Hershner Hunter LLP

Focus and practice areas

Based in Eugene, Oregon, Hershner Hunter LLP is a business law firm. Its work centers on companies and the people who run them. The named practice areas start with business and corporate law, labor, employment and benefits, and estate planning and business succession.

The list runs wider from there. The firm handles intellectual property and technology, litigation, and real estate transactions and litigation. It also takes on creditors' rights and bankruptcy, construction, and healthcare matters. Financial institutions, agriculture and natural resources, data security and privacy, and regulatory work round out the page.

In my opinion, the useful signal in a list this wide is how the firm groups it. Hershner Hunter organizes its attorneys around defined practice areas, and each attorney focuses on a particular field of law. A client with a construction dispute and a client planning a business handover reach different people inside the same firm.

How the team is built

The site names twelve attorneys and sorts them by role. Katherine L. Moyer holds the managing partner title, which puts firm operations under a named lawyer.

The partner group includes Courtney R. Caimona, Nancy K. Cary, Sally R. Claycomb, Mario D. Conte, Nicholas M. Frost, Carrie L. Hellwig Christopher, Alexandra P. Hilsher, and Todd R. Johnston. Jeffrey D. Kirtner and Bryon L. Land carry the of counsel title, a role that usually means a senior lawyer who advises the firm and stays involved in selected matters. Logan J. Perrien Naccarato is listed as an associate.

That mix of partners, of counsel, and one named associate suggests a settled firm with room for newer lawyers to grow into the work. Several partners cover the practice areas, which fits the firm's stated model of one lawyer per field. A named roster also lets a client see who handles what before the first meeting.

The Eugene and Springfield footprint

Hershner Hunter works with clients in Eugene and Springfield, the two adjoining cities that anchor the southern Willamette Valley. The firm keeps its office in downtown Eugene.

Local depth matters in business law because so much of the work runs through county courts, city permitting desks, and regional lenders. A firm that has handled Lane County matters for years knows the clerks, the judges, and the filing habits that shape a case. Hershner Hunter states that it has been active in the Eugene community for more than 75 years, which places its start in the mid-twentieth century. The site lists no exact founding year, so the count is the firm's own.

The southern Willamette Valley carries a mix of farms, timber ground, and mid-size employers, which lines up with the firm's separate practice areas in agriculture and natural resources. A regional client base tends to bring repeat work: a company that files an entity one year may return with an employment question the next.

How the practice areas fit together

A general business firm earns its keep when one matter crosses several of these lanes at once. A single company might need a corporate lawyer, an employment lawyer, and a litigator within the same year.

Business and corporate law generally covers forming an entity, drafting the operating or shareholder agreement, and handling contracts and governance as the company grows. Labor, employment and benefits work runs alongside it: employment agreements, workplace policies, wage and hour questions, and benefit plans. Estate planning and business succession then looks ahead. It uses wills, trusts, and buy-sell agreements to move ownership to the next generation on planned terms.

Two newer areas on the list, data security and privacy plus intellectual property and technology, point the firm toward questions that many Oregon businesses now face. Privacy work covers how a company collects and stores customer data and what it must disclose after a breach. Intellectual property work covers trademarks, trade secrets, and the licensing terms that let one business use another's software or brand.

Hershner Hunter names attorneys across each of those fields, so a business owner can keep the corporate file, the employment file, and the succession plan under one roof. That continuity helps when a later dispute turns on a contract the same firm drafted.

What the litigation work involves

Litigation is one of the firm's named practice areas, and it covers both real estate and general civil disputes. As a reviewer, I read that pairing as a firm equipped to take a business matter into court when a deal breaks down.

Civil litigation in Oregon runs through the circuit courts. A case opens with a complaint and an answer, moves through discovery where each side exchanges documents and takes depositions, and often reaches a settlement conference before any trial date arrives. Real estate litigation adds its own steps, since title records, easements, and purchase agreements each carry their own proof requirements. Creditors' rights and bankruptcy work, also on the firm's list, can run in federal bankruptcy court on a separate track from the state civil docket.

The presence of both transactional and courtroom work on one page tells a client the firm can draft an agreement and later defend it. One team then keeps a matter's history in view, back to the first signature.

What the record shows

The public facts here are steady and consistent. Hershner Hunter presents itself as a multi-practice business firm. Named partners staff it, a named managing partner leads it, and it works from Eugene for clients across Eugene and Springfield.

The firm maintains a presence on Facebook and LinkedIn, which gives clients a second place to check its updates. In my opinion, the clearest strength on the page is structure: the roster, the roles, and the practice areas all line up, so a prospective client can see who does what before making a call. Hershner Hunter names attorneys for corporate, employment, real estate, and litigation work, and it reports more than 75 years of practice in Eugene.