OREGON
Willamette Week
Portland lawyer Kelly Clark, a former Oregon legislator who achieved prominence through his representation of the victims of child sex abuse, has died at 56.
Clark over the past 15 years won landmark cases for clients against the Archdiocese of Portland and the Boy Scouts of America.
His personal story was fascinating: Once a fast-rising and widely respected state representative from Lake Oswego destined for state-wide office, he crashed into alcoholism and worse, pleading guilty to third-degree sexual abuse in 1992.
But Clark, a Republican, worked to redeem himself and built a thriving law practice defending those who’d been abused as children.
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