Jeff Neuman

An advocate for the creative & maker

Jeff’s specialty is helping clients successfully navigate the complex, constantly evolving and cross-secting worlds of Music & Entertainment; Intellectual Property (copyright & trademarks); Restaurants; Cannabis; OLCC Licensing & Enforcement; Small Businesses and Commercial Litigation; and Personal Injury. He speaks the creative language and understands the entrepreneurial mindset. How is that possible, you ask?

Before becoming a lawyer, Jeff worked as a Sous Chef for Mario Batali’s B&B Hospitality Group in Las Vegas and as a cook for Tom Douglas’ Restaurants in Seattle. He also has logged well over 1 million miles on the road touring the world with metal and hardcore bands as a musician, guitar tech, merchandise manager, tour manager, and tour chef. He is a partner in an independent record label, owns a music venue and production company and an ever growing list of restaurants. Jeff is able to provide a unique service to the clients he works with because he is one of them.

REpresentative clients:

Entertainment: Anson, CAL Entertainment Group, Choice Charities, Darkblood Media, Dreamwell, Dying Wish, Excide, Family Dinner, Foreign Hands, Greyhaven, Here Lies The Hero, I Declare War, Last 10 Seconds of Life, Landmvrks, Last Light Presents, Lolipop Records, Massey Pluggins, Modern Empire Records, Morning Spring Rain Presents, No Home, Other People Records, Poison The Well, Portair, Pressure Cracks, The Seafloor Cinema, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Senna, Senses Fail, Spooky Vibes Pedals, Stray From the Path, The Sunday Sadness Transparant Arts/131 Label

Hospitality: Coned!, Derby Restaurant, Happy Valley Food Hall, Mano Oculta, Morehouse Barbers, Green Remedies, La Marzocco, Northwest Barber Association, Paper Plane Pizza, The Realm Refillery, Sweet Home Gelato, Vtopian Cheeses, Wun Two Barbershop

Business: AirClean Energy, Alive and Free Co., Evolve Experiential, Oregonizm, Outpay, Passion Footwear, Sunset Snkrs, Root108, Viva Veritas

 

Licenses & Admissions:

  • Oregon State Bar and U.S. District Court of Oregon

  • Washington State Bar

  • Illinois State Bar

ACCOLADES:

  • U.S. News: Best Lawyers Ones’ to Watch

    • 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

Pro Bono:

  • Oregon Volunteer Lawyer for the Arts

Education:

  • Thomas Jefferson School of Law

    J.D., 2014

  • University of Nevada, Las Vegas

    B.S., Hospitality Administration, 2010

  • California Culinary Academy,

    A.O.S., Culinary Arts, 2006