Kara Parker
Assistant Legal Counsel
Bio
Kara graduated with her Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Oregon in 2003. After teaching English in South Korea for two years, she returned to the United States and began her decade-long career in higher education administration, working at the assistant director level in financial aid offices and registrars’ offices at two of Oregon’s four-year public universities. Kara then attended Willamette University College of Law and graduated cum laude in 2023. She worked as a law clerk and then as an associate attorney in the school law section at Garrett Hemann Robertson P.C. for three years until she joined OSBA’s legal team in February 2024. She is a member of the Oregon State Bar and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the District of Oregon.
Presentations and Trainings
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2025
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- Title IX Update, PACE – Community College Conversations
- Non-Renewal Process, PACE Webinar
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2024
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- Not in Our School – The Administrator’s Role in Preventing and Addressing Bullying, Oregon School Law Conference
- School Law for Administrators, COSA/University of Oregon – Oregon School Law & Finance Seminar (Fall)
- PACE/OSBA Update and Hot Legal Topics, PACE Fall Regional Trainings, Malheur ESD
- Social Media Speech/Rights, PACE Webinar
- Investigations, Creswell School District
- School Law for Board Members, OSBA Summer Board Conference
- Leave Laws, PACE Webinar
- Employee Discipline Process, OSPA Spring Conference
- How to Conduct Investigations in Small Schools, OSSA Conference
- Employee Disability Accommodations, Multnomah ESD
