October 16, 2008
Portland, Oregon

Tonkon Torp LLP has hired Haley Bjerk, Craig Foster and David Weiler as new associates.

"These three young lawyers exemplify the bright, well-rounded kinds of individuals that make up our firm," said Michael M. Morgan, managing partner at Tonkon Torp.  "We are delighted to welcome them at the start of this phase of their legal careers."

Haley Bjerk joins the firm' Business Department, working on corporate finance and general business matters.  She earned her law degree, magna cum laude, in May 2006 from Willamette University College of Law, where she served as associate editor of the Willamette Law Review.  Bjerk previously earned her undergraduate degree in sociology and obtained her Certificate of Criminology from the University of Utah.  She recently completed a clerkship with Judge Robert Wollheim of the Oregon Court of Appeals.

Craig Foster joins the firm’s Business Department, practicing in corporate finance and general business.  Foster earned his 2008 law degree from Harvard Law School. He was on the staff of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology and chaired the education outreach committee for the Harvard Law School ACLU.  While at Harvard, he worked as a summer associate with Tonkon Torp in 2007.  Foster earned his undergraduate degree in philosophy and French language/literature at the University of Virginia, where he was president of the Gay and Lesbian Christian Students Association and an adult ESL instructor.  Prior to law school, Foster was a 7^th grade science and math teacher.

David Weiler, also a former Tonkon Torp summer associate, joins the firm’s Litigation Department.  Weiler earned his degree in June of this year from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, a section representative for the Harvard Federalist Society and chair for the Harvard Association of Law and Family Matters.  He holds an undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, in history from Brigham Young University. Weiler was a summer judicial clerk for the Court of Appeals of Georgia.