouncement by walking in
the footsteps of the fictional McDeere. Having previously accepted a
position at a prestigious big-city law firm, in this case Portland's
Tonkon Torp, Callier passed the bar exam last year and became a
full-fledged attorney.. . READ THE FULL STORY
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