John J Tollefsen
Education, Memberships and Activities
Education:
After graduating from the University of Washington School of Business in 1971 with an emphasis in business finance and quantitative methods, Mr. Tollefsen attended Willamette University graduating with a Doctor of Jurisprudence Degree in 1974. He is a certified fraud examiner (acfe.org). John holds a MCL Degree from Western Seminary a diploma from the International Academy of Apologetics, Evangelism Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. He is a fellow of the Academy. His awards include Honors at Entrance at Westmont College and American Jurisprudence Award for Creditors Rights at Willamette University.
Professional Memberships:
Mr. Tollefsen was admitted to the Oregon State Bar in September 1974 and to the Federal Bar, US District Court of Oregon in October 1974. He was admitted to the Washington Bar in June 1983; to the Federal Bar, US District Court for the Western District of Washington in August 1983, and to the Federal Bar, US District Court for the Eastern District of Washington in October 1988.He is a current member of the Judicial Recommendation Committee of the Washington State Bar Association. Mr. Tollefsen serves on the Securities Litigation and Business Torts Subcommittees of the Business and Corporate Litigation Committee of the American Bar Association. He is a member of the litigation sections of the Oregon and Washington bar associations. In 2005, he became a Certified Fraud Examiner (www.acfe.org). He is a member of the Hearing Panel of the Washington State Bar Association assigned to hear disciplinary cases against lawyers. He also serves as an elected delegate to the Oregon State Bar House of Delegates.
Past Affiliations:
Mr. Tollefsen has been a member of the following committees of the American Bar Association, Business Law Section: Federal Regulation of Securities - Broker Dealer Matters; State Regulation of Securities Committee, Securities Litigation Committee of the Litigation Section; and the Legal Office Communications Committee. He was the securities enforcement liaison for the states of Alaska, Montana, Washington, Oregon, and California. He was the state securities liaison for the State of Oregon. Mr. Tollefsen was a member of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association and was on the Commercial Arbitration Panel of the American Arbitration Association to hear securities law disputes. Mr. Tollefsen has former affiliations with the Commercial Law League of America, Oregon Trial Lawyers Association, and served a three-year term on the Oregon State Bar Unauthorized Practice Committee. For a number of years he was a General Securities Principal (Series 24, Series 7 and Series 63 from October 1983), and a General Financial Principal (Series 27 from October 1988). John is former member of the American Trial Lawyers Association and Washington Trial Lawyers Association.
Professional Activities:
During the past thirty-two years, John Tollefsen has served as a corporate officer and director of several small corporations, including a public company. He was an instructor of Business Law at Portland Community College. He also taught Business Law in the American Institute of Banking Program and in special programs for small businesses for four years. He is a past president of the Oregon Innovation Network. Mr. Tollefsen was a 1990 delegate on a People to People mission to Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw led by the Solicitor of the Securities and Exchange Commission and a prominent Washington, DC securities lawyer. The delegation consisted of approximately thirty US securities lawyers who met with government officials of these formerly communist countries. He visited the Budapest Stock Exchange and viewed the future Warsaw Stock Exchange. He was a 1991 delegate to Russia including Siberia and Uzbekistan in a high profile visit featured on Soviet Television news. The group met with businesses and government leaders in Moscow, Bukhara, Samarkand and Novosibirsk and included a visit to SIBEX, the Siberian Stock Exchange. He served on a delegation to China in October of 1994 led by the Chair of the ABA Business Law Corporate Counsel Committee. The journey included visits to stock exchanges and businesses in Shanghai and Hong Kong as well as business and government meetings in Guangzhou and Beijing. Mr. Tollefsen wrote and produced a 90-minute video Spotlight on China documenting the trip. He was selected as a delegate from 1987 through 1997 to the Small Business Capital Conference of the Securities and Exchange Commission and served as presenter of Equal Access to Capital in 1990. He has traveled throughout the Pacific Rim on Internet related projects.
Continuing Legal Education Speaker:
Mr. Tollefsen has participated as a speaker in the continuing education programs for lawyers on the topics of securities law, fraud law, Qui Tam, law office management, and the Internet. For more information click the "Speaking and Training" link on the bottom of this page.
Patents and Publications:
Mr. Tollefsen has published several articles in newspapers and magazines and is a seminar speaker on securities and business capital topics. He has spoken several times at continuing legal education seminars to lawyers on Internet related subjects. He has obtained more than thirty trademarks from the United States Patent Office for Internet related products and services. John is the primary contributor to and editor of Fraud Law.
Languages:
Mr. Tollefsen has formally studied German, Latin, Koine Greek and is enrolled in an ancient Hebrew course; competent grammarian; regularly translates from Greek and Hebrew into English; works on modern languages during international travels.
Community Activities:
He has served several times as a boys and girls basketball
coach.
He is an adult Bible teacher at his church. John
Tollefsen has served on non-profit Boards of Directors and has been
an advisor to several non-profit organizations. He has been and is
active in charitable fundraising and giving. He has been a
member and a director of several civic organizations.
John has been married for the past twenty-six years to Lane
Ellen Tollefsen. He has four children and one grandchild.
His youngest child completes High School in 2005. He
enjoys boating, fishing, golf, bicycling, basketball, and
reading. John was born in San Luis Obispo, California
and is a US citizen.
John J. Tollefsen's Curriculum Vitae
