WHO WE ARE
Melissa A. Boge, JD
Melissa is a business and intellectual property attorney with decades of experience helping companies structure, grow, and adapt, from early-stage ventures to established enterprises. Her practice has spanned corporate formation and governance, commercial agreements, branding, and technology commercialization, always with a focus on how legal decisions play out inside real organizations.
She began her career in private practice at leading Portland firms, then moved in-house in the technology sector, where she developed the practical, business-oriented approach that defines her work today. She is a graduate of Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College and is licensed to practice law in Oregon and California.
But what shapes Melissa's practice most isn't her resume, it's her life.
Melissa's focus on special-needs families and neurodivergent clients comes from lived experience. When her son was diagnosed with a brain tumor as a young child, it reshaped how she understands advocacy, systems, and what it means to truly support a family navigating complexity. That journey also led her to found Real Food for Real People, a nonprofit supporting people with feeding tubes — a mission she pursued until the organization achieved its goals and closed.
Melissa is a straight-shooter – clear, direct, and genuinely invested in making sure you understand what's happening and why. She tailors how she communicates to what actually works for the person across from her, whether that means more conversation and less reading, or more time to process. She follows your lead.
Su 'Bliss' Suh, JD, MBA
Bliss (she/they) brings legal and lived experience to help modern families protect the people they love and the legacies they’ve built. End-of-life, tax, and estate planning laws were designed for “traditional” families. Without thoughtful planning and effort, these laws and systems leave unmarried, divorced, multi-partner, LGBTQIA+, and modern families vulnerable. Bliss helps clients bridge the gap by combining pragmatic solutions-based counseling with the best legal and planning tools available.
With a 25 year legal career as in-house counsel to multinational companies, tax counsel to high-net worth clients, and a legal/business advisor to creatives, she is comfortable with cutting-edge applications of contracts to help clients structure their legacies. Today, she leverages that sophisticated advisory background to co-create estate plans that honor modern family needs, provide predictable asset distribution, and ensure durable partner/caretaker protections.
Bliss is queer, polyamorous, and an educator in alternative communities. As such, she aims to build an inclusive practice where clients never have to explain their lifestyle or dim their light in order to get the best legal support possible. She translates complex legal structures into plain language, ensuring your estate plan reflects your choices with clarity, intention, and love. She also helps families administer trusts, navigate probate, and manage legal/administrative aspects of the death of a loved one with compassion.
Bliss holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (BS, BA 1995), Lewis & Clark Law School (JD, 1998), and the UW Foster School of Business (MBA, 2014). Bliss has served on numerous non-profit boards and provided thousands of hours of pro bono legal service. She is the ED of the Triangle Legal Clinic.
She is licensed in Oregon and Washington.