January 2014
Sixty Years and Counting at Davis, Hearn, Anderson & Turner
The law office of Davis, Hearn, Anderson & Turner, PC, recently celebrated sixty years in Ashland this year. The five partners—Jack Davis, Chris Hearn, Eugene Anderson and Gary Turner—along with associate attorney Jeff McCollum, have a combined 155 years of experience in the legal profession. Each one is motivated to practice law for different reasons, but all enjoy serving the legal needs of their clients.
It was in 1976 that Jack Davis joined his father Sam Davis (and partner Sid Ainsworth) in the law firm. Sam opened the office in 1953 after moving here from Minneapolis, Minnesota. The office was just down the walk from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival off Main Street when Ashland was a small mill town.
"Back then Ashland properties went for $1500, and the price of a legal will was $25," Jack said. "Bartering with chickens and other items was not unusual. When I joined the firm in 1976, we moved into a new building at 515 E. Main, which is where we are today."
Sam retired in the late 1980s, and Sid retired in 1992, when Chris Hearn joined the firm. He had moved to Ashland from Redlands, California, to "find a more balanced life in which to raise a family."
In recent years, Eugene Anderson, Gary Turner and Jeff McCollum all joined the firm. Anderson had been practicing in Medford since 1998; McCollum practiced in Medford since 1978 and Turner has practiced law since 1972 and has lived in southern Oregon since 1985.
Davis, Hearn, Anderson & Turner has created and maintained a reputation for dedication, commitment and professionalism through years of service and results.
"As the oldest and largest law firm in Ashland, we have the talent and experience to handle complex transactions and litigation," Chris said. "But it is small enough to foster and develop close working relationships with a wide array of clients."
The firm offers a complete range of legal specialties within transactional law and litigation in both the civil and criminal courts. Clients can expect experience, local knowledge, efficiency and fair treatment from each attorney, all of whom provide a quality legal product and personalized service.
For more information, the phone number is 541-482-3111. The website—davishearn.com—lists each legal service and the law each attorney practices under "Legal Practice Areas."
Intimacy Counseling with Dr. Zeb
We watched the movie French Kiss recently, and the male lead, Kevin Kline, complains that his failure to "perform" in bed was caused by all the stress he was going through. That's something Dr. Zeb Lancaster would be able to help ol' Kevin with. Zeb is an intimacy counselor and sex therapist with a unique life-energy oriented body-mind approach.
"All emotional injury and anxiety interrupts the natural energy cycle of building, spreading, and releasing our life-energy," Zeb said. "This locks us into ineffective responses. Intensity of feeling gets lodged in the body, like a tight stomach or a heavy heart, and these constrictions have a direct impact upon our ability to connect intimately with our self and others."
Dr. Zeb is a philosopher by nature. A somatic psychotherapist/counselor since 1991, all his work is informed by 30+ years of Rolfing/Postural Integration and a lifetime of yoga.
"What do people want most in life?" Zeb asked. "They usually tell me they want to be free from their deepest fears, be able to manifest their highest potential, and hold an inner sense of wholeness of being. On a basic level, our sense of Self gets lost when we are emotionally injured and can't access the fullness of our essential nature."
All of that leads to intimacy conflicts, which create persistent anxiety, limits one's inherent potential, and inhibits an inner sense of wholeness.
"In my sessions, we explore both emotional and energetic processes and experience," Zeb said. "You learn specifically how to resolve your emotional injuries and skillfully guide your body's natural energy cycles. I teach you how to keep your body's core relaxed and centered in your essential nature so you can more easily receive the surges of emotion and life-energy that accompany both conflicts and enlivening experiences. You discover how to sustain profound intimacy with yourself and others, so you won't need to pull away or 'fix' someone in order to relax in the relationship."
To learn more about Dr. Zeb and his approach, including books and upcoming classes, go to www.DrZeb.com or www.GaiaTantraYoga.com, or phone 541-292-9876.