This woman is a gift to any family she represents. I trusted her with everything I was fighting for (my family) and she not only delivered, she was honest, she was sympathetic and she provided absolute guidance in a world of chaos and pain! She was worth every penny and then some. She is a strong advocate with a heart and also, importantly, not afraid to tell you the hard truths. She never treated me like my feelings did not matter, even though they may not have mattered to my case. I cannot say enough good about her. We had a three year long high conflict case that involved a transfer from another state and a lengthy parenting evaluation. Laurel Hook was my family's savior. There is not another way to put it. She was just that solid, reliable and trustworthy. She is exceptional, she is a valuable asset for your family and she will go to bat for you to defend you and your children. There is no one I would rather have spent years with on my custody battle, in an effort to protect my child. She gave me my life back and that means more to me than anything.

If you want the best lawyer, go with Laurel Hook. Divorce is hard, and you need someone who is intelligent and strategic on your side. After meeting Laurel it was clear she cared about me and my family, and she would ensure we were taken care of. She answered all of my questions, listened to my concerns, and was brilliant at negotiating for everything I wanted/needed. If you are looking for the best lawyer who is intelligent, experienced, strategic and genuinely cares about you, choose Laurel Hook.

I hired Laurel and her team to help me through a difficult process. Her professional experience and attention to detail helped make me feel very well taken care of under trying circumstances. I highly recommend her and her team.

Let me start off by saying that divorce sucks. You may have heard this but will never really understand until you experience it. During this pretty horrible time in my life, Laurel Hook has been one of the greatest blessing. Not only does she help you navigate through the fog, she truly understands how you are feeling and cares about your well being. I honestly would have been lost without her support. Yes, she is my lawyer, but I view her at an extremely supportive friend and advocate. It you are facing this challenging time in your life, pick up the phone and schedule a meeting. You will need help and I'd encourage you to get the best help/lawyer in Portland.

I first met Laurel after a year of battling through a divorce and not seeing my children. She immediately made me feel better about my situation and went to war for me. I can't put into words how amazing she was from start to finish. Her per hour billable rate was slightly higher than my first attorney I had, but she got the job done so much more efficiently and with purpose that it was a tremendous savings on my part. She is the most caring and professional person I have ever dealt with from any industry. I highly suggest you take the time to meet with her before trusting some of the most important details of your life with anyone else. She is the best!

If you are of a certain age, you will remember the 1972 song, “Cover of the Rolling Stone,” by the Union City, NJ, country-rock band Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show. There is nothing Jersey or country-rock about Laurel Hook. But her mere presence is nothing short of medicinal. She is the legal equivalent of a wonder drug, cutting through the cancer of confusion like a proton beam. Within the first few moments of our meeting, Ms. Hook began assembling her strategy, plotting out the inflection points with surgical precision. She then put together a team of world-class resources to support my every legal and personal need, working with the deft calm of an ER doctor on a busy Saturday night. I have had, coincidentally, had my life saved by a crew of over a dozen emergency medical professionals. Ms. Hook and the team and Stahancyk, Kent & Hook operate at an analogous level of skill, dedication and success. Thank you, Ms. Hook. Like the eponymous doctor, you are truly a rock star

I worked with Laurel Hook and Anna Friedhoff at Stahancyk Kent & Hook and was very impressed with their professionalism, insight and skill. Laurel is a partner at the firm and is as high caliber as they come. I was constantly amazed by her level of retention and focus. She’s a busy woman who has heard many stories over the years but was able to remember and engage small details from the earliest stages of my case. She also has keen insight into both the patterns she’s seen before as well as the uniqueness of my specific situation. This experience and poise was a critical difference maker in the kind of strategy and execution that lead to our success. Anna was the perfect complement and a great value as an associate. She was able to track, distill and articulate several complex details no matter how turbulent the process got. She also has an innate capacity for strategy that proved very useful when negotiating with opposing council. She is an exceptional attorney with substantial legal acuity. The organization itself was also an important part of the process. SK&H has the structure and resources I needed behind me and the difference was clear when working with the lawyer on the other side of the table. Divorce is an unpleasant process and my case had an extra layer of frustration because it involved addiction. Laurel and Anna were generous with their advice, forecasting and personal investment which truly made a difference in how I navigated this difficult experience.

Beginning, middle and (nearing the) end, Laurel and her entire Stahancyk, Kent & Hook posse answered every one of my thousands of emails, phone calls and middle of the night emergency text messages. Our family law case is insanely complicated made even more challenging because of the opposing parties misinformed attorneys. Because Laurel knows everyone that we've come up against and has respectful relationships with them all, negotiations have been more successful, taken less time and had something positive for everyone involved to feel good about. Every single other professional - doctors, psychologists, therapists or witness involved (and there are many in both Oregon and the U.K.) - who has had anything to do with my case was briefed by Laurel, given constant updates and treated to one of the, perhaps, two finest family law strategists in Oregon - the other is Jody Stahancyk. If you can make it happen, please do it for the well being of your entire family. Not just you and your children as her client, but everyone - the jack ass, too. You will hold your head higher from the moment she says "go", you will understand the entire process as it unfolds and your entire family will be set up to better understand the myriad moving parts on the ever evolving domestic landscape.

Laurel and her staff were instrumental in achieving a positive resolution without going to court of divorce filed by my wife. Laurel is personable as well as extremely professional. Throughout our proceedings, she demonstrated more thorough knowledge of our financial situation than the opposing attorney. I would highly recommend Laurel, though I hope to never personally require her services in the future

I highly recommend Ms. Hook to any client; she is extremely knowledgeable, experienced, goal-directed, and a go-getter; I am extremely satisfied with the legal assistance that she provided in expediting my situation, with the least amount of stress and anxiety; Thank you Ms. Hook!!!

This woman is a gift to any family she represents. I trusted her with everything I was fighting for (my family) and she not only delivered, she was honest, she was sympathetic and she provided absolute guidance in a world of chaos and pain! She was worth every penny and then some. She is a strong advocate with a heart and also, importantly, not afraid to tell you the hard truths. She never treated me like my feelings did not matter, even though they may not have mattered to my case. I cannot say enough good about her. We had a three year long high conflict case that involved a transfer from another state and a lengthy parenting evaluation. Laurel Hook was my family's savior. There is not another way to put it. She was just that solid, reliable and trustworthy. She is exceptional, she is a valuable asset for your family and she will go to bat for you to defend you and your children. There is no one I would rather have spent years with on my custody battle, in an effort to protect my child. She gave me my life back and that means more to me than anything.

If you want the best lawyer, go with Laurel Hook. Divorce is hard, and you need someone who is intelligent and strategic on your side. After meeting Laurel it was clear she cared about me and my family, and she would ensure we were taken care of. She answered all of my questions, listened to my concerns, and was brilliant at negotiating for everything I wanted/needed. If you are looking for the best lawyer who is intelligent, experienced, strategic and genuinely cares about you, choose Laurel Hook.

I hired Laurel and her team to help me through a difficult process. Her professional experience and attention to detail helped make me feel very well taken care of under trying circumstances. I highly recommend her and her team.

Let me start off by saying that divorce sucks. You may have heard this but will never really understand until you experience it. During this pretty horrible time in my life, Laurel Hook has been one of the greatest blessing. Not only does she help you navigate through the fog, she truly understands how you are feeling and cares about your well being. I honestly would have been lost without her support. Yes, she is my lawyer, but I view her at an extremely supportive friend and advocate. It you are facing this challenging time in your life, pick up the phone and schedule a meeting. You will need help and I'd encourage you to get the best help/lawyer in Portland.

I first met Laurel after a year of battling through a divorce and not seeing my children. She immediately made me feel better about my situation and went to war for me. I can't put into words how amazing she was from start to finish. Her per hour billable rate was slightly higher than my first attorney I had, but she got the job done so much more efficiently and with purpose that it was a tremendous savings on my part. She is the most caring and professional person I have ever dealt with from any industry. I highly suggest you take the time to meet with her before trusting some of the most important details of your life with anyone else. She is the best!

If you are of a certain age, you will remember the 1972 song, “Cover of the Rolling Stone,” by the Union City, NJ, country-rock band Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show. There is nothing Jersey or country-rock about Laurel Hook. But her mere presence is nothing short of medicinal. She is the legal equivalent of a wonder drug, cutting through the cancer of confusion like a proton beam. Within the first few moments of our meeting, Ms. Hook began assembling her strategy, plotting out the inflection points with surgical precision. She then put together a team of world-class resources to support my every legal and personal need, working with the deft calm of an ER doctor on a busy Saturday night. I have had, coincidentally, had my life saved by a crew of over a dozen emergency medical professionals. Ms. Hook and the team and Stahancyk, Kent & Hook operate at an analogous level of skill, dedication and success. Thank you, Ms. Hook. Like the eponymous doctor, you are truly a rock star

I worked with Laurel Hook and Anna Friedhoff at Stahancyk Kent & Hook and was very impressed with their professionalism, insight and skill. Laurel is a partner at the firm and is as high caliber as they come. I was constantly amazed by her level of retention and focus. She’s a busy woman who has heard many stories over the years but was able to remember and engage small details from the earliest stages of my case. She also has keen insight into both the patterns she’s seen before as well as the uniqueness of my specific situation. This experience and poise was a critical difference maker in the kind of strategy and execution that lead to our success. Anna was the perfect complement and a great value as an associate. She was able to track, distill and articulate several complex details no matter how turbulent the process got. She also has an innate capacity for strategy that proved very useful when negotiating with opposing council. She is an exceptional attorney with substantial legal acuity. The organization itself was also an important part of the process. SK&H has the structure and resources I needed behind me and the difference was clear when working with the lawyer on the other side of the table. Divorce is an unpleasant process and my case had an extra layer of frustration because it involved addiction. Laurel and Anna were generous with their advice, forecasting and personal investment which truly made a difference in how I navigated this difficult experience.

Beginning, middle and (nearing the) end, Laurel and her entire Stahancyk, Kent & Hook posse answered every one of my thousands of emails, phone calls and middle of the night emergency text messages. Our family law case is insanely complicated made even more challenging because of the opposing parties misinformed attorneys. Because Laurel knows everyone that we've come up against and has respectful relationships with them all, negotiations have been more successful, taken less time and had something positive for everyone involved to feel good about. Every single other professional - doctors, psychologists, therapists or witness involved (and there are many in both Oregon and the U.K.) - who has had anything to do with my case was briefed by Laurel, given constant updates and treated to one of the, perhaps, two finest family law strategists in Oregon - the other is Jody Stahancyk. If you can make it happen, please do it for the well being of your entire family. Not just you and your children as her client, but everyone - the jack ass, too. You will hold your head higher from the moment she says "go", you will understand the entire process as it unfolds and your entire family will be set up to better understand the myriad moving parts on the ever evolving domestic landscape.

Laurel and her staff were instrumental in achieving a positive resolution without going to court of divorce filed by my wife. Laurel is personable as well as extremely professional. Throughout our proceedings, she demonstrated more thorough knowledge of our financial situation than the opposing attorney. I would highly recommend Laurel, though I hope to never personally require her services in the future

I highly recommend Ms. Hook to any client; she is extremely knowledgeable, experienced, goal-directed, and a go-getter; I am extremely satisfied with the legal assistance that she provided in expediting my situation, with the least amount of stress and anxiety; Thank you Ms. Hook!!!