Collecting What’s Owed Lawmakers move to fix a gaping hole in class action

http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-22025-collecting_what’s_owed.html "The legislation is not new—Oregon lawmakers have introduced similar legislation three times since 2005. The legislators’ solution displeases many business interests, but none more influential than Dave Frohnmayer and Bill Gary—two lawyers for the Harrang Long firm who circulated a floor letter opposing the changes. “The bill authorizes unconstitutional procedures, is unfair to class members and to defendants, and is fundamentally unworkable,” Frohnmayer and Gary wrote in the Feb. 14 letter. “It will have undesirable and unworkable consequences.” Those words carry a lot of weight. Frohnmayer was Oregon’s attorney general from 1980 to 1990 and president of the University of Oregon from 1994 to 2009. He still teaches law at UO. Gary, who served as Frohnmayer’s deputy at the Oregon Department of Justice, is one of the state’s top lawyers, representing Nike, for instance, in the 2013 special leg