About the Blog Authors

Greg Kafoury

Greg Kafoury spent the summer of 1965 in the South as a civil rights worker for Martin Luther King’s SCLC. After law school, he joined with Lloyd Marbet, the Northwest’s leading anti-nuclear advocate, and together they fought the expansion of nuclear power in Oregon, Washington, and California. In 1986, they formed Don’t Waste Oregon, which fought three initiative campaigns to close the Trojan Nuclear Plant. Campaign leaders included Mark McDougal and Linda Williams, along with Linda’s partner, Dan Meek. Because each initiative gathered more votes than the previous one, these campaigns were crucial in forcing PGE to close Trojan in 1993.

Long a leader in Oregon’s progressive community, as lead counsel, Greg has won verdicts for activists and whistleblowers totaling nearly $11 million. Greg has also had seven jury verdicts between $1 and $3.25 million.

Mark McDougal

Mark McDougal is a seasoned trial lawyer who has been trying cases for over two decades. He was a key organizer of the nationwide series of Ralph Nader “Super Rallies” that drew some 200,000 Americans together in a show of solidarity for citizen rights. Mark has established beneficial law before the Oregon Supreme Court that protects and assists injured persons in obtaining a full recovery. He is also a strong advocate for the rights of injured undocumented workers. He is currently working very hard to have the courts declare that undocumented workers are entitled to recover lost income in personal injury actions.

Jason Kafoury

Jason Kafoury’s legal experience includes working for the Environmental Law Foundation (E.L.F.) in Oakland, where he helped draft a strategic plan to protect and expand the “Public Trust Doctrine” in California. As a summer associate at Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins in San Diego, Jason worked extensively on a consumer class action against Capital One credit cards for targeting and defrauding low-income citizens.

After his first week at Tulane Law, Jason was forced to evacuate Hurricane Katrina and ended up completing the 2005 fall semester at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. When he returned to Tulane, Jason helped lead the Moot Court Trial team to finish third in the nation out of 224 law schools at the American Association for Justice’s annual competition.

Natalie McDougal

Natalie McDougal has been with the firm for more than a decade. Prior to working for the firm, Natalie worked as a claims administrator for a national class action arising out of the Department of Agriculture’s illegal denial or rejection of agricultural loans sought by African Americans. Natalie first started with the firm while she was still in law school, and handled all aspects of pre-trial personal injury litigation. Natalie’s practice now focuses on drafting and and responding to motions, and research and legal analysis for the firms complex cases. . As the firm handles numerous cases on behalf of undocumented workers, Natalie has extensively briefed and prevailed in establishing that undocumented workers have a right to obtain wage loss in personal injury actions. Natalie currently works part-time, as she is raising her twin boys. However, she remains available to give her undivided attention to complex legal issues that arise in the firm’s products liability, sex abuse, and employer liability law cases.