Mitchell-Phillips Law, P.C. is a minority-owned law firm established in Portland, Oregon to provide personalized and high quality business transactional, corporate finance, real estate, international law, and estate planning legal services to businesses ranging from start-ups and emerging small businesses to Fortune 500 companies in the Pacific Northwest. The firm is dedicated to providing its' clients high quality, sophisticated, and complex legal services at a small firm rate.
The mission of Mitchell-Phillips Law is to: (1) provide high-quality, affordable, personalized, and customized legal services designed to help small, medium, and large businesses achieve their goals in practical and cost-efficient ways; and (2) provide value to business owners by giving them the peace of mind that they are putting their trust in an attorney who understands and cares about their business and is more concerned with the success of their business than the Firms' profitability.
We Understand Business. Our extensive business knowledge and experience allows us to quickly gain a complete understanding of your business and its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. We use this knowledge to grasp the significance, implications, and importance of how you define success for your business enabling us to provide cost-effective and practical solutions for your business.
We Know the Law. Our commitment to you is to use our legal knowledge and experience to stay abreast of the laws affecting your business so that you can make informed business decisions that take into consideration the legal risks impacting your business.
We Care About You. Our desire is to ensure that you and your business succeed. So, we work hard to listen to you, understand your business, and establish long-term relationships with you to help you exceed your goals.
In addition to offering a wide range of business transactional, corporate finance, real estate, international law, and estate planning services, Mitchell-Phillips Law also provides the following unique, flexible, and cost effective legal services to meet the changing needs of our clients:
General Counsel. Fast-growth and mid-sized companies need cost-effective, full and part-time in-house general counsel legal services to help their business grow and mitigate the risks associated with their success. Often, small and middle-market companies cannot afford the high cost of creating an internal legal department or using the more expensive services of an outside, traditional hourly-rate law firm. We will make it possible for businesses to enjoy all the advantages of having an experienced outside counsel as part of their management team, working at the company on retainer while slashing legal costs. Whether part or full-time, having a lawyer on-site at the company can help keep the company running smoothly, prevent legal surprises, and provide strategic, business-savvy counsel.
Small Business. A small business encounters many problems after it is organized and operational. For example, when a small business enters into a major transaction such as a bank loan, a purchase or lease of equipment, or any real estate transaction that involves the drafting or review of various legal documents and the preparation of minutes authorizing the transaction. In addition, there are often changes in the statutes and regulations that necessitate changes in the company's contractual documents and/or internal manuals or ongoing regulatory compliance that may require a small business to timely file corporate annual reports. As a result, small businesses need a high-quality and personal attorney to make sure they are meeting all of their legal obligations to ensure continued success in the future. We offer an affordable fixed fee "Small Business Package" for our small and emerging business clients that provides them with entity formation, intellectual property protection, registered agent services, and 5 hours of free legal advice over the first 6 months of operation.
Minority & Women-Owned Businesses. Minority and Women-Owned Businesses have unique challenges in the start-up and growth stages of their business so we offer comprehensive legal services to both large and small women and minority-owned businesses in a variety of industries. Legal services will include advising and counseling on legal issues tailored to women and minority-owned businesses, identifying sources of capital, assisting clients in obtaining certification for contracting and supplier diversity opportunities with the federal, state, and local governmental entities.
Corporate Legal Training. We provide corporate compliance training and business legal programs for executives, managers, human resources professionals, and individual contributors designed to prevent costly employee lawsuits, and create respectful workplaces for all employees. Whether a half-day workshop for top-level managers and supervisors or a series of full-day workshops for all employees, Mitchell-Phillips Law, P.C. will provide effective workshops on employment law and labor relations, minority and women-owned businesses, small and emerging businesses, and effective management of businesses to avoid legal exposure.
Mitchell-Phillips Law is committed to encouraging and improving diversity in the legal profession. The firm strives to be the first minority-owned business enterprise (MBE) certified in Oregon by the State of Oregon Office of Minority, Women & Emerging Business (OMWESB) and the National Association of Minority and Women-Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF) able to provide complex and sophisticated business transactional, corporate finance, real estate, international law, and estate planning services to mid-sized and large Fortune 500 corporations throughout the Pacific Northwest.
As an MBE, the Firm will: (1) position itself to help satisfy corporate America's demand for diversity from its legal services providers and its aggressive goals to advance diversity in the legal profession; (2) provide outside counsel, in-house counsel, and overflow legal services to the law departments of mid-sized to Fortune 500 companies; (3) intimately and cost effectively service corporate clients allowing them to concentrate on running and growing their business; and (4) provide a full range of business and corporate legal services to other minority and women-owned business enterprises in the State of Oregon.
Mitchell-Phillips Law is committed to assisting people and organizations that otherwise would have no access to the justice system and being actively involved in the community. The firm has embraced the American Bar Association and Oregon State Bar’s challenge to law firms to commit 3 percent of their total firm wide billable hours to pro bono work. The firm also encourages our attorneys to find contribute to pro bono and civic causes every year.
The following is a list of the latest pro bono and civic projects the firm has engaged in 2009:
