Disability Rights Oregon

Practice Areas

About Disability Rights Oregon

From the firm’s website

Attorneys

• Jessica "Jaci" Crowley — Supervising Attorney
• Beth Brownhill — Managing Attorney
• Christopher Hamilton — Staff Attorney
• Dave Boyer — Managing Attorney
• Emily Cooper — Legal Director
• Grace Thomas — Staff Attorney
• Joel Greenberg — Senior Staff Attorney
• Meghan Apshaga — Staff Attorney
• Misty Nichols — Staff Attorney
• Rachel Berry — Staff Attorney

Services listed

Accessibility, Americans with Disabilities Act, Assistive Technology, Children's Rights and Special Education, Crime Survivors, Employment, Financial Protection, Guardianship and Supported Decision Making, Housing, IDD Services, Inmate Rights, Mental Health

Founded

1977

Offices

• 900 SW 5th Avenue, Suite 1800 Portland, OR 97204

Source: droregon.org · checked October 17, 2026. Lawyers Near Me hasn’t independently verified these details.

Hours of Operation

Monday

9–11 am, 1–4 pm

Tuesday

9–11 am, 1–4 pm

Wednesday

9–11 am, 1–4 pm

Thursday

9–11 am, 1–4 pm

Friday

9–11 am, 1–4 pm

Saturday

Closed

Sunday

Closed

Details & Amenities

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• Elderly Neglect Abuse Advocate· via Google

  After contacting 97 attorneys & nonprofit agencies in regards to an order of protection I had to file for & was granted, which the respondent contested it; the respondents atty filed a motion & made it all about his client, citing it violated his clients right to free speech! I contacted legal aid, senior law center, womenspace & the U of O Law Center & 90+ attys who all state that they help with orders of protection, but NOT ones that are not "domestic" in nature. And being fielded by one government agency to another government agency, DRO informed me about a fairly new group, the Oregon Crime Survivors. They could not give legal advise, but gave me some information & pointed out a few things to me that I did not know. After the respondents atty failed to protect my location from his client after I used a SAFE contact address & telephone number. I filed a complaint with the Oregon State Bar against the respondents atty. Then the atty responded to my complaint citing "there was no box to check off" that states he is to protect my where abouts from his client & "the judge did not write anything in the order of protectiont that says he can't give the repondent my contact information". Ignorance of the law & rules of a protective order are no excuse for an atty to use in his own defense. If an atty takes a case it is the attys responsibility to know the rules & what the protective ordrer is & what SAFE contact information is. So DRO rrferred me to OCS. I contacted Oregon Crime Survivors again & though they could not give me legal advice they confirmed I was on the right track with my response to the Oregon State Bar. My only wish is that they had some sort of pro-bono legal representatives for victims who are not only victimized by their harasser, but then revictimized by the respondents atty...not once, but twice. Are you a survivor of a crime? Give the Oregon Crime Survivors a call, they might be able to help or steer you in the right direction.

  5 years ago
• Traci M· via Google

  DRO won't help: As a former Software Accessibility Expert at Microsoft, the RentCafe' Online Rent Payment Portal website FAILS all basic Software Accessibility Standards resulting in Housing Discrimination against people with disabilities who require Assistive Technology, like blind customers, to interact with Software. These tenants won't be able to pay their rent or file maintenance requests because they won't be able to understand what's going on in the Software and how to navigate the Software to complete the tasks. How Housing Discrimination based on disability isn't important to DRO is unbelievable especially when the same failure is happening in other apartment portal Software.

  Edited a year ago
• Kevin E.· via Google

  I wanted to share gratitude for Disability Rights Oregon. I received exceptional service from someone there this morning when they responded to my request for help within five minutes. Though they weren't able to personally assist in my case, they offered helpful resources for self-advocacy and other referral suggestions. I've also found their website to be quite clear and helpful for self-advocacy. In the past, I have reached out to them for assistance with the VR system. They provided helpful information then, too. I appreciate they did their best during COVID given their limited resources as it was challenging to reach someone during the lockdown. Thank you for providing such an excellent service for disabled people. You are appreciated!

  3 years ago
• Soorya Bateman· via Google

  Update: They have an extremely opaque screening process, and it would seem they are not in the practice of replying when a person does not meet their criteria. However, if you and/or your issue qualify, they will eventually contact you. Following that initial contact, I asked about my previous, unrelated inquiry that had been ignored, and they were very kind and even had a staff attorney follow up. Unfortunately, it was just to say DRO wasn't able to help with that specific area of disability law. But they did provide additional resources and referrals, which was extremely helpful. I really appreciated the extra effort. Even so, I believe they should acknowledge and reply to all inquiries, even if just to say that DRO can't help. It's too soon for me to say personally how helpful the service will be on the issue they are able to help me with, but I can say that I was offered a phone appointment with an attorney approximately one week from the day they responded (which was about a week after I had submitted my initial inquiry). Granted, the intake form did ask whether I was facing a deadline, and their response technically arrived before that date, but not in time for them to be able to help in a substantive way. The issue is ongoing, though, so I will update later. Based on my experience, it seems that DRO is probably not a good option for someone facing an emergency or crisis situation, which is unfortunate, because there are so very few options for people with disabilities, especially considering that many, if not most, are low income. It is possible that if a person indicated on the intake form that their issue was urgent and time-sensitive, DRO would respond more quickly. At this point it's unclear whether DRO uses a triage screening system, or if it's first-come, first-serve. Original review (still true): The website lists a phone number and hours during which they supposedly accept phone inquiries. However, no one ever answers the phone, and the recording

  Edited a year ago
• Azad Eftekhari· via Google

  They raise money from people on the premise that they help disabled people, specifically mentioning they help disabled victims of crime. When you reach out to them you get no help whatsoever and they tell you they are just a small law firm who doesn't help. The money people donate to help disabled people goes instead just to paying salaries of "non-profit" so-called workers. It's truly heinous.

  3 months ago