Christine Bacon

Based on our nearly 2 year experience working with Ms. Furrer, we found that Ms. Furrer lacked the understanding and knowledge to adequately provide legal counsel regarding complex secondary education concerns and especially during critical times. We believe that her inexperience caused unnecessary t...ime delays in our case and for some very critical issues that still to this day require the attention of authorities and demand remediation. We often raised questions about the timing of activities that required completion and raised concerns about statutory clocks. Ms. Furrer would often respond to our inquiries in a condescending manor and in some instances did not follow through on some tasks that she claimed she could provide legal assistance. Actually, it's our view that some of the problems we took to her grew in severity under her consultation and we believe that to be due to inadequate guidance and inaction on her part as events unfolded real-time. We do not recommend hiring her for any complex secondary education concerns or any issues with special education in the secondary school setting that involve education records maintained by Service Districts or Districts related secondary education, special education, and especially discipline matters, grades, or evidence of record manipulation, if you need the result to be timely, equitable, and in your child's favor. Update: https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2022/05/25/oregon-leaders-need-to-stop-disrupting-education-reforms-report-find/ "Gaps in data were also identified as a major systemic issue." https://oregonlive.com/education/2022/07/hundreds-of-oregons-disabled-students-are-illegally-denied-full-school-days-new-report-finds.html

Christine is a very effective special education lawyer. Our IEP journey was frustrating, to say the least. Our son’s education was floundering, and we were dealing with a school district that seemed unable to understand what he needed for support. Our first lawyer finally got the school di...strict to agree to an IEP for our son. This IEP, however, contained no meaningful support for him. Our second lawyer persuaded us to compromise to a revised IEP that had some structure but lacked substance. We will spare you the details, but the school district appeared willing to let our son’s education free fall. Then, we found Christine. She told us what we needed to do and how we could convince the school district to provide much needed help for our son’s education. The IEP finally spelled out the support structure our son needed. He just graduated from a high school. The only reason our son has a high school diploma is because of his IEP, which we would not have gotten without Christine.