Over Greg’s nearly 50-year legal career, he has tried hundreds of cases. Long a leader in Oregon’s progressive community,... Read MoreOver Greg’s nearly 50-year legal career, he has tried hundreds of cases. Long a leader in Oregon’s progressive community, Greg has won verdicts for activists, whistle-blowers and victims of police brutality totaling more than $24 million. Greg has also had nineteen jury verdicts of $1 million or more, the most in the history of Oregon. Court TV commentators have described him as “a strong, strong trial lawyer,” “fabulously entertaining,” and “a great advocate.”

Greg was unanimously named Distinguished Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2018 by the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association. The OTLA’s official publication describes him as a “trial giant…the cases Kafoury battles and wins often result in lasting changes to protect Oregonians.”In 1965, Greg spent the summer in the South as a civil rights worker for Martin Luther King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. After graduating from Hastings College of Law in San Francisco in 1974, 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 that were crucial in forcing PGE to close the Trojan Nuclear Plant.

During those battles, Greg got to know Ralph Nader. Greg and Mark McDougal played increasingly important roles in Nader’s political campaigns. In 2000, Greg and Mark were the chief architects of the Nader SuperRallies, which began in Portland, spread across the U.S., and culminated with a sell-out crowd of 20,000 at Madison Square Garden.   Read Less

Since Jason became a lawyer in 2009, he has participated in nearly 50 jury trials. He has more civil trial experience than... Read MoreSince Jason became a lawyer in 2009, he has participated in nearly 50 jury trials. He has more civil trial experience than any other Oregon lawyer of his generation. Jason works collaboratively with the other trial attorneys to prepare and try major cases. He also works with clients and insurance companies to get cases resolved before trial.

Jason’s legal experience includes working for the Environmental Law Foundation in Oakland, where he helped draft a strategic plan to protect and expand California’s Public Trust Doctrine. 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.

Jason is a graduate of Tulane Law. There, he led the Moot Court Trial team to third place in the nation out of 224 law schools at the American Association for Justice’s annual competition. A Portland native, he worked closely with Ralph Nader for five years, and helped run Nader’s 2000, 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns.

At Jason’s first major trial as lead counsel, he obtained a judgment of $1.25 million in Cleavenger v. University of Oregon, representing a public safety officer who was fired and blacklisted for whistleblowing. The defendants’ pre-trial settlement offer was $20,000.   Read Less