Lewis & Clark
Small Business Legal Clinic

Job Purpose:
This is a grant funded position with the Small Business Legal Clinic (SBLC). Located in downtown Portland, the SBLC’s mission is to provide transactional legal assistance to low-income small business owners, primarily people of color, women and immigrants. The Staff Attorney will be part of the legal team at the SBLC and work with small business clients one-on-one. Half of their time will be spent in the SBLC Rural Outreach program serving 65 clients over the course of the year. The other half of the time will be serving business owners throughout Oregon in a fee-for-service structure. The Staff Attorney will be expected to track hours, draft contracts, register trademarks and copyrights, review leases, register businesses and complete other transactional legal needs to low-income small businesses.

What You’ll Do

• Work on the transactional needs of clients, such as drafting contracts and researching and registering trademarks.

• Represent small and emerging businesses with transactional legal services,

• Represent nonprofit corporations and cooperatives information, operation and obtaining tax-exempt status.

• Meet one-on-one with clients.

• Complete outreach presentations.

• Contribute to the organization’s administrative tasks, such as tracking billable hours and creating monthly statements for clients.

• Fundraise and support the SBLC in other duties as assigned.

• Work closely with all staff and faculty to advance the SBLC’s mission.