Law Career
Myers clerked for a year to United States District Judge William G. East in 1964–65. During that time, East made national headlines for ordering U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to show why an Oregon lawyer should not be paid for defending a criminal defendant he had been ordered to defend by the federal court. In what Time magazine said was "may be the neatest constitutional argument of the year", East justified the expenditure under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Myers was an attorney with Stoel Rives – Oregon's largest private law firm – in Portland for 31 years before seeking elected office. He first came to the firm in 1965, when it was known Davies, Biggs, Strayer, Stoel and Boley. At Stoel Rives, his practice specialties were labor and employment law, and government affairs law.
He is a member, Oregon State Bar and Multnomah County Bar Association and has been admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the District of Oregon and United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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