Eric Yandell

Eric joined the firm in January 1984 after two years at the Portland firm of Tonkon Torp and two years at the Oregon Court of Appeals as law clerk to Judge Robert Y. Thornton. He studied law in the night program at Lewis & Clark Law School, graduating fourth in his class in 1979.

Eric majored in English and French at Willamette University and graduated summa cum laude in 1973. Before college he spent a year in Belgium as an American Field Service exchange student. Between college and law school, Eric worked as an estimator and production control supervisor in the light manufacturing and timber industries.

He has served on the boards of the Marion County Bar Association and of the Oregon State Bar's Debtor-Creditor Section and is a member of the Marion County Dispute Resolution Committee.

He is married to Nori Cross, Special Counsel for Judicial Governance and Outreach to the State Court Administrator. They have two daughters, who keep them in their place.