Professional Profile

Caleb J. Norris

Associate Attorney

Caleb Norris joined Hobbs Straus as an associate in April of 2022.

Caleb advises clients on a number of issues, with a particular focus on tribal self-determination and self-governance in the areas of healthcare, economic development, housing, and education. He has significant expertise in section 105(l) leasing and contract support costs recovery under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (ISDEAA). His practice also involves a substantial amount of transactional work including, but not limited to, healthcare employment agreements, service agreements, and construction project agreements. He also works with tribal governments to provide Tribal Council training and staff development.

Prior to joining Hobbs Straus in the Portland Office, Caleb was a corporate intellectual property attorney in Chicago.

Caleb is a 2020 graduate of the University of Oregon School of Law. As a law student, he interned at the Tribal Law and Policy Institute and clerked at the Native American Rights Fund, where he worked on the Native American Voting Rights Project. He was also the co-director of Oregon’s NALSA chapter and the treasurer of Oregon’s environmental law society (“Land, Air, Water”).

For several years he has also worked as an adjunct professor at the Lewis & Clark Law School teaching the NALSA Moot Court Clinic. In his free time, he enjoys endurance cycling, reading travel memoirs (and travelling himself), and following his beloved Chicago Cubs.

Education

University of Oregon School of Law, J.D., 2020
Indiana University, B.A., 2017

Bar Admissions

Illinois
Oregon
Alaska

Professional Organizations

2023 Chair of the Executive Committee for Oregon State Bar Indian Law Section