Gina Jorgensen opens general practice law office in Hampton

Twenty years of law experience and a desire to help her home community have led Gina Jorgensen to open a new law office in Hampton.

Jorgensen on August 1 began offering services through Jorgensen Law Office, located in the former Hampton Dental building at 27 N. Federal St. Jorgensen and her team offer legal guidance in a variety of fields, including business law, contracts, criminal defense, estates, wills and trust, family law and real estate.

“We are a general practice law firm,” she said. “In a rural setting, you have to be able to help everyone.”

Jorgensen brings with her two decades of law practice, serving as the Wright County Attorney and assistant Cerro Gordo County Attorney and practicing privately with area law firms.

“I’ve got a wide breadth of experience, I’ve done a lot of different things in law,” she said.

Jorgensen said she believed she could use her varying skills to fill a need in the community for new yet experienced attorneys, which is why she opted to run her own firm for the first time in her career

“My husband and I started looking at the process and some legal work we needed to get done and we started to recognize that a lot of attorneys in our area are getting towards retirement age and we had some planning and business needs that we wanted to be with someone as long as we’d be working,” she said. “When we recognized that maybe that wasn’t as available as we thought it was, we started talking about if it was time for me to practice locally.”

Jorgensen added that she was at the point in her career where her own private practice in the community in which she lived was the desirable next step for both her professional and personal lives.

“My kids were getting to that age where I wanted to slow down, and not that owning your own business is slowing down, but I wanted to be in the community where I was living, in the community where my kids were going to school and in a community where I know people that I can serve,” she said.

Jorgensen said she built the law firm with locality in mind, recruiting a staff from individuals that have previous experience and roots in the community. Her staff includes legal assistant Amy Hicock, who has worked with Jorgensen in previous jobs, office manager and Hampton area native Leigha Jones and technology and real estate specialist Dale Schirmer, who uses his expertise to connect clients to the firm from a mobile standpoint.

Her focus on the local community extends to each client, she said. By offering a wide array of services from recognizable community members, Jorgensen said each client will receive the help they need.

“Trust is really important and knowing people and who they are and where they come from and having that level of trust is key,” she said. “It’s important to me that in this business, we are serving our whole community and I want to make sure we can meet the needs of the elderly, those who have a business and those who may not speak English.”

Jorgensen added that she’s thrilled to have the opportunity to serve her home area and is excited to see how the practice progresses.

“It’s been heartwarming and very freeing, in a sense,” she said. “I enjoy coming to work, I enjoy being the boss, I enjoy that I am surrounded by good people and because I’m surrounded by good people, I know we can offer good, healthy and professional services.”