Oregon gives you two years to sue and 180 days to notify a public body, and the second deadline ends more claims than the first. Compare Portland firms on what they publish and on what we could verify ourselves.
Johnson Law is a boutique practice in Hillsboro, in Portland's western suburbs, and names three attorneys. It publishes a fee statement, a contingency promise, a free consultation, a 24 hour line and pages in Spanish, along with a guide to Oregon's personal injury protection cover.
Goldberg & Loren publishes a Portland address in its own structured data and holds verified listings in Portland, New York and Plantation, Florida. 597 reviews at 4.55.
Paulson Coletti Trial Attorneys works from Lake Oswego and names three attorneys, two Paulsons and John Coletti. Its own statement of purpose is that liberty and justice for all is a mandate rather than a phrase.
Two years is the limitation period for an injury claim, under ORS 12.110. The rule that ends claims quietly is the Oregon Tort Claims Act: a claim against a public body, the city, the county, TriMet, a public hospital or a school district, needs notice within 180 days of the loss under ORS 30.275, and no action can be maintained without it. TriMet matters more here than a transit authority does in most cities, because a great many Portland injury claims involve a bus or a train.
Cases are heard in the Multnomah County Circuit Court downtown, with Washington County in Hillsboro and Clackamas County in Oregon City taking the suburbs. Federal matters go to the District of Oregon. Oregon is also a comparative fault state without the harsh cut-off Maryland applies: a share of the blame reduces what you recover rather than ending the claim, up to the point where your share exceeds the other side’s.
Contingency, as everywhere in this directory, and as everywhere in this directory no firm here publishes its percentage. Oregon does not set the share by statute for injury work, so it is a term of the agreement rather than a rule, which means it is worth asking about and worth reading. Ask also whether case expenses come out before or after the fee is calculated: on a mid-size settlement that order is worth five figures.