Overview
Britney Colton is Stoel Rives’ Chief Administrative Officer, a licensed attorney, and an MBA. She is responsible for providing firm-wide strategic direction and daily oversight of the following functions: Practice Management (practice group directors, e-discovery, knowledge management, practice and project support, paralegals, practice assistants), Operations (facilities, office administration), Human Resources/Benefits (HR, talent development, staff talent acquisition, inclusion & belonging, retirement, payroll).
Britney serves as a trusted advisor to firm leadership and is a member of the Administrative Leadership Team. She is responsible for ensuring the entirety of the human capital functions, policies, and programs foster a healthy, vibrant, and inclusive work environment that motivates employees, recognizes successes, retains strong performers, and aligns with the firm’s strategic goals and objectives.
Before joining Stoel Rives, Britney was Director of Labor & Employee Relations and Deputy (then Senior) General Counsel for TriMet. She was a litigation and labor & employment associate at an AM Law 100 law firm. She was an adjunct professor at the University of Oregon School of Law teaching contract drafting and advanced legal research and writing She was a two-term Judicial Clerk for Chief Judge Ancer L. Haggerty for the United States District Court, District of Oregon.
Education
University of Southern California, MBA, 2025, magna cum laude
Harvard Law School, Legal Executive Program Certificate, 2022
University of Oregon, J.D. 2003, with honors; Order of the Coif; National Dean’s List; University of Oregon Scholar; Managing Editor, Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation
Southern Oregon University, B.A., Communication: Journalism, minor in Spanish, 2000, magna cum laude; Oregon Laurel’s Scholar; Editor-in-Chief of college newspaper, The Siskiyou
Universidad del Sagrado Corazon, Exchange in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1999
Admissions
Oregon
United States District Court for the District of Oregon
Affiliations
Professional
- Oregon State Bar Mentor for New Lawyers
- Oregon State Bar Speakers
Civic
- Board Member, Project Lemonade
- President, Lake Oswego High School Football Quarterback Club
- District-wide School Advisory Committee, Lake Oswego School District
- Foster parent
- Cat Adoption Shelter, Volunteer
- Big Brothers/Big Sisters as a “Big Sister,” former Volunteer
- Lake Oswego Mock Trial Team/Classroom Law Project, former Volunteer Coach
- High school “We the People”/Classroom Law Project competition, former Volunteer Advisor
- High school mock trial competition/Classroom Law Project, former Volunteer Judge
- Spanish-speaking students through Portland Literacy Council at Portland Community College, former Volunteer English teacher