Stoel Rives' new managing partner talks about changes at Portland's largest law firm

Change is afoot at Portland's largest law firm.

The managing partner of its Portland headquarters office remains Wally Van Valkenburg, but the firm's other "Van," Bob Van Brocklin stepped down this month as Stoel Rives' firm-wide managing partner, replaced by the founding managing partner of the firm's Anchorage, Alaska office. James Torgerson, originally from Minnesota, is the first-ever Alaska-based managing partne r of a major U.S. law firm.

He brings a new outside perspective to the Portland-based…