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Geoff Tichenor is secretary of the board for Portland Homeless Family Solutions, which provides temporary shelter and transitional help to homeless families with children, and serves as a volunteer at Fences for Fido, a nonprofit that seeks to improve living conditions for chained dogs.

He鈥檚 also a Multnomah County Election Protection Observer, and recently hosted a neighborhood hazardous waste party where he collected several truckloads of household hazardous waste for safe disposal.

Tichenor gives back to the legal community as a mentor attorney through the Multnomah County Bar Association and for Lewis & Clark Law School. He also serves a member of the House of Delegates for the Oregon State Bar Association, a volunteer attorney for the Multnomah County Legal Aid Services Clinic and a member of the Oregon State Bar Association鈥檚 Sustainable Future Section.

Tichenor鈥檚 specialty is environmental law. For the past five years he has been a steering committee member for the Northwest Environmental Conference, which provides a forum for regulators and industry to address environmental legal requirements.

In his environmental law compliance practice, Tichenor uses a problem-solving approach as he represents clients in environmental matters during project development, permitting, real estate and business transactions, civil litigation, and regulatory context. He also regularly defends clients facing federal and state environmental enforcement actions and represents clients in private environmental cost recovery actions under Oregon, Washington and federal clean-up laws.

His legal work often includes conducting environmental due diligence on behalf of parties pursuing oil and gas development, and acquiring large-scale manufacturing operations as well as wind farms and biomass plants. He works closely with clients in negotiating prospective purchase agreements with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality.

How does the reality of being a lawyer differ from what you anticipated when you started law school?

Problems come in shades of grey, not black and white.

What was your least favorite law school course, and why?

Nothing was more tedious than checking citations for the Law Review.

What would you never wear?

A pinky ring; no way I could pull one off.

What is your favorite website, and why?

The website of the New York Times. It鈥檚 my go-to connection to the world.

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

The volume of my voice. I鈥檓 always the loudest guy in the restaurant (so I鈥檓 told).