New attorney joins local law firm
Ted Reuter steps aboard Yturri Rose LLP.
By Larry Meyer
Argus Observer
Friday, February 13, 2009 11:05 AM PST
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| Ted Reuter, a new attorney in Ontario, stands outside his office at the law firm of Yturri Rose. |
ONTARIO — Although he went to college on the East Coast, Ted Reuter, the newest attorney at Yturri Rose, LLP., Ontario, is an Oregon native and is just as happy to be in Eastern Oregon or the west side of Oregon, near where he grew up in Lebanon.
Although the population may be larger now, Reuter said Lebanon still has a small town-feel to it like Ontario, and though he has been out of high school for awhile, he still meets people on the street who remember him and can call him by name.
After graduating from high school, Reuter, 27, decided he wanted to get as far away as he could to go to college, and so he applied to East Coast colleges, attending Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
“Vassar turned out to be a good fit,” he said, adding he headed back to Oregon for law school at Willamette University in Salem.
At first, Reuter toyed with the idea of going into a medical career, but decided that it was not a fit for him and decided he was still interested in law.
“My dad was a lawyer,” he said. “In college my interest was ethics.”
So, he set his studies accordingly.
Having graduated from law school in the spring of 2008, and after he passed the Oregon Bar exam last summer, Reuter saw that there was an opening at the Ontario law firm on the college’s Web site. With his mother being from Weiser and still having family there, Ontario was on the radar, he said. Reuter has now been in the Ontario law firm for about five months.
As he was going to law school, he was also taking graduate courses in business and graduated with a Masters in Business Administration.
“I’m interested in employee and business litigation,” he said. Having the business education will help him understand what business wants and what business needs, Reuter said. Athletic, Reuter played soccer in high school and studied tai kwan do for nine years.
Now in Ontario, he said he wants to get into judo, and, when time allows, he wants to become active in the Ore-Ida Judo Club. He also enjoys snow skiing but said he has not had time for the slopes, getting settled into his new law practice and studying for the Idaho Bar exam.
