The Firm provides comprehensive services related to:

Labor and Personnel for all types of Public Employers

• Legal advice regarding evaluation, discipline, and dismissal of employees
• Assistance in writing and administering plans of assistance for employees
• Advice regarding employer responsibilities under FMLA/OFLA/ADA
• Advice regarding non-discrimination and whistle-blower laws
• Representation at the bargaining table for successor agreements and interim bargaining issues.
• Advice regarding interpretation of individual and collective employment agreements.
• Representation before the Employment Relations Board, Fair Dismissal Appeals Board, labor arbitrators, and in other administrative hearings
• Representation in appeals to the Oregon Court of Appeals and Supreme Court
• Representation in state and federal courts in a variety of employee-initiated tort claims and contract dispute claims.

Student-related Issues

• Advice regarding student rights and disciplinary procedures
• Representation at student disciplinary hearings or appeals
  Representation in court and administrative hearings regarding student residency and discipline issues.
• Advice regarding rights of disabled students under IDEA and Section 504
• Representation in state and federal complaint procedures and due process hearings under IDEA and Section 504
• Representation in appeals to the Oregon appellate courts and the federal trial and appellate courts on a variety of student issues

Governance and General Services

• Advice regarding Public Meetings and Public Records issues
• Representation before the Oregon Governmental Standards Commission regarding governmental ethics and open meetings law requirements
• Representation in state courts regarding Public Records litigation
• Assistance in drafting and revising local policies, procedures, and handbooks
• Advice regarding hiring, evaluating, and continuance of employment of chief executive officers and negotiation of individual employee contracts
• Development of specific policies regarding personnel, program or governance
• Risk prevention recommendations

Training for your Staff

The Hungerford Law Firm partners regularly present inservice training on any of above-listed topics. At least annually the firm designs and presents its own workshops in Oregon City or elsewhere around the state on “hot topics” in personnel/labor law and student-related law. The partners also present annually at the Oregon School Law Conference in Eugene in December and the annual COSA convention in Seaside in June. We also design and present training for a client’s administrators or other groups of staff upon request. Members of the firm periodically participate in Oregon State Bar CLE presentations and handbooks.

New! Assistance for Districts Working With Charter Schools

A variety of services are now available to assist districts in negotiating, troubleshooting, and working collaboratively on an ongoing basis with charter schools. Click here for more information.