Attorney John DiLorenzo talks to the jury during closing arguments in the $1.4 billion class action lawsuit in Linn County Circuit Court. Fourteen counties and 151 taxing districts are suing the Oregon Department of Forestry for breaching a decades-old contract concerning the management of 700,000 acres of timberland. (Photo: Mark Ylen, Mid-Valley Media.)
Our Litigator of the Week award goes to Davis Wright Tremaine’s John DiLorenzo Jr., who scored a $1 billion jury verdict on behalf of rural counties and local taxing districts in Oregon.
In a class action against the state, DiLorenzo’s clients claimed that Oregon mismanaged state forests by failing to harvest enough timber, in violation of a longstanding statutory contract.
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