Providing legal services to the creative community

Practice Areas

Sarah has legal experience in a wide range of areas. During the first few years of practice, while she developed her focus in the arts, she also honed her skills as a civil litigator. Ultimately, Sarah was not interested in pursuing a career in litigation, but it helped her to view transactional work in a different light. Understanding how deals fall apart and what happens in the courtroom greatly enriched Sarah’s ability to create solid, comprehensive agreements from the outset.

Art Law

  • Public art policies
  • Public art commission agreements
  • Public art maintenance and management
  • Artist agreements
  • Gallery management
  • Private commissions
  • General contracts

Intellectual Property

  • Copyright protection
  • Licensing agreements
  • Trade secret protection

General Business

  • Corporate formation
  • Corporate governance
  • Business management and development

Recent Post

  • Insurance Coverage for Design
    Jun 12, 2010
    Insurance issues are certainly up there among the least interesting, at least at first glance, and most off-putting of issues when negotiating a contract for the commissioning of an art project. ...

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A note about the art

The art for this website was provided by established Northwest artist, Rae Mahaffey. Rae is represented by the Laura Russo Gallery in Portland, Oregon and runs Mahaffey Fine Art, a fine art print studio, with her husband, Master Printer Mark Mahaffey.