Garry R. Bullard gbullard@bullardlaw.com Practice Area Collective Bargaining NLRB Proceedings Labor Contract Negotiations and Administration Personnel Policies and Practices Union Organizing Issues Bar Admission Oregon, 1959 Education J.D., Northwestern University, 1959 B.A., Northwestern University, 1956

Garry Bullard's interest in labor began while in college at Northwestern University. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Northwestern with a major in economics, with major emphasis on labor in 1956. Garry then attended Northwestern University School of Law where he was on the Board of Editors of the Law Review, graduating in 1959. During that period his interest in labor was intensified as a result of summers working at a steel rolling mill just south of Chicago. During those summers he was a member of the United Steelworkers of America and learned more about organized labor than he ever could have hoped to learn in college or law school. His father was a railroad worker and active in the United Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, perhaps the origins of Garry's initial interest in labor.

Garry was hired directly out of law school by what is now the Stoel Rives firm with the understanding that he would have an opportunity to work in the labor field in that firm. His first assignment was to work with more experienced attorneys in connection with the Portland newspaper strike, which began November 11, 1959. Again, a great deal of experience was compressed into a relatively short period of time in connection with that labor dispute. Because of a combination of circumstances Garry was also given an opportunity to become involved in collective bargaining early in his career and he has always enjoyed that aspect of the practice very much. He also developed a particular interest in the public sector beginning with passage of the Public Employee Collective Bargaining Act, HB 2263, in 1973. Since that time Garry has represented a range of private and public sector clients both in collective bargaining, in arbitrations and in cases before the National Labor Relations Board and the state Employment Relations Board.