The Urban League of Portland, one of the biggest and most established civil rights groups in Oregon, hired Mike Schmidt, the former district attorney for Multnomah County who lost his reelection attempt to an office insider last year, as its general counsel this week.
The move was announced by Schmidt on Thursday. On Monday, he started the work.
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