Recent Blog Posts
JOB SATISFACTION AND RESPECT FOR CLIENTS AND STAFF
Craig Schauermann and Bill Thayer founded Schauermann & Thayer in Vancouver, Washington in 1986. In the quarter century that followed, we have added lawyers and other non-attorney staff as the firm has grown to its present comfortable size of five attorneys. Other than leaving to advance their education (such as the initial author of… Read More »
PARTNER AND PILOT JEFF JACOBS BRINGS HIGH FLYING ADVANTAGE TO FIRM
“A mile of highway,” the saying goes, “takes you one mile. But a mile of runway takes you anywhere.” Schauermann Thayer Jacobs & Staples takes advantage of this fact to better serve our personal injury clients. Partner Jeff Jacobs has been a licensed pilot since 1967. Before law school he worked as a flight instructor… Read More »
SCHAUERMANN, THAYER, JACOBS & STAPLES ENTER THE BLOGOSPHERE
Over the past 25 years, our firm has been on the cutting-edge of technology. Although we weren’t around when the telephone was invented, we have been in practice long enough to implement fax machines, computers, the internet, and e-mail into our practice. Over the years, this acceptance of technology has kept our practice up-to-date… Read More »
WASHINGTON STATE ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE
For over 15 years, the lawyers at Schauermann Thayer Jacobs & Staples P.S., have been EAGLE members of The Washington State Association for Justice (WSAJ). WSAJ fights to strengthen the civil justice system for all of Washington’s citizens. It opposes efforts to weaken basic legal protections which, if enacted, would further stack the deck… Read More »
CONTINGENCY FEES
Last month , the Washington State Insurance Commissioner, Mike Kreidler, revealed that Washington’s three major health insurers were sitting on a $2.4 billion surplus.[1] In 2010 automobile insurance carriers, State Farm,[2] American Family,[3] and Progressive,[4] respectively reported assets of $2,158,716,781, $5,431,728,000, and $6,048,900,000 in excess of their liabilities. Liberty Mutual[5] reported a whopping $16,978,000,000! These astronomical figures come at… Read More »
SCOTT EDWARDS JOINS SCHAUERMANN THAYER JACOBS STAPLES & EDWARDS PS
Schauermann Thayer Jacobs Staples & Edwards PS, is proud to announce that attorney Scott W. Edwards has joined our law firm. Scott brings a unique set of skills and information to our office, having worked for nearly four years representing insurance companies and their clients at the insurance defense firm of Smith, Freed and… Read More »
25TH ANNIVERSARY OF SCHAUERMANN, THAYER, JACOBS, STAPLES & EDWARDS, PS.
Craig Schauermann and Bill Thayer joined to practice together as the law partnership of Schauermann and Thayer on June 11, 1986. So as of June 11, 2011, our law firm will have been in existence for 25 years at its present location of 1700 East Fourth Plain Boulevard in Vancouver, Washington. In 1999 Jeff Jacobs was… Read More »
WE REPRESENT PEOPLE IN BOTH OREGON AND WASHINGTON
Two of the lawyers here at Schauermann, Thayer & Jacobs, P.S., are licensed to practice in both Washington and Oregon. Jeff Jacobs began to practice as an attorney in 1976 in the State of California. He came to Vancouver and obtained his license to practice law in Washington in 1995. In 2002 Jeff became… Read More »
SCOTT STAPLES NAMED PARTNER
Craig Schauermann, Bill Thayer and Jeff Jacobs are pleased to announce that the Law Firm of Schauermann, Thayer and Jacobs has a new partner-more precisely, a new shareholder and principal-Scott A. Staples. All of the members and staff of the firm are very excited to have Scott as a principal in the firm! Mr…. Read More »
CRAIG F. SCHAUERMANN SELECTED TO MODERATE JUDGES FORUM
Craig Schauermann, partner in Schauermann, Thayer and Jacobs, P.S. was selected to be the Moderator of National Business Institute’s Judicial Forum held in Vancouver, Washington on November 5, 2010. Superior Court Judges Johnson, Bennett and Wulle from Clark County and Judges Warning and Stonier from Cowlitz County participated. The Forum was designed to assist… Read More »
