February 22, 2013 - Oregon State Bar

an additional fee of $15,000 would need to be paid for his work to continue. Mr. Jordan was
not in fact suspended at this time, the additional $15,000 was never paid, and Mr. Jordan went
on to file a brief before the end of 2007.
Mr. Jordan prepared and filed an Appellant’s Opening Brief. The brief was timely filed in
late 2007 after several extensions of time were granted by the Court of Appeals. Mr. Jordan
requested and received multiple extensions of time due to the lengthy preparation of the trial
transcript and to his own lengthy brief preparation period. The brief Mr. Jordan filed ran some
50 pages and included six assignments of error. It is of some interest that the Department of
Justice in its pleadings noted the brief rightfully should have been even longer, as Mr. Jordan
used a 12-point typeface instead of the required 13-point typeface. The investigator reviewed
the Appellant’s Opening Brief in the Court of Appeals file. The brief appears to have been
thoroughly researched and competently prepared.
Mr. Jordan was suspended in Oregon on January 1, 2008. He has not to this day been
reinstated. Mr. Jordan does not appear to have performed any work on Mr. Flores-Salazar’s
behalf after the date of his suspension.
Mr. Flores-Salazar obtained the assistance of a publicly-appointed attorney from the
Public Defense Services Commission’s Appellate Division. The PDSC court-appointed attorney
requested and received permission to file a supplemental brief. The Supplemental Brief
contained additional briefing materials on only one of the six assignments of error. The original
brief was not amended, withdrawn or disavowed in any way by the court-appointed appellate
attorney.
The conviction was ultimately affirmed without opinion.
Mr. Flores-Salazar has not filed a civil complaint in any court against Mr. Jordan, and no
judgment is forthcoming. There has been no criminal prosecution of Mr. Jordan in connection
with this matter.
A PLF claim is pending against Mr. Jordan in connection with this matter.
Mr. Jordan’s file and time records, if any exist, are not available for review.
Investigator’s Actions
The investigator contacted Mr. Linn Davis in the Oregon State Bar Disciplinary
Counsel’s Office for information about Mr. Jordan and this claim. Mr. Davis advised the
investigator that there were no time records available, Mr. Jordan’s file would not likely be
available, and that Mr. Jordan would likely not be available for interview. Mr. Davis sent the
investigator a timeline of Mr. Jordan’s various suspensions.
The investigator obtained an OJIN print of the Clackamas County Circuit Court case in
which Mr. Flores-Salazar was convicted, which was the subject of the appeal Mr. Jordan was
hired to handle.