Our clients are growing, purpose-driven businesses across Oregon, Washington, and California—typically in the $5 to $50 million revenue range. They share a commitment to running businesses that treat workers, customers, and communities well. Most fall into one of three categories.

B Corps

B Corps have legal needs that other companies don't. State-law annual reporting obligations if they're structured as benefit corporations. Corporate governance requirements that consider stakeholders beyond shareholders. Contracts that need to reflect your stated values. Employment practices that hold up to scrutiny under both standard employment law and the higher bar B Corps set for themselves.

We get this because we're a B Corp ourselves, and because B Corps are at the center of our practice. For B Corp clients, that often includes:

• Drafting and revising stakeholder-oriented governance documents
• Legal aspects of B Corp recertification: reviewing governance documents against current standards, confirming stakeholder commitment language, and coordinating with your B Corp consultant on the legal pieces
• Annual benefit reports required under state benefit corporation statutes
• Reviewing supply chain and vendor contracts with B Corp impact considerations in mind
• Employment policies that meet or exceed B Corp standards
• Conversion to (or maintenance of) benefit corporation status under applicable state law

Cooperatives

Our cooperative practice centers on worker cooperatives—companies where the people who work in the business also own and govern it. Worker cooperatives have legal needs that other companies don't, and require lawyers who understand cooperative governance, member relations, and the distinctive corporate structure of worker ownership. We've built our practice around that work.

The work typically includes:

• Governance: bylaws, member agreements, dispute resolution structures, board governance under consensus or sociocracy frameworks
• Employment counseling: navigating the legal complexities of cooperative employment, where worker-members are both owners and employees
• Cooperative conversions: structuring the transition from a retiring or exiting founder to their employees as the new owners
• Capital raises and financing: cooperative-compatible structures for raising capital from members, the community, and mission-aligned investors

We work closely with cooperative development organizations across the Pacific Northwest and nationally, including the Sustainable Economies Law Center, the Northwest Cooperative Development Center, Project Equity, the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives, and the Cooperative Professionals Guild.

Purpose-Driven Companies

Many of our clients aren't formally certified B Corps or structured as cooperatives, but they're purpose-driven in the ways that matter most. They're owner-led businesses that care about their workers, their communities, and the impact of their products or services. They're building something durable.

Who fits this category:

• Certified diverse-owned businesses — including women-owned, minority-owned, and veteran-owned
• Family-owned businesses with a deliberate values orientation
• Social enterprises and earned-revenue nonprofits
• Companies pursuing B Corp certification, considering it, or operating as benefit corporations without formal certification
• Companies in industries where purpose matters: sustainable consumer products, food and non-alcoholic beverage, and consultancies and agencies with a social purpose