PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Partner: HENDRIX, BRINICH & BERTALAN LLP (since 1995) business, real estate,
  landlord & tenant, land use law and intellectual property law
• Chief Deputy District Attorney: DESCHUTES COUNTY, Bend, Oregon. Prosecution
  of felony cases; supervised and coordinated caseloads for 10 attorneys
  (1990-95)
• Associate: CRABTREE & RHAMSDORFF, Bend, Oregon; criminal defense (1987-90)
• Associate: RALPH SMITH & ASSOC., Baker, Oregon; civil law and criminal defense
  (1982-87)
• Associate: AAA ENGINEERING, Salt Lake City, Utah; mapping of geological
  structures and calculation of coal reserves of western Colorado and central
  Utah (1978-79).
• Admitted Oregon State Bar (1982)
• Admitted U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Bar (1991)
• Admitted U.S. District Court for Oregon (1995)

JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS

• Circuit & District Court Judge pro-tem (since 1995; since 1998 w/o restrictions)
  Deschutes, Crook & Jefferson Counties
• Arbitrator, Deschutes, Crook & Jefferson Counties, mandatory arbitration
  program (since 1995)

LEGAL EDUCATION

• J.D., Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College (1982)

UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

• B.S., University of Utah, Geology, w/strong emphasis in Geological Engineering
  (1975-77)
• Author: Disseminated Gold Deposits of the Roberts Mountain Thrust Fault of  
  Eastern Nevada (1977)
• Cleveland State University School of Engineering, Honors in Mathematics
  (1974-75)

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

• Board Member and Secretary of St. Francis School (1996-98)
• Law in the Classroom Committee, Oregon State Bar (1984-86)

KEN BRINICH
OSB 82484

Hendrix, Brinich & Bertalan LLP

716 NW Harriman Street
Bend, OR 97701

[T] 541.382.4980
[F] 541.382.9060
 

ken@hxbri.com

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