Law for Real People - John Gear Law Office & Salem Consumer Law 503-569-7777

Did COVID cause you to have problems with your mortgage?

3/9/2022

If you are a homeowner who has not been making payments on your mortgage and now you are having a problem getting back on track with your mortgage, you may be eligible for help from a new legal aid foreclosure defense project, Oregon Homeowner Legal Assistance (OHLA).

If you are low/moderate income and face any COVID-related financial hardship that threatens your homeownership (defaults, lender refusals to modify your loan, etc.) you should seek if OHLA can help you by calling
Oregon Homeowner Legal Assistance: 1-855-503-2598.

Another reminder to be grateful for the abundance we share

9/3/2014

Thanks to my clients, I am able to support terrific organizations like Salem Harvest:

Dear Mr. Gear,

I hope you're having a wonderful summer. Salem Harvest's season is off to a great start. We had a big rush of cherries at the beginning of summer then incredible blueberry production (5 tons of blueberries donated. yes, 5 tons!!)

As we follow the produce in the valley, we had a lull between crops and now the heavy hitters are lining up. For example, we had a zucchini harvest last week and put almost 6 tons in Marion Polk Food Share's cooler in 1 day. This week is a series of pear harvests that should yield a donation of 12-18,000 pounds. Plus broccoli and onions too.

With the dry, sunny weather, the produce quality as been top notch. All of the equipment that your sponsorship helped us acquire has really made us much more efficient, getting more food to those who need it.

Thank you very much for your support. I'm grateful for your donation and very am excited about the ongoing 2014 harvest season.

More new titles available for loan to nonprofit leaders

5/16/2014

I make my reference library on nonprofit governance and fundraising available for free loan to nonprofit boards and executives -- click the image above to go to my library catalog, where you can browse the many titles (look for the tags that interest you to sort through the 300+ titles; you can start with fundraising and nonprofits).

Two new resources for nonprofit leaders in John Gear Law Office library

4/17/2014

I maintain an extensive collection of resources to assist me in my practice, which nearly all consists of working to help consumers, elders, employees, and nonprofits. Rather than have these valuable resources sit idly, I make them available to nonprofit boards and executives in the Salem area. To check out my collection, go here, and search on items tagged with "nonprofits" to winnow down the collection to those helpful for nonprofit leaders.

OregonAdminRules.org now even better!

1/24/2014

As I announced a while back, I recently found a programming maestro with the technical chops to help me realize a long-held goal of making the Oregon Administrative Rules readily accessible to anyone in Oregon who wanted to use them. The "official" copy available online is formatted so badly (using tiny type and no indenting) that it positively defeats a user who isn't willing to copy the entire chapter and spend hours reformatting it so that the layout doesn't cause you to misread it.

Thanks to Maestro's mad coding skillz, you now have free “one click” access to a properly formatted, very readable copy of every Oregon Administrative Rule chapter.

Need bigger text for reading ease? Just click on the + sign in the upper right corner.
Want more text per screen? Just click the - sign.
\Want to take it offline entirely, or import to a document? Just use your mouse or keyboard commands to copy and paste the full text of any chapter where you need it, or you can click again to go directly to the appropriate subsection, highlight just the text you need, and copy and paste to your document.

At last---a clear, readable, well-formatted version of the complete set of the Oregon Admin Rules now online

OregonAdminRules.org is a free public service to Oregon attorneys and all Oregonians, provided by a partnership of

   * John Gear Law Office LLC, John@JohnGearLaw.com
   * Hanson & Walgenkim, LLC, Hansonwalgenkim.com
   * 855ZipDebt.com, Consumer Bankruptcy law, and
   * Lawptimize, a legal productivity apps foundry.

OregonAdminRules.org was inspired by the refreshing ease and error-reducing readability of OregonLaws.org. Now the Oregon Admin Rules, which are often at least as important to the public and practitioners as statutes, are available in a readily accessible, readable form as well.

At last---a clear, readable, well-formatted version of the complete set of the Oregon Admin Rules now online

11/18/2013

Announcing OregonAdminRules.org

a free public service to Oregon attorneys and the public provided by a partnership of

* John Gear Law Office LLC
* Hanson & Walgenkim, LLC
* 855ZipDebt.com, Consumer Bankruptcy law
* Lawptimize, a legal productivity apps foundry

Creation of OregonAdminRules.org was inspired by the refreshing ease and error-reducing readability of OregonLaws.org (the best place to find readable Oregon Revised Statutes). OregonAdminRules.org now brings that same idea to the OARs, which are often just as important to the public and practitioners as statutes.

New: Free for Nonprofits--Borrow books of interest for nonprofits from the John Gear Law Office nonprofit library

8/23/2013

One of the biggest challenges facing nonprofit businesses is access to reliable guidance about how to do business -- how to be effective while complying with the myriad laws that affect how the nonprofit operates.

To help Oregon nonprofits meet this challenge, I've decided to make my library available to Oregon nonprofit board members and nonprofit executives. Check out books tagged as "nonprofits" in my office library here, and contact me if you want to arrange to borrow any of the resources, at no charge.

Don't do this to yourself -- don't talk or text while driving!

8/12/2013

Top 10 Tips to Avoid Being Ripped Off -- from Oregon DOJ

5/20/2013

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Are you struggling to make it financially, or do you know someone who is?

11/22/2012

Need help affording or keeping a cellphone?

Look into Assurance Wireless, a federally funded program to help people with low incomes by making sure that they can have lifeline phone service. If you qualify, it's a free phone and 250 minutes a month. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE

LAWYERLY FINE PRINT:

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