To Our Valued Friends and Clients
Consistent with the Executive Order issued by Governor Brown, we are
doing our best to work from home and have temporarily closed the
physical office during the Corona Virus pandemic. We will try to
monitor phone messages with reasonable frequency and you can contact
us via email, which we will also monitor.
Our office phone is 541 265 8888. We each have an email address:
Chris Minor: cminor@newportlaw.com
Mike Bandonis: mbandonis@newportlaw.com
Brian Haggerty: bhaggerty@newportlaw.com
Jim Shepherd: jims@newportlaw.com
Amy: amy@newportlaw.com
Kennette: kennette@newportlaw.com
Eileen: eileen@newportlaw.com
Charelene: charelene@newportlaw.com
If you have documents or payments to drop off, you may use our mail
slot (next to the front door) or send them through US Mail. You also
may send digital documents by email.
We are sorry for the inconvenience, but please understand that these are
not normal times. We will do our best to meet your needs through this
crisis, and to provide the best service we can. Thank you for your
understanding.
Sincerely,
All of us at Minor, Bandonis and Haggerty
Law reflects but in no sense determines the moral worth of a society. The values of a reasonably just society will reflect themselves in a reasonably just law. The better the society, the less law there will be. In Heaven there will be no law, and the lion will lie down with the lamb. The values of an unjust society will reflect themselves in an unjust law. The worse the society, the more law there will be. In Hell there will be nothing but law, and due process will be meticulously observed.
– Gilmore, The Ages Of American Law 110-11 (1977)
Welcome to Newport Law!
Our firm is accepting new clients in our practice areas on a case-by-case basis. Please understand that contacting us by e-mail, telephone or other means does not establish an attorney-client relationship, nor provide any assurance that we will be able to represent you. Even if you are an established client, keep in mind that communication by electronic means may not be secure. We cannot assure confidentiality of the contents.
An attorney-client relationship, and an agreement to represent you, can be established only after we have determined that we can be of help to you with your particular problem, that there is no conflict of interest, and appropriate financial arrangements have been made. There is the possibility that one of the existing clients of our firm may have an interest adverse to yours. In such a circumstance, this could be a “conflict of interest.” which would prevent us from being able to represent you, and information provided to us might be prejudicial to your interests.
Under no circumstances should you provide any confidential information to us until we have confirmed in writing our ability and willingness to represent you. Information provided to us when there is no agreed attorney-client relationship is not protected by the attorney-client privilege, and such a disclosure could be particularly prejudicial to you if, by coincidence, someone in the firm did happen to represent an adverse party.