The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  Business Excellence Group is hiring a Legal Secretary in Portland, OR.

• Role description

  Business Excellence Group is expanding its general team and needs a Legal Secretary who brings both expertise and energy. A $79,000 - $114,000 contract role for a mid-level professional ready to own deliverables and grow within a high-trust team.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Keep the Business Excellence Group backlog ruthlessly honest about what's truly next
  • Trade quick wins for mission-driven fixes when the math favors patience
  • Steer Business Excellence Group's Patent Law roadmap with both nerve and humility
  • Convert Case Management chaos into a backlog someone can actually work
  • Coach newer mid-level teammates through their first messy general project
  • Keep Business Excellence Group leadership honest with numbers they can act on
  • Notice when a general metric is lying and dig in

  What You'll Bring

  • The composure to deliver bad news early and clearly
  • A knack for Corporate Law that colleagues quietly come to rely on
  • The reflex to surface risk before it surfaces itself
  • Hands-on familiarity with DocuSign, sharpened by Negotiation side projects
  • Fluency in Patent Law earned the hard way, not just from a tutorial

  Business Excellence Group builds the unglamorous general plumbing that Portland, OR relies on, and it does so with customer-centric pride. Our Portland team would rather over-communicate than leave a teammate guessing at midnight.

  We do not just dangle $79,000 - $114,000; we back it with mentorship, a real benefits suite, and schedules that bend around Portland, OR living.

  The team just got the green light to hire, and this Legal Secretary role is first up.

  We built this general team on people who said yes, so say yes and apply.

• Required skills

  • Corporate Law
  • Case Management
  • Legal Memoranda
  • Corporate Governance
  • Discovery Management
  • Patent Law
  • Paralegal Certification
  • Deposition Preparation
  • DocuSign
  • Brief Writing
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Negotiation
  • Delegation
  • Empathy

• Benefits & perks

  • 401(k) matching
  • Childcare subsidies
  • Nutrition counseling
  • Summer Picnic
  • Severance package
  • Game Room
  • Comprehensive health insurance
  • Volunteer Time Off
  • Military leave

• Apply before 2026-09-11

  Submit your application for this Contract general position.