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Mediation pracitce focuses on resolving family law and estate administration conflicts, including custody, parenting plans, support, distribution of assets and debts, conservatorships, guardianships, probate, and trusts.
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Locations Served
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- Benton County
- Lincoln County
- Linn County
- Polk County
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Practice Areas
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Child Custody/Parenting Time
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Domestic Relations: Cooperative/Adoption
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Domestic Relations: Dissolution/Divorce
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Domestic Relations: Financial Issues
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Additional Professional Services
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Approach to Practice / Form of Mediation
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Lorena has a flexible approach designed to meet the needs of the individuals. Meetings may have all of the parties together, with or without their attorneys, or separtely.
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Background
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Lorena has been licensed in Oregon since 1998 and for the first ten years, her practice focused on litgating high conflict divorce and custody cases. She has also been involved in many litgation involving contested probate, conservatorship, and guardianship cases. Although she continues to litigate cases when necessary, her practice has expanded to include alternative methods of dispute resolution. In 2004, she joined the Linn County Arbitration Panel. She obtained her initial mediation training in 2008.
During law school, she interned at the Los Angeles District Attorney's office in the Hard Core Gang Unit and worked at Protection and Advocacy, Inc. as a law clerk representing children and young adults with disabilities in administrative hearings, as well as providing litigation support on individual and class action law suits.
In 1997, Lorena spent a year in Ontario, Oregon, as an AmeriCorps representing low-income survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. In 1998, she was hired as a Staff Attorney for the Albany Regional Office of Legal Aid. For the next six years, she represented low-income clients in a variety of areas, including family law, special education, and administrative hearings. She represented clients at hundreds of hearings and trials and handled many appeals. She also worked on legislative committees and statewide task forces, representing the interests of impoverished Oregonians and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
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Education/Training
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Lorena graduated magna cum laude from the University of Colorado, Boulder, with a degree in Philosophy. She obtained her law degree from the UCLA School of Law in 1997. Since that time she has attending many seminars and programs on the topics of mediation, arbitration, family law, estate planning and administration, and litigation.
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Fee Information
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$150.00 per hour.
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Language
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English
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