About Hinman Law.Hinman Law, P.C. is a civil litigation and dispute resolution law firm based in Bend, Oregon providing high-quality, client-service-oriented legal representation to businesses and individuals throughout Central Oregon.
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Hinman Law's Approach to Resolving Your Legal Dispute.
Jeff Hinman founded Hinman Law, P.C. in 2017 to focus on providing effective, accessible, client-focused legal service to businesses and individuals in Central Oregon. Ben Seiken joined the firm in 2020 as Of Counsel to expand the firm's litigation experience as well as its capacity to serve clients. Hinman Law focuses exclusively on assisting clients in resolving disputes, whether by negotiating a settlement directly or through mediation, litigation, arbitration, or other formal dispute resolution processes.
While both Ben and Jeff are trial lawyers, they believe that being a "litigator" is not simply about being a tactician. Rather, litigator's best serve their clients by exercising good judgment and acting as a strategic advisor to clients in guiding a dispute to a successful resolution. Some litigators treat every client matter as a battle to be won between combatants, which is an approach that serves to increase the cost of litigation without necessarily improving outcomes for clients. Hinman Law views each dispute faced by its clients as a problem to be solved using a variety of tools, and crafts each representation to meet the individual client's needs, goals, and circumstances, all with a view of how best to reach an acceptable outcome for the client as effectively and efficiently as possible.
Hinman Law works hard to help its clients understand the practical realities of their dispute and to explain the risks and potential rewards of pursuing any course of action. The firm prides itself in crafting creative solutions to problems that allow clients to achieve their goals while avoiding expensive and unnecessary litigation where possible. Jeff and Ben believe that it is possible to find common ground in even the most seemingly irreconcilable disputes, and they are frequently able to find satisfactory resolutions for the firm's clients prior to undertaking the stress and expense of extended litigation. If litigation is the best or the only way to resolve a dispute, however, Jeff and Ben draw on their litigation experience in Oregon’s state and federal trial and appellate courts to fight for the firm's clients.
While both Ben and Jeff are trial lawyers, they believe that being a "litigator" is not simply about being a tactician. Rather, litigator's best serve their clients by exercising good judgment and acting as a strategic advisor to clients in guiding a dispute to a successful resolution. Some litigators treat every client matter as a battle to be won between combatants, which is an approach that serves to increase the cost of litigation without necessarily improving outcomes for clients. Hinman Law views each dispute faced by its clients as a problem to be solved using a variety of tools, and crafts each representation to meet the individual client's needs, goals, and circumstances, all with a view of how best to reach an acceptable outcome for the client as effectively and efficiently as possible.
Hinman Law works hard to help its clients understand the practical realities of their dispute and to explain the risks and potential rewards of pursuing any course of action. The firm prides itself in crafting creative solutions to problems that allow clients to achieve their goals while avoiding expensive and unnecessary litigation where possible. Jeff and Ben believe that it is possible to find common ground in even the most seemingly irreconcilable disputes, and they are frequently able to find satisfactory resolutions for the firm's clients prior to undertaking the stress and expense of extended litigation. If litigation is the best or the only way to resolve a dispute, however, Jeff and Ben draw on their litigation experience in Oregon’s state and federal trial and appellate courts to fight for the firm's clients.
