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Susan Hammer is a leading mediator in the Pacific Northwest and has served as a mediator since 1988. She has mediated a range of commerical disputes, employment claims, insurance matters, personal injury and medical malpractice cases, product liability claims and land use disputes. She has been a member of the Oregon State Bar Association since 1976, a member of the Washington State Bar Association since 1977. She has been a fellow in the International Academy of Mediators since 2001 and serves on the Board of Directors.
Ms. Hammer is listed in the Best Lawyers in American 2005-2008 for Dispute Resolution. She is also listed in Oregon Super Lawyers 2006-2008.
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Accident / Personal Injury |
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Civil |
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Commercial |
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Construction |
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Employment |
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Environmental/Public Policy |
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Franchise |
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Government |
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Insurance Bad Faith |
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Insurance Claims |
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International |
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Landlord/Tenant |
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Products Liability |
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Professional Malpractice |
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Real Estate |
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Securities |
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Technology |
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Trainer |
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Wills, Trusts & Estates |
IAM Member since
2001
Background
Susan Hammer graduated from law school in 1976 and clerked for the Washington State Supreme Court. She then joined Stoel Rives LLP, a large, multi-state law firm in Portland, Oregon in 1978 and became a partner in 1984. She practiced as a civil and business litigator and as a labor and employment lawyer. She served as chair of the labor and employment practice group and as legal advisor to the firm on employment matters.
She left Stoel Rives LLP in 1998 and established her own practice, focusing on dispute resolution services.
Ms. Hammer is a fellow and Board member in the Internation Academy of Mediators. She is listed in The Best Lawyers in American, 2005-2008 for Dispute Resolution and in Oregon Super Lawyer 2006-2008. She has served as Vice-Chair of the Oregon Dispute Resolution Commission and Chair of the Advisory Council for the Center for Dispute Resolution at Willamette University College of Law.
Education/Training
J.D. Willamette University College of Law, 1976.
B.A. University of Puget Sound, Honors, 1971.
International Academy of Mediators Conferences, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.
Harvard Insight Initiative/IAM Spring Program 2006;
Conversations in Advanced Topics in Dispute Resolution, 2001
Masters Forum, Pepperdine University, 2000.
National Employment Mediation Service Training by ADR Associates, 1998.
Institute for Conflict Management Training, 1994-1995.
United States Arbitration and Mediation Training, 1989
Practicing in
Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Oregon, Washington
Fees
$4,000 a day
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