Oregon Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
Volunteer legal assistance for the Oregon arts community
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Mission, Core Values, and Board of Directors

Mission, Core Values, and Board of Directors

As an artist or entertainer, it helps to have a powerful advocate that can help you solve your legal issues. OVLA has your back.

 

OVLA Mission and Core Values

Mission Statement:

Oregon Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts provides educational programming, legal advice, and resources to empower Oregon’s creative and artistic communities to create fearlessly.

Core Values:

  • Reliability
    We strive to provide consistently high quality service to our community. This includes communicating clearly and responsively with people that contact us, and providing legal services that our clients know they can trust.

  • Accessibility
    We want you to feel comfortable and confident when working with us. We seek to continuously improve our services so they are easy to access and understand.

  • Community
    We’re all in this together, and that’s important to us. We take our position in the arts community seriously and want to make sure that you know we’re a part of your team. We’re successful when you’re successful! To do that, we follow these community principles:

    • Build

    • Serve

    • Empower

Thank you, and we look forward to helping you create fearlessly!

OVLA Board of Directors

About OVLA

Oregon Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (“OVLA”) is an Oregon State Bar Certified Pro Bono Program that provides legal services and resources to individuals and businesses to support their artistic activities.

Founded in 1988, OVLA set out to learn all we could to support local artists and help them nurture their creative endeavors and business pursuits.

Over the years, OVLA has delivered countless hours of free legal services and provided workshops and conferences to artists and arts organizations within our community. We teach, we listen, we support.

Our rewards are many. When a band plays, when a book is published, when a gallery is opened, we feel a sense of pride in having helped, in some small way, our friends in the arts community.