ATTORNEYS > THOMAS SPONSLER
Individual Practice Areas:
- Municipal law & governance
- Public ethics law
- Elections and ballot measures
- Charters and statutes
- Privacy issues
- Library law
- Special districts
- Annexation and urban service delivery
- Intergovernmental agreements
Thomas Sponsler, Of Counsel, has over 25 years of experience representing Oregon local governments and has served as Gresham City Attorney and Multnomah County Attorney. Tom trains, consults, advises and coaches his clients. He works with city and county officials on a full range of public law topics such as public meetings, public records, city charters, local government elections, government ethics, city legal authority, library and privacy matters. He is the author of the 2004 Model City Charter, published by the League of Oregon Cities.
Tom and his wife Virginia live in a 1920's bungalow in NW Portland with their cat Giacomo. Many weekends they are at the Oregon coast or visiting the Columbia Gorge. Most of Tom's hobbies involve travel or European cars and motorcycles. Their son Brian is working on a doctorate in Washington DC where his wife Kerri is a lawyer for a federal agency.
tom@gov-law.com
503.226.7191 (phone)
503.226.2348 (fax)