Tuesday, July 1st, 2008...6:54 am
Jim Grandjean
Jim Grandjean died yesterday in Arizona, where he’d practiced law after leaving Alaska. He was 68.
Grandjean worked for Alaska Legal Services in its early years, including as Director of Litigation in the mid-1970’s, when Loyette Goodell and Frank Flavin were the Executive Directors. He was part of the first generation of ALSC attorneys, who included John Hedland, Saul Friedman, Bill Timme, Bill Jacobs, Eric Treisman, John Reese, Don Clocksin, Bruce Twomley, and Bill Rice. He later joined Hedland, Fleischer & Friedman.
Grandjean trained many of the next generation of ALSC lawyers, including Phil Volland, Craig Tillery, Fred Torrisi, and Dave Stewart.
He had an unnatural enthusiasm for the ins and outs of administrative law. See Jager v. State, 537 P.2d 1100 (Alaska 1975). He worked hard. He loved his work. He took me along once, when he served a court order shutting down a bar in Cantwell; he bought drinks first. A good guy.
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