• Childbirth and Maternal Health Law

Are you pregnant or considering becoming pregnant and want to make sure that you have optimal support and that your rights are respected when you give birth? Hayes-Klein Law can help you communicate with your providers during pregnancy in advance of childbirth to ensure that your rights are respected during labor and birth.

If you have suffered injury from the violation of your rights during childbirth in the last two years, we may be able to help you pursue accountability for your mistreatment and its impact on you and your family. 

  • Family Law

At Hayes-Klein Law, we want to help you achieve your legal goals in a way that you feel supported, minimizes the stress you experience, and makes sure your voice is heard. While we always try to help families transition separations, divorce, and other changes through collaboration, mediation and settlement, we provide strong and protective advocacy for our clients whenever necessary

  • Legal Services for Health Care Professionals

We offer expert legal support and advocacy to maternal health professionals in matters including civil litigation and proceedings before state agencies. We also offer counsel and document preparation to proactively minimize your risks. 

  • Legal Consulting Services

Hermine is available to consult on legal matters outside Oregon and the US, supporting clients and their local attorneys with her expertise in birth rights and maternal healthcare. Hermine has consulted on cases in numerous states and countries.   

  • Maternal Health Consulting

Are you a hospital, obstetrician, or midwifery practice, or birth practice that wants to uphold the human rights of your pregnant patients while protecting yourself from legal risk? Is your organization trying to better understand obstetric violence, informed consent vis-a-vis liability, or how discrimination impacts racial mortality disparities? Consulting services are available to address these and other issues.

  • Public Speaking

Hermine is an international thought leader whose public speaking informs and inspires audiences on a wide range of issues at the intersection of law, human rights, and maternal healthcare, including informed consent, the integration of medicine and midwifery, and women’s human rights in maternity care locally and globally.