Have you been sued? Were you recently served with a lawsuit, that you need to answer? Unfortunately, it happens all too often: people end up with judgments entered against them, just because the cost of hiring an attorney to defend the suit, would have ended up costing as much - or more - as they were being sued for. After all, it really doesn't really make much sense to pay an attorney a $5,000 or $10,000 upfront retainer - and with no guarantee that's the end of the bill - to defend you in a lawsuit for $5,000 or $10,000, does it?
On the other hand, since Oregon (as well as Washington) is what we call a "specific pleading" state, you're generally not going to have access to a "fill-in-the-blanks" form, that you can file with the court to answer the complaint, and ask for a trial (except, of course, for small claims). What that means, is that your answer has to be prepared essentially, "from scratch"; meaning it needs to follow a specific format, and it has to specifically answer each and every allegation that the complaint makes. So, the reality is that even if you try to prepare your own response, there is a fair chance that the lawyer for the plaintiff may be able to use the court rules (and your unfamiliarity with them), to just run roughshod over you, to the point where - even though you've paid your responsive filing fee, and maybe even an arbitrator's fee on top of that - you might never even get to argue your actual case, and the plaintiff ends up getting a judgment against you anyway!
However, those aren't your only options; that's because I can help you prepare and file a response to the complaint, without it costing you an arm and a leg. In many cases, this may give you the ability to negotiate a settlement with the plaintiff, who - in turn - might not be all that enthused about having to come up with more money for their own attorney. In fact, in some cases, it may even be possible to get the plaintiff's complaint completely thrown out! That's possible because - remember - their complaint also has to meet all those required formatting and pleading standards. But because these complaints - especially collection company and credit card complaints - often tend to be "boilerplate" documents (with just stuff like your name and the amount sued for being "filled in"), they can sometimes be thrown out for not being specific enough, or be least significantly delayed, by using those same court rules that I mentioned earlier.
Even if you only have a day or so left, before your time to respond is up, I can still help you get your response filed in time. In fact, even if you already have a judgment entered against you, I still might be able to help you, especially if you were not properly served. It is - sad to say - very common for private process servers (especially those who work for collection agencies and their attorneys) to falsify their proofs of service if they have any problems actually serving someone. That is, they claim that they served you properly, when what they really did, was take the papers that they were supposed to serve to you, just dump them in the trash, and then file a phony proof of service with the court.
If you're interested, please drop me an email and give me a brief (no more than two or three paragraphs, if possible) description of your situation, and a phone number or responsive email address where I can contact you. I'll write or call you back as soon as I can.