Structure Law Group, LLP

What the firm handles

The firm works on two sides of business law at once: transactions and litigation. Structure Law Group, also called SLG, keeps both under the same roof. Its clients include individuals and businesses of many sizes, including startups and multinational corporations.

That mix shapes the whole practice. A company can bring a contract question to the same firm that would later handle a dispute over that contract. As a reviewer, I read the pages as the work of a firm built around company clients and their legal needs at several stages.

Focus and practice areas

The published practice list is broad within business law. It names business litigation, business transactions, corporations, mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, real estate, employment, intellectual property, start-ups and financing, construction, and debtor and creditor rights. The list splits cleanly into transactional work and litigation, and several areas touch both.

Transactional work

On the transactional side, the firm handles business formations, mergers and acquisitions, financings, commercial agreements, corporate governance, and employment counseling. Business formation covers the choice of entity, the governing documents, and how ownership is set up. Mergers and acquisitions work moves through due diligence, the purchase agreement, and the closing.

Financings and commercial agreements make up much of the day to day. Financing work involves the terms between a company and its investors or lenders, along with the paperwork that records them. Commercial agreements are the contracts a business signs with vendors, customers, and partners.

Start-up and financing work sits next to this, which fits a firm with a Silicon Valley base. Corporate governance covers board and shareholder matters as a company grows. Employment counseling gives business clients a place to bring hiring and workplace questions early.

Litigation and disputes

The litigation practice covers breach of contract, intellectual property infringement, commercial real estate, and shareholder and partnership disputes. The firm handles these through trial, arbitration, mediation, or settlement, so a client has more than one route to resolution. Partnership and shareholder disputes often turn on the operating or partnership agreement and the duties owners owe each other.

Breach of contract claims center on the written terms and what each side promised and performed. The intellectual property work includes trademarks, trade secrets, and copyright, on both the counseling and the infringement sides. Arbitration and mediation give the parties a way to resolve a matter with less time in open court than a full trial.

Real estate and related work

The firm works on commercial real estate purchases, sales, and leasing. Related matters include debtor and creditor rights, insolvency, and restructuring, which come up when a business or its counterpart runs into financial trouble. Construction sits in the practice list as well, and it pairs naturally with the real estate and contract work.

Where the offices sit

The firm runs four offices: Silicon Valley in San Jose, Los Angeles, Austin, and Lake Oswego near Portland. Each office sits close to the federal and state courts for its county, namely Santa Clara, Los Angeles, Travis, and Multnomah. That spread puts the firm in three states: California, Texas, and Oregon.

In my opinion, the court proximity is a practical detail worth noting. A litigation practice that files and appears in Santa Clara, Los Angeles, Travis, and Multnomah counties benefits from having lawyers based near those courthouses. The four offices also give transactional clients a local contact in each market. The Austin office covers Texas, and the Lake Oswego office reaches the Portland area and the wider Pacific Northwest.

How the team is built

The team page lists 21 attorneys, each with a name, the title Attorney, and an office location. That format lets a prospective client see where a given lawyer is based before making contact. The team page presents each lawyer the same way, which keeps the listing consistent for someone comparing offices. Paralegals and administrative staff work alongside the attorneys across the four offices.

Names shown on the team page include Jon Michaelson, Christopher G. Addy, Jackie M. Ford, Christian P. Binder, Chris Tarpley, and Jared M. Amory. The page also lists Austin T. Jackson, Cassandra D. Santos, Charlotte Rose, Dona Abdo, Ethan Solove, and Jorge Martins. A group of this size gives the firm room to cover both the transactional and litigation sides described across the rest of the site.

What the listing shows

Taken together, the pages describe a firm organized around company clients and the deals and disputes those companies handle. The practice list reaches across corporations, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, employment, intellectual property, construction, and debtor and creditor rights. A prospective client can read the practice pages, check which office a lawyer works from, and match a matter to the right group before reaching out. The site does not state a founding year.

The clearest signal in the material is structural. One firm carries both the deal work and the courtroom work that a business needs, staffed by 21 attorneys across offices in California, Texas, and Oregon.