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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2016
Brazilian immigrant brings passion for justice to the law
of terms, her school sched-
ule was less demanding, but
Nogueira was still going full-
steam. In March 2015, she
started working as a “Rule
Nine intern” for Guy Glenn
Law Firm, meaning that she
could perform limited legal
duties, under supervision
from experienced attorneys.
Former
exchange
student returns
as lawyer
By NATALIE ST. JOHN
EO Media Group
Nogueira grew up in São
Jose Dos Campos, a large city
in the Brazilian state of São
Paulo. Both of her parents are
attorneys, and her father still
runs a private criminal law
practice. Their enthusiasm for
law was contagious.
“I went to career day in
irst grade dressed as an attor-
ney. I guess that’s when it
started!” Nogueira said. She
only considered other career
options very briely.
“You have such an access
to helping people. It’s amaz-
ing,” Nogueira explained.
“Even if I choose not to be
an attorney per se, there’s just
so much I could do. I never
found anything else that had
that many opportunities.”
When Nogueira irst
came to stay with the Han-
son family in Raymond for
six months, she only spoke
very basic English. However,
Natalie St. John/EO Media Group
Pamella Nogueira is a new attorney working for the Guy Glenn Law Firm.
her language skills rapidly
improved. She loved the Han-
sons and the other locals she
got to know.
“It was probably the
best experience of my life.
The people were so nice. It
was incredible,” Nogueira
recalled. Although Raymond
couldn’t be more different
than her busy tropical home-
town, she felt totally at home.
“I like the rain, I like the
green, I like the quietness,”
Nogueira said.
High-speed higher
education
Nogueira started studying
law at a Brazilian university,
but eventually, both she and
her sister — another attorney
who now works as an auditor
at a large Chicago accounting
irm — decided to try their
luck in the U.S.
Nogueira enrolled in an
intensive English program at
Tacoma’s Paciic Lutheran
University. It was supposed to
take six months, but Nogueira
powered through the curricu-
lum. After three months, her
advisors ran out of work for
her to do, and cut her loose.
She registered at a community
college and began earning the
credits she needed to transfer
to an American university.
When she enrolled at
University of Washington,
Tacoma, her advisors told her
she couldn’t study law as an
undergraduate, so she had to
pick another major.
“I said, ‘OK, which ones
can I take the fun classes
with?’” Nogueira remem-
bered. The advisors sug-
gested a major in “politics,
philosophy and economics.”
“They promised me I only
had to take one more eco-
nomics class, so that was
OK!” Nogueira laughed. That
major allowed her to take lots
of classes about human rights
— a topic she’s still passion-
ate about. She graduated
about a year later, in August
2012.
“I’m not a fan of school,
so I hurry a bit,” Nogueira
joked. “If I know I have to
get it done, I just do it.”
Commuting to
law school
By the time she entered
University of Washington
Law School, Nogueira was
dating her future husband,
Todd Maneman, a Raymond
electrician, so she decided to
commute to law school.
Typically, UW’s compet-
itive, highly demanding law
program takes three years, but
Nogueira asked her advisors
IO R
From S ã o Paulo
to Raymond
Battle of the bar
JU N
LONG BEACH, Wash. —
Paciic County’s newest attor-
ney has a rare gift for pick-
ing ambitious goals, and then
achieving them in record time.
Originally from Brazil,
Pamella Nogueira, 25, irst
came to Raymond as 15-year-
old exchange student. A
decade later, Nogueira, who
was admitted to the Washing-
ton State Bar in April, is living
in Raymond again, married to
a local man, and launching her
career in the justice system.
During an interview at her
ofice, Nogueira talked about
her passion for social justice,
her breakneck journey through
law school, and how she found
a home-away-from-home in
Raymond.
if she could get it done in two
years. They thought she was
nuts.
“Those advisors had no
faith in me!” Nogueira said.
“They told me, ‘You can’t
do it.’ I said, ‘Well, I’ll see
you later then, after I get my
degree!’ I didn’t sleep much.”
Nogueira took enormous
course-loads, waking up as
early as 3 a.m., to drive to
Seattle as much as ive days
a week, often while working
part time.
At the end of the irst year,
she had to do an externship
for school credit. She clerked
for Paciic County Superior
Court Judge Michael Sulli-
van, which involved keep-
ing records, preparing reports
about upcoming cases, and
doing legal research. Nogueira
liked working for Sullivan so
much that she extended her
externship, and even contin-
ued volunteering for a couple
of months after it ended. That
experience proved invaluable,
as it helped her get to know
the local members of the legal
community, including her
future employers attorneys
Guy Glenn and Nate Need-
ham, of Guy Glenn Law Firm
in Long Beach.
During her last couple
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purpose in practicing law in
a rural community.
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making sure that our rights
are being respected, and
things are done the proper
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guilty, they deserve to have
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Nogueira inished law
school in August, about a year
before most of her peers, and
married Maneman in a sim-
ple ceremony in December.
She had one remaining obsta-
cle standing between her and
full-ledged attorney status:
The bar exam.
Few law students graduate
ready to take the notoriously
dificult test, Nogueira said.
In 2015, about 77,000 U.S.
law students took the bar, and
just 59 percent of them passed,
according to the National Con-
ference of Bar Examiners.
Nogueira sat for the bar in
February. It was a relief to be
done, but she didn’t allow her-
self to believe she was really
done until after she received
her test score in April.
“I had to Google it. After
I Googled it, I still didn’t
quite buy it. It took me a cou-
ple of hours to believe I actu-
ally had passed,” Nogueira
remembered.
cases at Guy Glenn. Out-
side of the courtroom, this
involves lots of research,
conducting interviews, and
negotiating with prosecutors
to get fair deals for her cli-
ents, Nogueira said.
As a member of the drug
court panel, Nogueira helps
supervise offenders who have
been given a chance to get
serious about sobriety, in lieu
of jail time or other traditional
punishments. The offenders
have to take drug tests, fol-
low a 12-step program and
consistently update the panel
on their progress. Nogueira
says she is “passionate” about
alternative programs like drug
court — she believes they
have real potential to help
people with mental illnesses
or addictions break out of the
often endless cycle of poverty,
crime and incarceration.
“I feel that sometimes,
these people are not being
given a proper response to
their actions. I feel that some-
times we don’t have the
proper response,” Nogueira
said. “They keep reoffend-
ing, reoffending, reoffend-
ing. If jail didn’t work once,
it didn’t work twice, it didn’t
work three times, is it going to
work the fourth time?”
Given her fondness for
staying busy, perhaps it’s
not surprising that Nogueira
moved pretty seamlessly
from school to career with-
out ever taking a real break.
After keeping up such a
demanding schedule during
her whirlwind educational
spree, she said, settling into
“real life” in her adopted
hometown almost feels like a
vacation.
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“I’m still trying to igure out
what people do for hobbies,
now that I only have one full-
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