Experience
P.K. Runkles-Pearson has expertise in appellate work and employment law.
P.K. has experience as an appellate lawyer in Oregon and federal appellate courts. She has prepared petitions for review to the Oregon Supreme Court, petitions for writs of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court, and merits briefing in both Oregon and federal appeals courts. She is a former law clerk to Justice Thomas A. Balmer of the Oregon Supreme Court.
As part of the Labor and Employment practice group, P.K. also represents employers and managers in litigation and before administrative agencies and counsels employers on employment issues. Her experience includes employment discrimination and harassment, health and safety and workers' compensation retaliation claims, workplace torts, wage and hour issues, noncompetition and trade secret matters, and preparing employee handbooks and policies.
Professional Activities
- Board Member, Lawyers' Committee Member, and Cooperating Attorney, ACLU of Oregon
- Member, Owen Panner American Inn of Court
Civic Activities
- Member, City Club of Portland
Publications
- "Taking an Appeal" chapter of Appeal and Review (OSB CLE 2010) (forthcoming) (coauthor)
- "Equal Employment Opportunity: Race, color, sex, Religion, or National Origin Discrimination" chapter of Labor and Employment Law: Private Sector (OSB CLE 2010) (forthcoming) (coauthor)
- "You Want Info From the Feds? You Have an Uphill Battle" (coauthor), Litigation Journal, Winter 2009
- "Foreign Corporations in Oregon" chapter of Advising Oregon Businesses (2007 supplement) (coauthor)
- Note, The Changing Relations of Family and the Workplace, 77 N.Y.U.L. Rev 833, 2002
Education
- New York University School of Law, J.D., 2002
Executive Editor, New York University Law Review
- Pacific University, B.A. Political Science, 1998, magna cum laude
Honors Program
Admissions
- Oregon
- New York
- U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, Southern District of New York
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
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