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  • Deanna Wray
  • partner
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Introduction

Deanna Wray devotes her time and energy to making Bodyfelt Mount LLP a different kind of law firm. Our mission is to provide high quality legal services while emphasizing a healthy balance between work and life. Deanna continually strives to acquire and maintain a diverse workforce, and ensure that women and minorities have every opportunity to succeed, which culminated in the firm receiving the 2007 Oregon Women Lawyers' Workplace Leader Award.

Practice &  Experience
  • Deanna joined Bodyfelt Mount LLP as an associate in 2002 and became a partner in 2006. Prior to joining the firm, Deanna was an associate with the trial lawyers at Gaylord, Eyerman & Bradley PC from 1998 to 2001. She also served as judicial clerk to the Honorable Janice R. Wilson, Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, from 1997 to 1998.

  • Deanna’s engineering background was a natural segue to representing product manufacturers, and over the years she has defended a range of products including hand tools, printing presses, murphy beds, bicycles, forklifts, automatic doors and toilets.  Following in Dick Bodyfelt’s footsteps, Deanna is local counsel to Chrysler on all automotive product defect claims in Oregon.  Deanna has also defended general contractors and electricians on Employer Liability Act cases, including a two-week jury trial in Multnomah County, and has presented on the topic at the Oregon Governor’s Occupational Safety and Health Conference.  Deanna’s most notable successes and greatest satisfaction comes from crafting pre-trial resolutions for clients in catastrophic injury and child death actions.

  • The firm also has a long-standing history of serving as primary and local counsel to asbestos, and drug and medical device clients. In recent years, Deanna and Molly Mullen have been involved in mass tort litigation of latex gloves, vaccines, Fen-phen, pain pumps, Metoclopramide, as well as defending a variety of individual medical equipment cases.
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Introduction

Deanna Wray devotes her time and energy to making Bodyfelt Mount LLP a different kind of law firm. Our mission is to provide high quality legal services while emphasizing a healthy balance between work and life. Deanna continually strives to acquire and maintain a diverse workforce, and ensure that women and minorities have every opportunity to succeed, which culminated in the firm receiving the 2007 Oregon Women Lawyers' Workplace Leader Award.

Practice &  Experience
  • Deanna joined Bodyfelt Mount LLP as an associate in 2002 and became a partner in 2006. Prior to joining the firm, Deanna was an associate with the trial lawyers at Gaylord, Eyerman & Bradley PC from 1998 to 2001. She also served as judicial clerk to the Honorable Janice R. Wilson, Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, from 1997 to 1998.

  • Deanna’s engineering background was a natural segue to representing product manufacturers, and over the years she has defended a range of products including hand tools, printing presses, murphy beds, bicycles, forklifts, automatic doors and toilets.  Following in Dick Bodyfelt’s footsteps, Deanna is local counsel to Chrysler on all automotive product defect claims in Oregon.  Deanna has also defended general contractors and electricians on Employer Liability Act cases, including a two-week jury trial in Multnomah County, and has presented on the topic at the Oregon Governor’s Occupational Safety and Health Conference.  Deanna’s most notable successes and greatest satisfaction comes from crafting pre-trial resolutions for clients in catastrophic injury and child death actions.

  • The firm also has a long-standing history of serving as primary and local counsel to asbestos, and drug and medical device clients. In recent years, Deanna and Molly Mullen have been involved in mass tort litigation of latex gloves, vaccines, Fen-phen, pain pumps, Metoclopramide, as well as defending a variety of individual medical equipment cases.
Admitted to Practice
  • Oregon
    Washington
    U.S. District Court, District of Oregon
    U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington
    U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Education
  • J.D., Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College, 1997
    B.S. (Industrial Engineering), North Carolina State University, 1990

Professional & Community Activities

  • American Bar Association
    Defense Research Institute
    Multnomah Bar Association
    Oregon Association of Defense Counsel
    Washington Defense Trial Lawyers
    Oregon Women Lawyers
    National Association of Women Lawyers

  • Deanna has served on the Executive Committee of the Oregon State Bar’s Product Liability Section since 2007 and is currently the Chair-Elect. She also served on the Board of Directors of Oregon Women Lawyers from 2001-2006. Deanna is a member of the Defense Research Institute Diversity Committee. She has been involved with the Classroom Law Project since 1999, and coached mock trial at Lake Oswego High School and St. Mary’s Academy.