Travis W. Hall

Associate

Practice Group: Litigation

Bateman Seidel Miner Blomgren Chellis & Gram, PC
Stanley M. Samuels, Senior Counsel

Travis Hall is an associate with Bateman Seidel whose practice focuses on commercial civil litigation.

Prior to joining Bateman Seidel, Travis was a Captain in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps in the U.S. Army, completing 14 years of honorable service as both a sergeant and a commissioned officer. In the JAG Corps, Travis held two positions as a trial attorney, most recently as the Senior Defense Counsel for the Ft. Knox region. In this position, Travis represented those soldiers with the most complex trials, including two high-profile cases of soldiers charged with combat related offenses. In one of the cases, Travis defended his client’s actions in a featured nationally televised interview with Anderson Cooper on CNN.

Education & Credentials
J.D., Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College, 1998
B.A., Magna Cum Laude, University of Maryland, 1995

Bar Admissions
Oregon
Washington
U.S. Court of International Trade
U.S. Court of Federal Claims

Travis also developed an expertise in international law while stationed in Germany as a JAG for five years. During that time, Travis advised commanders on the intricacies of international law governing military operations in Europe, and as a German speaker Travis worked frequently with German officials in the continental legal system. Thanks to the Army, Travis is also an Arabic speaker, which after 9/11 resulted in Travis’ third deployment to Kuwait in February 2003 to serve on the battle staff for the war in Iraq. When the Iraqi government fell in April 2003, Travis used his international law background and Arabic language skills towards the reconstruction of the Iraqi criminal justice system in Baghdad.

As recognition for his efforts in Iraq, Travis Hall was awarded the Bronze Star and was nominated to represent the JAG Corps at a policy conference on Afghanistan and Iraq at the University of Georgia where he presented the lunch speech on criminal justice in Iraq. His address was subsequently published in the Georgia Journal of Comparative and International Law.

In between law school and the JAG Corps, Travis was fortunate to clerk for the Honorable William J. Keys on the complex civil litigation docket in the Multnomah County Circuit Court. As a judicial clerk, Travis had the privileged experience of being mentored by a great judge and also having access to observe the best trial attorneys in Portland present their cases in court.

Outside of the firm, Travis remains involved with the legal and civic communities. He is an adjunct professor of International Law at Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark. Travis is an avid outdoorsman who coaches soccer with the Jackson Soccer Club, supports the Mt. Hood Meadows Race Team, rides his mountain and road bikes, and is a dedicated triathlete and Ironman finisher.

Travis has lived outside the United States for over ten years in South America, Europe and the Middle East, and he has traveled extensively in those regions. He speaks Spanish, Arabic, and German.