Sara Slabisak

Sara Slabisak is an attorney with Salt Law Group in Portland, Oregon, whose practice brings together intellectual property, business, corporate, and entertainment law. With both medical and legal training, she approaches matters that combine technical subject matter with commercial decisions. Her submitted professional background describes experience in patent and copyright disputes, federal litigation, international distribution agreements, and compliance across multiple jurisdictions.

Slabisak describes her approach as beginning with the client’s objective and working backward to develop a strategy. Her firm biography similarly emphasizes defining success together before choosing a legal path. This approach places the client’s intended outcome at the center of the work, with attention to the challenges and opportunities that may affect how that outcome can be reached.

Her submitted biography identifies her as a USPTO Registered Patent Attorney, registration number 80,654, and a three-time general counsel. She reports experience conducting intellectual property due diligence for acquisitions exceeding $100 million. These assignments sit alongside her dispute work, reflecting a practice that addresses both the protection of intellectual property and its role in significant business transactions.

Before joining Salt, Slabisak trained at an AmLaw 200 firm and worked with Fortune 20 clients, according to her submitted biography. She pairs that experience with a medical degree and technical fluency. Her professional background therefore spans legal analysis, scientific subject matter, and the practical considerations that arise when companies develop, use, distribute, or acquire intellectual property.

Salt’s broader business practice provides context for her work. The firm offers commercial litigation, business agreements, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property and brand protection, and outside general counsel services. Its outside counsel offering includes ongoing legal management as well as coordination of litigation risks and strategies. The firm’s published service areas also include regulatory matters and legal consulting for businesses.

Slabisak’s educational background includes Lewis & Clark Law School, UT Health Houston, and Rice University. Her firm biography lists admission in Oregon and Texas. In her questionnaire, she identifies business law, intellectual property, and corporate law as her principal practice areas, with entertainment law as an additional specialty.

Across these areas, her stated emphasis remains consistent: understand what the client wants to accomplish, assess the legal landscape, and organize the work around that goal. Her combination of medical training, patent practice, litigation experience, and general counsel work gives her a multidisciplinary foundation for advising clients whose legal and business needs overlap.