People

Director of the Center for Law and Entrepreneurship
Barbara Bader Aldave earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry, with distinction, from Stanford University in 1960, and her doctor of jurisprudence degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1966. After practicing law for several years, she joined the faculty of the University Of Oregon School Of Law in 1970. She subsequently taught at the law schools of the University of California at Berkeley , the University of Texas , Northeastern University , Boston College , and Cornell University . From 1989 through 1998, she served as the Dean of St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio , Texas . In the fall of 2000, she returned to the University of Oregon , where she now holds the Loran L. Stewart Chair in Corporate Law and directs the Center for Law and Entrepreneurship.

Throughout most of her career, Professor Aldave has taught courses in business associations, securities regulation, and constitutional law. She has written a number of influential articles on securities fraud and insider trading, and for ten years served as an editorial consultant for a five-volume treatise entitled Texas Corporations -- Law and Practice. A nationally recognized expert on corporate governance and fiduciary responsibilities, Professor Aldave has testified in dozens of cases involving claims by or against business corporations, partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability companies, and nonprofit organizations. She is a lifetime member of both the American Bar Foundation and the Federación Interamericana de Abogados.

Director of the Small Business Clinic
Jill Fetherstonhaugh is the sole shareholder of the Business Law Centre, a law firm located in Eugene, Oregon that provides a broad range of business and employment law services to small businesses, entrepreneurs, and professionals. In addition to practicing law, Fetherstonhaugh serves on the advisory board of Committed Partners for Youth, a non-profit, Eugene youth mentoring organization. Currently, Fetherstonhaugh is serving as the Director of the Small Business Clinic in the Center for Law and Entrepreneurship.

Supervising attorney for the Small Business Clinic
Katherine Moyer is an attorney and a founding shareholder of Endeavor Law Group, P.C., a business law firm in Eugene, Oregon, with a primary focus on start-up and emerging businesses. Her practice focuses on corporate and business law, with an emphasis on securities law, capital formation issues and franchise law. She also counsels start-ups on business structure and assists them with entity formation, business plan review, agreements among owners and agreements with employees; and she advises both franchisors and franchisees on compliance with federal and state franchise laws.

Ms. Moyer began her career at major law firms in Indianapolis and Portland, for the most part representing public companies, before moving to Eugene and transitioning to her current focus on small businesses. She joined the Small Business Clinic as a supervising attorney in January 2008.

Administrative Coordinator for the Center for Law and Entrepreneurship
Laurie Strother earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science from Portland State University. She was a travel agent in Portland for ten years. During the 1990's, Ms. Strother was a participating owner of a family corporation in Eugene. The wholesale distribution business grew to four locations in Oregon.

Prior to joining the Small Business Clinic Ms. Strother was an advocate for the Child Advocacy Center and the Victim Services Program at the District Attorney's Office.