About the Clackamas County Bar Association

Senior Deputy D.A. Dave Paul is a 25-year veteran of our D.A.’s Office. He has tried cases ranging from DUII to Aggravated Murder and has worked with Clackamas County citizens on crime prevention initiatives. His community work has resulted in collaborations between law enforcement and citizens to reduce crime in the Overland Park neighborhood and to establish the first Community Court in Clackamas County. Dave is currently assigned to a multi-agency task force whose mission is to significantly impact street level methamphetamine crime. He prosecutes cases in state court and federal court as a Special Assistant United States Attorney. Dave was born and raised in Portland and is a graduate of the University of Oregon and Gonzaga University School of Law.   Contact details.

Samantha was born and raised in Oregon City. She graduated from U of Oregon School of Law in 2001 after obtaining her MBA from the University of Utah and a bachelor's degree from Whitman College. Samantha was a law clerk with the Clackamas County District Attorney's office while in law school, and started working full time at the DA's office upon passing the bar in September 2001.She worked with several attorneys in Clackamas County, including Don Bowerman and Jim Tait, before joining Peter Glazer as an associate in 2006. Her primary areas of practice are family law and litigation.

Prior to becoming the CCBA Vice President, she was Treasurer in 2005. Samantha most values the mentoring and networking the CCBA helps develop and foster and that there are so many opportunities to participate and get to know colleagues in professional and social situations. In her spare time, Samantha enjoys spending time with her friends and family, both two and four-legged! She takes many hikes with her dog Apollo and rides horses at a local barn.   Contact details.

Diane C. Rader was born in San Francisco while her father, Dale Rader, was attending law school. She was raised in Portland, Oregon and began working in law offices as a teenager. She graduated from Lewis and Clark Law School and began her legal career in 1990. Diane worked in a full spectrum of criminal defense law in a firm, which included her late father and brother Mark, for thirteen years. She is licensed in both Oregon and Idaho. She is currently a member of the Clackamas Indigent Defense Corporation as a defense attorney.She also practices in some areas of civil law.Diane has served on several committees including Oregon State Bar’s Public Services Information Committee, the OregonBar–Press–Broadcasters Council, Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association Education Committee and Juvenile Law Committee and is a member of several professional organizations.   Contact details.

Born in Geneva, Illinois, to John Cole, an advertising man, and Dallas Cole, an artist, Andrew grew up in the Chicago area with brothers Gilbert and Howard. He attended high school at Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio where he played soccer, ice hockey and lacrosse. Andrew earned his undergraduate degree in history from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine and then moved to Seattle in 1981 hoping to get work on a tugboat. He worked in the maritime industry for several years as a tugboat deck hand, longshoreman and vessel agent for custom house broker, Robert Landweer & Co.

Beached by the decline in the maritime industry and seasickness, Andrew enrolled in law school at the University of Washington. He accepted a job at the Portland office of Lindsay, Hart, Neill & Weigler intending to pursue a career in maritime law. Andrew was a litigation associate for two years working primarily in medical malpractice defense and maritime law and then left Lindsay, Hart to work for himself in Clackamas County. He subsisted doing contract work for Jim Tait, Ed Latourette, Tom Rastetter and others before hanging out his own shingle in 1995. He now practices in the Willamette area of West Linn doing personal injury and civil litigation, real estate, probate, employment and construction law. Andrew is married to Clackamas County Assistant Counsel, Kimberley Ybarra-Cole. They live in West Linn with their son, Roman, age five.   Contact details.

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